Windows 7 Ultimate Tricks

Windows 7 is the today’s most famous and stylist OS from Microsoft. When you start your pc with Windows 7, you can get a whole new experience. It has introduced many useful, user-friendly and new features like PSR, Blu-Ray Disc Support, Live Media Streaming and many others. It’s a long time passed after the launch of windows 7, but most of us are not aware about the exciting new & useful features of windows 7. Windows 7 fixes a lot of what is wrong with Vista and Windows XP.  It is a lot faster, removes many of the nag screens that plagued Vista or XP and it is far more compatible with peripherals.  There are many new features, and tools.Many of which you might never discover on your own. Move around and navigate the desktop like a pro, and make full use of the powerful search function

1. Problem Steps Recorder

As a Windows 7 user when you can’t solve any critical Windows problem(Fix error). You fill yourself as a poor and weak user, who can’t get rid of this problem. It's frustrating, but Microsoft feels your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in theProblem Steps Recorder. When any app or software starts misbehaving under Windows 7 then follow this steps.

1. Click Start button.

2. Click Run or (Press Windows Key + R)

3. In Run dialog box, type PSR and press Enter, then click Start Record.

If they then work through whatever they're doing then the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click and key press, take screen grabs, and package everything up into a single zipped MHTML file when they're finished, ready for emailing to you. It's quick, easy and effective, and will save you hours of troubleshooting time.

2. Burn images

Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that other operating systems have had for years - the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it couldn't be much easier to use.

• Things you will need :
  1.  Blank CD or DVD
  2.  .ISO Image file.

Now Just follow these steps to Burn an .ISO image file on any blank CD or DVD
1.  Just double-click the .ISO image
2.  Choose the drive with the blank disc.
3.  Click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

3. Create and mount VHD files

Microsoft's Virtual PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7 can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system. So Follow these steps to create and mount VHD 

1.  Click Start
2.  Type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter,

3.  Then click Action » Attach VHD and choose the file you'd like to mount.

After browse and select appropriate location, click OK button You are done. It will then appear as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written just like any other drive.

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Follow these steps to create a new virtual drive

1.  Click Start
2.  Type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter3.  Click Action » Create VHD and you can now create a new virtual drive of your own (right-click it, select Initialize Disk, and after it's set up right-click the unallocated space and selectNew Simple Volume to set this up).

Again, you'll be left with a virtual drive that behaves just like any other, where you can drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do whatever you like. But it's actually just this VHD file on your real hard drive which you can easily back up or share with others.

1.  Right-click the disk (that's the left-hand label that says "Disk 2" or whatever)
2.  Select Detach VHD to remove it.

The command line DISKPART utility has also been upgraded with tools to detach a VHD file, and an EXPAND command to increase a virtual disk's maximum size.

Note : Don't play around with this unless you know what you're doing, though - it's all too easy to trash your system.

4. Troubleshoot problems

If some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don't know why, Then don’t worry.
Just follow these simple to solve.

1.  Click Start 
2.  Click Control Panel » Troubleshooting to access the new troubleshooting packs.

These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.

5. Start-up Repair

If you've downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven't) it's a good idea to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into problems booting the OS later on. To do this.

1.  Click Start » Maintenance » Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way to get your PC running again.

6. Take control

Tired of the kids installing dubious software or running applications you'd rather they left alone? AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users can only run the programs you specify. Don't worry, that's easier to set up than it sounds: you can create a rule to allow everything signed by a particular publisher, so choose Microsoft, say, and that one rule will let you run all signed Microsoft applications. To get control over Windows 7.

1.  Just launch GPEDIT.MSC and go to Computer Configuration » Windows Settings »Security Settings » Application Control Policies » AppLocker to get a feel for how this works.

7. 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. The new Calculator is packed with useful features and functionality.

8. Switch to a Projector

Windows 7 now provides a standard way to switch your display from one monitor to another, or a projector -

Follow these steps:
1.  Just press Win+P or run DisplaySwitch.exe and choose your preferred display. (This will have no effect if you've only one display connected.)

9. Get a power efficiency report

If you have a laptop, you can use the efficiency calculator to get Windows 7 to generate loads of useful information about its power consumption. Used in the right way, this can help you make huge gains in terms of battery life and performance. 

Note : To do this you must open a command prompt as an administrator.

1.  Type 'cmd' in Start Search, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.

2.  Then at the command line, just type in 'powercfg -energy' (without quotes) and hit Return

Now Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML file, usually in the System32 folder. Just follow the path it gives you to find your report.

10. Understanding System Restore

Using System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a gamble. There's no way of telling which applications or drivers it might affect - you just have to try it and see. 

1.  Right-click Computer2.  Select Properties » System Protection » System Restore » Next, and choose the restore point you'd like to use.

3.  Click the new button to 'Scan for affected programs' and Windows will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or recovered by selecting this restore point.

Apply these experiments on your Windows 7 PC and let know your feedback here with your comments. Free free to ask any question or give suggestion related this post.