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...]
Safely remove hardware option in Windows 7 right click context menu
Safely remove hardware option in right click context menu will enable you to remove any USB devices just from right click option. We will create a batch file to bring the Safely remove hardware window, which otherwise you had to click on the small arrow in Windows 7 notification area, then right click the USB device, then click the Eject that drive option. 3 clicks were needed, more over, the … [Read more...]
Eject CD DVD from right click context menu in Windows 7
Eject CD DVD from right click context menu or just by a shortcut in Windows 7. No software installation is required. With a simple vbs script, we will use the Windows Media Player's eject function to eject CD DVD or blue ray disk. Here is how the option eject CD DVD from right click context menu in Windows 7 will look like: We will need to create a vbs file, an icon and a registry file … [Read more...]
Show Hide file extension toggle option in Windows 7 context menu
Previously, a long time back; we wrote how you can manually show / hide file extension in Windows 7. This time we, will proceed further; we will add a toggle Show Hide file extension with a custom icon in Windows 7 right click context menu. It will look like this: Adding a Show Hide file extension in right click context menu is not much complicated than our few tutorials; … [Read more...]
Add search function to Windows 7 jumplist or taskbar
There is no quick way to search in Windows 7, unlike Mac OS X, where you can easily search any file or folder using the Finder. To search for something in windows 7, you have to: Open any Explorer folder to search Click Start button and search by typing in the search field; though it is easy, the list is too small in width and relevant / expected result might not show up. First we thought of … [Read more...]
Open my computer instead of library from taskbar explorer icon
When we click the Explorer icon on Windows 7 taskbar, by default it opens the Library. But, it is a matter of fact, most of the users need to open Computer (My Computer in older versions of Windows) more often to access different partitions or external drives. Instead of pinning a new shortcut to Computer or the partitions in the taskbar; we can tweak the opening location of this explorer icon on … [Read more...]
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