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I'm working with 7 Pro. I've had my start menu setup in such a way since Win95 and I'm trying to accomplish the same thing here in 7. Rather than having multiple folders off to the right side of the start menu I've always listed all of my programs above the divider on the left. Above shutdown...

Hi All, I have a problem with my On Screen Display in that, i.e.when i tap the wireless card button on /off or press 2nd function key and F8 to mute/unmute, i no longer get the small OSD that shows quickly over the top of whatever is open to notify you of your hardware/applications controls...

Most people generally ask "How do you change the background picture of your login screen?" but I already have that figured out and want to ask, is there ANY way to move the user icon box? that is the only thing I really want to change, because it gets really annoying. If anyone knows how to move...

I'll try and explain what I mean. I have one folder which has 300 sub folders. In about half of those, there are also sub-folders, all called post-pro. So, there are about 150 folders called post-pro with files in. What I'd like to do is have files in each of the sub-folders called post-pro...

When I open Windows Explorer with a list of say, music files in a folder, the column that holds the file names is maybe 2 inches wide, so I have to move the bar at the top in order t see the whole name. Double clicking the gap at the edge of the column auto-expands the column to show the widest...

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Hi, My volume control is missing from the system tray. It was there earlier and when i rebooted it never came up. Also, in the "show or hide volume icon on the taskbar" the volume control os blaked out and off. I could not activate it from there. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adam

My browser has randomly started to display most text in italic. Someone said to delete some fonts and reinstall them, but when I try it, it says the fonts are protected. Could someone please help me with this? EDIT: Solved by downloading and reinstalling the Arial font.

My latest weekly series is a tie-in with the Windows Weekly podcast, and will provide one new Windows 7 tip each week: If I publish your tip, I'll send you a free copy of Windows 7 Secrets! This week's tip: Hide Unwanted Windows Updates. More...

If you have too many partitions or a daemon tools hosted virtual drive frozen or anything this article: Link Removed can help you.Drive letters can have a common problem as several of us experienced it. Tought that this may be helpful to someone.

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This will ENABLE the 20% bandwidth that the system reserves for itself. Click Start and type and enter "gpedit.msc" This opens the group policy editor. Then go to: Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable...

I know it's possible to navigate to parent folder by pressing Alt+ArrowUp in Win7. However, that's hard to press, I need two hands for that. AltGr+ArrowUp doesn't work. How to make another, easier keyboard shortcut for Alt+ArrowUp? Also, how to make a shortcut for Open parent folder in a new...

Hi everyone, I am new to this site, please be gentle. OK, I am wanting to change the OEM Windows 7 logo or icon in System Info. I am looking for its locaiton. I am still digging around on Google for an answer but thought I would ask here as well. If you're unsure where I mean, hit...

:mad:Hi, I think my last post was in the incorrect location..Sorrry if I'm double posting. Drew, Thanks for the Quick Launch, working fine. However, I made a "Short Cut" icon from an excel file from a different hard drive and copied it to the desktop. Then I dragged it to the new "Quick...

This tutorial will show you how to increase or decrease the height of the Start Menu in Windows 7 without displaying recently opened programs and without displaying sub-menus. Many users would like to change the height of the Start Menu in Windows 7. There are many reasons for why a user would...

Can anyone tell me how I can make the login screen completely black? The only thing I want appearing is the intype box for username and password. I dont wan't it to say "type in username" or anything like that. I want the box to have hard edges, nothing soft nor nothing. Does anyone know where...

Is there anyway to change it so that if you click and drag a file from one folder to another it will cut and paste it instead of making a clone of it?

Anyone???? Don't mean to be a pain, but... Anyone?

Hi Wonder if anyone can tell me how to get dreamscenes to work as backgrounds in Windows 7. Ive tried the hacks and it still says uxms needs to be running, what is this and how do i get it to start