Tag windows 7

All-In-One Tray

All-In-One Tray is a great free Windows 7 utility that sits in your system tray and provides access to pretty well all the operating system’s built in utilities plus a lot more like purging DNS cache and rebuilding icons.  As…

Speed Up Windows 7 Downloads folder

Windows 7 is amazing but clicking the Downloads folder and then waiting and waiting while the green progress bar slowly progresses drives me crazy.  Luckily there is an easy fix to speed it up. Locate your Downloads folder: it’s at…

Get more volume in Windows 7

On my recent vacation at night my daughter would watch her favourite Disney movies on my Acer Timeline 1410 11.6″ laptop.  Everything worked well and the picture was great but the sound, even at full volume in Windows 7 Professional…

Windows 7 Remote Desktop tricks

Via Download Squad and Into Windows I came across a user modification that does two wonderful things: enables Remote Desktop for all Windows 7 versions and allows more than one Remote Desktop connection to any Windows PC. For those users…

Check for drivers before installing a new OS

Just finished the February 2010 issue of PC World.  They had an article called “The State Of Windows 7 Satisfaction” about early adopters of Windows 7 and their general feedback about installation and features.  Information was gathered from 615 people…

Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool

Longest name ever for a one trick app.  Microsoft developed the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to allow people to write an ISO file to a bootable medium: DVD or USB storage.  When Windows 7 launched a lot of…