Vista/7 Tips

If you are curious and eager to try out Office Web Apps, after reading our review, you have to sign up here. Then you have to wait for the invitation to come. But, (once signed up) there is another way to try.

For those who are still running Windows Vista, a dual boot system may be a right way to have a taste of Windows 7. But, if you install Windows 7 first, and then have Vista installed, here is a problem you might meet.

In Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft introduced UAC and a new file permission mechanism for security reasons. As a side effect, it's harder to replace system files than before. And the point is in Windows 7, most of the themes require a system file replacement. Actually, we can take ownership of the files manually.

Generally speaking, wen can use the .reg file to add new values to the registry. But if we want to delete some registry key, we need to open registry editor and find the key branch step by step. And now, here is a way to delete the certain key or value as long as you know the directory.

Although Windows is fast, smooth, some users will still want to make it quicker with a system optimization, including a service tweak. However, in Windows 7, some certain service is quite important. Here is a list of ten services which cannot be disabled in Windows 7.

On occasions it may have happened that the title bar of your open explorer window may have moved off screen, as a result of which you are unable to move the window with the help of your mouse pointer.

In Vista and Windows 7, icon-related problems are frequent asked ones. Here s a  typical example, the HDD icons. Two symptoms may lead to this problem.

In Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a series of network improvements, such as Direct Access for Business users and Home Group for home users, which allow users to share musics, videos, documents and even printers among Windows 7 computers. However, not every one can take advantage of this cool feature. For those who regard this as useless, here is a way to turn it off, as well as remove the links in explorer navigation panel.

As the server client of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 has attracted a great many of people to have a fresh taste. But some of them may have been depressed because of the error "The computer could not find a valid system volume".

We know, with superbar in Windows 7, we can choose to display task bar items as "always combine"  without title texts or "Never combine" with title texts. So is there any way to show items as "Never combine" WITHOUT title texts? The answer is Yes.