Unravel Tweaks & Hacks buried inside Windows 7 Group Policy Editor

November 15th, 2009

Windows 7 Group Policy Editor has plenty options which can be tweaked to suit your convenience. To know them all, one would have to wade through it all !  [Read More...]


How to dissociate File Types in Windows 7 and Vista.

October 8th, 2009

Windows 7 & Vista does not provide a GUI to dissociate file type extensions. But if you need to, you can do so using this portable utility. [Read More...]

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Default Programs Editor for Windows 7 & Vista

August 22nd, 2009

Default Programs Editor is a powerful but simple file association utility for Windows. It is a context menu editor, an autoplay editor, and default programs association editor. [Read More...]

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Disable automatic termination of applications during shutdown in Windows

May 8th, 2009

If some application are open when you are shutting down Windows 7, such applications will be not be automatically terminated during shutdown. But you will be asked if you want to save your work. But if you find that this is not happening, you may have to do the following: [Read More...]

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Add Search the Internet Link to Windows 7 Start Menu

April 29th, 2009

In Windows Vista, you could search the internet through the Start Menu. However this ability has been removed from the Windows 7 Start Menu. [Read More...]

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Hack Windows 7 Registry To Allow Messenger Polygamy.

April 14th, 2009

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...]

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Change where Explorer opens in Windows 7

April 11th, 2009

In Windows 7 the default location to which Explorer opens is the Libraries folder which contain your Documents.

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Tweak Windows 7 through Local Group Policy Editor

April 11th, 2009

There are several desktop, start menu, taskbar, system tweaks you can apply using the Group Policy Editor in Windows 7.

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How to Disable Pinned Taskbar Programs in Windows 7

April 11th, 2009

If you want to disable the Pinned taskbar Programs in Windows 7, here is how you can do so.

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Change default installation directory in Windows 7

April 10th, 2009

By default Windows installs all the programs in the drive in which it is installed. In most cases it would be C:\Program Files.

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