Windows 7

For faster access of recently opened files, Windows 7 by default settings stores and displays recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar. If that intrudes your privacy, you can anytime disable it. Here is how you can make Windows 7 to display or not display recently opened items in the right-click menu of explorer on taskbar.

Windows 7 desktop themepacks (*.themapack) are very popular among Windows 7 users. Microsoft has been frequently releasing Windows 7 Themes and if you are tracking this blog, you might already be downloading and installing many of them on your Windows 7 PC. If not, go ahead, browse through and download from hundreds of Windows 7 themes.

Windows 7 lets you create wireless hotspot by means of which you can instantly share any internet connection. This is useful in case you have a wired internet connection and would like to share it with your laptop.

System Restore feature in Windows is a useful feature and most of us use it when something goes wrong in our PC. Using System Restore one can restore their PC to a earlier state when everything was working well. “System Restore” creates “Restore Points” depending on it’s configuration.

The start menu search box is very useful in launching programs quickly. The search is specific to data in your PC. It’s functionality can further be enhanced by adding Internet Search Shortcut. This is a new feature included in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows 7 has many cool features. One among them is the Backup feature. We have already shown you how to create a system repair disc and how to schedule backup in Windows 7. Now we show you how to take backup of complete system by creating system image that can be used to restore complete system.

Windows 7 lets you add additional clocks that can display the time in other time zones. This eliminates the need for a separate Clock software which on other hand degrades system performance. By just hovering or clicking on the taskbar clock, it displays the time at other time zones.

Microsoft has released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RC (Release Candidate) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC. Windows 7 SP1 Beta was made available around 3 months ago, with some leaked screenshots of Windows 7 SP1 doing the rounds before that.

Windows Firewall is quite a powerful program in Windows 7, with added features such as multiple access firewall policies. This is part of the new security features of Windows 7, along with Windows Defender, BitLocker drive encryption.

Windows Firewall in Windows 7 is an advanced program, part of the new security features of Windows 7. It lets you set multiple access firewall policies, inbound and outbound rules for each program, and monitoring of network connections and events. The program has evolved over the years, being a very basic inbound-only firewall in Windows XP, and a later better version in Vista with added…