Windows 7and Windows 8 includes a new tool to help you calibrate the correct gamma, contrast, brightness and color settings for your specific display.
Read MoreEveryone has a different idea of good font smoothing. What is nice and smooth to you may be blurry to someone else. That is why Microsoft included the ClearType Text Tuner in Windows 7.
Start the ClearType Text Tuner by clicking on the Start Button and typing in cttune and then hit Enter.
Opening up another copy of an application that is already open with the new taskbar can be tricky. Normally when you click on a taskbar item it just switches to the open windows. The trick to opening a new copy of the application that is already open is to hold down Shift while you click on the icon.
Read MoreMicrosoft recently updated the Customer Experience Improvement Program Client that is included on all Windows 7 betas. Some of the new settings are known to cause application installs to crash. CEIP is a great tool that allows Microsoft to see what drivers they are missing and what programs are crashing on your computer. However, with the recent settings change it was causing more problems than...
Read MoreThe Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, configure and modify images using Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM), create Windows PE images, and migrate...
Read MorePhysical DVD drives are becoming a thing of the past as the size of our PCs continue shrink and new form factors are emerging. Microsoft distributes Windows 7 and Windows 8 on physical discs or images of DVDs called ISO files that are typically burned to physical media. This has become problem as a number of laptops and tablet PCs no longer ship with DVD drives. The best way to install Windows on these...
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Windows 7 includes five themes that will help you customize Windows to fit your taste. If you are tired of the default themes there are a few sites where you can download more. Check out these sites:
- The Official Microsoft Windows 7 Personalization site
- [iThinkDiff.com's Windows...
Aside from being incredibly annoying in Windows Vista, User Account Control reduced the number of malware infections by more than 70% compared to Windows XP computers. The value and security UAC provides is well known but the way it was implemented drove users crazy. In Windows 7 UAC has been significantly improved. The amount of UAC prompts has been greatly reduced and a new control panel applet...
Read MoreWindows 7 includes many new way to manage your windows such as window snapping and cool tricks like Aero Shake. One secret that few users know about is the new keyboard shortcuts that are a big help for any power user. The following keyboard shortcuts provide another way to use the new window management features in Windows 7.
Read MoreIn older versions of Windows using an external projector with your laptop can be a difficult task. It seems like every laptop has a different function key combination to enable output for a projector. In Windows 7 that has finally been improved. Now, all you have to do is hit the Windows Key + P and the projector menu will be displayed.
