Windows 7 Tricks

If you belive that you know everything about Windows 7 then think twice. Windows 7 is latest operating system there are still few things that you must know to enhance your knowledge.

Pin your folder to Windows 7 Taskbar: Most of the users want to access folders quickly on desktop. In Windows 7 users can add the computer menu as a folder on the taskbar for the quickest access to their folders.

● In order to add a folder to the taskbar, just right-click on the taskbar and choose the Toolbars menu, and then click on New Toolbar.

● Locate the folder that you want. Now you can see your folder right there on the taskbar.

How to Prevent Windows update from automatically restarting your Windows 7 computer?: As we all know that Windows always prompts to restart computer whenever it detects any changes. There's a couple of ways that we can this behavior. However, you'll still get the prompts, but it won't force you to shut down or restart.

● Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or run dialog, and navigate down to the following key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

● Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and give it a value of 1 to prevent automatic reboot while users are logged on. Delete the value to put things back to the way they were.

How to Log On Automatically in Windows 7?: If you are the only single person using your computer at home or office, then save your precious time while login. There is one way to make sure that Windows doesn't prompt you for a password when you log on.

● Type in netplwiz into the start menu search box, press Enter.

● On next screen uncheck the box that says "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer", and then hit Apply. You'll see a username and password box. Enter in the appropriate information here and click OK.

Turn on Remote Desktop on Windows 7 computer: This tool is not available with all editions of Windows 7. By default, you can access it if you have Windows 7 Ultimate, Pro, or Business editions.

STEP 1: You can either right-click the Computer icon and choose properties, or you can type in system into the start menu search box, and then find the entry for System.

STEP 2: Click the Remote Settings link and enable this option.

Add an additional clock: Windows 7 provides a new feature that allows you to set different time zones on a single computer. You can add one or two additional clocks to the Windows Taskbar. It would help you while contacting people, who stay in different cities or countries.

Steps to perform this task:

1. Click on the Taskbar clock and click “Change date and time settings”

2. On Next screen click the “Additional Clocks” tab.

3. Click “Show this clock” next to the first clock.

4. Next, click on the “Select time zone” pull-down to choose the desired time zone for the clock.

5. Next, “Enter display name”, give a name for your clock that will appear when you navigate your mouse over the Taskbar clock or click the Taskbar clock to show the larger clocks.

6. Repeat steps 3-5 for the second clock if you wish to add a second clock to the Windows 7 Taskbar.

7. Click “OK” to close the dialog box.

Using Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7

One of the easiest ways to manage your computer and its file system is to regularly defragment your computer. The files become fragmented, as you use your computer. Your disk stores files in the same cluster and when you delete these files, gaps are left between files. When you install any application, it tries to use this empty space, which degrades performance in the program and your system.

Certain activities can cause your computer to fragment more quickly. Few problems with your computer are more inconvenient than working with a heavily fragmented disk. Your computer can literally slow to a crawl, to the point that getting anything done is almost impossible For instance, large installations, watching DVDs, or extensive Web surfing tends to impact performance. For these reasons, you should consider defragmenting your computer regularly.

Windows 7, like its predecessors Windows Vista, offers a disk defragmentation tool called Disk Defragmenter.

Use Disk Defragmenter to place all of the parts of a file in one contiguous, or adjacent, location. This procedure, which efficiently rearranges all of the iles and unused space, is called optimization. It makes your programs run faster and you can quickly access your files and folders.

Steps to perform this task:

STEP 1. Click the Start button- Programs-Accessories-System Tools and click Disk Defragmenter.

STEP 2. Click Configure schedule.

STEP 3. Select the Run on a schedule check box.

STEP 4. Click the list arrows, and then specify how often, what day, a what time.

STEP 5. Click Select disks, select the drives you want, and then click OK.

STEP 6. To defragment disks now, select the drives you want. Press and hold Ctrl to select more than one drive.

STEP 7. To analyze your disks to determine if you need defragmenting, click Analyze disks.

STEP 8. Click Defragment disks.

STEP 9. To quit the process, click Cancel Defragment.

In a nutshell, Windows 7 features a new graphical user interface for the Windows disk defragmentor that offers users with more control over defrag jobs and displays more detailed information about each job. You can also safely discard the defragmenting process any time without any adverse effects.

Like Windows Vista, Windows 7 allows for scheduled defragmentation jobs. Defragmentation is automatically scheduled by default, which means that most users will never have to adjust any settings in order to optimize disk performance. By default, the defragmenter is set to run at 1:00AM.

The ability to defragment multiple volumes simultaneously is also added in Windows 7, and the operating system will automatically disable defragmentation on any solid state disk since there's no need to defragment flash memory and continued write access to the disk could actually shorten its life.

Among the other changes under the hood in Windows 7 are the following:

Defragmentation in Windows 7 is more comprehensive – many files that could not be re-located in Windows Vista or previous editions can now be optimally re-placed. In particular, a lot of work was done to make several NTFS metadata files movable. This ability to relocate NTFS metadata files also helps volume shrink, since it enables the system to pack all files and file system metadata more closely and free up space “at the end” which can be reclaimed if required.

Windows disables defragmentation on that disk, if solid-state media is detected. The physical nature of solid-state media is such that defragmentation is not required and could minimize overall media lifetime in certain cases.

By default, defragmentation is not enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2. Given the variability of server workloads, defragmentation should be enabled and scheduled only by an administrator.

Information Finding with Windows 7

Today's improvement in online and computer search technology has made the position of information and files so simple and easy but in the past it was tedious. The Windows Search technology that is created in the Windows 7 is simply excellent. We analyzed the search capabilities in Windows Vista as one of its top three features, but the Windows 7 search engine is much better.

Using Windows Search, you can find programs, files, messages, and message attachments on your computer almost in less time. You don’t have to know the name or location of the file or item you want to search. Just type a word or phrase in the Start menu Search box to view a list of matching items, managed by type. To make this list short, display the folder in Windows Explorer and then enter your search term in the Search box in the upper-right corner of the window. Windows Search organizes an index of all the key words in and associated data files on your computer like program names, common tasks, documents, music, videos, graphics, local copies of e-mail messages, Web pages stored in the recent history or Favorites list, and other data. Windows Search automatically finds the most common file types such as Word documents, text files, and e-mail messages and many more.

For certain types of files such as PowerPoint presentations, Windows Search finds the file properties and the file data, but for others like PowerPoint slide templates, it finds only the file properties. When you enter a search term, Windows looks for the term in the index instead of finding the original files on your hard disk. If a simple search from the Start menu Search box or the Search box in a Windows Explorer window doesn’t finds the item you want, then you can perform more advanced searches in the Search Results folder.

Your search basis can include the date of the file when it was created, its size, part of its name or title, its author, and any tags you might have listed as properties of the file. You can save a list of search parameters so that you can view updated results at any time. Saved searches are added to the Favorites group in Windows Explorer and are also present in the personal Searches folder.

You can change which file types and position are included in the Windows Search index at any time. You can change the search settings in the following places. In the Search tab of the Folder Options dialog box you can open the Folder Options dialog box by clicking Organize on the toolbar of any Windows Explorer window and then clicking on the Folder And Search Options on the Organize menu. You can specify whether Windows Search returns results from file contents as well as file names, whether results of folder-specific searches include files located in subfolders. Whether a search returns results that don’t match the search term but have, for example, a common root, and other options with the standard Windows Search scope. In the Change Selected Locations list, you can select or clear the check boxes of specific folders to show which should be included in the search index.

Windows 7 Review

Last night finally i get along with my windows 7 experience, but don't know why was it only me who has got discouraged or their are some of more their in my followers list, surely there would be..

On a first impression it only seems as if windows 7 is just a vista make over nothing more than that and has just grown some what more complex then vista rather then summing up


Once again Microsoft has moved stuff around in the User Interface. After baffling its loyal users by completely changing the XP User Interface, So it started moving stuff, with the Control Panel taking the brunt of the abuse. Need to add a printer? Welcome to the new "Devices and Printers" applet! Looking for the "System and Maintenance" subgroup? It now has a new name: "System and Security." And can you guess where the Security subgroup went? No? Then it's time for some retraining!

System performance: with the same hardware requirements as vista it seemed as if Microsoft might have some thing to be patted for as with each of their releases a common history is the hardware requirement needs rises the bar of hardware cost. But sorry to comment some thing as 7 us as slow as vista, In fact, Windows 7's performance is virtually identical to that of Microsoft windows Vista SP1 on the same hardware. If you were unhappy with Vista's CPU-hogging, memory-sucking ways, Windows 7 will provide little relief.