The Windows 7 operating system comes with the option to create virtual hard drive [vhd] images that can be mounted in the operating system after creation. This works pretty much the same way that iso images and other disk images can be mounted in an operating system. VHD images are automatically attached after their creation [...]
Fix Missing Desktop Icons [Windows 7]
A strange thing happened the other day on a Windows 7 Professional test system. All of the desktop icons that had been placed on the computer desktop were not visible anymore. No application or feature was changed to hide the visibility of the desktop icons manually and it is still not clear why it happened. [...]
Stop UAC From Dimming The Desktop [Windows 7]
If you are a Windows XP user who recently switched to Windows 7 you must have been getting annoyed by the blacking out of the screen every time the User Account Control kicks in. Microsoft calls this dimming the screen. What actually is happening is that the Windows dims the screen to bring the user’s [...]
10 Advanced Windows 7 Tips Part 1
Windows 7 has been out for a few months now and it is already clear that it will not become a second-Vista for Microsoft. The operating system’s market share has already climbed to respectable levels and it is only a matter of time when it will surpass its predecessor Windows Vista. Microsoft has build in [...]
Enable Windows Aero In Unsupported Windows Editions
Windows Aero is the standard graphical user interface that most Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems ship with. Microsoft made the decision during the Windows Vista release to block some or even all Aero effects in some editions of the operating system and has continued that strategy during the release of Windows 7.
To be [...]
Change File Access Rights With Take Ownership
File permission problems are more common in Windows Vista and Windows 7 than in Windows XP. That’s something that Windows XP users for instance notice when migrating to those operating systems. A common problem encountered by many users is for instance the inability to write specific files like the Windows hosts file or settings of [...]
Laptop Power Plan Assistant For Windows 7
Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7 extends the power plan options provided by the Windows 7 operating system by making them more accessible to the user. The software program will display an icon in the system tray after installation that can be used for that purpose. Some Windows 7 users might need to customize the [...]
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor
The reliability monitor is a control panel application introduced in Windows Vista that provides information about a computer’s reliability and problem history. The reliability monitor displays a timeline (in days or weeks) of five different system events that can be further divided into failures, warnings and information.
The five events that are monitored are application failures, [...]