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Latest Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorials with screenshots and step by step detailed instructions on how to do. Quite popular section, you will find many original ideas we realized and published which were copied and republished on other popular websites without any credit to us. We only maintain the category as Microsoft Windows 7 is old Operating System now. We have no Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorials section but these guides will mostly work with Microsoft Windows 8 as Microsoft Windows is Windows NT, which is ported version of OpenVMS Operating System. Author has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Talking Program Opener with Input Window in Right Click Context Menu

Here is tutorial to add a Talking Program Opener with an option Window in right click context menu without any software for your Windows 7 or any version of Windows PC. Talking Program Opener with Input Window in Right Click Context Menu tutorial will show how you can create a interactive talking program opener to open any file with specific program in Windows 7.   You might be interested … [Read more...]

Talking Calculator in right click context menu without any software

Here is tutorial to add a Talking Calculator in right click context menu without any software for your Windows 7 or any version of Windows PC.   You might be interested on other similar automated voice oriented tutorial using VB scripts, like: Your computer will greet you with current time and date on startup Your computer will shut down from a right click option with custom speech Your … [Read more...]

Notepad tutorial for advanced users: adding header or footer

Here is a Notepad Tutorial for the advanced Windows 7 users. Windows Notepad is very light text editor takes only ~636 K memory while running. However, most Windows 7 users are not aware that header or footer that comes after printing a Notepad document can be added or modified, hence we wrote this Notepad tutorial. Notepad Tutorial to add header or footer Open Notepad, Click the File menu, and … [Read more...]

Let your Computer Speak current time and date on startup

After reading this tutorial; you will be able to make your Windows 7 Computer speak the current time and date every time you log on. You might be interested on other similar automated voice oriented tutorial using VB scripts, like: Your computer will greet you with a custom speech Your computer will shut down from a right click option with custom speech Your computer will speak the current … [Read more...]

Talking clock in right click context menu without any software

After reading this tutorial, you will get an option in the right click context menu, click which your computer will speak the current time by your clock. The feature of this trick is:   The talking clock option is from right click menu with custom icon and position On clicking it, your computer will speak the current time No software installation is needed Here is the right click … [Read more...]

Let your PC speak what you want while shutting down with a timer

When we wrote Let your Computer say Welcome on startup ; many visitor asked whether it is possible to use some similar trick so that the PC will say what the visitor wants while shutting down. After eight months of writing that article, today we will say you the way; yes! it will be possible to make your PC to speak what you want while shutting down. The feature of this trick is:   The … [Read more...]

Let your computer speak from right click the text you want

People love two things : Right click context menu tricks Computer speaks what human wants Though the biggest hit is Let your Computer say Welcome on startup.   By following this tutorial, you will get an option to make your computer speak in Windows 7 right click context:     Clicking which will bring a input box:     You can type whatever you want and … [Read more...]

Add Services to the right click menu in Windows 7 with custom icon

Previously we wrote how to add Services in Right click context menu in Windows 7. However, for some reason; that did not worked for our regular visitor Lorney. Instead of working on that; we will create a batch file to run services.msc and then integrate it with right click menu. As usually; it will have the following features:   Custom positioning of the services option in right click … [Read more...]

Fully functional Apple Magic Trackpad in Windows 7

Apple Magic Trackpad is an excellent state of art hardware. However, it was very difficult to use Apple Magic Trackpad properly in Windows 7 due to virtually non existent good driver program for Windows Operating System. We have found a German geek, who has developed a nice .Net based application to use the Apple Magic Trackpad in Windows 7 rightly. He has named it Apple Magic Trackpad Control … [Read more...]

Restrict user access to a particular partition in Windows 7

You can easily restrict user access to any particular partition (or drive) in Windows 7 using either Registry or Group Policy Editor by following this tutorial. We can use two methods; either by using Windows Group Policy Editor to restrict user access to a particular partition (or drive) or by using the Registry Editor to restrict user access to a particular partition. The first method is … [Read more...]

Multiple finger gesture on any laptop with Synaptic touchpad

Multiple finger gesture can be used on any laptop that comes with Synaptic touchpad.   Know the manufacturer of your laptop's touchpad before using the trick for Multiple finger gesture In the notification area, double click the touchpad icon (unhide by clicking the arrow if hidden) :   In the Mouse Properties Window (that will come clicking the touchpad icon) ; go to Button Tab (or … [Read more...]