Tutorials

How to Change the Default Location of your Windows 7 Computer This will show you how to set a default location to provide programs information about your computer's geographic location to use when a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver, is unavailable or not installed. When you set a default location, it applies to all users. To help you know which programs are accessing your default location, Windows temporarily displays the Location and Other Sensors icon in the notification area the first time a program accesses your computer's location. Set Default GeoID Location Using "Region and Language" Settings 1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Region and Language icon. 2. Click on the Location tab. (see...

How to Create a "Device Manager" Shortcut in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 This tutorial will show you how to create or download a Device Manager shortcut that you can use or pin where you like in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. EXAMPLE: Device Manager To Download a "Device Manager" Shortcut 1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below. Device_Manager.zip https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/46399d1262982613-device-manager-shortcut-create-device_manager.zip 2. Save the .zip file to your desktop. 3. Open the .zip file, and extract (drag and drop) the Device Manager shortcut to your desktop. 4. Unblock the Device Manager shortcut. 5. In Vista and Windows 7, you can now Pin to Taskbar...

How to Add "Devices and Printers" to "Computer" or "This PC" in Windows 7 and Windows 8 This will show you how to add or remove Devices and Printers to My "Computer" or "This PC" window for all users in Windows 7 and Windows 8. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. EXAMPLE: "Devices and Printers" added to My Computer Here's How: 1. To Add "Devices and Printers" to My Computer or This PC A) Click/tap on the download button below to download the file below, and go to step 3 below. Add_Devices-and-Printers_to_My-Computer.reg http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=185990&stc=1&d=1322582721 2. To Remove "Devices and Printers" from My Computer or This PC NOTE...

How to Add Additional Clocks in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Windows 7 and Windows 8 can display up to three clocks: one for the local time and two for the times in other time zones. After you set up additional clocks, you can view them by clicking on or pointing to the taskbar clock. EXAMPLE: Additional Clocks in Windows Here's How: 1. Do step 2, 3, or 4 below for how you would like to open Additional Clocks. 2. Click/tap on Time on the taskbar, click/tap on Change date and time settings, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below) 3. Right click on Time on the taskbar, click/tap Adjust Date/Time, and go to step 5 below. 4. Open the Control Panel (icons view), click/tap on the Date and Time icon, and go to step 5 below. 5...

How to Make Your Own DLL File with Customized Icons My old XP machine, and I mean old!!, was continually crashing. I got fed up with re-installing and having to re-do my own personal customizations, so I took a leaf out of someone else's book and used this method to quickly reset my PC as to how it was. This I've carried on now I've got Seven. We're not actually going to be making our own dll file here to store your customized icons, we're going to borrow one. So to start. Things you'll need. I'm going with ResHacker, an old and trusted program. If you have a personal favourite then that is fine. If you're running a 64bit system make sure you get the latest, 3.5.2 version of ResHack from HERE. Scroll down the page until you see...

How to Move your Outlook PST Data File to a New Location 1. To move the location of your pst file/s, Outlook needs to be closed. 2. Locate your pst file. The defaults locations are: Outlook 2007 C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook Outlook 2010 "Outlook Files in your "Documents" folder. 3. Cut and paste the pst to it's new location. 4. Restart Outlook. 5. You will be asked for the location of the pst-file. Simply browse to the new location. ensure you select the same pst-file or you’ll corrupt your mail profile overwriting a pst could lead to file corruption storing a pst file on a mapped network drive is not advisable and is unsupported by Microsoft An excellent tool for sharing a pst between...

Add or Remove "Pin to Start Menu" for a Folder, Drive, and Library in Windows 7 By default, you can only pin programs to the Start menu in Windows 7 with the Pin to Start Menu context menu item. You could also drag a folder, drive, or library to the Start button until you see Pin to Start Menu and drop it to pin the folder, drive, or library to the Start Menu. This will show you how to add Pin to Start Menu to the context menu of a folder, drive, or library for all users in Windows 7. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. From the Start menu All Programs area, you can only pin the folders you have added to All Programs and not any of the default Accessories, Administrative...

How to Enable or Disable Firefox Automatic Updates By default, Firefox is configured to automatically checks for and install updates. This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Firefox from automatically checking for and installing updates. Firefox does not automatically update plugins. By default, updates will be downloaded in the background and installed when you restart Firefox. If an update has been waiting to be installed for more than 24 hours, you'll see a notification with the option to restart Firefox and install the update. To Manually Check for Updates in Firefox Click on Help (menu bar), and click on About Firefox. The About Firefox window will open and Firefox will begin checking for updates. If updates...

How to Customize the Orange Bar in Mozilla Firefox This tutorial will show you how to customize and adjust the orange bar in the left hand corner of Mozilla Firefox. Requirements: Mozilla Firefox v. 4 (and above) Notepad You cannot only follow the pictures below as a tutorial, read carefully the text. 1) Press the Orange Bar, go to Troubleshooting Information 2) Under Application Basics, press Open Containing Folder 3) Look for a folder called "chrome", and make sure there's a "userChrome.css" inside it - If you can find all this go to step 6), if you cannot find the folder, continue to step 4) 4) Create a new folder called "chrome" 5) Get into Notepad, and copy the code below, Save it as "userChrome.css", and paste...

How to Enable Aero in Unsupported Editions of Windows 7 Your machine still needs to meet the minimum hardware requirements before it can run Aero. For Home Basic users: Aero does not mean that transparency will be enabled. Only Aero taskbar thumbnails and maybe some other features will be enabled by this utility. There is no way to enable transparency on Windows Home Basic. Here's How: 1. Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to determine whether your hardware meets the requirements. 2. Download Aero Enabler from this site. 3. Extract the compressed files to a convenient location, and run the AeroEnabler.exe file. 4. Check the Disable Hardware Check box, and click Enable Aero. There you go, you're done...

How to Reset the Folder View Settings for All Folders with the Same Folder Template in Windows 7 This will show you how to reset the folder view settings back to default for all folders that have been optimized with the same folder template in Windows 7. This will restore the default Group by, Sort by, Arrange by arrangement , Icon Size, and View arrangement folder view settings of all folders with the same folder template. If you wanted to reset the folder views settings back to default for all folders and libraries in all folder templates instead, then see How to Reset All Folder View Settings to Default in Windows 7 instead of this tutorial. The folder view of a library folder cannot be reset to default with this option. You will...

How to Create a "Run" Command Box Shortcut in Windows 7 and Windows 8 This tutorial will show you how to create or download a Run command dialog shortcut that you can pin and use where you like in Windows 7 and Windows 8. The default keyboard shortcut to open the Run dialog is Windows + R. EXAMPLE: Run command dialog To Download a "Run" Command Dialog Box Shortcut 1. Click/tap on the download button below to download the Run.zip file. http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=229060&stc=1&d=1346367738 2. Save the .zip file to your desktop. 3. Open the .zip file and extract the Run shortcut to the desktop. 4. Right click or press and hold on the Run shortcut, and click/tap on Properties, General tab, and on the...

How to Add "Disk Cleanup" to Context Menu of Drives in Windows This will show you how to add Disk Cleanup to the context menu of all hard drives in the "Computer" and "This PC" window to make using Disk Cleanup easier to use on a selected hard drive for all users in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. You must me logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. EXAMPLE: Disk Cleanup Added to Hard Drive's Context Menu EXAMPLE: Disk Cleanup NOTE: This is what opens in Windows 7/8 (left screenshot below) and Vista (right screenshot below) when you use the Disk Cleanup context menu item. Here's How: 1. To Add "Disk Cleanup" to Drive Context Menu A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the...

How to Clear Desktop with Aero Shake in Windows 7 and Windows 8 This will show you how to clear the desktop to only have any one active window showing instead in Window 7 and Windows 8. When you clear the desktop of all but the one window, the other opened windows are minimized to the taskbar. If you have multiple monitors, then it will clear the desktop on all of them as well.Aero Requirements to be Enabled in Windows 7 NOTE: If Aero is not enabled, then Aero Shake will not work even when enabled or turned on. Aero is not included in Windows 7 Starter or Home Basic, so you must have Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise installed. 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor 1 GB of system memory A graphics card...

How to Enable or Disable Start Menu Auto Arrange by Name in Vista and Windows 7 This will show you how to enable or disable auto arrange to sort all programs menu by name or sort listed programs and program folder menus how you like in the Pin to and All Programs areas of the Start Menu for your user account in Vista and Windows 7. EXAMPLE: Auto Arrange Disabled in Start Menu "Pin to" and "All Programs" NOTE: Notice in the screenshots with Auto Arrange disabled, the listed programs and program folders can be dragged to be sorted how you like without having to be in alphabetical order. Enable or Disable Start Menu Auto Arrange in "Customize Start Menu" Properties 1. Open the Customize Start Menu properties window, then do step...

Setting Up Windows Search There is a great deal of confusion among people as to whether or not Windows Search works or not, and an even greater number of people that just don't use it because they don't know how, or are not aware of its advanced facilities. The intention of this tutorial is to show you just how advanced Windows Search is, and how easy it is to fully utilize this great feature of Windows 7 to its full potential by performing basic searches, and how to make full use of the Advanced Query Language. Opening Indexing Options 1) Click the Start Orb 2) Type "index" (without quotes) in the search box 3) Click "Indexing Options" in the search results Finding and opening Indexing Options 4) The Indexing...

How to Create a Outlook New Email Desktop Alert The “New Mail Desktop Alert” will only show when new mail has arrived in the Inbox. By default, it will not appear if a rule has been created to send certain mail to another folder (Tools | Options | E-mail Options | Advanced E-mail Options) To change this you simply need to follow these steps: Tools | Rules and Alerts… (press OK if you get a warning) Click “New Rule” Select "Check messages when they arrive" under "Start from a blank rule" Press Next to go to the Conditions screen Ensure nothing is checked and click “Next” Click “Yes” when you receive the warning Select "Display a Desktop Alert" Click “Finish” to change the settings of the alert click Tools | Options |...

How to Enable or Disable an Internet Explorer Toolbar and Extension Add-on This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable a Toolbar and Extension add-on in IE9, IE10, and IE11 (desktop in Windows 8). To get free add-ons from Microsoft, see: Internet Explorer Gallery These are web browser add-ons that add features (for example, extra toolbars, animated mouse pointers, stock tickers, and pop-up ad blockers) to your Internet Explorer web browser. When Enhanced Protected Mode is enabled in Internet Explorer, add-ons such as toolbars, browser helper objects (BHOs), and extensions are loaded only if they are compatible with Enhanced Protected Mode. If you have to load an incompatible add-on, you can turn off Enhanced Protected...

How to Create a New Library in Windows 7 This will show you how to create a new library in the Windows 7 Libraries window.Libraries let you access and arrange items from one or more folders quickly without moving them from their original location. Libraries themselves don't store your files or folders. Instead, they point to different locations on a hard disk or external drive attached to your computer. This gives you easy access to a category of files no matter where they are stored. For instance, if you have music files on your hard disk and on an external drive, you can access all of your music files from within the "Music" library. For more information about Windows 7 Libraries see: Windows 7 Libraries: Frequently Asked...

How to Turn Screen Saver On or Off in Windows 7 A screen Saver is a moving picture or pattern that appears on a computer screen when the mouse or keyboard has not been used for a specified period of time. This will show you how to turn screen saver on or off in Windows 7. If you checked the on resume, display logon screen box, it will still resume to the logon screen even if you have selected (None) for your screen saver. To Turn the Screen Saver On or Off in Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic 1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Display icon. 2. In the left blue pane, click on the Change screen saver link. (see screenshot below) 3. Close the Display window. (see screenshot above) 4. Go to step 3 in OPTION...