70 most important tips and tips for Windows 7

1. pcsafeguard computer guard

I seldom ask others to use my computer, because I am afraid they will mess it up, but it seems that Microsoft has taken this into consideration for me and solved this problem by the way. Pcsafeguard won't let anyone mess up the user's computer settings, because when they log out, all the settings will be restored to normal. Of course, he will not restore the user's settings, but the only thing the user needs to do is to define the permissions of other users.

To use pcsafeguard, first control panel -- user account, then create a new account, then select "enable pcsafeguard", and then confirm. Then the user can feel at ease to allow others to use the user's computer, because nothing will be changed, including setting, downloading software, and installingProgram.

2. Display Calibration

Fortunately, Windows 7 has the display calibration Wizard feature that allows you to adjust the screen brightness appropriately, so you will not encounter display problems when Browsing photos and text. When browsing photos on Windows, the brightness may be too large. Now the problem is solved. You only need to press win + R and enter "dccw.

3. applocker application lock

For enterprise users or users who often need to share a machine with others, applocker is undoubtedly an excellent assistant. Win + R run gpedit. MSC open the Local Policy Group Editor, choose computer configuration> Windows Settings> Security Settings> application control policy, right-click an option (Executable File, installation, or script) create a rule.

4. Image burning

We have had the trouble of burning images in windows. Because Windows does not have the built-in function, we often need to install third-party software to solve this problem. However, with the advent of Windows 7, these problems no longer exist. All we need to do is double-click the ISO image, and then burn it into the CD or DVD in the user's optical drive.

5. removable devices with blank playback

By default, blank mobile devices are not automatically played in Windows 7, this option can be changed by clicking tools -- Folder Options -- View -- cancel the selection of "hide empty drive in computer folder.

6. Dock the current window to the left of the screen

This new feature seems quite useful, because sometimes we will be troubled by almost crazy windows floating on the screen, and it is difficult to get them all aside. Now we can easily use the keyboard shortcut. Press win + to move it to the left of the screen.

7. Dock the current window to the right of the screen

Right-click win + to align the window to the right

8. display or hide the preview panel

Press Alt + P to hide or display the preview window of the browser

9. Display gadgets at the top of other windows

Press Alt + G

10. desktop background images for slide playback

If the user is as lazy or bored as I do, the user will often change the user's desktop background, which wastes a lot of time. Now the user does not need to do this again, because the user can set the magic lamp to play. Right-click desktop-personalized settings-desktop background and press Ctrl to select images. Then, you can choose the interval between playing an image and whether to play the image randomly or continuously.

Turn on the built-in wallpaper in Windows 7 for automatic replacement

 

11. Change the taskbar to a vista style.

If the user thinks that the taskbar occupies too much space on the user's screen, the user can reduce the icon. In this way, right-click the start button and select Properties-select "use small icon" in the taskbar"

So that the Windows 7 taskbar does not merge and does not display the window title

12. Merge the taskbar icon

If a user opens many windows or programs, the toolbar space may not be enough, so the user needs to merge them like XP and Vista. Method, right-click the start button, select Properties -- select "group when the taskbar is full" in the taskbar ".

13. multi-threaded File Replication

If you are a more advanced user, you must have heard of robocopy. This function is built in Windows 7. You can execute multi-threaded Replication through the command line. You can select any number of threads, such as "/MT [: N]. Its value range is between 1 and 128.

(Enter robocopy/? In the command line /? Specific usage)

Robocopy-multi-thread speed up file copy/transfer in Windows 7

14. Maximize or restore the foreground window

Press win +

15. Unlock files occupied by processes

In Windows, when a file is deleted, the system prompts "being used by another program", so that the file cannot be deleted. We often encounter this situation. This is because a background process is calling this file. At this time, only the process can be deleted. So how to locate the process? In general, we need third-party tools such as "ice blade. In fact, you can easily use its "Resource Monitor" in Windows 7.

For more information, see: Why is the File deleted in Windows 7 indicating that it is in use? Built-in System Tools

16. Activate the Quick Start Column

When you are using Windows 7, you may miss the Quick Start bar that looks useful in XP and Vista. Fortunately, you can take several quick steps to get it back. Right-click the taskbar -- toolbar -- Enter "% USERPROFILE % appdataroamingmicrosoftinternetexplorerquicklaunch" in the blank area on the new toolbar, and select a folder. To make it look like it is in Vista, right-click the toolbar-cancel "lock toolbar", right-click to separate and cancel "show title" and "show text ". Right-click the toolbar and select "show small icon.

17. Display preview in Resource Manager

In the resource manager window, press Alt + P to display the preview window on the right.

18. Desktop magnifiers

Press win + plus sign or minus sign to zoom in or out. You can zoom anywhere on the desktop and configure your magnifiers. Users can select a reversed color, follow the mouse pointer, and follow the keyboard focus or text input point.

19. Minimize all Windows except the current window

Press win + home

20. Power Management troubleshooting

Windows 7 can tell you how much electricity your system uses or provide you with detailed information about power usage and issues related to each program and device. You can use the following methods to optimize your battery and prolong its service life. Press winmtr renter powercfg-energy-outputpathfilename to generate an energy-report.html file in the user-defined folder. (For example, powercfg-energy-outputc: A detailed power description is generated in the C-root directory energy-report.html .)

Windows 7 power management White Paper-nine ways to save battery power

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42. Improved Calculator

One of the features of Windows 7, the improved calculator can be used for unit conversion, date calculation, 1 gallon gasoline mileage, lease and mortgage calculation. Users can also choose between standard, scientific, programmer, and statistician models.

43. Open a folder in the new process

All folders in Windows 7 are opened in the same process to save resources. However, this does not mean that a folder crashes and all folders crash. Therefore, if the user thinks this is unnecessary, the user can open them in their respective processes. Press shift and right-click the drive and select open in the new process.

44. Problem recording tool

Program Installation records are a great tool that can be used in many environments. You can input psr.exe by pressing Winand click record to start it. Now it will record all users' movements and store them as HTML files. You can browse it or write the user's description on it. These can be used together with error diagnostics, writing guidance, or individually tutoring to help users.

45. freecodecspack free decoding package

Built-in. mov and DivX decoder support for Windows 7. However, unfortunately, Windows mediaplayer still cannot play some audio and video files, so users still need some decoder. However, with the download of the Free decoding package, the user should not have any problems in this regard.

46. Change the "library" icon in the taskbar to "computer"

By default, the Windows resource browser opens in the instruction library. Most of us use it to replace computers. Press win

Enter the specified assumerole, and select "allow". Then, enter "initialize systemroot‑policer.exe/root" in "allow ,::". Right-click the Browse icon on the taskbar and click "remove from the taskbar". Then, drag it from the Start Menu.

Custom pointing to the "library" icon in the taskbar in win7

Microsoft blog-learn about the database in Windows 7

Enable and disable the libraries (Library) folder in Windows 7

47. aeroshake

If there are many windows on the desktop, you can shake the window from left to right to clean up the desktop, so that all other windows will become minimized. If you want to restore the window, shake the activation window.

48. Retrieve gadgets that cannot be used because UAC is disabled

You may have noticed that once UAC is disabled for security reasons, you will no longer be able to use gadgets. If you want to take the risk of using UAC when it is disabled, here is a method. Press win and enter regedit, find hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionsidebarsettings, create a New DWORD Value named allowelevatedprocess, and change the value to 1. Now you can use your gadgets. If not, restart your computer.

49. Disable jumplists

* Right-click the taskbar-properties-Start Menu

* Uncheck "store and show recently opened programs in the Start Menu" and "store and display recently opened projects in the Start menu and Taskbar"

* OK.

50. Search for anything on your computer

Windows 7 provides users with the possibility to search for all types of files that they do not know. It will help users when they encounter problems. Although it is not recommended because it is actually much slower than normal search. You can try it, open windows Resource Manager, select tool -- folder option -- View and select to search for unknown files. If the user no longer needs it, do not forget to turn it off to increase the search speed.

Skills-faster searching for Windows 7

 

51. Mouse gestures

The gesture function of Windows 7 can be used not only by those who have purchased the touch screen, but also by users with the mouse. Therefore, you can use the left-click to move up the taskbar icon instead of the right-click method to activate the jump list. In addition, click and drag the address bar in IE to open the browsing history. There are still many gestures not found.

Open jumplists in windows7 in slide Mode

52. Configure your music favorites

If you have fixed windows mediacenter, you can try to improve your experience in this area. The Media Center creates a music Favorites list based on the number of songs played by the user, and adds the score and playback time of the user to the list. If you do not like this method, you can change the style of your favorites. Click task-set-music favorites.

53. Disable local search history

By default, the latest search is retained and displayed in Windows 7. This may often prove very exciting. You do not need to be nervous, because the user can not let him display. Press win and enter gpedit. MSC. Then you can set -- manage template -- Windows component -- Windows resource browser and double-click to close the recently entered search.

54. Advanced disk sorting

Windows 7 provides much better disk sorting functions than Vista, and you can set it through the command line. Computer network school (http://www.pcedu123.com/) Remind everyone to press win input cmd. You can use the command line defrag to organize your disk and the user has the following options:/R to organize multiple disks at the same time,-a to perform a Sort Analysis,-V to print the report, -R ignores fragments smaller than 64 MB, and-W clears all fragments

For example, "defragc:-v-W" sorts out the entire c disk.

Defrag command in Windows 7-stronger disk fragment Function

Add the disk fragment option to the right-click menu of Windows 7 Disk

55. Make IE8 run faster

If you want to make IE8 faster, you need to disable the plug-in that slows down it. Tool-plug-in management checks the loading time of each plug-in. You can remove plug-ins that are not needed by users to improve reading speed.

Using built-in management tools-find out the culprit of slowing down Internet Explorer 8

56. Automatic Media Center download

Windows Media Center 12 allows users to set up regular downloads, so it completes the download without interrupting users.

Tool -- settings -- General -- Automatic download option, and users can configure its download at will.

New Features of Media Center in Windows 7

Enable mediacenter in Vista to support more file formats and folders

Windowsmediacenter in windows7rtm

57. Remove sidebar

Windows 7 does not seem to have the sidebar function, but it actually exists and is automatically enabled and running in the background as the computer starts. Therefore, if you want to get rid of it, there are two methods. Simply press win, enter msconfig. EXE, and click Start and clear the sidebar. The difficulty is to press win and enter Regedit to find and delete the registry key hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionrun. This can save the memory consumed by the user's unused things.

58. Automatic Volume Adjustment

Do users not like Windows 7's ability to automatically reduce the voice when detecting calls on their computers? You can turn it off. Right-click the volume icon in the taskbar-sound-communication and turn it off.

Solve the Problem of sudden interruption of playing music in Windows 7

59. Run the program as another user

Windows 7 allows you to run a program as an administrator or another user, that is, you can press shift and right-click the executable file or shortcut, and then you can choose to run the program as another user.

60. Use vhd

In Windows 7, you can first create and manage virtual disk files on your real disk. You can install Windows Online to your virtual disk without starting the virtual machine. To create a virtual disk, press win, right-click my computer, choose manage> disk management> operate> Create vhd. Here, you can specify the location and size of the virtual hard disk.

Press win to connect to the file, right-click my computer, and choose manage disk management> operate> connect to vhd. Then, you can specify its location and whether it is read-only.

Initialize the virtual hard disk, press win, right-click my computer, and choose manage> operate> connect to the virtual hard disk. Select the partition mode you want, right-click the unallocated space and click the new simple volume, and then follow the instructions wizard. Now, a new hard disk is born, and users can use it as a real partition.

Exploring windows7beta and. vhd files

Vhd function usage-graphic windows7nativeboot full tutorial

Let's talk about the virtualization technology of Windows 7-support starting the system from the vhd native

How do I install Windows 7 from a vhd file? (Video)

How to Create a. ISO file from a. vhd file in Windows 7

 

61. Remove windowslivemescript from the taskbar

Remove windowslivemessenger and return it to the system tray of the current user. Go to C: programfileswindowslivemessenger, and click msnmsdgr.exe at the right key to set the compatibility mode to windowsvista.

62. Lock the screen

There is no lock button in the Start Menu of Windows 7, so now you need to press win + L to lock it. This looks simple, if the user does not forget the shortcut key.

63. Create a new lock screen shortcut

If you do not like to use a shortcut key or forget it, you can lock the screen in another way. Create a new shortcut to C: windowssystem32 undll32.exeuser32. dll. Then the user can lock or unlock it at will.

64. Enable running in the Start Menu

If you miss the running command in XP, you can find it in Windows 7. Right-click the blank area of the Start Menu, choose Properties> Start Menu> customize, and find the running command.

65. Improved desktop window management for NVIDIA graphics cards

Sometimes the animation effect on the desktop does not look good and smooth enough, because the transparency and blur are not used for rendering on the desktop window, but you can disable the animation for better display effects. Press win, right-click my computer, choose Properties> advanced system Settings> performance> disable "maximize or minimize animation effects", and click OK.

66. Change the default file storage location

Windows 7 and Vista are a little different because their documents, images, videos, and music are all stored in a public folder C: users. Users may not want to store these files there, but it is very easy to create their desired storage location. Press win, click the user name, and double-click the folder where the user wants to change the location. Then the user will see the location of the two databases. Click the text, right-click the folder you want to set as default, and click "set as default file location", and click OK.

67. The default value of windowsmediaplayer is 64-bit.

Windows mediaplayer is 32 bits by default. If the user is a 64-bit user, press win and enter commamd. Right-click commandprompt and run runasadministrator. Enter "unregmp2.exe/swapto: 64". Then press win, enter "Regedit" to go to hklmsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionapppathswmplayer.exe, double-click the value, and change it from "% ProgramFiles (x86)" to "% ProgramFiles % ". Now you can use the 64-bit windows mediaplayer.

68. open multiple Windows resource managers in the taskbar.

If you want to run more windows resource manager in the "Start" window, you can follow these steps: manual/root,: (if you want to set the manual as my computer, then perform systemroot‑policer.exe/root ,:: (If you want to use it as the library by default ). Now you can append Resource Management back to the taskbar. In this way, you only need to click the mouse icon to open more resource managers. If the user wants to change back, the user changes the official format to systemroot‑policer.exe.

69. display the AM/PM symbol on the system time Tray

Windows 7 displays the 24-hour time by default. If you want to display AM/PM, press win and enter intl. CPL to open

Time zone and language options, custom format, change long time from hh: mm to HH: mmtt, for example, TT is an AM or PM symbol (PM ). Change it to the 12-hour format. The user needs to enter the format like hh: mmtt (PM ).

70. IE8 compatibility mode

If your website cannot be correctly rendered, you should start the IE8 compatible view to play them. This is because upgrading the rendering engine will cause a lot of trouble. Open IE, tool-Compatibility View settings, select to open all websites with Compatibility View, and click OK.

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21. Search web pages on the user's desktop

Windows 7 desktop search integrates the joint search function to search for things outside the local computer. Now you can search for something on the network through a local computer. This technology is based on opensearch and RSS formats. Because of its open standards, users can easily create their own personalized search tools.

Combined search in Windows 7

22. Add a video in the Start Menu

If a user sought a faster way to find a user's video, Windows 7 now gives the user an answer. Right-click Start-properties-Start Menu-custom and set the video to "display as a link.

23. Switch the window between different monitors

If the user uses two or more monitors at the same time, the user may want to move the window from one to the other. Here is a simple method to implement it. All you need to do is press win + Shift + left or right, depending on the monitor to which the user wants to move.

24. Custom power button

If a user rarely shuts down a user's computer, but the user often restarts it or sleep it, here the user has an option to replace the user's shutdown button with other actions. Right-click Start -- properties -- power button, and you can select the option as needed.

25. Easily add new fonts

Now it is easier to add a new font than before. You only need to download the font you need and double-click it to see the installation button.

Font rendering in Windows 7-technology, art, and design

26. Vertical stretch window

You can use win + Shift + to maximize the vertical stretch of your current window. Win + Shift + to restore it.

27. Open the windows resource Browser

Press win + e to open a new windows resource Browser

28. Create a process for the first icon in the new taskbar

Press win + 1 to open the first icon in the new taskbar. It is useful in some cases.

29. actioncenter behavior center

The Windows behavior center provides important information about your computer, such as the anti-virus status, upgrade, fault detection, and scheduled backup. Control Panel-system and security-behavior center

Brief Introduction to actioncenter in Windows 7

30. Self-diagnosis and repair

This platform can help users solve problems that many users may encounter, such as network connections, hardware devices, and system slowdown. The user can select the problem to be diagnosed by the user. He will also give the user some instructions on these problems, and they will actually provide help to the user, which provides many feasible options, guidance and information, therefore, try to enter "troubleshoot" or "fix" after pressing win ".

Windows 7 built-in self-diagnosis and repair system

 

31. Disable system notification

System notifications often disturb users and are useless, so users may want to disable some of them. You can double-click the notification area icon in the control panel in Windows 7 to implement it. Here, you can change the notifications and icons of the Action Center, network, sound, Windows resource browser, Media Center applet tray, and Windows automatic upgrade.

32. disable security information

To disable security information, you must go to the control panel-system and security-Action Center-Change Action Center settings. Then, you can disable some notifications, including windows upgrades, network security settings, and firewalls, spyware and related protection, User Account Control, virus protection, Windows backup, Windows problem diagnosis, search for updates.

33. view the programs opened on the taskbar in a loop.

This seems to be similar to Alt + TAB, but it is not very practical only for the menus opened above the sidebar. You can try it with win + T.

34. Run a program as an administrator

When you open a program, press Ctrl + shift to run it as administrator.

35. Switch multiple instances of the same program

If you have many programs running, you just need to press Ctrl and click its icon, it will loop in all programs.

36. Automatically arrange desktop icons

Now you can forget to right-click and then click auto-arrange. You only need to press F5 for a short while and the icon will be automatically arranged.

37. Encrypted mobile USB device

Encrypted USB devices are never that easy. Now you can right-click a Removable device and choose to start bitlocker.

Bitlockertogo in windows7

38. Close Smart Window Arrangement

If you do not like the new features of Windows 7 to intelligently arrange user windows, there is a simple way to close it. Press win and enter regedit, find hkey_current_usercontrolpaneldesktop, and change the value of warrangementactive to 0. After restart, the smart arrangement window is closed.

Disable aerosnap in Windows 7

Details about aerosnap functions in Windows 7

39. Create a system restoration Disc

A tool for Windows 7 allows users to create a bootable system repair disc, which includes some system tools and command prompts. Press win and enter systemrepairdisc to create the system.

40. Forced mobile storage

It only applies to new computers and transfer files, settings and user accounts. The new forced mobile storage function consumes less disk space and takes less time.

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