Seventy practical tips for Windows 7 (4)

57.Remove The Sidebar Remove the sidebar

Win7 does not seem to have this sidebar feature, but in fact it exists and It is automatically turned on and running in the background as the computer starts up. So if you want to get rid of it, here are two ways. The simpler one is to press WIN, type MSCONFIG.EXE, click Start and Clear Sidebar. The hard way is to type REGEDIT by WIN, find and delete the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run. This can save you the memory consumed by things that are not being used.

58. Volume Tweaking Volume Adjustment

Do you like Win7's ability to automatically reduce the sound when it detects a call in the computer? You can turn it off. Right click on the volume icon in the taskbar - Sound - Communication and turn it off.

59. Run A Program As Another User Run the program as another user

Win7 allows you to run a program as an administrator or other user, ie hold down SHIFT Right click on the executable or shortcut and you can choose to run as another user.

60. Use Virtual Hard Disk Files Using Virtual Hard Disks

In Win7, you can create and manage virtual disk files on your real disk first. You can use Windows to install online to your virtual disk without having to power on the virtual machine. To create a virtual disk you need to press Win, right click on My Computer - Manage - Disk Management - Operation - Create VDH. Here you can specify the location and size of the virtual hard disk.

Connecting the proposed hard disk file Press WIN, right click on My Computer, then Manage - Disk Management - Operation - Connect VHD and then you can specify its location and read-only. Initialize the virtual hard disk, press WIN, right click on My Computer, Manage - Operation - Connect Virtual Hard Disk. Select the partition mode you want, then right click on the unallocated space and click on the new simple volume, then follow the instructions. Now, a new hard drive is born, and you can use it as a real partition.

61. Remove The Windows Live Messenger Tab In The Taskbar Remove Windows Live Messenger from the taskbar

Remove Windows Live Messenger and get it back to the system tray area that belongs to him. Go to C:\\Program Files\\Windows Live\\Messenger and right click on msnmsdgr.exe to set the compatibility mode to Windows Vista.

62. Lock The Screen Lock Screen

The Win7 Start Menu no longer has a lock button, so now you have to press WIN+L to lock it. This looks simple, if you don't forget about this shortcut.

63. Create A Screen Lock Shortcut Create a new lock screen shortcut

If you don't like to use the quick key or forget it, there is another way to lock the screen. . Simply create a new shortcut to C:\\Windows\\System32\ undll32.exe user32.dll. Then you can lock or unlock it at will.

64. Enable Run Command In Start Menu Enable Run in Start Menu

If you miss the run command in XP, there is a way to get it back in Win7. Right click on the empty space in the Start menu, Properties - Start Menu - Customize and find the Run command.

65. Improve Desktop Window Manager For Nvidia Graphics Improve desktop window management for NVIDIA graphics cards

Sometimes the animation of the desktop doesn't look very good and not smooth enough, because of the desktop window Rendering without transparency and blur, but you can turn off the animation for better display. Press WIN, right click on My Computer, Properties - Advanced System Settings - Performance - Settings to cancel "Animation effects when maximizing or minimizing". Click OK.

66.Change Default Save Location For Files Change the default save location of files

Win7 and Vista are a bit different, because its documents, pictures, videos and music are saved in a public folder. , C:\\USERS. You may not want to store these files there, but creating your own storage location is easy. Press WIN, click on your username and double-click on the folder where you want to change the location. You will then see the location of the two libraries. Click on the TEXT, right click on the folder you wish to set as the default, then click "Set as default file location" and click OK.

67. Make 64bit Windows Media Player Default ( only for X64 users ) Let Windows Media Player default to 64-bit.

Windows comes with version Windows Media Player defaults to 32-bit. If you are a 64-bit user, do this, press WIN to enter COMMAMD, right-click Command Prompt and execute Run as administrator, type "unregmp2.exe /SwapTo:64", then press WIN, type "regedit", and go to HKLM\\ Under Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\wmplayer.exe\\, double-click the value and change it from "%ProgramFiles(x86)" to "%ProgramFiles%". Now you can use 64-bit Windows Media Player.

68. Open Multiple Instances Of Windows Explorer Via The Taskbar Open multiple Windows Explorers with the taskbar.

If you want to run more WINDOWS Explorer with the Start bar, you can do the following steps: Leave Windows Explorer off the taskbar, press WIN, find the attachment, and right click on the resource. Browser, properties, change the shortcut path to %SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} (if you want to set it to default to my computer) or % SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe /root,::{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} (if you want to default it to a library). Now add resource management back to the taskbar. This way you can open more resource managers by clicking the middle button of the mouse. If you want to change it back, change the shortcut path back to %SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe.

69. Make The System Tray Clock Show The AM /PM Symbols Let the system time tray display the AM/PM symbol

Win7 displays the 24-hour time by default, so if you want to display AM /PM, press WIN, enter intl.cpl to open the time zone and language options, customize the format, change the long time from HH:mm to HH:mm tt, for example tt is AM or PM symbol (21:12 PM). Change it to a 12-hour clock and you have to type something like hh::mm tt(9:12 PM).

70. Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Mode IE8 Compatibility Mode

If your website does not render properly, you should launch IE8 compatible view to play them. This is because upgrading the rendering engine can cause a lot of trouble. Open IE, Tools--Compatible View Settings and select Open all sites with Compatibility View, then click OK.