Window 7 was released 1 year back with loads of extra features and specifications. When Windows 7 was released most of didn’t even know the major tricks, tips and secret on Windows 7. Today as days passed, new tips and tricks are emerging. Here I shall provide you some best Windows 7 tricks, tips and tutorials for customizing your Windows 7 OS.
1: How To TRACK & EMAIL TROUBLESHOOTING OF WINDOWS 7 via “PROBLEM STEPS RECORDER (PSR)â€
Most of the time we see that some of our apps doesn’t respond and we keep clicking all sorts of deleting options but they too don’t work and freezes our laptop/pc completely. So in this case you can do the following steps:
Click START menu
Type PSR and ENTER
Click START RECORDING
So by clicking START RECORDING, the inbuilt app start recording all the conditions of your present screen, take screenshots and them on a single zipped MHTML file and when they’re done, ready to emailed. By this way you can resolve your situation than loosing anything.
2. HOW TO ARRANGE/REARRANGE YOUR DESKTOP SYSTEM TRAY ICONS:
Hover & Click SHOW HIDDEN ICONS
Click CUSTOMIZE
If you want icons in Hidden mode keep the option as “Only show notifications†and suppose you want them on Tray icons, select “Show icon and notificationsâ€.
3. HOW TO BURN ISO IMAGE FILE TO BLANK CD/DVD
Yes, this is most important feature that we are seeing on almost all windows versions but on Windows 7 we have an easier way of Burning .ISO image file on Blank DVD/CD just in 2 clicks. Please read below:
Insert blank CD/DVD on your drive.
Double click .ISO image file.
Choose the drive containing blank CD/DVD.
Thats it! You get your burned CD/DVD instantly.
4. HOW TO ADD ANY FOLDER TO YOUR FAVORITES LIST SHORTCUTS:
Making a Favorite list is not an issue here as you just need to do some clicks and that’s it. Read below how
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
First go to the Folder, navigate to Explorer.
Right Click FAVORITES [left side].
Click “Add current location to Favoritesâ€. That’s it.
To confirm, go to File -> Save As and you are able to Access your favorite files.
5. HOW TO MAKE USE OF PIN OPTION ON WINDOWS 7:
Adding Favorite files on taskbar icon tray of Windows 7 is nothing but pin or unpin options.Read below for more knowledge.
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
You can Pin any folder on Icon Tray by Right Click -> Drag -> On TaskBar and the files shows inside JUMP LIST.
6. HOW TO RESOLVE TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEMS YOURSELF:
Windows7 has an inbuilt features to eliminate any small troubles that you are facing. Read how:
Open START MENU -> CONTROL PANEL -> TROUBLESHOOTING
Now try yourself by answering for what they ask you.
7. HOW TO CREATE A NEW SYSTEM RESTORE POINT:
It’s always advisable that you have a working System Restore point on your HDD so that whenever something bad happens to your site or some Windows7 configuration changes than easily you can Restore Back your configurations. Read below how:
Click START MENU -> CONTROL PANEL
Double click RECOVERY -> OPEN SYSTEM RECOVERY
and create NEW RESTORE POINT. That it!
8. HOW TO PREVENT ANYONE INSTALLING ANY SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS7 WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSIONS:
Kids of today’s are found of installing new latest software, apps just for fun and create hell lots of problems and we need to bare all the pain and cost to get it repaired. But now it is 100% possible to take control of installation on your Windows7. Believe me or not but Windows7 comes inbuilt with a great app called APPLOCKER and using Applocker you can specify the programs which has to run and disable all unwanted installations. Read how:
Open GPEDIT.MSC
Go to COMPUTER CONFIG -> WINDOWS SETTINGS -> SECURITY SETTINGS -> APPLICATION CONTROL POLICIES -> APPLOCKER
That’s it!
9. HOW TO CREATE SHORTCUTS FOR PROGRAM FILES:
When you know shortcuts for your favorite program files it would be easier to open up just in few seconds. Creating shortcuts to any program files on Windows7 is just few clicks. Read below how:
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
Right Click program files.
Click PROPERTIES -> SHORTCUT tab -> type desired SHORTCUT KEY -> APPLY.
10. HOW TO OPEN COMMAND PROMPT (CMD) IN ANY FOLDER:
Unlike Windows XP, Windows7 has a feature of opening CMD from any folder with simple clicks. Read below how:
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
Hold SHIFT button + Right click folder
You see the option to open CMD, “OPEN COMMAND WINDOW HEREâ€
That’s it!
11. HOW TO ADD VIDEOS FOLDER TO START UP MENU:
If you click START UP menu of your Windows7, you would be surprised to see that there is no VIDEOS option unlike we have it on Windows XP. But here I show you simple tip to add the Video folder on start up menu easily.
Right click START MENU -> PROPERTIES -> CUSTOMIZE
Scroll to bottom end. Under VIDEOS -> DISPLAY AS A LINK.
That’s it!
12. HOW TO TURN YOUR DISPLAY TO PROJECTOR VIEW OR EXTENDED VIEW:
Windows7 provides easiest way to turn your computer display screen to that of Projectors Screen or Extended Screen by following some few steps. Read how to do it:
Click WIN + P, new window pop ups
Click PROJECTOR ONLY for projector view. This works only if you have projector connected to your laptop.
Click EXTENDED for a big wider screen. Right now I’m using Extended Screen as I think it’s giving me some wider screen to type properly.
13. HOW TO SET OR CHANGE TIME ZONE USING TZUTIL.EXE COMMAN
On Windows7 you are able to change any time related setting using the command systems. There is a new functions added to Windows7 named as “tzutil.exe“. You can easily change to any other countries time zone using the mentioned utility. Read below how:
Click START MENU -> type tzutil.exe -> Set your PC time zone.
To view all possible time zone, type “tzutil /?â€
To display current time zone, type “tzutil /gâ€
14. HOW TO CHANGE/EDIT YOUR SCREEN COLOR CALIBRATION:
Inspite of having good graphics card, powerful monitor, brightness and other factors still few people have low resolutions due to which any digital photos on those screen looks very poor. But on Windows7, it’s too easy to automatically calibrate the screen color. Read below how:
Open START MENU -> type DCCW -> follow-up their On Screen commands.
1: How To TRACK & EMAIL TROUBLESHOOTING OF WINDOWS 7 via “PROBLEM STEPS RECORDER (PSR)â€
Most of the time we see that some of our apps doesn’t respond and we keep clicking all sorts of deleting options but they too don’t work and freezes our laptop/pc completely. So in this case you can do the following steps:
Click START menu
Type PSR and ENTER
Click START RECORDING
So by clicking START RECORDING, the inbuilt app start recording all the conditions of your present screen, take screenshots and them on a single zipped MHTML file and when they’re done, ready to emailed. By this way you can resolve your situation than loosing anything.
2. HOW TO ARRANGE/REARRANGE YOUR DESKTOP SYSTEM TRAY ICONS:
Hover & Click SHOW HIDDEN ICONS
Click CUSTOMIZE
If you want icons in Hidden mode keep the option as “Only show notifications†and suppose you want them on Tray icons, select “Show icon and notificationsâ€.
3. HOW TO BURN ISO IMAGE FILE TO BLANK CD/DVD
Yes, this is most important feature that we are seeing on almost all windows versions but on Windows 7 we have an easier way of Burning .ISO image file on Blank DVD/CD just in 2 clicks. Please read below:
Insert blank CD/DVD on your drive.
Double click .ISO image file.
Choose the drive containing blank CD/DVD.
Thats it! You get your burned CD/DVD instantly.
4. HOW TO ADD ANY FOLDER TO YOUR FAVORITES LIST SHORTCUTS:
Making a Favorite list is not an issue here as you just need to do some clicks and that’s it. Read below how
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
First go to the Folder, navigate to Explorer.
Right Click FAVORITES [left side].
Click “Add current location to Favoritesâ€. That’s it.
To confirm, go to File -> Save As and you are able to Access your favorite files.
5. HOW TO MAKE USE OF PIN OPTION ON WINDOWS 7:
Adding Favorite files on taskbar icon tray of Windows 7 is nothing but pin or unpin options.Read below for more knowledge.
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
You can Pin any folder on Icon Tray by Right Click -> Drag -> On TaskBar and the files shows inside JUMP LIST.
6. HOW TO RESOLVE TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEMS YOURSELF:
Windows7 has an inbuilt features to eliminate any small troubles that you are facing. Read how:
Open START MENU -> CONTROL PANEL -> TROUBLESHOOTING
Now try yourself by answering for what they ask you.
7. HOW TO CREATE A NEW SYSTEM RESTORE POINT:
It’s always advisable that you have a working System Restore point on your HDD so that whenever something bad happens to your site or some Windows7 configuration changes than easily you can Restore Back your configurations. Read below how:
Click START MENU -> CONTROL PANEL
Double click RECOVERY -> OPEN SYSTEM RECOVERY
and create NEW RESTORE POINT. That it!
8. HOW TO PREVENT ANYONE INSTALLING ANY SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS7 WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSIONS:
Kids of today’s are found of installing new latest software, apps just for fun and create hell lots of problems and we need to bare all the pain and cost to get it repaired. But now it is 100% possible to take control of installation on your Windows7. Believe me or not but Windows7 comes inbuilt with a great app called APPLOCKER and using Applocker you can specify the programs which has to run and disable all unwanted installations. Read how:
Open GPEDIT.MSC
Go to COMPUTER CONFIG -> WINDOWS SETTINGS -> SECURITY SETTINGS -> APPLICATION CONTROL POLICIES -> APPLOCKER
That’s it!
9. HOW TO CREATE SHORTCUTS FOR PROGRAM FILES:
When you know shortcuts for your favorite program files it would be easier to open up just in few seconds. Creating shortcuts to any program files on Windows7 is just few clicks. Read below how:
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
Right Click program files.
Click PROPERTIES -> SHORTCUT tab -> type desired SHORTCUT KEY -> APPLY.
10. HOW TO OPEN COMMAND PROMPT (CMD) IN ANY FOLDER:
Unlike Windows XP, Windows7 has a feature of opening CMD from any folder with simple clicks. Read below how:
14 Windows 7 Tips, Tricks, Hacks & Secrets!
Hold SHIFT button + Right click folder
You see the option to open CMD, “OPEN COMMAND WINDOW HEREâ€
That’s it!
11. HOW TO ADD VIDEOS FOLDER TO START UP MENU:
If you click START UP menu of your Windows7, you would be surprised to see that there is no VIDEOS option unlike we have it on Windows XP. But here I show you simple tip to add the Video folder on start up menu easily.
Right click START MENU -> PROPERTIES -> CUSTOMIZE
Scroll to bottom end. Under VIDEOS -> DISPLAY AS A LINK.
That’s it!
12. HOW TO TURN YOUR DISPLAY TO PROJECTOR VIEW OR EXTENDED VIEW:
Windows7 provides easiest way to turn your computer display screen to that of Projectors Screen or Extended Screen by following some few steps. Read how to do it:
Click WIN + P, new window pop ups
Click PROJECTOR ONLY for projector view. This works only if you have projector connected to your laptop.
Click EXTENDED for a big wider screen. Right now I’m using Extended Screen as I think it’s giving me some wider screen to type properly.
13. HOW TO SET OR CHANGE TIME ZONE USING TZUTIL.EXE COMMAN
On Windows7 you are able to change any time related setting using the command systems. There is a new functions added to Windows7 named as “tzutil.exe“. You can easily change to any other countries time zone using the mentioned utility. Read below how:
Click START MENU -> type tzutil.exe -> Set your PC time zone.
To view all possible time zone, type “tzutil /?â€
To display current time zone, type “tzutil /gâ€
14. HOW TO CHANGE/EDIT YOUR SCREEN COLOR CALIBRATION:
Inspite of having good graphics card, powerful monitor, brightness and other factors still few people have low resolutions due to which any digital photos on those screen looks very poor. But on Windows7, it’s too easy to automatically calibrate the screen color. Read below how:
Open START MENU -> type DCCW -> follow-up their On Screen commands.
