If you had disabled thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer for performance, but want to have a means of enabling or disabling thumbnail previews in a jiffy, here is a solution for you. To enable or disable thumbnail previews in Windows Vista and Windows 7, you normally click on the Organize button in the folder view, choose Folder and Search Options, select the View tab and then select or deselect the Always show icons, never thumbnails. (more…)
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How to Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews Quickly Using Right-Click Menu in Windows Vista and Windows 7
How to Update Microsoft Security Essentials Definitions Offline
Microsoft Security Essentials uses Microsoft Update to check for, and download definition updates every 24 hours. If you have a number of computers in your home or office without (or having limited) internet access, you may have to install the definition updates offline. To download the Microsoft Security Essentials virus and spyware definition update file, click the appropriate link below: (more…)
New Command-Line Parameters for Defrag.exe in Windows 7
Several new switches or parameters are added to the defragmentation console tool (defrag.exe) in Windows 7. The switches are /E, /H, /M, /T, /U & /X. Here is the entire list of parameters supported by defrag.exe (v6.1) in Windows 7:
| Switch | Description |
| /A | Perform analysis on the specified volumes. |
| /C | Perform the operation on all volumes. |
| /E | Perform the operation on all volumes except those specified. |
| /H | Run the operation at normal priority (default is low). |
| /M | Run the operation on each volume in parallel in the background. |
| /T | Track an operation already in progress on the specified volume. |
| /U | Print the progress of the operation on the screen. |
| /V | Print verbose output containing the fragmentation statistics. |
| /X | Perform free space consolidation on the specified volumes. |
Likewise, the following switches are dropped in Windows 7. Although the following switches are not listed when running "defrag.exe /?", Defrag.exe in Windows 7 still accepts these switches. It’s not clear if they’re left for backward compatibility. Perhaps we should wait for official note from Microsoft.
| Switch | Description |
| /R | Performs partial defragmentation (default). Attempts to consolidate only fragments smaller than 64 megabytes (MB). |
| /W | Performs full defragmentation. Attempts to consolidate all file fragments, regardless of their size. |
| /F | Forces defragmentation of the volume when free space is low. |
When you open the Windows Live Photo Gallery Screensaver settings dialog, theme controls may be missing and the message "This computer’s video card can’t play themes" is displayed. You might be knowing that the themes in Windows Photo Gallery slideshow as well as in Windows Live Photo Gallery screensaver won’t be enabled if the Graphics card score (Windows Experience Index) is less than 3.0. 
When you try downloading one of the Office 2007 file types such as .DOCX, .PPTX, .XLSX, the file may download as a .Zip (Compressed Folder). This happens if the Office 2007 file format MIME types are not registered in the Web server you’re downloading the file from.
When you open the Display Settings Control Panel applet and click the Screensaver tab, one of the following options are shown:
This is probably the first time I’m trying to upgrade WordPress using the automatic upgrade option available in the WordPress Admin Dashboard. And doing so showed this error message:
