Articles tagged: Windows 7 Tips

Windows Desktop

Tip of the Day: Set a Desktop Background

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My Very Clean Desktop

Tip of the Day: Manage Your Desktop Icons

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Tip of the Day: Build and Search a List of Every File on Your PC

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Tip of the Day: The Three States of a Window

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Windows sign-in screen with Microsoft Account picture.

Tip of the Day: Set or Change Your Microsoft Account Picture

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Tip of the Day: The Taskbar Program Keyboard Shortcut

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Pushd and Popd in Command Prompt

Tip of the Day: PushD and PopD

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View update history in Windows 10

Tip of the Day: View Update History

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Printers & scanners in Windows 10, showing Microsoft XPS Document Writer

Tip of the Day: Get Rid of XPS

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Net Start showing running services in Windows 10 Home

Tip of the Day: Show Running Services with Net Start

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Tip of the Day: Quickly Maximize with Double-click

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Directory listing of parent directory

Tip of the Day: The Special Meaning of “.”

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Moving through a list with the keyboard

Tip of the Day: Move Quickly Through a List with the Keyboard

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Pin to the taskbar

Tip of the Day: Pin Common Programs to the Taskbar

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Comparison of Customized CMD

Tip of the Day: Customize the Command Prompt

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Tip of the Day: Two Keystrokes I Use Constantly

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Tip of the Day: mklink: Hard and Symbolic Links in Windows

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File Open with Thumbnails

Tip of the Day: Icons or Thumbnails?

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$TREE of C:\Windows$

Tip of the Day: The TREE Command

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Tip of the Day: ALT+TAB

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Command Line Search

Tip of the Day: Searching Via the Command Prompt

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Show hidden files, folders, and drives

Tip of the Day: View Hidden Files

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Tip of the Day: Save the Installation Media

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Tip of the Day: Close Programs Before Shutting Down

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Tip of the Day: Make the Taskbar Bigger

The taskbar can become crowded with icons for running programs and notification. One way to deal with it is to make the taskbar bigger — vertically.

SFC - The System File Checker

Tip of the Day: the System File Checker

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The results of tasklist | more

Tip of the Day: Tasklist

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Windows 10 Version

Tip of the Day: The Quick Way to Discover Your Windows Version

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Windows keyboard properties

Tip of the Day: Adjust Your Keyboard Repeat

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Change Icon dialog

Tip of the Day: Icons in Shell32.dll

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Tip of the Day: Notepad Deserves More Respect

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SetColor batch file

Tip of the Day: Detecting Administrative Privileges in a Command Prompt

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Performance Options

Tip of the Day: Adjust User Interface Performance

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System Restore Interface

Tip of the Day: Know When Restore Points Are Useful

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Optimize (Defragment) Disks in Windows

Tip of the Day: 0% Fragmentation Isn’t Worth It

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Tip of the Day: Don’t Always Trust Windows for the Latest Drivers

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Recycle Bin Properties

Tip of the Day: Adjust the Recycle Bin’s Disk Usage

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Extensions in Google Chrome

Tip of the Day: Review Your Browser’s Extensions and Add-ins

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Tip of the Day: Determine Your IP Address(es)

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Show Icons or Thumbnails

Tip of the Day: Icons or Thumbnails?

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Encrypting a Folder

Tip of the Day: Encrypt a Folder in Windows

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Mouse Properties

Tip of the Day: Make the Mouse Pointer Easier to Find

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Tip of the Day: Set a Custom Command Prompt Prompt

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Print menu item with keystroke

Tip of the Day: CTRL+P to Print

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Tip of the Day: Checking a Disk’s Free Space

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Tip of the Day: Give Your Computer a Meaningful Name

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Tip of the Day: Sort in the Command Line

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Tip of the Day: Enter Characters that Don’t Have Keys

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Hosts file in notepad

Tip of the Day: Block a Website Using Your Hosts File

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Tip of the Day: Adjust Your Mouse’s Double-click Speed

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