Windows 7 all tricks and secrets exposed ( Top 30 )

1. *Windows Management. By now, you’ve probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window management easier: you can “dock” a window to the left or right half of the screen by simply dragging it to the edge; similarly, you can drag the window to the top of the screen to maximize it, and double-click the window top / bottom border to maximize it vertically with the same horizontal width. What you might not know is that all these actions are also available with keyboard shortcuts:
   • Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow dock;
   • Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow maximizes and restores / minimizes;
   • Win+Shift+Up Arrow and Win+Shift+Down Arrow maximizes and

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Computer Acronyms

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

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Make Folders with Invisible Names

You may have given or find varieties of folder name in your or in your friend’s computer. But have you ever tried to give your folder a blank name or in other words an invisible name? Computer by default do allow you to take space as your folder name. Here are the few steps which will help you to create your without name folder.

Step1: Click the right button of your mouse on the folder whose name you wish to keep invisible.

Step2: Now click on Rename.

 Step3: Now pressing the “alt” key, type “0160”.

However, type this number only with the help of keypad which is on the right hand side of your keyboard.

Step 4: Now simply click anywhere outside folder.

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Want more PC speed? 8 Ways to Speed up PC Performance!!

Slowing down computer day by day!! This is the most common problem all computer users facing. Even though no one can give the straight answer for solving this and run the computer smoother like days it bought.

Normally first few days after installing the operating system computer run fast and smoother. After 2, 3 weeks it’s slowing down again.

There are many expensive tools available that have guaranteed for speed up your pc, but as my experience some software are failed and some are successful. Tune-up utilities such a software that has good rate and one of my favorite tool for solving system errors. But you have to pay for it.

I thought to give you some info for speed up your pc without spending money. In this article I'll conduct you along the all available tools in your windows platform and freeware available in internet and use them for speed up computer. So you don't have to pay anyone or any software.

Using available windows tools in your system:

1) . In your system there are two useful tools "Disk Cleanup" and "Disk Defragmenter" that can use speedup process, Go to start > all programs > Accessories > system tools open Disk cleanup, this software can be use for deleting many unnecessary files and also system restore point.

2) . Disk Defragmenter is can be use for defragment, fragmented computer files that are in your hard drive. Fragmented files cause to slow down and reduce computer performance. You should at least defragment your hard drive partition that has installed operating system as a habit.

3) . Go to start > run and type "msconfig" without "" this will open system configuration utility in "start up" tab disable any software that you think cause to slow down you computer when the computer start up process. But you should not disable software like antivirus, firewall and your motherboard software. Otherwise those software will not functioning properly. Remove any software like messengers and any other software that are not system utilities.

4) . Check disk is another inbuilt process for checking errors of your hard drive and fix. I recommend you to check your disk at least once a week as a good habit. Right click on any hard drive partition select “Properties” and in Property window open tab “tools” and click check now. Make sure to check both options there before checking errors.

Using free 3rd party tools:

5) . Ccleaner is one my favorite and popular utility that has ability of cleaning hard drives and registry, advance uninstaller, and cookies deleting. Ccleaner has ability of deleting any unwanted start up software but some software can place start up key or object again its next start, in such a case you need to edit those software “options“ or “preferences“ and uncheck its startup mood for preventing it starting with the system.

6) . WiseRegistryCleaner is another advance registry cleaner which is more sophisticated than ccleaner and has ability of detecting more unnecessary registry keys that cause to slow down the computer.

Things you should consider:

7) . Using high resolution desktop wallpapers and screen savers can eat your system performance, also if you use high graphic themes then that can cause to system slowdown.

8) . Still you're system seriously getting slow and then maybe you need to use windows classic theme with the system settings for adjust for best performance. You can turn this feature ON by right click on your my computer icon, selecting "properties" this will open system properties window. Go to “advance” tab and under performance click “settings” button and select "Adjust for best performance" and click "Apply" again check "show shadows under menus" and "smooth edges of screen fonts" and click apply. Otherwise you'll get crazy with your system even it is faster than ever.

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Boot Defragment for Fast Booting

A very Important new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This basically means that all boot files are placed next to each other on the disk drive to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled but some upgrade users have reported that it isn't on their setup.

1. Start Regedit.

2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction

3. Select Enable from the list on the right.

4. Right on it and select Modify.

5. Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.

6. Reboot your computer

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Have tendency to Forget Passwords ?

Most of us have a common tendency of forgetting passwords. If you don't every forget anything, I envy you and this may not be of much use to you but for most of us, this may be a life saver. If you're running Windows XP Professional as a local user in a workgroup environment, you can create a password reset disk by following instruction as shown below:
Go to START--->>>CONTROL PANEL--->>>USER ACCOUNTS.

Then click your account name and further on in RELATED TASKS, click PREVENT A FORGOT PASSOWRD. A wizard would come up, follow instructions and you have your password reset disk ready.


IMPORTANT NOTE: As it goes with things like password, make sure that you keep this disk at secure location else you risk tress passing with your user account.

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How to avoid autoplay of CD

Way I like best. Hey this time no registry trick even though there are ways in registry to do it. In earlier operating systems only those CD that had autorun.inf file in their root directory were able to execute on its own but with advent of WINDOWS XP it has become possible with just about anything.
Well sometimes it is good but there are other times when you want to avoid this part of automation.

Simply press SHIFT key when you enter a CD in your CD drive. It won't Auto play.

For those of you, who do want a registry hack.
Here it is:

Open Registry and navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]

and look for key "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and set its value to 185 (decimal). This would stop autoplay.

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How to Change Drive Letters

To change drive letters (useful if you have two drives and have partitioned the boot drive, but the secondary drive shows up as "D")
Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management,

then right-click the partition whose name you want to change (click in the white area just below the word "Volume") and select "change drive letter and paths."

From here you can add, remove or change drive letters and paths to the partition.

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How to Restart Windows without Restarting your Computer

When you click on the SHUTDOWN button, make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.
If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer

would restart without restarting the Computer.This is equivalent to term"HOT REBOOT".

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Remove Unwanted Hidden Programs

If you want to remove programs that are installed with Windows but are not visible in "Add/Remove Windows Components" (such as MSN Messenger in WinXP), edit a file called "C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF".
Go to: Start>> Run>> type in: C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF [Enter]

In there you will find a listing of programs, and you will note that some programs have the word 'hide' at the end. Simply remove the word 'hide' but leave the preceding comma. Examples:

BEFORE:msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

AFTER:msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

Exit saving changes.

Now when you open Add/Remove Windows Components, you will see the now viewable, in this example, "Windows Messenger".

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Select theme and color scheme for welcome screen

With this tweaks you will be able to modify which color selection of the default theme is shown when the computer start up screen is displayed. Currently since there is only one theme you can only change the color scheme for the theme but in the future when more themes are available for XP you will be able to change which theme is used in the same place in the windows registry.
1. Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar with regedit please see our FAQ.

2. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager

3. Locate the key ColorName

4. Right Click on it and select modify.

5. Change where it says "NormalColor" to "Metallic"

6. Click Ok, and exit regedit

7. Restart

Note: To go back to the old color scheme durring startup just change "Metallic" back to "NormalColor" Once more themes are released you will be able to modify the DllName key to select different themes.

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Sixteen Simple Tips

1.Switch to welcome screen
Press Win+L to switch to the Welcome screen.

2.Lock your workstation

Press Win+L to lock your workstation.

3.Switch user easly

You can switch users without going through the Welcome screen: From Task Manager, go to the Users tab, right-click a user, and select Connect.

4.Hibrernate computer

Hold down the shift key in the shutdown dialog to change "Stand By" to "Hibernate". Or just press H to hibernate instantly. You can even use the Power Control Panel to configure your power button to hibernate.

5.Disable password when resuming stanby

To disable the password when resuming from standby or hibernation, open the Power Control Panel and uncheck "Prompt for password after returning from standby" on the Advanced tab.

6.Choose details

From the View Menu, select "Choose Details" to select which file properties should be shown in the Explorer window. To sort by a file property, check its name in the "Choose Details" in order to make that property available in the "Arrange Icons by" menu.

7.Display volume control icon in taskbar

To display the volume control icon in the taskbar, go to the Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel and select "Place volume icon in the taskbar".

8.Delete file without send into recycle bin

Hold down the shift key when deleting a file to delete it immediately instead of placing it in the Recycle Bin. Files deleted in this way cannot be restored.

9.Customize 'send to' menu

Put a shortcut to your favorite editor in your Send To folder and it will appear in your "Send To" menu. You can then right-click any file and send it to your editor.

10.Organize favorites

a) To organize your Favorites in Explorer instead of using the Organize Favorites dialog, hold the shift key while selecting "Organize Favorites" from the Favorites menu of an Explorer window.

b) You can organize your Favorites by dragging the items around your Favorites menu.
Alternatively, you can open the Favorites pane and hold the Alt key while pressing the up and down arrows to change the order of your Favorites.

11.View IE in fullscreen

To run Internet Explorer fullscreen, press F11. Do it again to return to normal mode.

12.Hide printers & faxes

If your "Printers and Faxes" folder is empty, you can hide the "Printers and Faxes" icon when viewed from other computers
by stopping the Print Spooler service.

13.Add/remove columns from detail mode

To add or remove columns from Details mode, select Choose Details from the View menu, or just right-click the column header bar.

14.Go backwards or forward by mouse wheel

In Internet Explorer, hold the Shift key while turning the mouse wheel to go forwards or backwards.

15.Add current page to favorites

In Internet Explorer, type Ctrl+D to add the current page to your Favorites.
This and many more keyboard shortcuts can be found by going to Internet Explorer, clicking the Help menu, then selecting Contents and Index. From the table of contents, open Accessibility and click "Using Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts".

16.Shut down via Remote Desktop

To shut down via Remote Desktop
, click the Start button, then type Alt+F4.

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Solve Hidden files does not appear After effected by virus

First Stopping the virus: u need to check the task manager to see if there is a (SVCHOST.EXE) running under the current logged in username and try to terminate it.
Note: After u terminate the virus try not to double click on any of you computer driver coz this....

action will start the virus allover again, when u need to access any of ur drivers (Hard Disk Partition), type it's drive letter in the address bar and it will open without starting
the virus process.

Second Fixing the show hidden files and folders: ________________________________________

Then u need to open "Registry Editor" and then go to

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL"

And delete the Existing "CheckedValue" of the type "String" and create another one of the same name but of the type "DWORD" and set it's value to "1" Then open "My Computer" and

go to: Tools> Folder Options> View> and select "Show hidden files and folders" and Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"

Third Deleting the virus: ________________________________________

The easiest part, all u have to do is to delete the following files from your computer ( don't
forget how u should open the drivers or u will have to do it from the start )

1. C:\windwos\SVCHOST.EXE

2. C:\windwos\SVCHOST.inf or ini (probably they will be together side by side)

3. C:\RAVMON.EXE 4.C:\Autorun.inf

Then check the rest of the hard drivers you have on your computer ( D, E, or whatever) for
the files Number (3 and 4)

Restart your computer

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Speed up Menu Display

• Click Start. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties
• Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance area, click Settings

• On the Visual Effects tab in the Performance Options dialog box, clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box

• Click OK.

• In the System Properties dialog box, click OK.Now when you click a menu, it will appear almost instantly.

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Speed up the Start Menu

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key.
Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.

If this doesn't work for some reason, then you might try the following:

Navigate to
Display Properties then Appearance then Effects and turn off the option titled Show menu shadow. You will get much better overall performance.

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Turn off the Low Disk Space Notification

Open Registry
by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT

and Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER and in
Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Policies - Explorer,

and set the value of NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to DWORD = 1.

(This modification requires a logoff or reboot to work)

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Want to Improve Shutdown Time

Close apps automatically & quickly at shutdown

Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT.

Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP

and look for AutoEndTasks.
On my computer default value is 0. Change it to 1.

Thats all.

Further more you can reduce the time it takes for Windows to issue kill directive to all active/hung applications. In doing this only constraint that you should make sure exists is that HungAppTimeout is greater than WaitToKillAppTimeout. Change the values of WaitToKillAppTimeout to say 3500
(since default value for HungAppTimeout 5000 and for
WaitToKillAppTimeout is 20000)

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Windows Utilities Shortcuts

Here are some popular shortcuts to handy Windows utilities:
Simply type the shortcut command in to the Run textbox (Start>> Run), then click OK.

Shortcut Utility

compmgmt.msc Computer Management

devmgmt.msc Device Manager

dfrg.msc Disk Defragmenter

diskmgmt.msc Disk Management

eventvwr.msc Event Viewer

fsmgmt.msc Shared Folders Manager

gpedit.msc Group Policies Editor

lusrmgr.msc Local Users and Groups Manager

perfmon.msc Performance Monitor

secpol.msc Local Security Settings

services.msc Services

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You Cannot Create a Folder Named CON !!

It is fact that you cannot create a folder named "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON". "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or files.
Other reserved names are:

* PRN

* AUX

* NUL

* LPT1

* COM1

* Potential drive letter - A: to Z:

* A number of others


If you try to name a folder using one of these reserved names, the name will automatically revert to the default, generally "New Folder". Moreover, if you try to use a reserved name to name a file such as a Notepad or Microsoft Word document you will generally receive an error message similar to the following:

Depending on exactly how you save the file, you may instead receive a warning message advising that a file with that name already exists. However, even if you choose "Yes" to overwrite the existing file, you will still not be allowed to save the file.

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Speed up your PC

You may recognize that your system gets slower and slower when playing and working a lot with your pc. That's cause your RAM is full of remaining progress pieces you do not need any more.

So create a new text file on your desktop and call it ..
"RAMcleaner" or something...

Type

“FreeMem=Space(64000000)”
in this file and save it as “RAMcleaner.vbs” [ You may choose the "All Files" option when you save it ]

Run the file and your RAM will be cleaned,
Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater "cleaning-progress".

FreeMem=Space(128000000)

Just try it out..

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