Windows 7

Tips, Fixes and Articles on Windows 7.

How to Find Current Wallpaper (Desktop Background) File Location in Windows 7

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Desktop Background Slideshow is a neat little feature in Windows 7 which helps you shuffle your desktop background from a image file store folder, at predefined intervals. But, as Windows doesn’t show the file name of the currently displayed wallpaper, it becomes a problem if you have thousands of images in a store folder and you need to find the file name and the directory location of the currently displayed wallpaper.

Here is a small script which adds the Desktop Background File Location option in the Desktop context menu, which opens the current wallpaper file’s target folder and selects the file.Read more

[Fix] Aero Shake Feature Stops Working in Windows 7

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Aero Shake is a feature introduced in Windows 7 using which you can minimize all other open windows, by clicking on the title bar of an application and shaking it using the mouse. This causes all other applications (except that application window) to minimize automatically. This feature is available in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Windows 7.

If Aero Shake has stopped working on your PC all of a sudden and you’ve tried running the Aero Troubleshooter, here are some other things that you can try.Read more

New Command-Line Parameters for Defrag.exe in Windows 7

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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 … Read more

Fix Error “Documents.library-ms is no longer working” in Windows 7

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When you double-click a library to view the contents, the following error may occur. “<libraryname>.library-ms” is no longer working. For example, the following error may occur when opening Documents library “Documents.library-ms” is no longer working. This library can be safely deleted from your computer. Folders that have been included will not be affected. Similarly when … Read more

How to Make Folders Appear as Cascading Menu in the Quick Launch Toolbar

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When you create sub-folders in the Quick Launch folder to better organize the shortcuts, the folders will appear in the Quick Launch toolbar correctly, but clicking them would launch Windows Explorer.

Some people would like to view the contents of the folder (cascaded as a list) rather than opening the folder when clicked. Here is how to make folders in the Quick Launch toolbar cascade as menu when clicked.Read more