Windows 7

Recently we showed you how to turn off Windows Startup sound during logon to Windows 7. Now we will show you how to turn off all Windows system related sounds like beeps, click sounds, shutdown sound, low battery alarm, blocked pop-up sound, etc without the need of muting all sounds in your PC. This is especially useful in scenarios like when you are making VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calls using Skype, Yahoo Messenger etc. In such situation, your friend on phone can hear all your system sounds. (more…)

Most of us like Windows Startup sound or what we also call as “welcome” sound that is played when you login to Windows. Windows 7 startup sounds fresh and cool. But for some reason you may want to disable Windows startup sound. Like you may not like to startup sound to be played when you joined a meeting and switched on your office laptop. (more…)

Fonts are added into your computer when you install certain programs. Upon time, these installed fonts becomes too many and they come showing up in all programs like MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop etc. If you don’t use all of them right now and would like to hide selected fonts for later use, then here is how you can hide selective fonts in Windows 7. (more…)

Windows 7 supports multi-touch enabled displays. Microsoft Touch Pack was earlier released only for OEM. Which means you can use Microsoft touch pack only when you purchased your computer with Windows 7 preinstalled in it by the manufacturer. It was not possible to install and use Microsoft Touch Pack by yourselves. (more…)

Windows Vista and Windows 7 comes with Breadcrumb view. Using this feature, it’s easier to open contents of folder you are browsing through at any level. You can click at any level in the path and open it. If you have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7 recently, you may not know what we are talking about. (more…)

Laptop users most often have to use built-in touchpad for using the laptop on the go. Depending upon your usability, you may like to customize Synaptics touchpad settings on your own like increasing it’s sensitivity, enabling coasting for reading long documents, scrolling speed settings, enabling slow motion for improved pointing accuracy for fine positioning etc. (more…)

Windows 7 uses indexing to perform search functionality in your PC. Unlike Windows XP, Windows 7 search is real-time which means you will get search results as you start tying. By default, almost all files on your computer are indexed. Indexed locations include folders, and libraries. Program files and system files are excluded from indexing. (more…)

Microsoft has made a hotfix available for users facing problem of STOP 0x0000003B error message. The error message occurs when some IEEE 1394 devices (FireWire, i.LINK, and Lynx) are plugged-in to the ports in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 PC. (more…)

Microsoft is frequently updating it’s Theme gallery. This time it’s a brand new theme called “NASA Hidden Theme” for Windows 7. The theme pack comes with breathtaking pictures of Universe. The colors revealed by the infrared imaging of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is amazingly beautiful and should refresh your Windows 7 desktop. (more…)

So you installed many Microsoft Products like Windows 7, MS Office Suite, etc over a period of time and lost the product key associated with each of those products. You may have lost the software CD/DVD in which you have the product license keys. You can retrieve those serial keys from the current installation. There are many free applications that helps you to recover license keys from Windows. (more…)