By default, the Windows 7 icons are placed on the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 doesn’t have any options to center those taskbar icons. However, you can center the taskbar icons with TaskDock. You can add TaskDock to Window...
If Windows is taking a while to shut down, you can give it a boost without any extra software. You can speed up the shut down from the registry in Windows Vista, 7 or 8. Just follow the steps outlined below. First, open the regist...
Startup programs are the programs that automatically launches upon startup. Furthermore, these programs can affect your computer’s speed and performance. It can also slow down your computer’s boot time. If your computer is running...
Minimized app windows on the taskbar included labels prior to Windows 7. However, Microsoft added icons to the taskbar windows to replace labels in Windows 7. Nevertheless, you can still restore the labels on the Windows 7 taskbar...
The battery icon at the bottom right is tiny. It would be better to have a larger battery bar that makes the battery status clear. You can add exactly that to Windows Vista/7 with the freeware BattCursor software. Add the software...
Windows Powershell is comparable to the MS Command Prompt. It consists of a command-line shell based on the .NET Framework. In addition, you can also customize the Powershell window with a few options. How to customize Windows Pow...
MSCONFIG is one of the Windows system tools. However, it is not listed on the Start menu. As such, you will have to input the Run command msconfig to find this system tool. The Run command prompt is on the Windows 7 Start menu und...
You can customize the Windows Media Center with a few add-ons/plug-ins. Among them is the Power Playlist available for both Windows 7 and Vista Media Centers. That adds a strip to Windows Media Center with five tiles that play aud...
If there are lots of icons on your desktop, you can add more space by reducing the icon spacing. You can adjust the spacing between the desktop shortcut icons on both the Windows Vista and 7 platforms. Those platforms have options...
Jump Lists were one of the great new additions to Windows 7. With the Jump Lists you can open application files directly from Start menu software shortcuts. The Jump Lists include a list of recent items from which you can open doc...
MS WordPad is one of the applications included with Windows 7. With that you can draft documents and add images to them, but it has minimal editing options. As such, one of the options it includes is Paint drawing with which you c...
The Windows desktop gets cluttered when you open multiple windows. As such, I usually keep multiple windows minimized on the taskbar. However, with WindowSlider we can scroll across the desktop to open multiple application windows...
The Windows 7 Notepad does not include a status bar at the bottom of its window. A status bar provides some stats for number of lines and current column location. Nevertheless, you can still add a status bar to the Notepad with a ...
There are three ways to delete a file. Firstly, you can delete it to the Recycle Bin. Of course, as it isn’t really deleted you can delete a file by pressing the Shift + Del hotkey. Alternatively, you can also shred a file w...
The Windows 7 desktop icons do not have Windows Aero effects. However, we can add Windows Aero shortcut titles to the Windows 7 desktop with AeroTile. That’s software which adds transparent tile shortcuts to the desktop. To add Ae...
