How-to Maximize a Window if Maximize Button is Disabled
Using Task Manager, you can force maximize any program or window even if it is not supported by the program interface or it's maximize button is disabled.
Using Task Manager, you can force maximize any program or window even if it is not supported by the program interface or it's maximize button is disabled.
Windows does not have any interface to show users the date on which it was originally installed. However you can extract this information from a simple DOS command.
With a little tweak, you can actually add shortcut to launch any file or program right away from your My Computer panel. You can add your favorite folders too.
This tool from Microsoft will automatically update your Windows Desktop Background image everyday as and when the Bing home page image changes. It also offers an easy to use web search box.
Small text in menus and navigations may not be comfortable for senior citizens and people with retarded vision. In Windows 7, this default magnification percentage can be increased for a larger 'fit to view' of the screen.
Since Google's search engine keep crawling the web all the time, it resolves and caches DNS information of reached websites. Here, we can take advantage of their servers for getting the cached data, instead of querying the ISP for fresh lookup every time.
Windows 7 automatically sorts Start Menu entries in alphabetical order. To change the listing order manually, you need to first disable this feature from its properties.
Non geeky Windows users that have switched from XP to Win7 are still finding hard to discover some necessary settings options for them. And changing the format of task bar system clock, is one of those difficult tasks.
Reducing the maximum CPU usage limit will protect your computer from over-heating, increase its lifespan and also reduce battery consumption. The limit should be balancing one, such that neither your processor get harmed nor its performance.
This is the case when you have an old notebook and you are not happy with its low score of Windows Experience Index. But you can increase it without upgrading any hardware. All you have to do is to edit a single file and put desired rating.
In Windows 7 file/folder modification is not not allowed for users other then the owner of file or folder. You might have faced problems related to ownership. Manually taking ownership of files or folders in Windows 7 or Vista is a multistep lengthy task. Here is a single step solution of this problem.
AeroTweak, 1 MB utility software allows you to change about 50 different system parameters that affect user interface, performance and system security. Program does not require installation and...