AuditPol is inbuilt feature in windows 7 which is used to control and audit sub-category policy settings accurately. It is located in system 32 folder, as AuditPol.exe, to enable this feature, Go to local security policy – local policies – security options, AuditPol has several functions such as, Set and query a system audit policy. […]

Sometimes when your system is turned off due to power failure or any virus attacks, you will restart your system by booting in safe mode. But sometimes, the safe mode option will be in problem. Here are some ways to fix safe mode in windows 7, 1.Try a System Restore to a prior good point […]

Sometimes we may forgot our user account password, and without knowing the password you cannot do anything in windows. But there is way to reset your password using USB flash drive in windows 7. Using this utility when you forgot your password, you can reset the password using this USB flash drive and create a […]

You can restrict others to use only the programs which you specifiy using windows group policy editor. To do that, Open start – type gpedit.msc – group policy editor. In Group policy editor – user configuration – system – double click run only specified window applications. Enable it and click show to show you the […]

Adaptive brightness is another windows 7 feature to aid users eye health. To protect users eye from high resolution, adaptive brightness feature, adjust the brightness level as per the ambient light level. If the ambient light level increases, the screen brightness increases and if it gets low, the screen brightness decreases. Light sensors are needed […]

The functions of task manager is to monitor the applications, processes, services, CPU performance and current user of the system. As default only five columns are displayed in task manager, but you can include more tab to check more operations. To include more tabs, open task manager – click view – select coloums where you […]

To use your laptop portably for many hours, you need to have more charge to travel with you! But it can stand only for 5-6 hours when it is fully charged. To extend battery life for more hours, here are some ways to conserve the battery power and to use it efficiently. 1.You can change […]

If you want to change your windows 7 display which is convenient for you to view, then you can rotate the display by using the shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys to rotate, Using this shortcut key, you can rotate your display both in laptop or tablet PC

When your system shutdown suddenly due to power failure or you turned off it without closing any current program, will affect your system settings. Next time when your restart your system, it may get stuck or hard to recover any last program. To avoid that, your system will show you some advanced boot option when […]

Windows 7 has default windows explorer icon shortcut to open library files. You can make that explorer icon to open your favourite instead of default library folders. To do that click on that icon – right click on windows explorer – properties – shortcut. In shortcut tab, insert the link of folder which you want […]

To save your personal document more securely, you can use desktop password manager through which you protect your document with safe passwords. But it occupies your essential disk space. Instead of that you can go for online password managers to protect your personal document from unauthorized users. But it also has some pros and cons. […]

To restore any application that has error in opening or installing it, restore your system by Start – accessories – system tools – system restore. It will eliminate the errors or you can run system file checker utility if the above doesnt solve your problem. To run system file checker, go to run – cmd […]

To save power and extended the life span of your hard disk, its better to turn off hard disk when it is idle even in batter mode too. To know the status of your power usage, type powercfg in run window,to display the power usage of your computer or laptop. When our Windows computer is […]

WHOAMI (who am I) feature in windows 7 to find the user information, security identifiers (SID), logon identifier for current user on local system. To use WHOAMI feature, Go to run – cmd – type whoami and enter. For a complete list of Whoami parameters, and for learning about the syntax, type whoami /? Here […]

Even after closing your outlook.exe, it may be still on run when you check task manager. There are two kind of sources for this to happen. It may be due to your security software like kaspersky, Norton 360 etc. Each security software has a anti-spam plug-in and it causes the outlook.exe to hang up. To […]

Logitech a leading manufacture of mouse has introduced a wireless gesture touch based mouse M600. Using that you need not click and scroll, you can do everything with a touch and gesture. It has a touch sensitive layer on top, so that it moves the cursor as per our hand movement. It also has set […]

Microsoft has included magnifier feature in accessibility tool so that you can increase any image size for any vision disability to view the image more clearly. To open up magnifier, Run – magnifier Or Control panel – all control panel items – ease of access center or in accessories folder from startup menu. You can […]

Temperory files are created to hold files temperorily when you install any application such as graphics, video or media editing software, which becomes unused after installing the application. It occupies the hard disk space unwontedly. Temporary Files are also created for backup purposes, by programs. Microsoft Office creates a Temporary File of the open document […]

Sometimes the urls for certain website will be very long. If inline autocomplete option is enabled it will select the url if we start typing any address related to it. It takes longer time to delete those long urls. To avoid this trouble, Microsoft has released an update for internet option you can download that […]

To convert any files from one format to different format such as pdf, odp, Microsoft office etc, you need to have a software to convert those files which will occupy some space in your hard disk. Instead of those software, you can convert the files or videos to desired format through online file convertor service […]

When you type any address in address bar, it will get connected to the IP address of that server, where the site has been hosted, using Internet protocol TCP/IP. This is done by windows operating system as by default , select the DNS server of your internet service provider. If your DNS server is slow […]

If in any institution, there will be many user with their own user profiles, working only for a certain number of days. After that their user profile will be left unused. Similarly to avoid many user profile to mess with your system, you have to remove those user profiles manually. Now using the policy ‘ […]

SAM ( security accounts management ) which stores the encrypted hashed copies of our passwords. These crypted passwords and user information are stored in file named sam in system 32\config folder. It is not easily accessible. If you want to additional security to sam file, you can syskey an inbuilt key to add additional security […]

If your processor runs at maximum efficiency of 100%, it will wear and tear easily which reduces the life span. You can feel the heat when you use your laptop extensively and for gamers too. To increase the life span of your processor , avoiding it to get heated by running at maximum efficieny, you […]

You can have a display three different time zone clock in your system tray. As by default, you can only have a single clock in your tray showing the standard of your current zone. If you move from one time zone to another time zone, there are many website which helps you to convert time […]

Sometimes the time taken to transfer any data from one location to another location takes longer time in windows 7. Slow data transfer speed in windows 7 is when the TCP windows scalling does not work and when network latency time is between 1 millisecond and 8 millisecond. To increase the data transfer speed, install […]

If we are going to install any application, first we will check the amount of disk space available for the application. Even it is empty, it will show you that there is no free space available. To Check this error if it is so or not, Go to my computer – any system drive and […]

There are two types of auto complete features are available in internet explorer. Autocomplete which shows you the list of suggestion when type something in address bar. Inline autocomplete completes the address once if you start typing, if you have typed that before. Autocomplete is set default, but inline autocomplete may be not. But you […]

Initiallly to know about windows error and its explanation, a resource from Microsoft as Microsoft support error flow which helped us to find the meaning of the windows error code. But it is not available now! By searching through many Microsoft document links, here are the list of windows error code and its meanings Above […]

Sometimes windows 7 will show you error like ‘bootmgr is missing’ and suggest you a restart. Even though you restart the error will not go away and stops you from booting. To boot this error, Insert the Windows 7 Installation or Repair disk into your drive and reboot the System. You will be prompted to […]

When you use shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Del in windows 7 and also in professional, it will show you the option such to lock or log off system, task manager etc. But you can customize this shortcut to open up only the option that you want using local group policy editor. To do that Start – gpedit.msc – […]

You can prevent any non administrator to turn off or restart your system. To do that, Go to start – type mmc to open Microsoft management console. In file, click add/remove snap-in. And in that double click on Group policy object. In group policy object, select local computer and click browse. In users tab, select […]

If you have a rescue disk in windows 7, it will help you when you can’t able boot windows. You can create a rescue disk on a USB flash drive. To create a rescue disk, Download Universal USB installer and install it in windows by accepting the agreements. Then download a rescue disk ISO image. […]

Sometimes you can see your computer waking up suddenly when it is in sleep mode to save power. It may mess you many time. It may be due to your any new hardware connected to it recently or by USB flash drivers which wakes your computer unexpectedly. To avoid that, all the drivers must be […]

Sometimes when you start windows 7, it hangs up with blue swirl animation continuing and you can’t make any move on it. It happens when Winlogon.exe process has become unresponsive due to a possible deadlock being caused conflict between the Windows Event Log service and the Event. To fix this problem, install hotfix from Microsoft. […]

The transfer size of USB storage device refers to miniport drive of USB host controller or port driver Usbport.sys, if you use maximum transfer size of USB, then it may fail or stop transferring and shows you an error. But Microsoft has released an update which helps to increase the transfer size of USB storage […]

Windows 7 itself assign different priority to process which are running in foreground and background tasks. It assigns high priority to task which requires more CPU usage and low priority to others. But you can assign your own priority to the tasks executed. To do that – right click on taskbar – task manager In […]

If you can’t able to backup or restore any files in windows 7 SP1, then it may be problem on your drive, it may be corrupt. You will get an error message like, System Restore did not complete successfully. Your system files and settings were not changed. An unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0×80070057). […]

If you can’t able to install or uninstall any program in windows 7, then you can troubleshoot your problem using program install and uninstall troubleshooter feature. If you don’t have that feature, you can download it from here and install it in your computer. Once you have installed in it on your system, it will […]

If a printer is connected to a system in a network. Then all the users of that network can be made to access that printer easily in windows 7. The printer should have network port to get connected to the network. It is available in all new version printers. To share a printer in a […]

To search any pictures, files and folders, you can type those file name in search box, it will show you the file from where it is located. If your search box is not working properly, then you can fix it using Hotfix tool from Microsoft. If you want to download hotfix tool, then send your […]

You can customize windows 7 to get updated to latest drivers and icons automatically when it is available. To do that, Control panel – device and printers Right click on computer icon – device installation settings In device installation settings, select ‘yes do this automatically’ to download automatically and click save changes. If any latest […]

You can able to turn off your system automatically after a given time using task scheduler in windows 7. Using this feature you dont have to wait till any download to finish, and to turn off your system. By scheduling shutdown in task scheduler, you can automatically turn off your system after a given time […]

Its easy to connect dual monitors in windows 7. It can be made in windows XP and windows vista too! Using dual monitors you can perform multiple tasks at a single time. It has many features like, You can duplicate the same content to be in both the monitors. You can drag any content from […]

You can use Apply magic trackpad with windows 7, but there are some requirements for it. Here are the ways to connect trackpad, 1.Download the update (Drivers) for 32-bit windows operating systems or 64-bitWindowsoperating systems. 2.The files are enclosed in a .zip file. Double-click BootCamp_3.2_32-bit.exe for 32-bit Windows systems or BootCamp_3.2_64-bit.exe for 64-bit Windows systems. […]

Clear type tuner an inbuilt utility in windows 7 to make reading an text easier as if like reading in books. It works more perfectly for LCD and LED monitors. To turn on clear type tuner, Go to run > type cttune.exe and enter. As default it is enabled, and click next. It will ask […]

Sometimes you can come up with many video player problems such as failing to full screen view, or getting stuck and crashed if many files are to be played. Here are some ways to fix these problems. 1.Update your adobe flash player, quick time player etc. to its latest version. If there was any drawback […]

There may be several factors responsible which prevents you from getting windows update for SP1 and updating it. Here are some of the factors which you may fix it. 1.Check whether you have the updates 2534366 and 2533552 which are the basics before getting the additional updates for SP1. 2.Update your SafeCentral security software to […]

Trustedinstaller.exe located in C:windows\services, which helps you to install latest updates on windows, to modify and also to uninstall the outdated windows updates automatically. If trustedinstaller.exe file is corrupted, you may get an error message and if even the file checker is also corrupted then to check the errors, you have to type sfc\scannow in […]

If you want to customize your operating system, then you have to manually edit registry files or you can have install some software to do that! To open up registry files, Go to run > type regedit and enter. Or open windows task manager > new task > type regedit and enter. Create a shortcut […]