Information about the Windows 7 Operating System and its features. Read about troubleshooting the issues related to the Wireless and Ethernet Networks, Homegroup, Windows 7 installation, audio, backup, bundled and third-party Software compatible with the Windows 7 Operating System. Latest news and updates meant for Windows 7 will be discussed here too.

How to Turn the User Account Control (UAC) Feature On or Off

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The User Account Control (UAC) is a feature of the Vista and Windows 7 operating systems that improves computer safety and security by preventing potentially dangerous software from making changes to the computer without explicit user consent, which in turn can help reduce the affect of viruses, spyware, and other threats.

IMPORTANT: It is recommended that the User Account Control (UAC) setting not be disabled if at all possible. Lowering the UAC setting can reduce the computer security level and make it more susceptible to security exploits. If the UAC setting does need to be lowered for some reason, be sure to return the UAC setting back to at least the default level as soon as possible.

NOTE: By default, the operating system is configured with the User Account Control (UAC) level set to the second highest setting possible.

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How to connect a Remote Linux Desktop from Windows

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 17:54
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Readers may wonder - why it is generally necessary to connect to a remote Linux Desktop from a Windows terminal? The answer is simple - to have a single point of administration. After all, how much time is usually spent running around between computers in an attempt to resolve any problem! You already know how to connect to computers running Windows from Linux, but after reading this article, will be able to connect on the contrary - from Windows to Linux, and it's much easier for you to administer a local area network. Let's start.

Pre-requisites:

In this article, I assume that your Network already has well-functioning Computers running Windows and Linux . To simplify the problem, I will use the IP-addressing scheme 192.168.1.x. In this case, is much more convenient to use a static IP-address, otherwise you have to spend extra time figuring out the address you want on your Computer.

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How to change the way programs and buttons appear on the taskbar

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 23:38
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Follow this procedure to customize the taskbar and change the appearance of buttons and how they group together when you have multiple windows open.

1. Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel window, click Appearance and Personalization.
3. In the Appearance and Personalization window, click Taskbar and Start Menu.
4. In the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window, under Taskbar appearance, in the field next to Taskbar buttons, click the down arrow and then click to select the desired option from the list:

Taskbar and Start Menu Properties

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Connecting to a Remote Desktop of Windows 7 from Linux terminal

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 08:51
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Although most administrators work with Windows, sometimes in front of them there is a necessity to connect to the Remote Desktop Windows from a computer running Linux. How to do it from Windows is all well known, but in the case of the Linux solution is not so obvious.

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Tip | Scanning the System Files of Windows 7 and fixing bugs

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 21:54
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Sometimes the Windows 7 Operating System (OS) may start acting up and display error messages. This may happen due to the damaged System Files of the OS. Usually the damaged files are restored by the "System Restore" process which requires a restart. Here I'm going to discuss another procedure which doesn't require restart of the Computer and can be tried before the "System Restore" procedure.

Please follow the procedure to scan the System Files of Windows 7 and recover the corrupt files:

How do RemoteFX and Remote Desktop Services work together

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RemoteFX is a new feature Microsoft is offering in its latest release of Service Pack 1 for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Operating System. It promises to streamline and enrich the mulimedia experience of users connected on the network.

New features of Event Viewer in Windows 7

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If you recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP, you certainly would have noticed that the new operating system is different from the old, not only visually beautiful. For example, the Event Viewer which you probably used to help diagnose problems with Windows XP, the new version differs radically from its predecessor. In this article I will discuss the new features of the Event Viewer in Windows 7.

Using a dynamic slide show on the basis of RSS as a desktop background in Windows 7

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One of the advantages of Windows 7 in comparison with Windows Vista is advanced personalization features using the interface of Aero. Among them - an interesting opportunity to use RSS is to create a slide show, which will be used as the desktop background.
 

RSS and files

The first difficulty lies in the fact that all the RSS-feed used to create the slide shows, must be in one place. This limits the choice, but I found a way to solve the problem as mentioned below.

Another difficulty - lack of built-in interface to create threads using the slide show based on RSS. We'll have to copy and edit write protected files of Windows.
 

Creating a customized Windows 7 theme

Fig. 1 shows the window personalize Windows 7 Ultimate on my test system. By default, the default theme Aero.

Figure 1

To start, we need the theme file, which can be edited. To get it, open Windows Explorer (Windows Explorer) Folder C:\ Windows \ Resources \ Themes (Fig. 2).

Figure 2: Theme file location

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Beta of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 available to download

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 14:00
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Microsoft has started to distribute the first official beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

We have previously reported that the start of closed beta testing will begin later this month and proved, Microsoft keeps its promises.

The official beta build was assembled for the internal number 6.1.7601.16562.win7sp1_beta.100603-1800, collected another 3 June (reports that the start of testing to take place before, but specialists in time noticed an error in the system heap for virtualizer Hyper-V and took their correction). The first service pack is now "blown" to the size of 1.22 GB, which is the largest amount of file data in the history of the Service Pack release for Windows.

How to set, change or disable the screensaver

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Please follow the instructions to configure the screen saver in the Windows 7 and Vista Operating Systems.

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