Expand your taskbar previews in windows 7

Move your mouse cursor over a Windows 7 taskbar button and
you'll see a small preview of the
application window. To make this
larger, launch REGEDIT, browse
to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\Taskband,

Pin a drive to the taskbar in windowS 7

The taskbar isn't just for apps
and documents. With just a few
seconds work you can pin drive
icons there, too. Right-click an empty part of the
desktop, select New > Text File,
and rename the file to drive.exe.
Drag and drop this onto your

Display hidden drives in windows 7

Click Computer in Windows 7 and
you might see a strange lack of
drives, but don't panic, it's just
Microsoft trying to be helpful:
drives like memory card readers
are no longer displayed if they're empty.

Customise the log-on screen in windows 7

Changing the Windows log-on
screen used to involve some
complicated and potentially
dangerous hacks, but not any
more - Windows 7 makes it easy. First, browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Authentication
\LogonUI\Background in
REGEDIT,

Get your laptop's power efficiency report on windows 7

Have a laptop and want to get
more battery life out of it?
Windows 7 includes a hidden
built-in tool that will examine
your laptop's energy use and
make recommendations on how to improve it. To use it:

Shake your desktop free of clutter -on windows 7

If you frequently run multiple
programs simultaneously, your
desktop can get extremely
cluttered. This can get annoying
if you're working on one
program and want to minimize all the other windows -- in
previous versions of Windows

Use hidden international wallpapers and themes on windows 7

When you first install Windows
7, it asks for your language,
time and currency. Based on
your responses, it installs a set of
wallpapers and themes. If you
choose English (United States) for your time and currency
format, for example, the

Shortcut to Run Program asAdministrator

You can Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar icon to run the application as an
Administrator with full rights
(provided your account has
permissions). Simply

Faster Shutdown

This trick will help you hack the shutdown time of your pc
Click on
Start and type regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Control.