desktop management

Hi everyone.. I know that when I customize a folder icon, a desktop.ini file will be created inside that folder, but if I assign a picture of that folder in (folder pictures panel) where are these data saved? Because when I put this folder in another PC the picture is missing, and goes to...

I only learnt about this a couple of weeks ago! If you want to make the Aero Peek button at the far right of your Taskbar into a plain and simple Show Desktop button: Simply right-click the Aero Peek button and un-check the "Peek at desktop" option. Et Voila!! That's it!

Hi! I have 3 computers, 2 desktops and 1 laptop. Laptop is my personal PC, desktops are from other fammily memebres. Maybe I will add one more PC. I would like to control desktops, deploy software and Win7 updates, control user rights etc.. How can I do that and what do I need? Windows...

"MMC cannot open the file c:\windows\system32\secpol.msc This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC.This may also be because you do not have sufficient privileges to access the file" is the error I receive when trying to...

I own an older Hp G50 laptop that came with vista but i put win7 32 bit on it. I installed all of the usual stuff that I would put on including steam, office and Photoshop. For a long time now, I have been having seemingly random blue screens only when I tried to shut down the computer. I tried...

I have a script (basic batch file) that launces 30 different kd windows and I want to have them tile on the desktop (or stack in win 7 terms) once they have all launched. Is there a command to do this or some kind of script? Those 30 windows will be the only ones open on the desktop.

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Bill Detwiler shows you how you a quick and easy way to disable the Windows 7 Snap feature, which is either loved or hated. Link Removed

Hey I have a dual display and was wondering if it is possible to have a slide show running but have alternative pics on each screen?? *same theme but to have diff pic showing on each one at the same time...help appreciated!

on the taskbar, pinned icons get mixed with open programs. is there a way to keep them all to the left like on xp's quick launch icons. anyone else have this problem?

Installed 7 yesterday. All went well. This am window would only open to half size. In Vista we could fix this by opening a link by right click and asking the link be opended in a new window and then X it out. It would then recall that size as the default. This does not seem to work in 7...

Is there a way to set my Remote Desktop to log back on after I finish a session? That is I Remote Desktop from my laptop to my Desktop at home, I log out of RDC from my laptop, home Desktop logs back on (instead of idling on the Log-in screen).

I changed from XP to Seven about a week ago. I got customed in XP with the ease of use of NVidia nView, as I was easily able to change the refresh rate for my secondary display from system tray icon menu. I have 24" LCD and 47" 1080p60/24Hz HDTV as a secondary display. I need to be able to...

actually I want to hide everything on the desktop. BUT using ">right click on desktop>View>Show Desktop Icons (deselect)" to do that is tedious. So if someone can point me in the way to creating a macro or tweak my registry for these two similar but kinda different tasks I would be very...

I wanted to test Win7 on a live machine - outside of VM Ware or VPC 2007. So I built my old PC up so it would run again and then fired it up, installed Win 7 (7000) and then realized I had an issue. The space required to have my Laptop and another machine's keyboard and mouse was limited on my...

Some of the most useful docs and guides can be found for Beta 2 directly from Microsoft Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error You will need MS Word for some of these docs. Hope this helps someone ;)