You can easily add a shortcut to Google Docs on your Windows 7 desktop for easy access. Right click on any empty place on Windows 7 desktop, hover over New and then shortcut: In the Create Shortcut Wizard, type the following URL : http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc Click Next button to continue. Name the shortcut as you like; in this example, we … [Read more...]
Windows 7 Tutorials
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.
How you use bookshelf like iPad to place icons in Windows 7 desktop
The book shelf in Apple iPad looks great. You can use a rack like Apple iPad's bookshelf to organize the shortcut icons, files and folders on your Windows 7 desktop too. Here is one we are using: We will not use any program, so no sucking of system resources. We need a bit of Photoshop works and Windows 7 tweaking. Actually it is a kind of cheat. The whole thing (except … [Read more...]
Turn off caching of thumbnail in Windows 7 Home Premium
This tutorial is an extension of the tutorial we wrote ago: Disable and delete the thumbs.db files in Windows 7 The reason behind writing this tutorial is, Windows 7 Home Premium does not have Group Policy Editor. So, we need to tweak it from Windows 7 Registry Editor. Do as said in that tutorial before the point "Disable these files". Now you need Windows 7 Registry Editor to do the work, … [Read more...]
Get back Windows Mail in Windows 7 SP1
Windows Mail was an integral part of Windows Vista but it is not present in Windows 7. In this tutorial, we will show unique and easy way to get Windows Mail back in Windows 7 with SP1. We got problem with Windows Live Mail few days ago; so thought make the way easy to get back Windows Mail. We will use radically simple method to get Windows Mail back. The method is valid for Windows 7 32 … [Read more...]
How to create .htaccess file in Windows 7
You can not create a .htaccess file within Windows 7. Simply because Windows Explorer will show you an error saying "You must type a file name." Just like below, we tried to create .htaccess file with Notepad : And it showed the error: So, we will do a trick. First create an text file and name it as htaccess.txt: You can name it as anything and save as text file; in … [Read more...]
Restore Windows Vault’s automatic logon credentials in Windows 7
Previously we wrote how to backup Windows Vault™s automatic logon credentials in Windows 7; in this article, we will write how to restore the backup. It is practically very easy to restore from the backup. Click the Start orb. Type Vault in the Start menu search field: and you will see the option Manage Windows Credentials is appearing on the top of Start menu search … [Read more...]
Backup Windows Vault’s automatic logon credentials in Windows 7
Lot of user even is not aware that there is a nice function named Windows Vault in Microsoft Windows 7. This Windows Vault, automatically saves all the user logon data when you use various web services from Microsoft, like Windows Live family including Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has written in their official … [Read more...]
Add show/hide hidden files option to right click context menu
In this tutorial we will show you how to add or remove Show/Hide hidden files option in Windows 7 right click context menu. When you click the option in right click, you will hear the default Windows Exclamation sound. You can change the sound too (read ahead). You may need to refresh the current folder in order to view / hide the hidden files. Procedure We will create a vbs file to carry … [Read more...]
Edit HOSTS file in Windows 7 from right click context menu
Previously we published a tutorial on how to edit HOSTS file in Windows 7 using Notepad. This time, we will show you a nice and simple trick, so that you can edit HOSTS file in Windows 7 right from the right click context menu. At the end of the tutorial, you will get something like this: What is HOSTS file? The hosts file is one of several system facilities to assist in … [Read more...]
Add or remove open in new window option in right click context menu
In Windows 7 you can to add or remove the option open in new window from the right click context menu for all users when you right click on folders or drives in Microsoft Windows 7. A simple registry trick will enable you to do this. Log in as administrator in your Windows 7 PC to be to do this trick. Add the option open in new window option in right click context menu in Windows … [Read more...]
Open in new process in right click menu without holding shift key
When you hold shift key from keyboard and right click on any item in Microsoft Windows 7, the option Open in new process comes in right click context menu; which, unlike Open in new window, does not comes with a normal (that is without holding the Shift key from keyboard) right click. In this tutorial, we will provide you a required Windows 7 registry trick, so that, Open in new process option … [Read more...]