Experts share 70 basic skills of Windows 7

1. Remove the sidebar

Win7 does not seem to have the function of the sidebar, but in fact it exists. And it is automatically turned on and running in the background as the computer starts. So if you want to get rid of it, here are two ways. The simpler one is to press WIN, type MSCONFIG.EXE, click Start and Clear Sidebar. The hard way is to type REGEDIT by WIN, find and delete the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run. This can save you the memory consumed by things that are not being used.

2. Volume Adjustment

You don't like Win7's ability to automatically reduce the sound when it detects a call in the computer? You can turn it off. Right click on the volume icon in the taskbar - Sound - Communication and turn it off.

3. Run the program as a different user

Win7 allows you to run a program as an administrator or other user, right-clicking on the executable while holding down SHIFT Or a shortcut and then you can choose to run as another user.

4. Using Virtual Hard Disks

In Win7, you can create and manage virtual disk files on your real disk first. You can use Windows to install online to your virtual disk without having to power on the virtual machine. To create a virtual disk you need to press Win, right click on My Computer - Manage - Disk Management - Operation - Create VDH. Here you can specify the location and size of the virtual hard disk.

Connecting the proposed hard disk file Press WIN, right click on My Computer, then Manage - Disk Management - Operation - Connect VHD and then you can specify its location and read-only. Initialize the virtual hard disk, press WIN, right click on My Computer, Manage - Operation - Connect Virtual Hard Disk. Select the partition mode you want, then right click on the unallocated space and click on the new simple volume, then follow the instructions. Now, a new hard drive is born, and you can use it as a real partition.

5. Remove Windows Live Messenger from the taskbar

Remove Windows Live Messenger and get it back to the system tray that belongs to him Area. Go to C:\\Program Files\\Windows Live\\Messenger, right click on msnmsdgr.exe and set the compatibility mode to Windows Vista.

6. Lock Screen

There is no longer a lock button in Win7's Start menu, so now you have to press WIN+L to lock it. This looks simple, if you don't forget about this shortcut.

7. Create a new lock screen shortcut

If you don't like to use the quick key or forget it, there is another way to lock the screen. Simply create a new shortcut to C:\\Windows\\System32\ undll32.exe user32.dll. Then you can lock or unlock it at will.

8. Enable Run in the Start Menu

If you miss the run command in XP, there is a way to get it back in Win7. Right click on the empty space in the Start menu, Properties - Start Menu - Customize and find the Run command.

9. Improve desktop window management for NVIDIA graphics cards

Sometimes desktop animations don't look good and not smooth enough, because desktop windows are rendered without transparency and blur. , but you can turn off the animation for a better display. Press WIN, right click on My Computer, Properties - Advanced System Settings - Performance - Settings Cancel & rdquo; Maximize or minimize the animation effect “, click OK.

10. Change the default save location of the file

Win7 and Vista are a bit different, because its documents, pictures, videos and music are saved in a public folder, C:\\USERS. You may not want to store these files there, but creating your own storage location is easy. Press WIN, click on your username and double-click on the folder where you want to change the location. You will then see the location of the two libraries. Click on the TEXT, right click on the folder you wish to set as the default, then click “set to the default file location”, click OK.