Windows 7

Consider the following scenario, you have played a DVD in Windows Media Player 11 on your PC, paused it and put your Computer into sleep for a while. After resuming your PC, you tried to play the DVD again. In such a case, you may get an error which says ‘Windows Media Player is not responding‘.

Is your kid spending too much time playing Games on your Windows 7/Vista PC? Try controlling your kid’s addiction by removing the link to Games from the Start Menu. Here are the steps to do it using the Local Group Policy Editor:

Sometimes when you run applications that have been designed to work with earlier versions of Windows such as XP or Vista, you may come across some unexpected behavior when trying to run them in Windows 7. Here are the steps to run such programs in compatibility mode in your Windows 7 PC.

You may want to protect your privacy while sharing your computer with others, such as your co-workers or family members. We have already shown how you can hide selected drives on your Windows PC (using Local Group Policy or a free utility such as NoDrives Manager). In case you do not want to hide any drives, but only restrict access to them from ‘My Computer’…

Suppose you have some very private data on one of the drives on your computer and you don’t want other users sharing your PC to access them. You can either hide selected drives using a free utility such as NoDrives Manager or configure a Local Group Policy setting to get the thing done without the help of any external software.

So you have newly switched to Windows 7 from Windows XP? When the time comes to uninstall a certain non-working or an unwanted application, you are unable to find that familiar ‘Add Or Remove Programs’ item in the Control Panel.

Have you misplaced or lost your Windows 7 installation disc? A major problem in such scenarios is that you have to get a correct installation disc (specific edition) for your product key. For example, if you have a product key for Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, then you need a Home Premium Disc in order to install Windows 7. You can’t install Windows 7 from…

Have you come across problems in Windows 7 such as Registry Editor or Command Prompt is disabled, no DVD drive found, Aero feature disabled etc?  You can either solve these problems one after the other yourself or use a comprehensive tool such as 7 Quick Fix which will gives a single interface for 21 Common Windows 7 Errors and their Fixes.

Sometimes when you are search for an item in the ‘Search programs and files’ search box of Start Menu in Windows 7, it only returns the category headings, and not the actual item. You will only see the headings such as ‘Programs’, ‘Control Panel’, ‘Documents’ etc and when you click on them nothing happens.

Have you come across a problem when trying to take a backup of your Windows 7 PC using the Backup and Restore tool? When you try to create a system image on a recordable Blu-ray disc (BD-R), Windows 7 Backup and Restore tool keeps on asking you to insert a new disc, even when you have done so.