If you want to spice up your desktop easily in Windows 7 a good method is changing the Theme. If you’ve already exhausted the default Themes included in the OS, you might want to download new ones. Here we take a look at easily downloading new Themes from Microsoft’s Personalization Gallery.
To download new Themes right-click on the Desktop and select Personalize.
Then under My Themes click on Get more themes online.
That takes you to Microsoft’s site where you can select from a variety of New and Featured themes from the Personalization Gallery.
Windows 7 RC (build 7100) will start telling users to use an upgrade windows 7 From February 15, 2010.
A option to automatically attach VHD images is to use the diskpart command line utility which is the part of Windows 7 operating system.
The best thing is that it only takes a few steps to enable it:
1 – Create a new folder in any location you want.
Windows has been using themes for many years now and it is because of its popularity that the theme in Windows 7 has seen further innovations. Windows 95 was the first time that Microsoft introduced themes and it became a rage instantaneously. Since then Microsoft has not done away with themes in their Operating System called windows. If you are planning to install Windows 7 then you will be pleasantly surprised that they have paid special attention to their concept of themes and have considerably improved upon their existing versions.
One of the most irritating things in Windows is the file browsing experience… it’s slow, buggy, and never wants to stay in “Details” mode. If you are already using the awesome 7-Zip utility, you have a powerful alternative file manager at your disposal.
In case you’re wondering, 7-Zip is our file archiving utility of choice around here. It’s awesome.
Using 7-Zip File Manager
Have you ever accidentally deleted the wrong file, or duplicated files while trying to select them with the mouse? Those types of mistakes can be extremely frustrating, but there’s a really, really simple way to reverse them.
All you have to do is use the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut, or use Edit \ Undo on the menu.
Viewing the Secret Items
These are the default items that you should see on the Send To menu when you right-click on a file:
Have you ever done something on your computer without really thinking about it, but the person next to you has a surprised and confused look on their face? If so, then you might have performed a Stupid Geek Trick. Today we’ll show how to open an Explorer window from the current command prompt directory.
Let’s begin… just open up a command prompt and then type in the following (the . passes the current directory to Explorer)
explorer .
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