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Many useful tools can optimize your computer, now Windows 7 is increasingly common, and here are the 15 best windows tweaks that can be used in Windows 7.Let's have a look on it.
Attention: the order does not mean the previous one is the better one.
Create a Shortcut to Toggle the Desktop Icons
Sure, you can easily head into the desktop context menu to toggle the icons on or off, but it's a lot simpler to use a hotkey, or stick an icon into the Quick Launch (which you can get back on Windows 7 with a little trick). This how-to teaches you how to use a little utility that toggles the icons for you.
Add Defrag to the Right-Click Menu
Want to be able to quickly defrag a drive whenever you want? You can use a little hack to add the Defragment option to the context menu for each drive. It'll open up the command prompt, and start the defrag process.
Create Shortcuts to Lock the Screen, Shutdown, Restart
It doesn't matter where Microsoft puts the shutdown buttons, people seem to still want to have another way to do it. The good news is that all the same shortcuts that worked in previous versions of Windows will still work in Windows 7.
Disable Aero (to Speed Up Some Video Games)
If all you do is use your computer for gaming, you might not even care about using Aero. Personally, I don't know why you'd want to run Windows 7 or Vista without Aerobut if that's what you want, it's easy enough to do.
Mount an ISO
So this one isn't so much a tweak as an additional piece of softwarebut if you do a lot of geeky stuff on your PC, you're going to need to be able to mount an ISO image. My favorite tool, by far, is VirtualCloneDriveit's just the simplest possible utility that you can get. All you need to do is double-click on an ISO to mount it.
Enable Mapping to Hidden Shares
If you did much networking on previous versions of Windows, you probably know about the C$ share that gives you access to the whole drive. Sadly, those shares don't work since Vista, at least by default. There's a simple tweak that you can do that will re-enable them for business, however.
Disable those Stupid Gadgets
Windows 7 moves the gadgets onto the desktop, instead of having them on a sidebar like Vista didbut the net effect is the same: it's all pointless! You can easily disable them in Windows 7, just like you could in Windows Vista.
Make Windows Log On Automatically
If you are the only one that is using your machine at your house, logging on can really be a drag. Thankfully every version of Windows since forever has let you do a simple tweak to make it automatically log on for you. Just make sure your door is locked.
Add Any Folder To Your Taskbar
Every version of Windows has allowed you to pin folders to the taskbar, and you can still use this same trick in Windows 7. You can make them use only icons, show text or not, or even use this trick to add the Quick Launch folder back to Windows 7.
use Compatibility Mode
Does your favorite XP application have problems working in Windows 7? You can often make them work anyway by using Compatibility mode to trick the application into thinking it's running on a previous version of Windows. Tip: This really helps when you're trying to get a video game working.
Disable Shortcut Icon Arrows
The Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover still works just fine in Windows 7, and gets rid of those unsightly shortcut arrows that you really don't need most of the time. There's lots of other hacks you can use, but this one works really well, and never leaves you with those "black boxes" on your icons.
Stop Losing the Sleep/Shutdown Button to Windows Update
Have you ever quickly clicked the shutdown button, only to find out that Windows started installing updates and will take forever to shut down? You can tell Windows to stop hijacking your shutdown button with another registry hack.
Stop Windows Update from Automatically Restarting Your PC
I really hate the automatic reboot "feature" built into Windows Update. In fact, while I was writing this article, it kicked in and rebooted me (I forgot to apply this tweak on my new laptop). You can always temporarily disable the automatic reboot, but there's a registry hack that will prevent it from happening in the first place.
Enable Remote Desktop
If you are using the Pro, Ultimate, or Business versions of Windows, you can use Remote Desktop. It's by far the best way to connect to another Windows PC, especially since Windows Vista or Windows 7 allow you to do Aero through the session.
Disable Windows Explorer Click Sounds
The Windows Explorer click sounds are enough to drive you crazy after a while. You'd think that the configuration option to turn them off would be a checkbox saying "Stop Annoying Me", but that's just not the case.
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