Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The secrets of Microsoft Windows 7

Many people work in Microsoft Windows 7. It's good, stable and comfortable operating system. But not everyone knows about secrets of Windows 7. These secrets makes work with system more comfortable. I will tell you about some of them.

 If you are working with several monitors you can easy move window between them. Press Win+Shift+Left or Win+Shift+Right window will be moved to other monitor.

If you are having difficulty with driver of your projector press Win+P and you will see window, where you can switch between different modes.


WordPad can work with OpenDocument (ODF) and Office Open XML formats.

You can reshuffle labels on task panel and system tray by clicking and dragging the mouse.

If you want to run the application from task panel without using the mouse press Win+T, select the application and press Enter, or press Escape to exit.

As part of Windows 7, there is a program for recording user actions that lead to any problem. Program called Problem Steps Recorder and has good functionality. The program not only records all actions performed using the mouse and keyboard, but also takes pictures of all the comments. After recording, the program saves all the information in the zip-file. Then you can send this file to developer.

Don't forget to customize the Clear type text in control panel and select the menu item Fonts.

If you are work in application and you need an another copy of application press Shift and click to the application label on the task panel.

In Windows 7 there is Gabriola font. This font has multiple variations of stylistic writing.

After some time the computer becomes slower. Windows saves data files in C:\Windows\Prefetch folder. This files contains data about applications. But many applications are updated, replaced by other and information becomes outdated. Loading of Windows becomes more slowly. You can delete files in this folder manually periodically or change registry value.
Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
Default value "EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000000 – Prefetch is disabled.
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000001 – only application data stored
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000002 – only system processes data stored (optimally)
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003 – all data stored.

Then restart the system.

Also don't forget clean hard disk drive and run defragmentation. If you have several disk drives or partitions clean all disk or partitions and run defragmentation for all of them.

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