Enable or Disable Desktop Composition

Enable or Disable Desktop Composition in Windows 7 InformationThe desktop composition feature was introduced in Vista, it fundamentally changed the way applications display pixels on the screen. When desktop composition is enabled, individual windows no longer draw directly to the screen or primary display device as they did in previous versions of Windows. Instead, their drawing is redirected to off-screen surfaces in video memory, which are...

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Device Manager - Finding Unknown Devices

Finding Unrecognized Devices through Device Manager InformationThis guide will show you how to locate the unidentified hardware in your device manager by using Hardware Identification. The goal of this tutorial is to help identify an unidentified device...

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Taking Ownership of A File

If you must access a file or a folder that you do not have rights to, you must take ownership of that file or folder. When you do this, you replace the security permissions that were originally created for the file or folder. ...

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Disable/Enable Lock Workstation

Disable/Enable Lock Workstation Functionality (Windows + L) Using the Windows+L keys together will lock your workstation running Windows 7, XP or Vista. Did you realize that you can also disable this function...

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Extract Windows 7 System Image Files

How to Extract Windows 7 System Image Files Using Disk Management InformationWhen you create a system image, Windows 7 creates a Virtual Hard Disk VHD file that contains all of your files. This will show you how to attach (mount) this VHD file using Disk Management to manually extract and restore specific files of your choice from the system image instead of doing the default full system image recovery....

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Reduce recent items in Windows 7

       Recent Items is a list of your recently used files on the right side of the Start Menu, Taskbar Windows Explorer icon link, in the Navigation Pane Recent Places, and in Jump Lists in Windows 7. If you’ve ever wondered how to configure the number of documents shown on the Recent Items menu, you’ve found the right article for Windows 7. The default value is set to show 10 documents, but you can increase that with a...

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Run Commands for Windows 7

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Creating a VHD in Windows 7

How To Create A VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) In Windows 7? Unlike previous Windows versions, Windows 7 lets you create a new Virtual Hard Disk without the help any third-party applicatio...

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Enable or Disable Screen Savers

Enable or Disable Screen Savers in Windows 7 InformationThis article will show you how to enable or disable desktop screen savers from being able to run for all users on the computer...

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Pin Computer to the Taskbar

How to Pin Computer to the Windows 7 Taskbar InformationThis will show you how to pin Computer to the Windows 7 taskbar as a separate icon instead of it being pinned as a Jump list item in the default pinned Window Explorer taskbar icon....

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Restoring files from previous versions

Restoring files from previous versions You can restore deleted files and folders or restore a file or folder to a previous state. ...

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Windows 7 Features - Virtual Hard Disk

Virtual Hard Disk The Microsoft virtual hard disk (VHD) file format specifies a virtual hard disk, which is encapsulated in a single file and is capable of hosting native file systems and supporting standard disk operations. This topic contains an overview of the new functionality that is offered in this version of Windows...

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Enable or Disable Problem Steps Recorder

How to Enable or Disable Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7 InformationYou can use Problem Steps Recorder to automatically capture the steps you take in Windows 7, including a text description of where you clicked and a screen shot during each click. Once you capture these steps, you can save them to a .zip file containing a .mht (MHTML) file of them. This file can then be used by a support professional or someone else helping you with a computer...

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DISPLAY FREQUENTLY USED PROGRAMS IN THE NOTIFICATION AREA

HOW TO DISPLAY FREQUENTLY USED PROGRAMS IN THE NOTIFICATION AREA All of us know, In Windows 7 accessing programs is much easy and you can find them right in the start menu. But it is always good to find something much easier ...

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Enable or Disable Windows 7 Pop-up Descriptions

How to Enable or Disable Windows 7 Pop-up Descriptions InformationThis will show you how to enable or disable Windows 7 pop-up descriptions that display file information when you hover your mouse pointer over files, folders, or drives, on the desktop and in Windows Explorer. By default, a pop-up description is enabled in Windows 7. ...

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Change the Time to Change Password

How to Change the Time to Warn a User to Change Password Before Expiration InformationIf you have password expiration enabled, then this will show you how to change how far in advance (in days) users are warned that their password is about to expire. ...

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Missing USB Drive in Windows 7

Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your machine you won’t see it in Computer or AutoPlay in Windows 7.Now we would take a look at how to change the drive letter so you can can access i...

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Create an Elevated Program Shortcut

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Convert a Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk

How to Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk InformationA disk is a separate physical hard drive. This will show you how to convert a dynamic, also known as "software RAID", disk to a basic disk in Windows Disk Manager or in a command prompt. By default Windows uses Basic disks. Basic and dynamic disks both support using MBR and GPT partition (volume) styles. For more detailed information on basic and dynamic disks, see: Basic and Dynamic Disks...

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Run program in Administrator Mode

         Many utilities need to be run as administrator in order to function properly, especially older utilities that haven’t been updated to support Windows 7.All shortcuts in Windows since Vista have a special property that you can set that will allow the application to run as Administrator. This works perfectly for creating a batch file to restart a service, for instan...

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Install Themes From Windows 7

How To Download And Install Themes From Windows Website Windows 7 Personalization allows you to change the wallpapers and also the themes. Setting different wallpaper is quite easy and just takes a couple of clicks as we know. But how can we change the theme? Microsoft Windows has a personalization gallery for users who would like to try different themes...

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Add or Remove Windows 7 Index Locations

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