Vista/7 Tips

We delve under the surface of Microsoft’s brand new operating system – and discover there’s a whole lot more features and benefits than you might see at first glance. 

One of the best feature changes in Windows 7 is the greatly improved User Account Control system, with a slider to easily control how much the security feature annoys you. But what if you want to really disable UAC entirely?

When we showed you how to master Windows 7's new Jump Lists feature, there was one extremely useful tip that we left out: you can also access them from your keyboard.

To continue my fine tradition of optimizing MS's latest OS, I have here my findings to date.

An interesting way to shutdown or restart your Windows 7 computer without using the mouse cursor; but by using keyboard keys only.

We have already an article to merge all editions of Windows Vista into single DVD and it works with Windows 7 as well.

As it is known to all, Windows 7 is not so resource-hungry like Windows Vista, which brings many old computers back to life. However,new problems surface. Since the hardwares are years-old, it is rather a tough work to find a suitable driver and get it installed. The Intel 91X series is a typical example.

What's the hottest racing game out there? Yes, it's Need for Speed : Shift. The new version of this great game has gained acceptance among most of the medias and has been very popular around the world.

Via the Run command in Windows, you can use certain pre-defined commands to open up applications. In fact in Windows 7 & Vista, its Start Menu Search box itself acts as a Run box. If you type the name of an application, say Ultimate Windows Tweaker (uwt) in the start box, it will search for the app and display it in the results. Hitting Enter will open the app.

The Shutdown Event Tracker is a workstation or server feature, which can also be accessed in Windows 7, to consistently track the reason for system shutdowns.