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.

Pendrive writeprotected problem: solved

if you tried coping i file to your pen drive or any flash drive and this message "media write protected" or just "write protected" pops up , check whether the flash drive is having a lock and unlock it else follow this steps.

firsu keep your pendrive pluged into ur pc 1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registry editor. 2. Navigate to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control \StorageDevicePolicies Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, then double click on the add.bat file u hav downloaded and the key will be automatically added to registry then repeat step 1 and 2. 3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button 4. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re- connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done. If in case this does nt work which i know wil surely work then try the 2nd method 1. Copy all the important data from this drive to your computer because this method will format the drive and erase all the data on the pen drive. 2 Unzip this the HS2.0 LFORMAT utility to a folder on your hard disk, preferably on a folder on desktop screen for easy access (Do Not Save it on pen drive). Keep your pen drive plugged in, and double click on the Start.bat file in the folder where you unzipped the above utility. This will start formatting your pen drive, wait till the formatting completes and the LED on your pen drive stops blinking. Remove your pen drive after than and plug it in again. The above two steps will solve the problem.