what-what.net » Customization http://what-what.net windows 7|linux|ubuntu|blogging|firefox|tips| tricks Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:28:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows 7 Tip-Change logon Background Image http://what-what.net/windows-7-tip-change-logon-background-image.html http://what-what.net/windows-7-tip-change-logon-background-image.html#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:05 +0000 Shoaib http://what-what.net/?p=1135

Changing the background in windows 7? Well how am i supposed to do that?

No need to panic it’s as simple as typing.

I love customizing my windows 7 and love the speed and elegancy of windows 7,what about u? and for that matter I love to do this with ubuntu and mint as well.

In this post We will see how to use a simple and open source(love open source) Windows 7 Log on background changer.

Windows 7 Log on Background Changer

Note:-You don’t really need to install this program in your computer to use it,it can be used as a portable application and can be carried in a flash drive and used.

After you have launched this program all you need to do is select the picture that you want to set as your windows 7 log on screen.

Bill Gates cool logo

Bill Gates cool quote

If you are not satisfied with the windows 7 default images,you can also use your own images as your windows 7 log on screen.

Once you have selected the image that you want as your windows 7 log on screen simply click on apply.

Click yes on authorization and yes on the windows 7  UAC confirmation if it pops up.

UAC

UAC

Wait for a couple of seconds and boom your windows 7 log on screen background has been changed.

wait-changing log on screen background

wait-changing log on screen background

Now when ever you log on to your computer you will see your selected image as your windows 7 log on screen.

You can also change the shadows  of background,that you use as your windows 7 log on screen.

options

options

A few other settings that can be used are:-

Prevent other users from changing the log on screen background.

Resetting the images folder to default,i.e the windows 7 default image folder.

Although their are many different applcations to achieve the same task but this is the only one that has worked without any problems for me,since I started using windows 7.

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How to maximize windows 7 pc  battery life? This is one of those questions that most of do not ever care about.But how long your laptop battery lasts does count at times when you really need it.

You may have even changed your power plan to power saver but this is not the end of it as many other factors also contribute towards your battery life.

In this post we will see how you can get a detailed report of all those hidden factors that are causing your computers battery power to drain at a speed that you have almost no knowledge of.

To start with open your command prompt with administrator rights-Type Cmd in your start menu search box and right click on the command prompt,select Run as administrator.

You can also launch from within firefox-Launch any external application from within firefox.

Now type this in your command prompt window:-

Powercfg -energy

Command to generate power report in windows 7

Command to generate power report in windows 7

Wait for a 60 seconds as it takes sometime for the report to produced and you can open the generated report in firefox as its saved in html format.

Once the report has been produced,see where has it been saved navigate to that folder and doulbe click on it.

How to analyze your computer’s battery report (power efficiency report)?

This report is split into 4 parts and all of them are not that important so you don’t really need to panic.

From to bottom you will see:-

1-Some info about your computer such as the name of your pc,manufacturer etc

Basic Info

Basic Info

2-This is the most important part of the battery report generated (contains errors)-After you read this section you will be getting some ideas as to what exactly is this part about.Try to fix these problems as these may account for draining more that 20 percent of your computers battery power.

Power Efficincy report-Errors

Power Efficiency report-Errors

3-These are the warnings and if you think you can fix these problems then this will boost your battery to some extent

Battery warnings

Battery warnings

4-This part of your windows battery report is just a information on which parts of your computer were inspected to generate the windows battery report.

Power efficincy report-Information

Power efficincy report-Information

This report may be overwhelming but then in my case I had to only remove my external flash drive and my battery lasted for about 10 more minutes(that’s not huge but does count).You may ask your questions for particular errors that you get in the comments section.Similar Posts:

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In almost every few hours  I need to check the program that is taking up most of my computers RAM of my Windows 7  OS and really its annoying.

But today I found a bunch of cool applications that hop on your taskbar and when ever I need to check what’s going on in the background I simply click on them and done their I have it.

Takbar Meters

These are three separate meters that display

1-Utilization of total CPU
2-How much memory is being used up
3-Disk In-out meter

Task meter looks

Task meter looks

Configuring these meters is pretty easy and one can easily set the Latency between updates.

Taskmeter settings

Taskmeter settings

1-CPU meter:-This displays the total of consumption of the processoring power of you computer by all the processes.

2-Memory meter:-Displays the memory consumption by different applications that are being used.

3-Disk Input-output Meter:-Tells you how much data is has been and is being moved from HDD to and from applications.

All of these are three different applications that  when joined together represent the whole task manager.

You can also access the task manager by Right clicking on any one of them and choosing show taks manager.

Open task manager using task meter

Open task manager using task meter

All these applications are are portable so you need not install them,you can even carry them in a USB drive.

All of these Meters run nicely in both windows 7  32 and 64 bit versions.

You can also set them to run at the start up of your computers by placing the meters in the start menu folder.

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Starting with windows tips and tricks on how to hide things in a windows machine-I will go from folders to individual files then folders and then some individual files like text files.

Their are two good ways you can hide drives in your windows machine:-

How to hide folder with sensitive data in windows 7,vista and xp.

Make a right click on my computer and click on “manage”

select manage

select manage

On the left hand side you will Disk management-double click on it.

Now you will have all the drives on the right hand panel.

Right click on the drive that you want to hide and Select drive letter and paths.

Drive you want to hide in windows

Drive you want to hide in windows

Click on Remove

click on remove

click on remove

You will be prompted by the message below,select yes and then you will again a warning select yes.

click yes

click yes

:-) Remember the drive letter of the drive that you made into hidden one.

When you want to make the folder visible just redo the changes that you mad.
Now only the add option will be available-click on it and rename the drive as it was earlier.

Hide(Invisible) Drives In windows 7,vista and xp- Much more easy

Go to run by pressing windows button+R and type in gpedit

On the new window go to Administrative Templates

Come on the windows components and in here  go to the windows explorer.

Now search for this term-Hide these specified drives in my computer and double click it.

Now select the drive from the dropdown.

Invisible drives in windows 7

Invisible drives in windows 7

When you want to make this drive visible again simply revert what you did to hide it.

You can also hide your individual files or folders using following two methods,

1-Windows trick-HIDE Files and Folder’s Using Command prompt(recommended)

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Tweaking windows is really one of the things that pcguys love and continuing with windows 7 tips and tricks,here is a simple registry hack that will add a copy to and move to to your right click menu.

I have already written a post on some of the free tweaks to make windows 7 faster.

This tweak was made all just out of need and I Thought it may be useful to my friends(yeah you pal).

Simply download the file from the link at the bottom of the post,unzip the file and double click on the two files.

Registry files you get after extracting the zip.

Registry files you get after extracting the zip.

You will get a warning which will look something like thi,just click yes and move ahead.

click yes

click yes

This will create the required registry additions you need to have the option in your right click.

This is how your right click menu will look like after tweak

This is how your right click menu will look like after tweak

That’s it.This will windows trick will put a option of copy to and move to a your specified location in your windows pc’s right click option.

Your options

Your options

Download the windows 7/vista copy to/move to free registry tweak.

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