Windows 7

Tips, Fixes and Articles on Windows 7.

How to Disable Full Row Select in Explorer in Windows 7?

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I’m writing this article specifically for Windows 7, because the FullRowSelect registry value that you used in Windows Vista, doesn’t work in Windows 7. (REF: Enable or Disable Full Row Select feature in Explorer in Windows Vista). After some of our readers reported that setting FullRowSelect to 0 doesn’t do anything in Windows 7, I decided to have a look at this issue. Playing with different bitmask values, I finally got what I wanted – to disable full row select feature in Windows Explorer (Details mode) in Windows 7, but with a minor side-effect which is explained in the later part of the article.Read more

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

Microsoft Support Knowledge Base Search Using Windows 7 Search Connector

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Here is a Windows 7 Search Connector which uses Windows Live Search to search Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) articles from within Windows Explorer. Download MSKB.osdx and save to Desktop. Double-click the file to add the Search Connector, and click Add when prompted. This adds the MSKB Search Connector and then opens Windows Explorer. Type in … Read more