For the users who have been installing the copies of Windows 7 in their systems, this is the update to watch out for. The Security Update KB971033 checks whether Windows 7 is activated legally through Microsoft or it has been cracked using several activation methods.
The best thing that users do while installing the illegal copies [...]
Windows 7 is a great OS released by Microsoft and have lots of new and improved functionalities. One of such functions is the advancement of the Keyboard shortcuts in the Windows 7 OS.
Windows 7 have the following new and helpful keyboard shortcuts that solve our many problems.
The shortcuts that are added are:
Win+Left/Right arrows: Align the [...]
Bored of the same old themes in the Windows 7? You can download many more themes from the sites available but do you know that by default, Windows 7 come up with few more themes. The reason why we cannot see those themes is that these are hidden or locked by default.
So if you also [...]
No doubt Windows 7 is the best Windows OS launched till date all because of its features like reliability, speed etc. But if you are using Windows Vista and thinking to turn over to Windows 7, then here is something good for you.
Microsoft has officially stated to start working upon the new OS Windows 8. [...]
If you are using the Windows 7 then you can add custom jumplists to any program that you run. Jumplists are the shortcuts that appear when you hover your mouse over any program in the taskbar.
With Jumplist Extender, you can do lots of stuffs like
Add your own Program Tasks: You can add any action you [...]
One of our readers was facing this problem that even after changing the file association for some file the file showed different icon image.
Despite changing the file association for the song file from windows media player to VLC player, his song file showed the same icon image as linked with the Windows media player. Normally [...]
I have been using Windows XP for a long time now but the day I started using Windows 7, it interested me more than XP. It has several better features and one such is the Taskbar thumbnail view of the different applications installed in the system.
This tool called Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer will allow [...]
It’s been a long time since the release of Windows 7 but there are few individuals who are not impressed with Windows 7 and want to continue with XP.
Windows XP is so simple and easy to use that not everyone wants to come out of XP. So if you are using Windows 7 but also [...]
If you have used the TweakUI in Windows XP then you must have guessed what this Ultimate Windows Tweaker could do for you. It is a freeware that works on Windows 7 and Windows Vista on both 32 and 64 bit.
The tool is a freeware with size of around 345Kb and requires no installation before [...]
We tend to forget our Windows administrator login password. With no way to get into the system, you can’t even perform basic maintenance, let alone a thorough tune-up. Formatting is always an option, but we consider that a last resort. (Plus, guess who’s going to have to help reinstall all the programs lost after a [...]
You must have come across a situation when you try to delete a file but the error message comes up saying “the file is in use by some other process”. If you haven’t see this then you must have came across the error message “Device currently in use” while ejecting the USB Pen Drive.
The processes [...]
This was the query of one of our readers who wanted to know about this folder in Windows 7 called WinSxS. The folder contains thousands of files and occupies Gigabytes of space.
Info about this folder
The folder called WinSxS stands for Windows Side-by-Side and is used to store versions of Windows components that are built to [...]
