Microsoft has announced that a problem has been identified in Windows 7 regarding DVD disk size.  As per KBA2021502, when you insert a DVD+RW or DVD-RAM into DVD drive of an Windows 7 PC and check the capacity of the disk in Windows Explorer or “My Computer”, Windows will report the entire capacity of the disk (e.g., 4.37GB) as ”free” even though there’s data on the disk. (more…)

Recently we explained how to enable or disable transparency in Window Borders, Start menu and Taskbar. Now it’s turn to change the color of them. Windows 7 gives you an option to change colors of Windows, Start menu and Taskbar. There are plenty of color options to choose from. (more…)

Windows 7 comes with Aero Desktop effects in which you can see many beautiful special effects like transparency in window borders, start menu and taskbar. The special effects seen while switching windows by pressing Window Key+Tab is also a part of Aero Desktop experience. Window animations while minimizing, maximizing looks great. Like wise there many other special visual effects that makes your desktop experience cool including Aero Peek, Aero Shake etc. (more…)

Windows 7 comes with beautiful transparency effects for window borders, taskbar and start-menu. These effects are a part of Aero Desktop experience. Hence you can see these effects only when you have enabled Aero effects. Note that Windows 7 Home Basic Edition and Starter Edition doesn’t support Aero and hence transparency effects are disabled. (more…)

Over a period of time, you downloaded and installed many Gadgets for your Windows 7 PC and now you see too many gadgets accumulated in gadgets gallery that you never used. It better you get rid of unused Gadgets to have a clutter free Gadgets gallery. Here are few simple steps to completely uninstall gadget(s) from your system. (more…)

So you downloaded a help documentation from internet that is in .CHM format and trying hard to open it in your Windows 7 or Windows Vista PC. Help documentations downloaded from internet are usually in .CHM (Compiled HTML Help) format. (more…)

Microsoft has announced a problem with MPEG-2 (DVD or SVCD) Program Stream content. The stream DVD/SVCD content doesn’t play on your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 PC. According to Microsoft KBA978206, the problem arises when you have Cyberlink PowerDVD (An third-party Multimedia Player) installed in your system. (more…)

Desktop Gadgets are nice little applets on your desktop that comes handy for quick glance of information. It is introduced in Windows Vista and carried forward to Windows 7 too. It does take some system resources while running and hence may downgrade system performance on a low end machine. (more…)

So you plug-in your Camera’s Secure Digital (SD) card into your Windows 7 PC for copying the photos and videos into your PC. But Windows 7 doesn’t recognize the card. The same card when inserted into your friends Windows Vista or Windows XP machine works well! (more…)

Windows 7 Ultimate and Home Premium Editions comes preloaded with a free DVD burning software. Using “Windows DVD Maker”, you can make professional looking DVD playable using your DVD Player. Windows DVD Maker is easy to use and just needs few clicks to create a DVD with Playbak controls, DVD Menu, and Chapters.

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