Tricks and secrets of windows 7 :
1> Change the background of windows media player:
1) Go to Run and type “Regedit”, It will open a registry editor.
2) locate this key in registry editor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\P references
3) Double click on the key LibraryBackgroundImage and enter a value
between 0 to 6 (each number represents a background).
2> Move open windows:
If we press windows logo key + arrow key, then we will see the hover
window is moving in the different sides according to the pressed arrow
key.
We can also minimize our opened hover window by pressing windows
logo
key + two times down arrow key.
3>Windows 7 trick to access hidden themes:
Windows 7 doesn’t come bundled with a huge set of themes with it, so
here
is a simple windows 7 trick by which we can use windows 7 themes
which
aren’t made for us.
Just type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT in
the search box and press
enter. You will see some folders of themes
which are made for other
countries like USA and Canada.
4> Install windows 7 on netbook with a pendrive or flash drive:
To install windows 7 on a net book with a pendrive, Take a 4GB pendrive
and format it with FAT32 file system, Then just copy an ISO image to
the
pendrive by xcopy d:\ e:\ /d /e (where d: is the DVD drive which
contains
windows cd in it and e: is the pen drive location). It will
create a bootable
pendrive by which you can easily install windows 7 on
netbook.
5> Make a system repair disc:
Almost all
versions of windows supports this handy feature, making system
repair
disc is helpful in situations when we are facing problems booting
windows.
System repair disc restore the windows to an old state
without affecting
your hard disk data. To create a system repair disc go
to start, then
maintenance and then create a system repair disc.
6> New windows 7 calculator:
New windows 7 calculator looks like vista one, but if you look it
closely
then you will find a lot of advance modes like standard,
scientific,
programmer and statistics. These modes support thousands of
operations
to solve a complex problem. To activate any of the mode just
click on view
and select mode.
7> Experience the new windows 7 WordPad:
The all new windows 7 WordPad supports format like .docx and .odt, so
now you don’t need to download Microsoft office 2007, in order to open a
ms office 2007 word document.
8> Zoom in and Zoom out in an easy way:
Windows 7 made accessing of magnifier lot more easier than its
predecessor, to zoom in press windows key and + and to zoom out press
windows key and -
9> Burn Cd and Dvd’s with windows 7 built in burner:
Windows 7 provides its own burner to burn cd’s and Dvd’s, So we don’t
need to download softwares like nero to burn ISO. To burn an ISO file,
Right click on the ISO file and select Burn Disc image, or easier just
double click the ISO file.
10> Change the order of taskbar options:
many windows users worry for their taskbar, so if you are one of them,
Here is a great news. You can easily arrange the taskbar options in any
order by dragging and dropping.
