10. GOD MODE
To give you complete control over all
the configurable options in Windows at a single press of a button just
simply create a new folder anywhere and rename it to this: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} The
folder you create will now have 270 items that are to do with
configurable options in Windows 7. Interestingly it also works for
Windows 8.1 as well.
9. “VIRTUAL” WI-FI
Windows 7 has a Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi
Miniport adapter located in your network connections. You can use this
for making your laptop work as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
8. RELIABILITY MONITOR
If your computer is being a little
strange or if it isn’t doing something it should, or for that matter, is
doing something that it shouldn’t then search for ‘reliability’ in the
Start menu and open the ‘View reliability history’. This will display a
graph of the system’s stability index with the scale 1-10 for a certain
period of days or weeks. This should allow you to figure out which
program or Windows component is not working as it should.
7. ENHANCED CALCULATOR
Calculators are great for standard
mathematics, but what if you need a to shake things up a little in the
science dept? If you click the view menu, you will see that the
calculator comes equipped with a number of powerful built-in features;
unit conversions, mortgage spreadsheets, date calculations and fuel
mileage, etc. Not so standard now, are you?
6. STEPS RECORDER
If you need remote assistance but the
remote access is not working, just search and run “psr” from the Start
menu. When you click on the “Start Record” option, the feature starts
recording all the activities by an array of screenshots while adding
automatic captions. When you end recording, all the recorded data is
combined together and then saved as a web browser-compatible MHTML (MIME
HTML) file which is kindly pre-zipped and ready to be attached to an
email for you to send to your helper.
5. FILE SUPPORT IN WORDPAD
WordPad can now open ODT or DOCX files. The only downside is that it doesn’t work great with all formatted docs.
4. POWER EFFICIENCY REPORT
From the Start menu, navigate to CMD and type the following:
powercfg –energy
This will then scan your system for 60
seconds, then a file named energy-report.html will be created in
\windows\system32 folder. Just copy it somewhere else before opening it,
i.e. your desktop, and it will reveal which settings or devices are
zapping power.
3. ERASE FREE DISK SPACE
When you delete something in Windows, the
space they had taken up is labeled as “available for use.” But, the
deleted files are still restorable if you use some software until they
are overwritten with more data. To resolve this simply, open Command
Prompt and type:
cipher /w:Z
Replace Z with the letter of the drive/partition you wish to erase. Be patient, it takes time.
2. FOLDERS ON YOUR TASKBAR
Programs can be pinned to the task bar
and are useful there, right? This is how you can keep the folders. Just
drag a folder to the empty space on the Taskbar and then release the
button once the “Pin to Windows Explorer” pops up. Now every time you
right click the Windows Explorer button, you will have access to the
folder via Jump List.
1. HOTKEY WINDOWS BETWEEN MONITORS
To do this, just hold onto the Windows
key and press left or right arrow and your active window will then be
anchored in that direction. This happens on every monitor that you have
and if you use Windows + Shift +Left/Right Arrow key, the active window
will jump to the second monitor.
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