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Add Minimize And Restore Features To Windows 7 Gadgets (Must Try)

Posted March 10, 2010 – 2:09 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

Most of Windows users use desktop gadgets to quickly access system tools, information and other things. Although Windows 7 comes with a few gadgets by default, you can always download and install useful gadgets from the official personalization gallery.
 
If you use desktop gadgets all the time, you might want to minimize them at some [...]

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Make Windows 7 Transparent With System Transparency Tool

Posted March 10, 2010 – 2:01 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

There have been several free tools to customize Windows Vista and Windows 7 transparency level. Some programs even claim to add Aero feature support for Starter and Home Basic editions.

Most of transparency related programs are either paid tools or not efficient. On top that, these programs apply transparency to each and every part [...]

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How To Display Drive Letters On Drive Icons In Windows 7 (Must Try)

Posted March 9, 2010 – 6:01 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

For all those who love personalizing Windows 7, here is a smart way to make your drive explorer more productive in a simple way.
 
With default settings, Windows 7 displays all drives with drive letters in the explorer. As you may know, one can change these drive icons and drive letters easily.
 
In this guide, [...]

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How To Install & Change Display Language In Windows 7

Posted March 2, 2010 – 6:57 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

Windows 7 users who have been running Enterprise or Ultimate edition can easily change the display language with a few clicks. By installing & activating language pack one can change the language used for text in menus, Windows, dialog boxes and other areas of Windows 7.

Here is how to install and activate a language [...]

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How To Rebuild Icon Cache In Windows 7 To Repair Icons

Posted March 2, 2010 – 5:03 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

Windows users often complain about corrupted desktop and explorer icons. Like in Windows XP and Vista, Windows 7 icons also may get corrupted when you try to install third-party visual enhancers, especially transformation packs.
 
If for any reason, one or more Windows 7 icons are not showing correctly, you can repair by rebuilding the [...]

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Recover Windows 7 Product Key With Windows Key Finder

Posted February 27, 2010 – 11:22 pm in: Freeware, Windows 7 Tweaks

We have already shown how to recover Windows 7 product key using KeyFinder tool. Like KeyFinder, Windows Key Finder is another handy tool to quickly recover lost Windows 7, Vista or XP key in a jiffy.

Windows Key Finder program simply decodes the encoded product key stored at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion node of the registry in [...]

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How To Backup And Restore Windows 7 Registry

Posted February 26, 2010 – 6:46 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

Backing up Windows registry is always a good practice before making any changes to the Windows Registry as its health is crucial for the proper functioning of Windows. Although most of you know how to backup Windows Registry, still there are several Windows users who are unaware of the same.

To backup Windows Registry you [...]

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How To Increase Logon Screen Text Size In Windows 7

Posted February 25, 2010 – 6:24 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

A few months back we covered how to change Windows 7 logon background without using third-party software and also covered over 5 applications to easily change logon screen background.
 
If you have customized logon screen background and then you might also like to customize logon screen text size. To make it happen simply follow the [...]

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Sleep Timer For Windows 7 Media Center

Posted February 25, 2010 – 2:38 pm in: Freeware, Windows 7 Tweaks

Media Center 7 Sleep Timer is an awesome Media Center application (also works as add-in) to shutdown/hibernate your Windows 7 machine after a selected time interval.

Once you installed Sleep Timer, you can access it either from the Start menu or Extras Library in Media Center. The current version of Sleep Timer comes with five [...]

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Quickly Create Universal Video Playlist With Windows 7 Media Playlist Creator

Posted February 24, 2010 – 4:08 pm in: Freeware, Windows 7 Tweaks

We all know how to create a playlist in Windows Media Player and Media Center. But the problem is that when you create a video playlist in Windows Media Player you can’t use the same playlist in other players like VLC or GOM.

The same thing applies to Windows Media Center as well. So if [...]

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