Windows 7 Article Categories

With the goal of making quality training on Microsoft products more accessible using modern technology, Microsoft has expanded the Microsoft Virtual Academy worldwide. Also known as the MVA, the growing site offers free training created and delivered by the product experts at Microsoft via live online and on-demand training courses. 

Windows 7 users envious of the Windows 8 Task Manager have a new option thanks to a free utility called DBC Task Manager.  The replacement task manager was written from scratch to mimic the task manager in Windows 8.  The simplified interface and beautiful charts have all been recreated for Windows 7 users.

Aero Shake is a mouse shortcut that allows you to clean the clutter of open windows.  Simply shake a window with your mouse and all inactive application windows in the background will be minimized. Shake the window again and all background windows will return. Aero Shake can be helpful if you want to focus on an application but users can also accidentally activate Aero Shake.  If you don't need Aero Shake, the feature can be disabled with a registry edit.

If you are having issues with Google Chrome or simply want to remove all customizations and extensions, Chrome 29 introduced a new reset browser feature.  Simply click the button and everything except for your bookmarks, saved passwords and history will be reset.

For some users the ability to hibernate their PC instead of shutting down is disabled on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.  All modern PC hardware supports hibernating and it is a great alternative to using sleep or the standby modes that continue to use power and can drain your battery if you have a laptop. Hibernation does not use any power after and it saves the state of your PC so you can resume just like you never turned your PC off with all of your applications running and open that you previously were using.