Windows 7 Tips

Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows 7 or Vista

If you’ve got drives in My Computer that you never access, such as a USB Flash drive that you are using solely for ReadyBoost, a floppy drive, or a network drive only used for a particular piece of software, then you might want to simply hide the drive from your computer.

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Windows 7 Tips

Prevent Changing Wallpaper Using a Registry Hack

Sometimes you might not want users to have the ability to change Wallpaper on Windows 7 workstations. Today we look at how to prevent them from changing.

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Windows 7 Tips

Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts Without UAC Prompts in Windows 7 or Vista

Create the Scheduled Task Item

Open up Task Scheduler through the start menu search box (usually you can just type task), and then on the right-hand side click the “Create Task” link:

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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 registry tweak.

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Prevent Access to Registry Editor

Registry is a place where we can edit all the settings on the system including adding the Administrator Account in the log in page. It is a very important tool to make changes to the system be it XP, Vista or windows7.

Step 1: Open the Group Policy Editor by typing gpedit.msc in the search box or in the Run command

Step 2: It will open the Local Group Policy Editor

Step 3: Expand the User Configuration and Administrative Template

Step 4: Select System and double click on the option prevent access to Registry editing tools

Step 5: It will open a window like this

Step 6: Select Enable option and click on Ok to select disable it.

Step 7: If you want to Enable registry Editor we need to Select Disable option again to re enable it.

This can be used in windows Xp computer as well.

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