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April 17, 2017
Listed here, for convenience, are a few hints for windows 7.
Start menu location:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
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Location of folder options:
Control Panel >> Folder Options >> View
... or ...
windows explorer >> organize >> folder and search options >> view
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Location of file types settings in the old folder options:
Control Panel >> Default Programs >> Associate a file type...
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sys config :
Control Panel >> Administrative tools >> System Configuration
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Adding the "quick launch" toolbar:
right-click on an open area of the taskbar
choose Toolbars >> New Toolbar
paste the following into the top location bar:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
choose the “Select Folder” button
finally: the Quick Launch toolbar appears on the taskbar
right-click to unlock the taskbar before moving it all the way to the left
right-click on the left side dots and unselect "show text" "show title"
add and modify the icons within the quick launch
lock the quick launch toolbar
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Turning on/off the taskbar icons:
control panel >> taskbar and start menu >> customize >>
(click on or off) "always show all icons "
-- or --
(right-click on the taskbar) >> properties
Turning on the network icons on the taskbar:
(this might work)
use CCleaner: cleaner >> windows >> advanced >>
(click on) Tray Notifications Cache (hit OK on the warning)
>> run cleaner
>> reboot
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How to disable the windows 7 startup sound.
control panel >> Sound >> Sounds (tab) >>
click off: "play windows startup sound"
To add a custom startup sound, follow these instructions: here
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How to add screensavers to windows 7:
place the screensaver files *.scr into the windows directory: "C:\Windows"
then right-click on the screensaver file and hit: "Test" or "install"
...this also installs any other *.scr file in that directory.
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How to get windows explorer to open up in a certain directory:
right-click on win explorer icon >> properties >> set "target:" to:
%windir%\explorer.exe /n, /e, D:\files
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If windows 7 can't startup due to corrupt files,
then start in safe mode and run this command:
sfc /scannow
to find and correct the corrupted files.
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to auto login a user, run: netplwiz
then turn off:
"Users Must Enter A User Name And
Password To Use This Computer"
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How to add the speaker control to the taskbar:
control panel >> notification area icons >> Volume >> ...
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How to add modify and edit files secretly labeled "read only",
but that for some reason the "read only" tick mark in the
(right-click on file) Properties >> General tab is not marked with a tick,
thus not
allowing the user to modify it...
Use xcopy to copy the file to a seperate temporary directory :
xcopy c:\troubled_file.txt d:\temp_directory\troubled_file_copy.txt
edit the new file "d:\temp_directory\troubled_file_copy.txt"
then, after editing, try to use xcopy to replace the old file:
xcopy d:\temp_directory\troubled_file_copy.txt c:\troubled_file.txt
if that doesn't work, then use windows explorer
to copy the file to its final directory:
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How to delete files or folders that refuse to be deleted:
use the unlocker tool: unlocker version 1.9.2
if the unlocker tool can't be found anywhere else,
download it from here: unlocker_1_9_2.abc
and then change the extension from abc back to exe.
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Location of windows update files for win7
(before they get installed):
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
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How to change the default font size:
control panel >> personalizations >> display (on left menu) >>
Set custom text size (DPI)
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If we can't create files on a secondary data drive turn off user account control (UAC):
control panel >> user accounts >> change user account control
then reboot.
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How to reduce the size of hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys:
> powercfg.exe /hibernate off (turns off hibernation, reduces hiberfile.sys)
to reduce the size of pagefile.sys:
control panel >> system >> advanced system settings >>
advanced >> performance settings >> advanced >>
virtual memory >> change
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Can't directly play bluemars.m3u from seamonkey using winamp
any longer within windows 7.
Solution is to: directly copy and paste the URL for the m3u file
into winamp.
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How to stop windows from jumping back to the middle of the screen if we have moved them off the screen:
control panel >> ease of access center >>
make the mouse easier to use >>
make it easier to manage windows
then tick on:
"prevent windows from being automatically arranged
when moved to the edge of the screen"
then hit apply.
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How to set a system restore point:
control panel >> system >>
system protection (this opens up system properties) >> create...
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How to set the folder's view to a single setting for all folders.
(for example: to make all of the columns start out with: name, size, date... in this order)
First setup the folder's columns to how we'd like to see them. Then,
windows explorer >> organize >> folder and search options >>
view >> apply to folders
(this should now keep the settings for all folders)
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The file searching utility in win7 doesn't work so well, so instead install these other applications to help with file searches:
For general file search try:
Agent Ransack, UltraSearch, or File Search Classic
For searching through code try: AstroGrep
With the above installed its possible to turn off window's SearchIndexer.exe :
control panel >> organize >> administrative tools >> services
Then disable: Windows Search
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On a fresh install of win7 the screen keeps turning black
after about a minute.
The problem is that by default the screen saver is set to blank
and set to turn off after one minute.
To fix this:
right-click on desktop >> personalize >> screen saver >>
pick any other screen saver >> set wait to: 50 min, or whatever.
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