If you have got
Windows 7 and you want to make it flexible for your convenience, then we have plenty of tips and tricks to obtain your goal. You can manage Windows Explorer to get it open into a folder of your choice, speed up your taskbar activity, get access to hidden desktop themes and manage User Account Control in your way. So don’t wait now.
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.
Get International wallpaper and themesSoon after getting
Windows 7 installed, the computer will ask for your language, time and currency. It takes the information so as to accordingly provide your wallpapers and themes. Suppose If you chose English (United States) for your time and currency format, then you will get desktop backgrounds and themes from United States section.
Sometimes for other English speaking country you have to make a search because these background scenery and themes are in hidden forms. Similarly you can select country as Australia, Canada, Great Britain and South Africa, you will get according to them.
1. In the search box in the Start menu, type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press Enter. (Note: If Windows 7 is installed in a drive other than C:, use that letter instead.)
2. Windows Explorer will launch and show you a list of subfolders under C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT: MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA. Each subfolder has wallpapers for a specific country: AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, US for the United States, and ZA for South Africa.
For any of the countries whose wallpaper and themes you want to use, go into its Theme folder, for example, C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT\MCT-ZA\Theme. Double-click the theme you see there (for example ZA).
3. You will get a shortcut to the theme and wallpapers in the Personalization section of Control Panel.
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.
Shake your desktop free of clutterMost of the times, we keep open multiple Windows, but at a time we need only single windows at that time we face problem. We have to individually minimize all other windows. But with Windows 7's "shake" feature 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 achieve the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination -- although doing that is not nearly as much fun.
Power SavingWindows 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:
1. 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."
2. At the command line, type in the following:
powercfg -energy -output \Folder\Energy_Report.html
where \Folder represents the folder where you want the report to be placed.
3. Within 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. Double-click the file, and you'll get a report -- follow its recommendations for ways to improve power performance.
Tweak your User AccountUser Account which was inbuilt in Vista to keep a track on Security, but its nature was quite intrusive in Vista means it keeps constantly pop up again and again. But this annoying feature has been removed from Windows 7. You can manage your User Account.
Here's how to turn UAC on or off, and make it less or more intrusive than the default:
1. Go to the Control Panel --> User Accounts and Family Safety.
2. Click User Accounts, then click Change User Account Control settings.
3. From the screen that appears, use the slider to select the level of protection you want. You can select from four level as:
Always notify me: Think of this as UAC Classic. It works like Vista's UAC: When you make changes to your system, when software is installed or when a program tries to make a change to your system, an annoying prompt appears.
Default -- Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer: This is, obviously, the default; make a change yourself and UAC leaves you alone. When a program makes a change, a prompt appears and your desktop goes dark, just like it does in Vista. Otherwise, UAC sits there silently.
Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer (do not dim my desktop): This setting is identical to the default setting, with one difference: It won't dim your desktop so that you only see the UAC prompt asking you to take action. This presents a slightly elevated security risk over the default setting, because theoretically a program could allow a malicious program to interfere with the UAC prompt.
Never notify me when: In this one, UAC is completely turned off. This is, of course, an insecure option and not recommended for most users.
After you make the selection, click OK. Depending on the selection you made, you may need to restart your system for it to take effect.
