How to Customize the System Tray in Windows 7
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 5:03 am
In Windows 7, the system tray is now called the Notification Area, which is just a fancy term for all those little icons at the bottom right of your taskbar. Just like you could customize the system tray in Windows XP, you can also customize the notification area in Windows 7.
There are two ways you can manage the notification area: either by dragging and dropping icons or by using the Control Panel settings.
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Does your Windows 7 computer display turn off every 15 minutes?
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 5:27 am
A recent issue I’ve seen on a few Windows 7 machines has been the display turning off after only 15 minutes, even though I set the Turn off the Display option to Never. Weird!
This usually occurs with a new install of Windows 7 and will result in your computer screen turning off after 15 minutes of idle time. This can occur for one of two reasons: either it’s the first time you started Windows 7 or because the WinSAT score has not been calculated yet.
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The Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 6:03 am
Windows 7 offers a very user friendly interface to connect computers to the network. If you’ve previously set up a home network using computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you’ll find that setting up a network with a mix of computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 is similar.
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K3B – Free CD/DVD burning tool for KDE Linux
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 5:04 am
K3B is the official CD/DVD authoring tool for Linux KDE desktop. It allows you to create, burn, copy, CD’s and DVD’s. Create audio CD/DVD, Data discs perform disc-to-disc copies, it also includes a DVD ripping function.
To burn audio CD’s using K3B follow these simple steps. Click on the new audio CD project icon in the welcome screen of K3B.
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Revert to the classic Start Menu in Windows 7
Posted on October 31, 2009 at 5:12 am
So you just purchased a new Windows 7 PC, but don’t like the new start menu? In earlier version of Windows, you could easily go back to the Classic Start Menu by simply going to the properties of the taskbar and choosing that option.
In Windows 7, however, there is no way to revert back to the Classic Start Menu, they have simply removed it completely.
Now you can change some aspects of Windows 7 to resemble earlier versions of Windows by bringing back the quick launch bar or changing the settings for the taskbar to act like it used to.
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Windows 7 taskbar disappearing?
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 5:07 am
A new issue I’ve seen going on with some Windows 7 users is that their taskbar will suddenly disappear completely. The only thing that remains is the Start Menu button/orb.
Here’s an example of a desktop in which the Windows 7 taskbar just vanished:
That’s pretty crazy right! Not only that, if you right-click in the area where the taskbar is supposed to be, you get the context menu for the desktop, as if it’s totally gone.
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