No problem. We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more. We'll start with a few nifty tips that can make your desktop more interesting, make it easier to get around and increase your computer's power efficiency.
When you first install Windows 7, it asks for your language, time and currency. Based on your responses, it installs a set of wallpapers and themes. If you choose English United States for your time and currency format, for example, the available desktop backgrounds and themes will include a United States section with scenery from locations such as Maine, the Southwest and so on.
Hidden, though, are background scenery and themes from other English-speaking countries -- Australia, Canada, Great Britain and South Africa. Normally, you can't access those backgrounds or themes, but there is a simple way you can install and use them:.
Note: If Windows 7 is installed in a drive other than C:, use that letter instead. Double-click the theme you see there for example ZA.
That will install a shortcut to the theme and wallpapers in the Personalization section of Control Panel. You can now use them as you would any other theme or background, by right-clicking the desktop, choosing Personalize, and choosing a background or theme.
They will be listed in their own section. If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. This can get annoying if you're working on one program and want to minimize all the other windows -- in previous versions of Windows you had to minimize them individually. With Windows 7's "shake" feature, though, you can minimize every window except the one in which you're currently working -- in a single step. Click and hold the title bar of the window you want to keep on the desktop; while still holding the title bar, shake it quickly back and forth until all of the other windows minimize to the taskbar.
Then let go. To make them return, shake the title bar again. You can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination -- although doing that is not nearly as much fun.
Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it. To use it:. Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator. For about a minute, Windows 7 will examine the behavior of your laptop. It will then analyze it and create a report in HTML format in the folder you specified.
Users of Windows 7 are still increasing day by day. Its features , simplicity, ease of use, gadgets and much more are attracting the users. There exist a lot of keyboard shortcuts that help the Windows 7 users to use it freely.
Today we are discussing with you an amazing top 10 useful tips and tricks for Windows Some people do not arrange the Windows Explorer setting on their Desktop. Tips and Tricks can save the time and make the things easy to use. When you installed Windows 7 in your system some files are automatically hidden you can show the hidden files by following the given steps:. If you think the battery performance of your Windows 7 is draining quickly. From here you can also individually define which apps can access the connected hardware like cameras and microphones.
The Windows 10 Battery Saver clamps down on background activities in order to maximise your system's battery. Windows 10 includes a suite of new biometric security features known as Windows Hello.
If you have the required hardware then you can use fingerprint detection or face recognition to log in. For more information on using biometric security, check out our guide on how to use Windows Hello. Then go to All Network section and click the 'Choose media streaming options' link and turn on media sharing. Windows 10 also includes an improved Task Manager with a better layout and easily digestible information and useful graphs. Familiarise yourself with the Task Manager to monitor the resources of your PC and to terminate unresponsive processes.
Right-click on Start , select Properties , and choose the Power button action that you use the most. Right-click Start , select Properties , click Customize and choose the number of recent programs to be shown in the Start Menu and the number of items displayed in Jump Lists from the Start Menu Size section below. Like the command prompt? This also works on the desktop. No power toy required!
If you are like me, lazy and bored, then you will want to change the background from time to time, wasting a lot of time. Then you can choose the time intervals between images and opt to display them randomly or in a row.
If you feel like the taskbar is using too much of your screen space, you can choose to make the icons smaller. If you are using two or more monitors, then you might want to move the Windows from one to another. There is a very simple way to do it. This could prove really useful in some circumstances.
It is Valid up to 0 to 9. All you have to do is hold F5 pressed for a bit and the icons will auto arrange. You can choose for yourself the ones you can live without and ones that would increase the load speed.
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