Tutorials

How to Change the Icon Size in a Windows 7 Explorer Window When you open a folder or library in Windows 7, you can change how the files look in the window. This will show you how to change the file and folder icon size in that window to be either Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons, Small Icons, or custom icons sizes of your choice. All folders in a library share the same folder view. Any change made below in a library will automatically be applied to all folders in the library. EXAMPLE: Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons, or Small Icons NOTE: What you see in your window will also depend on what you have the folder template set as. Here's How: 1. Open the Windows Explorer folder or library window...

How to Make a "Create New Backup" Shortcut in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 This will show how to download a Create New Backup (differential backup) shortcut that will instantly create a new full backup of your previously created Windows Backup setup, and show a progress bar in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Each new full backup is saved in this format: drive letter:\computer name\Backup Set YYYY-MM-DD HHMMSS When this shortcut is used, it will instantly create a new Backup Set folder. To be able to use this shortcut: You must be logged in as an administrator. You would have needed to previously set up backup and created a Windows backup since this shortcut creates a new backup set for it. EXAMPLE: Progress...

How to Change the Password for Your or Another User Account in Windows 7 This will show you how to change the password for either your user account, or for another user account through the Control Panel in Windows 7 and Vista.If you change the password of a user account that is automatically logged on to at Windows 7 startup, then you will also need to change the password there for that user account.If you change the password for a user account other than your own, then that user account will lose access to it's EFS encrypted files, personal certificates, and stored passwords for websites or network resources. If the other user account doesn't have any of these, or doesn't mind losing them, then changing the password while logged in...

How to Use SyncToy for Data Backups SyncToy is a FREE application for synchronising file and folders between different data locations/devices. It has a simple graphical interface and logic that makes it very easy to implement a robust backup routine for everyday data files (e.g. documents, music, photo's etc.). This tutorial will show you how to: Create simple backups from your computer to an external USB device Execute the backup manually Optionally execute the backup automatically using Windows Task Scheduler SyncToy is probably the easiest way to ensure your important data files are backed up. It caters for the simple needs of novices or less experienced computer users, but also has some powerful features that more experienced...

How to Allow or Deny Permissions to Users and Groups This will show you how to allow or deny users and groups access permissions and add or remove inheritable permissions to either a file, folder, drive, or registry key objects in Windows 7 or Vista. After you set user or group permissions of a parent object (folder, drive, or registry key), any newly created files and subfolders in the folder or drive, or newly created subkeys under the registry key, will also inherit these permissions by default. I would highly recommend that you create a restore point before making changes to a file, folder, drive, or registry key permission settings. This way if you make a mistake and lock (access denied) yourself out of the item, you will be...

How to Reset a Windows Password in Regedit at Boot This is a fairly simple way to reset / change your Windows user account password if, for whatever reason you can't gain access to your account. A big thank you to Everlong for helping me sort the last steps of this. This tutorial can be used to reset the password in Windows 7 or Vista. If you don't have a proper Windows installation disk, have a look at the link below to create a repair disk that can be used to reset your user account password in Windows 7 and Vista. (Windows 7) System Repair Disc - Create (Vista) Create a Recovery Disc - Vista Forums Making changes to the Windows Registry has the potential to disable the PC, if you have any concerns over using the...

How to Fix the "Bootmgr is missing" Error in Windows You may get this error while booting your computer. This problem is not hardware related and can be fixed with a Windows 7 DVD OR a system repair disc. Here's How: NOTE: Sometimes it may take running a startup repair a few times before it fully fixes the startup issue. 1. Boot to the System Recovery Options screen. 2. Select the Startup Repair option. (See screenshot below) 3. Now click on Startup Repair. Run the startup repair and it will attempt to fix this issue. NOTE: It will ask you to reboot your system. Reboot to see if it works. If it doesn't work, follow step 4. 4. Click on Command Prompt. A) Type c: and press <Enter>. C:\ is the drive...

How to Turn Aero Snap and Aero Shake On or Off in Windows 7 This will show you how to turn Aero Snap and Aero Shake feature on or off in Windows 7. Dragging a window by the title bar to the left and right edge of the screen will fill that half the screen with that window when the mouse pointer reaches the edge of the screen. Dragging the window down a bit will restore the window back to how it was before. Placing the mouse pointer on the top or bottom border of a window until the mouse pointer turns into an up-down double arrow and left click and hold, then drag the top or bottom window border to the top or bottom edge of the screen. This will fill the top and bottom of the screen within the left and right borders of the window...

How to Include a Folder in a Library in Windows 7 This will show you how to add a folder so that it's contents will also be included in the library as well in Windows 7.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...

How to Create a List of All Encrypted Files on All Local Drives in Windows This tutorial will show you how to create a list of all encrypted files that belong to the current user on all NTFS local drives in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. This will create a Encrypted-Files.txt file on your desktop that includes the full path of each encrypted file found in it. EXAMPLE: Encrypted-Files.txt Here's How: 1. Open a command prompt in Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8, and do step 2 or 3 below for what you would like to do. 2. To Use the cipher /u /h Command NOTE: This option is used to find all the encrypted files on the local drives, and will update the user's file encryption key or recovery keys of the encrypted files to use the...

How to Apply Local Group Policies to Specific User or Group in Windows Windows has three layers of local GPOs: Local Group Policy Local Group Policy is the only local GPO that allows both computer configuration and user configuration settings to be applied to all users of the computer. Administrators and Non-Administrators local Group Policy Administrators and Non-Administrators local Group Policy contains only user configuration settings. This policy is applied based on whether the user account being used is a member of the local Administrators group. User-specific local Group Policy User-specific local Group Policy contains only user configuration settings. This policy is applied to individual users and groups. These layers of...

How to Enable or Disable Changing Network Locations in Windows 7 A network location identifies the type of network that a computer is connected to and automatically sets the appropriate firewall settings for that location. This will show you how to enable or disable all users to be able to change the network location of your computer in Windows 7.You will only be able to do this while logged in as an administrator. EXAMPLE: Change Network Location Disabled Message NOTE: This is the message all users will get when trying to change the network location when that option has been disabled. Through Network List Manager Policies 1. Open the Local Security Policy editor. A) In the left pane, select Network List Manager Policies...

How to See and Use a List of All Windows 7 Shell Commands This will show you a list of Windows 7 Shell commands that can be used to open certain special folders directly from the Start menu or Run dialog window.You can find the shell commands listed at this registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FolderDescriptions The Shell commands that are new in Windows 7 from Vista are bolded in red. You can use the shell commands with either format below: shell:command OR explorer shell:command Here's How: 1. Open the Start menu and type in the shell command in bold below for the folder that you want to open, then press Enter. (See screenshot below) OR 2. Open the Run dialog...

How to Customize How Windows Media Center Will Start Up This will show you how to use a list of commands that allow you to change how Windows Media Center starts up including, no start up animations, force widescreen, start in screensaver, and more! Windows Media Center is not available in the Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic editions. This also works with the Media Browser shortcuts that are avaliable through the internet! Shortcut avaliable for download Here! . The N and KN editions of Windows 7 have all the features that normally come with each individual Windows 7 edition, except for Windows Media Player 12 and related programs, such as Windows Media Center or Windows DVD Maker. The N editions of Windows 7 allow you...

How to Change the Windows 7 Default Folder Icon This will show you how to change all of the default yellow folder icons in Windows Explorer to any custom icon that you want instead in Windows 7. User Folder icons will not be affected by this.If you have thumbnails turned on, then only empty folders will have the new icon displayed in Windows Explorer when the folder view is set to anything other than Small icons, Details, or List. Otherwise the folders will have a thumbnail preview icon when the folder is not empty instead. When the folder view is set to Small icons, Details, or List, then all folders will display the new icon since they are small icons. If you have thumbnails turned off, then all folders will have the new icon...

How to Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time. This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable hibernate and restore or delete the hiberfil.sys file in Windows 7 and Windows 8. When hibernate is disabled, the...

How to Use SeaTools for DOS and Windows Disk Check Utility Part One: SeaTools for Windows Part Two: SeaTools for DOS *Caution for AHCI Storage Controller Seatools is a powerful tool to analyze the Hard Drives. It can perform a lot of tests like Drive Self-test, Read-Write teat, SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) extraction and performs some advanced actions like bad sector repair. Though Seatools can test all the brands of HDD, it performs the repair action for the Seagate brand HDD only. It is always better that you back up your data. Part1 Seatools for Windows1. Get it from SeaTools | Seagate 2. Click on I accept and then download. Install the program and run it within windows. It will take a time...

AHCI : Enable in Vista and Windows 7 after OS install AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface makes NCQ Native Command Queing along with hot-plugging or hot swapping through SATA Serial-ATA host controllers possible; Vista was the first to offer this feature. The issue with AHCI is it needs to be enabled in the BIOS prior to OS installation; doing so after you have installed the OS will disable the PC. The reason why is Windows disables the AHCI drivers not needed durring installation. This tutorial will show you how to enable AHCI after you have installed the OS if you didn't already have AHCI enable in the BIOS when you installed the OS. Changing values in the Windows registry can disable your machine; if you're not sure how...

How to Convert a FAT or FAT32 Volume to NTFS in Windows 7 This will show you how to convert a drive or partition volume with a FAT (FAT16) or FAT32 file system to a NTFS file system in Windows 7 without having to format the volume and lose your data on it.Before you start to convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS, please consider the following limitations and requirements: UDF and CDfs file systems are only used with optical media and cannot be converted to NTFS. FAT12 is the only format used on floppy diskettes (as if these are used anymore ;)). This does not apply to a USB flash key though. The conversion to NTFS is a one-way process. After you convert a drive or a partition to NTFS, you cannot convert it back to FAT or to FAT32...

How to Restore Missing Default Time Zones in Windows 7 This will show you how to restore the default times zones in Windows 7 for when the Change time zone button does not work or you have missing time zones when trying to change the time zone. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. EXAMPLE: Default Time Zones Here's How: 1. Click on the download button below to download the file below. Restore_All_Windows_7_Default_Time_Zones.reg http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=206904&stc=1&d=1334250858 2. Save the .reg file to the Desktop. 3. Double click on the downloaded .reg file to merge it. 4. Click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK when prompted. 5. Log off and...