Windows Tips

Tip of the Month

for Windows       

by //georgekok97//

Enable virtual Wi-Fi

Windows 7 includes a little-known new feature called Virtual Wi-Fi, which effectively turns your PC or laptop into a software-based router. Any other Wi-Fi-enabled devices within range – a desktop, laptop, an iPod perhaps – will “see” you as a new network and, once logged on, immediately be able to share your internet connection.

This will only work if your wireless adapter driver supports it, though, and not all do. Check with your adapter manufacturer and make sure you’ve installed the very latest drivers to give you the best chance.

Once you have driver support then the easiest approach is to get a network tool that can set up virtual Wi-Fi for you. Virtual Router (below) is free, easy to use and should have you sharing your internet connection very quickly.

If you don’t mind working with the command line, though, maybe setting up some batch files or scripts, then it’s not that difficult to set this up manually.

Calculate more

At first glance the Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista’s version, but explore the Mode menu and you’ll see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views. And if you’re clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options menu instead. This offers many different unit conversions (length, weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two dates?), and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle mileage, mortgage rates and more.

Don’t take any Windows 7 applet at face value, then – there are some very powerful new features hidden in the background. Be sure to explore every option in all Windows applets to ensure you don’t miss anything important.

CALCULATE MORE:The new Calculator is packed with useful features and functionality

Get Exact Colors On Your Screen

If you are an artist or you work with colors, use the Calibrate Color option in the Control Panel Display applet or run dccw.exe from the Start Menu search box. You can adjust gamma, brightness, contrast, and color balance, ensuring that colors are displayed correctly on your screen.

Add a Videos link to the Start Menu

The Windows 7 Start Menu includes links to your Pictures and Music folders, but not to your Videos folder. If you watch a lot of videos and want a link to them on your Start Menu, here’s what you can do:

1. Right-click the Start button and select Properties.

2. On the screen that appears, go to the Start Menu tab and click Customize.

3. In the dialog box that appears, scroll to the bottom, look for the Videos section, select “Display as a link,” and click OK and then OK again.

If you’d prefer that Videos display as a menu, with links to files and submenus, instead select “Display as a menu.”

Shake your desktop free of clutter

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 you had to minimize them individually.

With Windows 7’s “shake” feature, though, you can minimize every window except the one in which you’re currently working — in a single step. Click and hold the title bar of the window you want to keep on the desktop; while still holding the title bar, shake it quickly back and forth until all of the other windows minimize to the taskbar. Then let go. To make them return, shake the title bar again.

You can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination — although doing that is not nearly as much fun.

Searching the Web with your favorite browser from theStart Menu.

• Enable Internet search from the Start Menu using your default browser.

• Run GPEDIT.MSC from the Start Menu search box to start the Group Policy Editor.

• In the left pane, go to User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Start Menu and Taskbar.

• In the right pane, right-click to Edit and Enable Add Search Internet link to Start Menu.

That’s it!

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Windows 7 tips that you might not notice before

If there is one good thing about Windows is that there is not just one way to perform a specific task. For example, to get to a specific location to configure some settings, in this case Display, you can navigate to the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel, and then click Display or you can navigate to the Windows Start menu and in thesearch box type Display in press Enter to get the same place, as you can see there is always going to be more than one way — this was just one example of many other shortcuts you can use in Windows –.

I always prefer to use the easiest way to perform a task whenever possible, it can be something similar like the one I just mentioned or it can be a keyboard shortcut or configuring settings in certain ways to make Windows work faster and more productive for me. Most of the time these approaches save you time and you will use fewer mouse clicks. Here are my productive list ofWindows 7 tips that you might not notice before.

Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts

• Display the desktop:

Windows logo key  + D

This keyboard shortcut allows you to quickly minimize all open windows leaving nothing more than an empty desktop. You can accomplish the same thing by going to the notification area and hover or click the rectangle. Really cool to go from clutter to clean!

• Windows and multiple monitors:

Press and hold Windows logo key  + Shift + Left Arrow or Right Arrow

This will send the active window to the monitor on your left or on your right, depending in your monitor set up.

• Get more focus when working on Windows 7:

Windows logo key  + Home key

This keyboard shortcut minimizes and restores all open windows except the active window you are working on.

• Snap windows:

Remember how time-consuming was to align two document in the screen to compare them side-by-side? Well now it is easier than ever and you can make it in a snap with the following keyboard shortcut:

Press and hold Windows logo key  + Left Arrow or Right Arrow, to snap the document, application or any window to one side. You can accomplish the same thing by dragging a window and mouse pointer to the side of the screen.

• Open Windows Task Manger:

  Most of us are really familiar with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + ATL + Del to open the Windows Task Manger, did you know there is an easier way with fewer mouse clicks?

  Ctrl + Shift + Escape

  • Switch between Windows user accounts or lock the computer:

  Windows logo key  + L

  

  • Open Computer:

  Windows logo key  + E

  
  

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|||Browsing Internet with the Calculator

1)Lauch Calculator

2)Press F11    (For the “Help”)

3)Click on the “?” Symbol on the upper blue bar

4)Click “Jump to URL”

5)Type the URL (including the “http://“) -ex. ” http://www.gnahackteam.0fees.net/ ” –

>>>This method may be used if your browser crashes and don’t have other so as to access the internet<<<

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…::georgekok97::…