Windows 7 Basics - Windows 7 Tweaks
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Click Here Windows 7 Basics Desktop and Programs If you would like to change these settings. Right Click desktop – Left Click Personalize: Left Panel Control Panel Change desktop icons (Add or Remove desktop Icons) Change mouse pointers Change your account picture Right panel Windows Color and Appearance Desktop Background Screen saver Sounds Windows 7 Themes Display Setting Right Click on the desktop NVidia Cards, Left click on NVidia Control Panel Ati Cards, Left click on Catalyst Control Panel Windows Gadgets (Side Bar) To add gadgets right click desktop, left click Gadgets, Choose the gadget you want double click, then drag the gadget to your desired location. Most gadgets have options, right side of the gadget choose options. Start Menu (bottom left blue button) Most recent used shown on open. Right Panel has buttons that are short cuts to different folders. Click or hold your mouse over “All Programs” Click on the folder to open it, and then click the program you wish to start. Click and hold the left mouse button down to drag any icon to the Rocket Dock or Stardock. USB Hard Drives, Memory Sticks: When you plug in an external USB hard drive or a memory stick it may not have a drive letter. And it does not show up in your windows file explorer or a window does not pop up asking you browse the drive or memory stick. Go to your Start Button, pinned to the Start Menu you will see a command called Computer Management, left click on Computer Management, On the left side under Storage will see Disk Management left click on Disk Management. Look at the right panel for a disk without a drive letter. Right click on that disk, and left click on change drive letter and paths. You will then see an empty window left click the add button (choose a drive letter if you want) then click OK. Then a window should pop up asking you if you would like to view the folders. It should now also be available in your Windows File Explorer. (Left click on Computer) Desktop - Laptop Computers Built or Serviced by No Fear Computers – Costa Mesa Hard Drive Setup: Your default OS (operating system) drive will be C:\win7x64, C:\Win7x86, C:\Vistax64, C:\Vistax86 if installing windows. Your default document drive will be D:\Documents. If you are having a gamming system built you will have a partition or drive named E:\Games. If you have requested a single hard drive system it will be two or three primary partitions. No Fear Computers always suggests two hard drives, one for the OS and one for software apps the other hard drive for personal documents, games and back-up. Most laptops will only have one hard drive. Add-on Software: In your “Documents” folder, you will see a folder named “Software”. In this folder you will see the software installed on your computer by No Fear Computers. Anti-virus, anti-spyware, paragon hard drive back-up, disk-defrag, stardock, registry tweaks to remove Favorites - Home Group - Libraries icons from your Windows File Explorer, installed by No Fear Computers – Costa Mesa. Back-up: On delivery there will be a folder called HD-Image, either on D:\Documents or *:\Back-up partition or back-up drive. That folder contains an image back-up of your OS - C:\ on delivery. So in the event you download something bad, add to many tool bars and it just not repairable. You can use the “Paragon Boot Disk” and restore your C:\ drive (OS) without changing or losing any of your personal files, pictures, music etc. Unlike most recovery software installed by other companies that will wipe the whole system by deleting everything including all your personal files. Menu \ All Programs: (To move any item into a folder or up to the Rocket Dock, hold down the left mouse button and drag & drop.) Accessories = Windows default programs. Adobe = adobe reader, adobe bridge, adobe acrobat, adobe drive (if installed) Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware = AVG, SuperAntiSpyware free editions. (if installed) Burning = Windows movie maker, Nero, NTI, any CD-DVD writing/burning software. (if installed) Dos = Dos command prompt. Entertainment = Media center & player, VideoLan (VLC), itunes, DVD play back software. (if installed) Games = Windows default games, games you have requested to be installed. Graphics = MS paint, ulead photo impact, adobe CS4, paint shop pro. (if installed) Internet = Mozilla firefox, IE8, Web cam, IM’s. (if installed) Office Programs = Calculator, ms works, ms office, open office, notepad, wordpad, windows fax and scan, windows speech recognition, XPS viewer. (if installed) Startup = Empty Tools = Default programs, desktop gadget gallery, disk clean-up, system restore, window update, 7-zip, administrative tools, auslogics disk defrag, maintenance, paragon partition software, rocket dock, stardock. If setting up a Acer, Dell, Gateway, HP, Toshiba…any tools from their company. Rocket Dock - Items (top of your screen) To see the items name just move your mouse over the icon. To change the way your Rocket Dock looks look for and open “Dock Setting”. To make changes to an icon right click, then left Icon Settings. Stardock - Items (top of your screen if added) click the tab for the items you want to see, To make changes on how star dock looks or opens look under “Tools” “Configure ObjectDock” To add new icons to the star dock, Just drag and drop any icon, shortcut to the star dock. (if your stardock gets turned off, go to your start menu under tools, StarDock, ObjectDock. Left click ObjectDock Plus. Internet: Firefox and IE8 use “Tabbed Browsing.” Right click on the link, left click Open in New Tab to read multiple links from the same page, and not have to keep hitting the back button. Firefox is set as your default browser; Speed Dial is set as your home page, if you want to add sites to your speed dial. Left click the little black on the second purple box with a green + sign on it, move your mouse over Tab 1, Tab 2 or Tab 3 and left click any number on the right. Dogpile or Bing have been set as your default search engine. Dogpile searches inside every search engine. So it’s like having all the search engines rolled into one. The difference is, if you don’t find it on Dogpile, it’s something you don’t need to find. No Fear Computers has added default folders and links to your internet browser/s. Bus=(business), Paypal, Facebook, NetFlix, NFC=(No Fear Computers), TV.com, Merriam Webster, TRP=(The Raptor Pit), Pravda(English), Dogpile, Speakeasy, You Tube, Snopes, Translator, E-Stores, PC=(converters, internet speed tests, software, drivers, games), SE(search), Forums, TV Online, MS(Microsoft links), Dow Jones, (Snopes = urban legends) (Pravda = the real news around the world) DO NOT USE ‘LIMEWIRE,’ ‘FoxWire’, ‘KAZZA,’ ‘KAZAA,’ ‘ROCKET MP3,’ OR ‘BEARSHARE.’ THESE PROGRAMS DO NOT SCAN FOR VIRUSES. YOU WILL DOWNLOAD VIRUSES AND THEN RESHARE THEM CAUSING DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER AND THE PEOPLE/FAMILY/FRIENDS YOU EMAIL AND NETWORK WITH. DO NOT USE ‘MYSPACE.’ Switch to “Facebook.” (on your Links/Favorites Bar in your browser.) When you sign up for a “Myspace” account, you AGREE to allow them to download and write to your computer on the Agreement page, opening the way for viruses , spyware and malware. Your virus protection will be useless. You gave PERMISSION to ‘MYSPACE’ to download and rewrite your system, in effect, giving yourself a virus! DO NOT ADD ANY TOOLBARS SUCH AS ‘Google,’ ‘Yahoo,’ ‘ASK,’ ‘MSN’, ‘AVG’, ‘MySearch,’ etc,. Most tool bars have PERMISSION to write to your system and download more malware & viruses. (The same ‘PERMISSIONS GRANTED’ agreement page used by ‘Myspace’, no doubt.) Windows 7 Tweaks Remember when working with the registry TO ALWAYS BACK-UP WHAT YOU ARE CHANGING. How to remove the annoying Favorites, Homegroup and Libraries icons: Open regedit.exe from the Start bar\Run and navigate to: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\ In the NameSpace folder, there will be a folder (key) with the name {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93} . The value of the default item should be "Other users". This is the registry entry Homegroup icon. Delete the folder from the registry. In the NameSpace folder, there will be a folder (key) with the name {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} . The value of the default item should be "Libraries". This is the registry entry This is the Libraries icon. Delete the folder from the registry. Remove "Favorites" folder in tree-view of Windows Explorer: 1. Open regedit and go to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder] 2. Right click and go to "Permissions" and allow your user/userclass full control of the folder. (if you're unsure about how to do this, see this article: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...ows-7-explorer) 3. In "ShellFolder" go to 'Attributes' and change the value from 0xa0900100 to a9400100 or a4001000. 4. Leave regedit. 5. Reboot your machine. If everything is done correctly "Favorites" should now be disabled completely when your system is rebooted. How to Re-enable Quick Launch in Windows 7 Click run....Type Edit Group Policy in Search Bar hit enter. (%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch) Left Side Under User Configuration Click the Arrow-triangle next to Administrative Templates. Click on Start Menu and Taskbar. On the right side scoll down and find "Show QuickLaunch on Taskbar, Double Click it and check Enable. Now right click on the taskbar go to toolbars then Click Add New Toolbar. In the address bar right click and click Edit Address. Then type or copy & paste this C:\Users\(YOUR USER NAME)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. Select Quick Launch. Your Quick Launch is back. (unlock taskbar drag it to the right if you want it back on the right side) To just show only icons, right click quick launch, un-check Show Text, un-check Show Title. Drag to quick launch to add programs. No more right and add to Quick Launch. (Like Vista) Disable and Turn Off Windows 7 Snap Smart Window Arrangement: 1. Run Register Editor (RegEdit). 2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop 3. In the right-pane, double click (or right click and select Modify) on WindowArrangementActive, and set its REG_SZ value to 0. Reset Red X on your network icon when the network is working: Open CMD type netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt Restart. Enable Windows Media Sharing if it is disabled Network to slow: Open the Dos Command Prompt (type cmd in the run box hit enter) Type and hit enter. Netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled Type and hit enter to make sure it's disabled. Netsh interface tcp show global Clear DNS Cache: You can remove any DNS cache from computer, so next time DNS request will be solved by updated DNS server. This will avoid your computer to try broken or changed DNS records from cache. To clear DNS cache, open command prompt as administrator and type ipconfig /flushdns Remove RDC: ( Remote Differential Compression) This feature introduced with Windows Vista to transfer data over network in compressed format. The same RDC feature continued in Windows 7 also. Since most of the old operating systems came before vista do not support this RDC feature, it slows down network data transfer in windows 7. You can remove this RDC (Remote Differential Compression) in windows 7 by visiting control panel and programs and features. Click on ‘Turn Windows features on or off’, as shown below.  Change Cache Settings in Windows 7: Type in the following command to increase the cache setting: fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2 To check the current value, type in this command: fsutil behavior query memoryusage To change the setting back to the default, use this command: fsutil behavior set memoryusage 1 Have questions need more info? www.nofearcomputers.com under Support/Contact support@nofearcomputers.com |
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