Troubleshooting the Windows 7 Troubleshooters

While the very efficient & effective in-built Windows 7 Troubleshooters are meant to make your life easy, what if they themselves refuse to work properly, some day,  for some reason!? [Read More...]

Share Windows Media Player content from a folder on a network share

Media Sharing will only share local content in the library. Any UNC paths that have been added to the library will not be visible to the UPnP Media Client. [Read More...]

How to install & customize Windows 7 Cursors

Windows 7 has a fine set of default aero cursor set or mouse pointers. But if you feel like a change and would like to replace them with a customized set, you can do so easily. [Read More...]

Optimize & make Windows 7 folders display contents faster

You may have noticed that in some cases your folders in Windows 7 or Vista takes quite a bit of time to display to display its contents and the green progress bar in the address bar loads slowly. [Read More...]

Synchronize Navigation pane of Windows 7 explorer with Main pane.

When you open Windows explorer, you notice that it has a left pane called as the Navigation Pane, which includes links to Drives, Special Folders, Favorites, etc and the main or right pane which contains your files and folders. [Read More...]

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Activation States.

If for some reason your Windows 7 online activation fails completely, you may see an Activate by Telephone option in the wizard. You can always use this option to activate your Windows 7 copy. [Read More...]

Fix: Desktop shortcuts go missing in Windows 7

Have you encountered a situation where you find that your Windows 7 desktop shortcuts have suddenly gone missing!?

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Fix: Windows 7 Start Menu hides behind the taskbar

If, when you click the Windows Start Orb,  you find that the start menu has dropped down and hidden behind the taskbar, then you may want to try this solution. This issue may not occur every time, but maybe, only once in a while. [Read More...]

Get the ‘power’ to create all ‘God Modes’ with a click in Windows 7 & Vista.

God Modes are nothing but developer shortcuts built into Windows 7 & Vista, that enable easy access to certain settings and information about the operating system. [Read More...]

The Secret BEHIND the Windows 7 “GodMode”

Windows has a set of certain folders which are identified by unique strings referred to as CLSID or Windows Class Identifiers. These folders can be accessed by using the CLSID identifier codes that Windows assigns to each individual folder in the Windows Registry. If you know the codes, you can launch these with ease. [Read More...]

Troubleshooting Windows Anytime Upgrade in Windows 7

Windows Anytime Upgrade is a method provided in Windows 7 & Vista, for upgrading from one Windows edition to a higher edition. While the WAU procedure in Windows Vista involved a setup.exe, the process in Windows 7 is different, as it uses the Windows servicing infrastructure to perform the process. Driver, data and application migration issues are completely bypassed. [Read More...]

Toubleshooting a Black Screen during a Windows 7 Upgrade or Installation

In the rare eventuality that you get a Black Screen while upgrading to or installing Windows 7, you can try and see if any of the following troubleshooting steps help you. [Read More...]

How To Change Battery Notifications In Windows 7

Windows warns you when your battery charge reaches low, reserve, and critical levels.  You can however, change  the low, reserve, critical battery level notifications in Windows 7, through the Control Panel. [Read More...]

Windows 7 : Upgrade Warnings vs Upgrade Blocks.

This article shows the difference between Upgrade Warnings & Upgrade Blocks, and tells you how to go about resolving them, should you encounter any of them, while upgrading to Windows 7. [Read More...]

Fix for Failed Backups & Event ID 12293 in Windows Vista

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where Backups fail and Event ID 12293 is logged on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. [Read More...]

Fix Windows Media Player 12 Video Flickering in Windows 7

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where the video image flickers when you configure Windows Media Player 12 to display the subtitles of a DVD in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. [Read More...]

Troubleshoot: Data is missing after an upgrade to Windows 7

It is always recommended that you backup your data before upgrading Windows. But if you did not and if you have just upgraded to Windows 7 and find that for some reason, your data is missing after the upgrade, here are a few troubleshooting steps you may want to try out. [Read More...]

FIX: Search box does not display search results correctly in Windows 7

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where the Search programs and files box may not be displaying the search results correctly in Windows 7 and in Windows 2008 R2. [Read More...]

FIX: STOP 0×0000007A, STOP 0×00000077, STOP 0×000000F4 Errors

Microsoft has released a hotfix to fix Stop Error Messages STOP 0×0000007A, STOP 0×00000077, STOP 0×000000F4 in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you resume a computer that has a large SATA hard disk. [Read More...]

How to install, reinstall, upgrade or uninstall Windows 7, Vista & XP

Microsoft has launched a new help site focusing solely on how to install, reinstall, upgrade or uninstall Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows XP. [Read More...]