Articles tagged: Windows 7 Tips

Double Click Speed

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

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Remove Printer

Tip of the Day: Remove Unused Printers

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UNC Example

Tip of the Day: Access a Network Shared without a Drive Letter

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Cmd Window Size

Tip of the Day: Resize the Command Prompt

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Control Panel in Windows 11.

Tip of the Day: Yet Another Way to Open Control Panel

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Disk & Hammer

Tip of the Day: Really Erase that Disk Before Discarding

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View Installed Updates

Tip of the Day: View Windows Update History

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Windows File Explorer

Tip of the Day: Use Windows File Explorer to Explore Files

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Opening a text file in WordPad

Tip of the Day: Why Not WordPad?

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Windows File Explorer

Tip of the Day: File Explorer Display Options

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Driver Update

Tip of the Day: Use Device Manager to Update Drivers

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Device Manager

Tip of the Day: Access Device Manager Quickly

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Windows Volume Mixer

Tip of the Day: Quick Access to the Volume Mixer

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Taskbar Icons

Tip of the Day: Large and Small Taskbar Icons

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Letter to Mom

Tip of the Day: Edit Elsewhere

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TAB Key in Action

Tip of the Day: TAB Through Fields

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Running https://askleo.com

Tip of the Day: Run Anything

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Toggle Keys option

Tip of the Day: Get Notification When Caps Lock is Toggled

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Printer Windows 7

Tip of the Day: System-wide Printer Settings

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ClearType

Tip of the Day: Tune Your Text for Easier Reading

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RAM

Tip of the Day: Add RAM

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F5

Tip of the Day: F5 for Refresh

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netplwiz

Tip of the Day: Log In Automatically

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SHIFT+Click to run another instance

Tip of the Day: Quickly Run Two Copies of a Program

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Hide Empty Drives option

Tip of the Day: Show All Drives in File Explorer

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Clip

Tip of the Day: the Clip Command

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Keyboard Keypad

Tip of the Day: ALT Keyboard Characters

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Ping in action

Tip of the Day: Diagnose Network Problems with Ping

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Wordpad

Tip of the Day: Try the Word Processor You Already Have

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Using SUBST

Tip of the Day: The SUBST Command

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Start /Min

Tip of the Day: Run a Program Minimized from the Command Prompt

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Settings -> System Information

Tip of the Day: System Information in a Keystroke

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Search Results

Tip of the Day: Windows File Explorer Search

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Home button in Microsoft Edge

Tip of the Day: Change Your Browser’s Home Page

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Open with

Tip of the Day: Quickly Change the Default App for a File Type

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The TaskKill Command

Tip of the Day: The TaskKill Command

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Charmap with a character selected

Tip of the Day: The Character Map

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ipconfig /flushdns

Tip of the Day: Flush DNS to Help Diagnose Problems

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Control Panel Network Adapters

Tip of the Day: Access Network Adapter Settings Quickly

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File Properties displayed in File Explorer

Tip Of The Day: Three Useful Windows File Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

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Pointer Trails Setting

Tip of the Day: Pointer Trails

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Combining Two Files in Command Prompt

Tip of the Day: Combining Files Using Command Prompt

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Disk Compression Option in Windows

Tip of the Day: Consider Compression if You’re Low on Space

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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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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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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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Comparison of Customized CMD

Tip of the Day: Customize the Command Prompt

If you spend any significant time in the Command Prompt, you may want to customize its appearance to be a little more to your liking.

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