Disable Windows Live Messenger Aero Frame Border
By default, Windows Live Messenger, comes with its Aero border enabled. But if you want, you may also disable this aero frame, to give it a clean look. [Read More...]
Get Registry Booster from Uniblue FREE!
A registry booster utility RegistryBooster, created by a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner is available to help you solve and fix problems with Windows 7 and speed up performance. [Read More...]
Ways to RUN any application from Windows 7 Start Search Box
Via the Run command in Windows, you can use certain pre-defined commands to open up applications. In fact in Windows 7 & Vista, its Start Menu Search box itself acts as a Run box. [Read More...]
Restore Zune 4.0’s missing features
Microsoft has already announced the availablity of Zune HD & Zune 4.0, but some of the features are not available for users outside US and Canada. With the help of this registry hack, non-US/CA users will be able to enable these features: [Read More...]
CCleaner breaks the Windows 7 context menu
CCleaner is one of the most recommended freeware Registry Cleaners available for Windows. However a recent forum post by my MVP colleague and TWCF Mod Ramesh shows that use of CCleaner is likely to break the Windows 7 right click context menu. [Read More...]
Change Windows 7 Aero Peek Desktop Preview times.
Aero Peek is a new feature in Windows 7. If you have many windows open on your desktop, its quite easy to lose track of them. [Read More...]
How to display Recyle Bin in Computer folder in Windows 7
You may not want to clutter up your desktop with a Recycle Bin. You perhaps also do not want to pin it to your Start Menu, and yet want easy access to it. [Read More...]
Monitor Changes In The Windows 7 Registry
Windows 7, like Vista, does not have an in-built Registry monitoring tool. But what you can do is, harness the command-line program fc.exe to compare two registry export files. [Read More...]
Add Delete Folder Contents to Windows 7 Right Click Context Menu.
If you wish, you can add the option Delete Folder Contents to the right click context menu. So if you do not want to delete the whole folder but only to empty its contents, you need not open the folder, select all and then click Delete. [Read More...]
Show Windows version On Desktop
If you want to display the version of your Windows 7 on your desktop, here is a simple registry hack which will help you do it. [Read More...]
Remove Compress Old Files option from Disk Cleanup.
The Compress Old Files option takes up quite a bit of time while cleaning up the disk with Disk Cleanup. If it exists amongst your options and if you dont use it or if you want to remove it, here is how you can go about it. [Read More...]
A third way to uninstall programs in Windows.
You can uninstall programs without using the Uninstall Programs applet of the Control Panel or using the Programs own uninstaller, should the need to do so, ever arise. [Read More...]
Remove Wallpaper Location history from Personalization in Windows 7
When you right click on the Windows 7 desktop and select Personalize, you are presented with window. Now when you click on Desktop Background, in the drop down menu of the Picture locations, you will see a list of the locations from where you may have picked up the wallpapers to display them. [Read More...]
PowerTools Lite – The Freeware Registry Cleaner
Macercraft has released PowerTools Lite, a freeware version of jv16 PowerTools. PowerTools Lite uses the same engine as jv16 PowerTools to give you the best results. [Read More...]
File & Registry Virtualization in Windows 7
Beginning with Windows Vista, Microsoft virtualized some files & the registry. Virtualization basically means that, applications are prevented from writing to System Folders in Vista’s file system and ALSO to the ‘machine wide keys’ in the registry. [Read More...]
How to un-pin or remove programs from Windows 7 start menu.
You can easily remove program shortcuts which may have pinned to the start menu by right clicking them and selecting Unpin from start Menu. But … [Read More...]
Make Taskbar Previews appear faster in Windows 7
If you find that the time you have to hover your mouse cursor over the taskbar icon, for the taskbar thumbnail preview to appear way to much, you can make them appear faster. [Read More...]
New registry keys in Windows 7 Desktop Window Manager
There are some new registry keys in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM. [Read More...]
Hack Windows 7 Registry To Allow Messenger Polygamy.
If you have several Windows Live ID’s and if you prefer to logon into Messenger with more than one of them, then you can hack your Windows 7 registry to allow running of multiple instances of Messenger. [Read More...]
Change default installation directory in Windows 7
By default Windows installs all the programs in the drive in which it is installed. In most cases it would be C:\Program Files.
