Master must know 70 basic tips for Windows 7

Win7 is better than Vista because it has a lot of new features. Unfortunately, some of these features are not easily discoverable, so we create a list of some of the most important tips and tricks and introduce them to you step-by-step.

　　1. Computer Guard

I rarely let other people use my computer because I'm afraid they'll mess it up, but it seems that Microsoft has taken this into account for me and has solved the problem by the way. PC safeguard won't let anyone confuse your computer's settings, because when they log off, all settings will return to normal. Of course, he will not restore your own settings, but the only thing you need to do is to define the permissions of other users.

To use PC Safeguard, first control Panel-user account next create a new account, then select "Enable PC Safeguard" and then OK. Then you can safely let others use your computer, because nothing will change, including setting, downloading software, installing programs.

　2. Screen Calibration

Luckily, Win7 has the Display Calibration Wizard feature that allows you to adjust the brightness of your screen appropriately, so you won't have any problems with browsing photos and text. Previous problems include a picture that looks beautiful and dazzling on a computer, but looks ugly on another computer. Now the problem is solved, as long as you press and hold Win+r and enter "DCCW".

　　3. Application control Policies

If you often share your computer with others, then you want to restrict them from using your programs, files or documents. The AppLocker tool will give you some options to prevent others from approaching your executable program, Windows Installer, scripts, special publications and paths. You can simply do this, press and hold the win key at the same time and then enter Gpedit.msc to the local policy Group editor, the Computer Configuration--windows Settings--Security settings--application control policy, right click on one of the options (executable file, installation or script) and create a new rule. It should be able to save you from a headache.

　4. Image burning

We've all had a problem with mirroring burning under Windows, because he didn't have this feature, so he had to have a separate burning software. With the advent of Windows7, these problems have ceased to exist. All we need to do is simply double-click on the ISO image and burn it into the CD or DVD in your CD-ROM.

　5. Play a blank removable device

Windows7 will not automatically play the blank mobile device by default, so if you connect a blank mobile device on your PC, don't worry, just click on the tool-Folder Options-View-Cancel the "Hide empty drive in Computer folder" option.

This is a seemingly bad idea and it should not be the default setting because it will be difficult to be known by inexperienced users.

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

This new feature is useful because there are times when we are haunted by the almost crazy windows that float on the screen, and it's hard to get them all on the side. Now we can do it easily using the keyboard shortcut keys. Press win+ left button to move it to the left of the screen.

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

Press win+ to right-click on the right side of the window

　8. Show or hide the browse preview panel

Press Alt+p to hide or show a preview window for browsing

　9. Display gadgets at the top of other windows

Press Alt+g

　10. Slideshow Playback Desktop Background image

If you're as lazy or bored as I am, you'll often have to change your desktop background, which wastes a lot of time. Now you don't need to do this anymore, because you can set up a slide-play. Right-click the desktop-personalization-desktop background and hold CTRL while you select the picture. You can then choose the time interval to play the picture and choose whether to play it randomly or continuously.

　11. Make the taskbar smaller

If you think the taskbar is taking up too much space on your screen, you can choose to make the icon smaller. To do so, right-click on the Start button, select Properties--taskbar Choose "Use small Icon"

　12. Merge taskbar icons

If you open a lot of windows or programs, the toolbar may not be enough space, so you need to merge them as Xp,vista. method, right-click the Start button, select Properties--task bar choose Group on Taskbar full.

　　13. Multi-threaded File replication

If you're a more advanced user, you've probably heard of Robocopy (a high-level utility for copying files and directories). It is now included in the Win7, and you can perform multi-threaded replication through the command line. You can select any number of threads, like "/mt[:n", whose values range from 1 to 128.

(in the command line input ROBOCOPY/? have specific usage)

　　14. Maximize or restore the foreground window

Press Win + on

　　15. Minimize Activation window

Press win+

　　16. Activate the Quick Launch bar

When you use Win7, you may miss the Quick Launch bar that looks useful in XP and Vista. Fortunately, you can get it back through a few quick steps. Right-click the taskbar-Toolbars-new toolbar Enter "%userprofile%appdataroamingmicrosoftinternet Explorerquick Launch" in the blanks and select the folder. Make him look like it's in Vista, right-click on the toolbar--uncheck "Lock Toolbar", then right button to detach and cancel "show title" and "Show text". Finally, right-click on the toolbar and check "Show small Icons" and you're done.

　　17. Displaying Previews in explorer

Pressing the ALT+P preview window in the Explorer window should appear on the right.

　　18. Desktop Magnifier

Press win+ plus or minus to zoom in or out. You can zoom anywhere on the desktop and you can also configure your Magnifier. You can choose the inverse color, follow the mouse pointer, follow the keyboard focus or the input point of the text.

　　19. Minimize all except the current window

Press Win+home

　　20. Troubleshooting Power Management

Win7 can tell you how much power the system is using or provide you with detailed information about the power usage and issues related to each program and device. You can use this method to optimize your battery and prolong its service life. Press Win+r to enter Powercfg-energy-output pathfilename one minute, a energy-report.html file will be generated within the folder you set. (for example, Powercfg-energy-output C: A post will be generated in the C-packing directory energy-report.html There is a detailed power description.) )

　21. Web search on your desktop

Win7 allows you to find online resources through an additional free download interface. For example, login http://www.bizzntech.com/flickrsearch to download the flicker interface. After that, you should see flicker searches in your Search folder and you will be able to search on your desktop without opening the page.

　　22. Add a video to the Start menu

If you've ever sought a quicker way to find your video, now Win7 gives you an answer. Right-click Start--Properties--Start Menu--Customize then set the video to "Show as Link" is complete.

　　23. Switch windows between different monitors

If you use two or more displays at the same time, you may want to move the window from one to the other. Here's a very simple way to implement it. All you have to do is press win+shift+ left or right, depending on which monitor you want to move to.

　　24. Make the power button

If you rarely shut down your computer, but you will often restart it or let it sleep, then here you have a choice is to use other actions to replace your shutdown button. Right-click the Start-Properties-power button action and then you can choose freely in the options given.

　　25. Easily add new fonts

Now it's easier to add a new font than before. Just download the font you need, double-click it, and you'll see the Install button.

　　26. Vertical stretching window

You can use win+shift+ to maximize the vertical stretching of your current window. Win+shift+ down can restore it.

　　27. Open Windows Resource Explorer

Press Win+e to open a new Windows resource browser

　28. Create a new task bar for the first icon of a process

Press Win+1 to open the first icon on a new taskbar. This feature is really useful in some cases.

　29. Action Centre

Windows actions will give you important information about your PC, such as antivirus status, upgrades, discovery failures, and the ability to provide a scheduled backup. Control Panel--System and security--Action Center

　30. Failure Detection Platform

This platform can help you solve a lot of problems you may encounter, such as network connection, hardware device, system slow and so on. You can choose the problem you want to diagnose, he will give you some instructions on these issues, they really help you, this provides a lot of feasible options, guidance and information, so try to enter "troubleshoot" or "fix" after pressing win.

31. Turn off system notifications

System notifications usually bother you and they are often useless, so you might want to close some of them. You can do this by double-clicking the notification area icon in the Win7 in the Control Panel. Here you can change the Action Center, Network, sound, Windows Resource Browser, Media Center applet tray and Windows auto-upgrade notifications and icons.

　32. Turn off security information

To turn off security information you want to go to the Control Panel--System and security--action Center--Change the Action Center settings then you can turn off some notifications, including Windows upgrade, network security settings, firewalls, spyware and related protections, user Account Control, virus protection, Windows Backup, Windows troubleshooting, looking for updates.

　　33. Cycle through the open programs on the taskbar.

This seems to be the same as ALT + TAB, but just the open menu above the sidebar doesn't look very practical. You can try it by win+t.

　34. Run a program as an administrator

When you open a program and hold Ctrl+shift, you can run it with administrator privileges.

　35. Same program switch

If you have many programs running, just hold down CTRL and click its icon, and it will loop through all the programs.

36. Automatically arrange desktop icons

You can now forget the right button and then click on the automatic arrangement of this way, you just need to press and hold F5 a small meeting, the icon will be automatically arranged.

37. Encrypt the mobile USB device

Encrypting a USB device has never been easier, now you can right-click on the removable device and select Start BitLocker. Http://www.knowsky.com

　38. Turn off Smart window arrangement

If you don't like Win7 's new features to intelligently arrange your window, here's an easy way to close it. Press win to enter Regedit, locate Hkey_current_usercontrol paneldesktop and then change the value of windowarrangementactive to 0. The smart arrange window is turned off after reboot.

　39. Create a System Restore disc

A Win7 tool allows you to create a bootable system repair disc that includes some system tools and command prompt. Press win to enter system repair disc to create him.

　40. Force Removable Storage

He applies only to new computers and transfer files, settings and user accounts. The new force-Removable Storage feature takes up less disk space and takes more time.

　41. Turn off Send Feedback

If you think that the current beta version of Win7 's ability to respond to testers is annoying, there's a way to turn it off. Press WIN to enter regedit, then find Hkey_current_usercontrol paneldesktop and then change the value of feedbacktoolenabled to 0. It won't show up again after you restart your computer. Also, if you want to open it again, change the value to 3.

　42. Improved Calculators

One of Win7 's features the improved calculator allows for unit conversions, date calculations, mileage for a gallon of petrol, leases and mortgage calculations. You can also choose between standard, scientific, programmer and statistician models.

　43. Open a folder in a new process

All the folders in the Win7 are opened in the same process to conserve resources, but this does not mean that a folder crash can cause all folders to crash. So, if you think this is an unnecessary adventure, you can turn them on in their own separate processes. Hold down SHIFT and right-click on the drive and select Open in new process. Now you're safe.

　　44. Program Installation Record

The program installation record is a great tool that can be used in many environments. You can start it by pressing WIN input PSR.exe and clicking Record. Now it will record all your moves and save the file in HTML format, you can browse it or write down your description on it. These can be helpful with error diagnosis, writing guidance, or tutoring alone.

45. Free Decoding Package

Unfortunately, Windows Media player still can't play some audio and video files, so you still need some decoders. But with the download of the free decode package, you should not have any problems with this.

　46. Open Resource Explorer from My Computer

Windows Explorer opens in the instruction library by default. Most of us use it to replace my computer. Press the win key to enter "explorer", select the attribute, and enter "%systemroot%explorer.exe/root,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}" in the shortcut path. Then right-click the browse icon on the taskbar and click "Detach this icon from taskbar" and drag it out from the Start menu.

　　47. Clean the desktop

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

　48. Use the gadget after UAC is turned off

Perhaps you have noticed that for security reasons once UAC is turned off, you will no longer be able to use gadgets. If you want to risk the use of UAC when it is turned off, here's a way. Press win to enter Regedit to find hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionsidebarsettings Then create a new DWORD value named Allowelevatedprocess and change the value to 1. Now you should be able to use your gadget. If not, restart your computer.

　　49. Fixed MP3 BUG in media playback and Media Center

Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center have a bug that fills in missing metadata on your important MP3 file, which can damage your MP3. This problem will cut off the beginning of the audio track for a few seconds, it is really annoying. Now this problem has been repaired by Microsoft on Win7.

　50. Search for anything on your computer

Win7 gives you the possibility to search for all types of files including those you do not know, and it will help you when you are in trouble. Although it is not recommended, because it is really much slower than regular search. You can try it, open Windows Explorer, select Tools--Folder Options--View Select to try to search for unknown type files. If you don't need it anymore, don't forget to turn it off to increase your search speed.

51. Mouse gestures

Windows7 's gestures can be used not only by those who buy the touchscreen, but also by the mouse user. So you can use the left arrow to drag the taskbar icon up instead of right-click to activate the Jump List. Also, tapping and dragging down the address bar in IE will open browsing history. There's probably a lot of gestures that haven't been found.

52. Configure Your Music Favorites

If you have fixed Windows Media Center, you can now find ways to improve your experience with this. The Media Center will create a music collection list based on the number of songs you play, and your playback and playback times will be added. If you don't like this way, you can change your collection to a variety of styles. Point task--settings--music--music collection.

　53. Close the recent search display

Win7 preserves and displays the most recent search by default. This may often prove to be very exciting. No need to be nervous, because you can not let him show. Press win to enter Gpedit.msc, and then user settings--Manage Template--windows component--windows resource browser and then double-click Close to display the most recently entered search.

　54. Advanced Disk Grooming

Win7 offers a much better disk grooming capability than Vista, and you can set it up with the command line. Press win to enter CMD. You can use the input command line defrag to organize your disk and you have the following options:/R multiple simultaneous collation,-a performs a collation analysis,-v Print report,-R ignores fragments less than 64M,-W Defragment all fragments

For example: "Defrag C:-v-w" organizes the entire C-drive.

　　55. Make IE8 Run faster

If you make IE8 faster, you need to turn off the plugin that slows it down. Tools-Plug-in management checks the load times for each plugin. You can choose to remove the plugins you don't need to improve the reading speed.

　56. Media Center Automatic Download

Windows Media Center 12 allows you to schedule a scheduled download, so it completes the download without disturbing you.

Tools--Settings--general--Automatic download option then you can freely configure it to download.

57. Remove the Sidebar

Win7 does not seem to have the sidebar feature, but it actually exists and is automatically turned on and running in the background as the computer starts. So, if you want to get rid of it, there are two ways. One of the more simple is to press win, enter MSCONFIG. EXE, click Start and Clear Sidebar. The more difficult way is to press win input regedit, locate and delete the registry key Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionrun. This can save you from the memory consumed by unused stuff.

　58. Volume adjustment

Don't you like the ability of Win7 to automatically reduce the sound when it detects a computer call? You can turn it off. Right-click the volume icon on the taskbar--sound--communicate and turn it off.

59. Run the program as a different user

Win7 allows you to run a program as an administrator or other user, by holding down SHIFT while right-clicking the executable file or shortcut and then you can choose to run as a different user.

60. Using a virtual hard disk

In Win7, you can create and manage virtual disk files on your real disk first. You can use Windows to install online to your virtual disk without having to start the virtual machine. Create a virtual disk you need to press Win, right-click My Computer--manage--disk management--operation--Create VDH. Here you can specify the location and size of the virtual hard disk.

Connect the hard drive file press win, right-click My Computer, and then manage--disk management--operations--connect the VHD and then you can specify its location and whether it is read-only. Initialize the virtual hard disk, press win, right-click My Computer, manage-operate-connect the virtual hard disk. Select the partition mode you want, then right-click unallocated space and tap new simple volume, then follow the Instructions wizard. Now, a new hard drive is born, and you can use it as a real partition.

61. Remove Windows Live Messenger on taskbar

Remove the Windows Live Messenger and get it back to the system tray area that belongs to him. Come to C:Program fileswindows Livemessenger, right-click Msnmsdgr.exe set compatibility mode for Windows Vista.

62. Lock the screen

Win7 no longer has a lock button in the Start menu, so now you have to press Win+l to lock it. This looks very simple, if you don't forget the shortcut key.

63. Create a new lock screen shortcut

If you don't like to use a quick key or forget about it, there's another way to lock the screen. Simply create a new shortcut to C:windowssystem32rundll32.exe user32.dll. Then you can lock or unlock it at will.

64. Enable run in the Start menu

If you miss running commands in XP, here's a way to get it back in the Win7. Right-click on the Start menu in the blanks, properties--Start menu--Customize and find the Run command.

65. Improve Desktop window management for Nvidia graphics cards

Sometimes the desktop animation doesn't look good and isn't smooth enough, because the desktop window doesn't use transparency and blur to render, but you can turn off animation for a better display. Press win, right-click My Computer, Properties-Advanced system settings-performance-set Cancel "maximize or minimize the animation effect", click OK.

66. Change the default save location for files

Win7 and Vista are a little different because its documents, pictures, videos and music are all saved in a public folder, C:users. You may not want to store these files there, but it's easy to create your own storage location. Press win, click your user name and double-click the folder where you want to change the location. You will then see the location of the two libraries. Click the text, right-click the folder you want to set as the default, and then click "Set as Default file location" and click OK.

67. Let Windows Media player default to 64-bit.

Windows Media Player with version Windows comes with a default of 32 bits. If you are 64 users, do so, press win input COMMAMD, right-click Command Prompt then execute run as Administrator, enter "unregmp2.exe/swapto:64", then press win, enter " Regedit ", come to Hklmsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionapp Pathswmplayer.exe, double-click the value and change it from"%programfiles (x86) "to"% programfiles% ". Now you're ready to use 64-bit Windows Media player.

　68. Open multiple Windows Explorer with the taskbar.

If you want to run more Windows Explorer with the start bar, you can follow these steps: Get Windows Explorer out of the taskbar, then press win, find attachments, right-click Resource Explorer, properties, change the shortcut path to%systemroot% EXPLORER.EXE/ROOT,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} (if you want to set it Chengme think of my Computer) or%systemroot%explorer.exe/root:: {031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} (If you want to default it to a library). Now add the resource management back to the taskbar. This allows you to open more resource managers with the click of the middle mouse button. If you want to change back, you change the shortcut path back to%systemroot%explorer.exe.

69. Let the system time tray display the am/pm symbol

Win7 default display time of 24 hours, so if you want to display am/pm, press win, enter Intl.cpl to open the time zone and Language Options, custom format, change the long time from hh:mm to hh:mm TT, for example TT is AM or PM symbol (21:12 pm). Change it to a 12-hour system, and you have to enter it like hh::mm tt (9:12 PM).

　IE8 compatibility mode

If your site doesn't render correctly, you should start IE8 compatible view to play them. This is because upgrading the rendering engine can cause a lot of trouble. Open IE, Tools--compatible view settings and choose to open all sites in compatible view, then click OK.