Aero Peek is a Windows 7 feature which lets you preview your desktop by simply hovering your mouse over the right edge of the taskbar. This is very useful, to get a quick glance at one of your desktop gadgets such as a feed reader, weather monitor, etc. Sometimes you may want to turn off Aero Peek when your laptop is running on battery, or…
After downloading and using some of the official Windows 7 theme packs such as 7up, Avatar, Twinkle Wish, Samsung Winter Sports, Valentines Day and so on, you might be wanting to create a theme of your own using your vacation or party pictures. Or simply you may want to create a theme using only your favorite wallpapers taken from Windows 7 default Aero and regional…
Now that Windows 7 RC is approaching the bi-hourly shutdown phase(March 1st 2010 onwards), any one who is looking to try this OS is left without an option, except to buy a copy. However, Microsoft has recently started a demo website for Windows 7 Professional version, letting every one take a test drive, without any registration.
If you are a Net book owner, chances are that your machine might not have an optical drive. So in scenarios where you want to install Windows 7, Windows Vista, or even Windows XP, you need to create a bootable USB flash drive. We already have posted the manual steps to install Windows 7 from USB drive, and also featured the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download…
When you update an application in Windows 7, sometimes you may have noticed that the program icon suddenly disappears from the Taskbar Notification area. This is because the icon gets moved to the hidden overflow area, which is accessible only when you click on the ‘Show hidden icons’ arrow (the ‘UP’ arrow).
The Winter Olympics are taking place in Vancouver this year. Microsoft has released the official theme pack of Samsung Winter Sports. This theme comes with 3 background wallpapers of beautiful white snowy mountains. Recently a Valentines Day theme was released in the online Windows 7 personalization gallery.
Are your Windows 7 desktop items disappearing, when you rename them? This happens when you rename a file, folder, or even a shortcut and the icons appear only when you do a refresh. Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and provided a quick fix.
User Account Control is a feature introduced in Windows Vista, and carried over to Windows 7. Whenever Windows 7 sees any changes being made to your Computer, such as installation of programs, running unknown exe files, and so on, it will notify you and at the same time require administrative permission to carry on with the changes.
You can change your system icons in Windows by applying icon packs. One such icon pack which was created and given for free by dkszone.net, was the Windows 7 Icon pack for Windows XP. However if you only want to change selective icons, say the Drive icons on your Windows PC, here is a freeware called My Drive Icon.
Valentine’s Day is coming soon, and all you Windows 7 users can now download the official Valentine theme pack. This theme pack consists of 4 high resolution Heart based desktop backgrounds, in pink color. All the wallpapers are of resolution 1920×1200.
