After writing numerous tutorials, guides on Windows 7 and related topics in TheCustomizeWindows, Sevenforums and MeraWindows ; I understood that I need to write some basic tutorials too for our readers. The request and suggestion came from Paul, a regular visitor of this website and Ankur Mittal ; the person behind the technical side of this website. After you have switched on your Windows 7 … [Read more...]
Windows 7 Refresh Pack 0.8
Download for 32 bit: Download for 64 bit: Its gradually becoming tougher to say "this is best" from our point! Kudos to the Artists and developers who are building them and sharing for free. Fantastic work in this theme. Its running towards the "Best theme of 2010". Now both 32 bit and 64 bit version available! Please visit artist's page and rate him with Love or Joy if you like … [Read more...]
Playing Media files and customizing Windows Media Player 12
You can access Windows Media Player 12 (WMP) in Windows 7 from :By Single Clicking the WMP icon in taskbar to open the player.Or By Right clicking over the WMP icon in the taskbar to get more options like above: or By Clicking the Start button then selecting and clicking WMP Or Going to the location where the file is located and double clicking it. Changing file association If you have … [Read more...]
Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The original WMA codec, known simply as WMA, was conceived as a competitor to the popular MP3 and RealAudio codecs. … [Read more...]
Windows Media Video
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft.The format is a part of the Windows Media framework that also includes formats like Windows Media Audio (WMA), Advanced Systems Format (ASF) and High Definition Photo (HDP). WMV files use the Microsoft container format and represent Microsoft's own version of MPEG-4 (Part 2) … [Read more...]
How to modify a Windows Media Player skin and get a customized WMP skin of your own
I thought out this "simple" way of "creating" your own Windows Media Player Skin, without the need of knowing any complex xml and java script programming knowledge. What is a Windows Media Player Skin? It is nothing but a zip folder saved as wmz (Windows Media Player Skin format),which include a xml file, a Java script file and lot of image files. How we will proceed? Technically, we will do … [Read more...]
Change the Background in WMP12
This tutorial will show you, how you can enable and choose the seven backgrounds provided by Microsoft by default (but they are not easily discoverable) in Windows Media Player 12. You do not need any extra 3rd party software. After reading the tutorial, you can do yourself very easily. Step 1: Click Start button, type "regedit" (without quotes), the program will appear at the top of the … [Read more...]
Enable Thumbnail view for PSD files
By default, You can not get the preview of Photoshop PSD files in Windows 7 Explorer. They will look like this Screenshot (The thumbnail you can see is of a PNG file): We will perform some trick to enable the thumbnail preview of these PSD files in Windows 7 without any need of softwares. Enable Thumbnail view for PSD files : Steps Download this open source dll file (new page will open). … [Read more...]
Guide to Create a 3rd Party Theme
We are not talking about changing the wallpapers, changing the taskbar color , saving it and calling it "custom theme"; its about how to create excellent looking third party theme also known as "Visual Style". You must need some tools, in order to create a custom theme. 1. Resource Hacker. Go to the Resource Hacker Page to download. 2. System File Replacer by xuliikoo in Deviant Art. … [Read more...]