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Windows 7 Tricks
In this fast life, we all want to reduce the time we've spending in front of computers for unnecessary things such as opening certain video files in a particular media player etc. It can be better customize Windows 7 to work the way we want rather than let us choose each time. Its a very basic thing for a computer user to associate file types with certain programs so that they should open up without having to right click and go for "open With" .
In Windows7 operating system,
- Click Start Menu and click Default Programs.
- It would open a window where you should select "Associate a file type or protocol with a program " which lists almost all known file types with extensions, for each item you can set your default program which it should open with. Scroll the file type you want and click "Change Program"
- Choose from the list where windows suggests some program. If the software that you looking for doesn't exist in the list, click Browse and find it for yourself from the disk.
- Click OK after you're done.
Usually you hard disk drive contains certain partitions such as system reserved one's or back up partition that you may not want to display in my computer. For example my dell laptop includes partitions reserved 39 MB. There's no need to display such partitions as drives in my computer because you're not going to store any data on those kind of drives. Here's the simple tip that allows you to hide such drives from my computer.
- Open Disk Management in Windows 7. ( Click Start > and type "dsk" in the search box, click "Create and format hard disk partitions" )
- In the Disk Management wizard, you'll notice the partitions you have on the disk. To hide a disk drive from my computer, right click on that specified volume and select " Change drive letters and paths".
- In the upcoming window, click on the current drive letter and click Remove > OK.
- You're done. If you want to display any partitions instead, please do the reverse.
In the earlier versions of windows, the programs or folders you opened were show up in the taskbar with a label exhibiting the name of the program or the folder etc. But in Windows 7, the taskbar is set to hide labels of opened threads and they're set to combine windows of same type. However the new system is opt for users who opens many programs and folders such that they wont clutter to make it difficult to pick the desired one. ie, more buttons can be placed in the taskbar simultaneously.
By the way, you can change this new set-up to the old one by a simple step. Right click on taskbar and click Properties. there you may see a drop down box with a label Taskbar Buttons: It is set to "
Always cobine,hide labels" by default. You need to change it into
Combine When Taskbar is Full or to
Never Combine. That's it.
