With Aero Shake you can quickly and instantly minimize all the non-active open windows by just shaking the application window and fives the power in your hand. When you want to bring the Desktop back to its previous state you just need to shake the windows again. To use Aero Shake for minimizing all inactive windows to taskbar you need to:

• Just Click and Hold on the window’s title bar (that you want to work on).
• Then move the window to left and right shaking it a few times.
• This is one of the feature which supports movement of mouse.

For more on how Aero Shake works see the demo bellow:

Another technology by Windows 7 is “Aero Peek” a Superbar thumbnail preview; it allows users to quickly preview the Desktop by just using the mouse to hover over the absolutely right end of the taskbar, making all active and inactive windows transparent. It also support full screen view preview on desktop, by hovering the mouse over the taskbar button of any open window and making the other open windows temporarily hidden. With this a new graphical thumbnail appears, and the windows can be preview in a small glass frame. “Aero Peek” also allows users to pin program permanently to Taskbar, this will make a mini-Start Menus where all the pinned items or most common destination and most common task are placed, know as Jump Lists. For more details on the “Aero Peek” watch the demo bellow:

So if you are one the users who want to disable this feature from showing on the Taskbar, you can easily do this with the help of some simple configuration to the Local Group policy Editor.

With Windows 7 Local Group Policy editor you can disable/enable the pinning of programs to Taskbar in Windows 7 and can enable/prohibit the Taskbar to display pinned programs. You just need to follow few steps:

In the Local Group Policy Editor:

• Go to “Users Configuration”
• Then go to “Administrative Templates”
• Then on the left pane “Start Menu and Taskbar”
• Then on the right pane look for “Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar”
• Right click it and from the shortcut menu which will be prompted select “Edit”.
• A configuration window will be prompted in the “Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar”, click the “Enabled” item.
• Once you select this, “Pinned Programs” list will be removed from the Taskbar.
• Now you cannot pin programs anymore to the Taskbar.
• Now you just need to click “OK” and continue.
• Close the Local Group policy Editor and restart your computer to activate the settings.

Steps How to Remove Windows Genuine Advantage From the Registry:

Step 1:

• First thing you need to do is to click on “Start” button and then click “Run” icon.

Step 2:

• In Run dialog box type “regedit” and click OK.
• Now your register editor program will appear.

Step 3:

• Navigate the following registry file:"MyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify."
• You can easily find the key by:
• 1. Clicking “My Computer”
• Then “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”
• Then “Software” folder
• Then “Microsoft folder”
• Which will guide you to the “Windows NT” folder
• Then go to “Current Version” folder
• Then by “WinLogon”
• And in last “Notify” folder

Step 4:

• Inside the “Notify” folder find the “WgaLogon” folder and right click it.
• From there choose “Delete” option and left click it.
• The program files have now been removed from the registry.

Step 5:

• Now to make the changes work, restart the computer, the program must have be removed from the registry by now.

Things that need to be remembered:

• By following the above steps, only the program will be deleted from the registry, which will stop it from functioning and no more annoying pop-up. However it won’t delete the entire Windows Genuine Advantage.
• Follow the steps carefully, I you don’t understand anything then it’s better to contact a PC support company for assistance instead of doing it yourself because deleting wrong files from the registry can lead to system failure.

To simply remove WGA from notification watch below video:

How to show more icons in the Windows 7 System Tray:

• First click the small white arrow on the left edge of the System Tray.
• There you’ll see system/program icons that are not configured for full-time appearance in the tray.
• Now, click Customize.

• Here you’ll see a list of Notification Area Icons (in Windows 7 it is termed as “System Tray Stuff”).
• Click the drop down shown in front of icons, it will show three choices:

1. Show icon and notifications
2. Hide icon and notifications
3. Only show notifications

These are very simple and easy steps to understand. The good thing about this is that, whatever changes that you will make will appear immediately in the system tray, for you to know how the icons will look like in the tray; it’s kind of a preview before finalizing the changes. Now you just need to click OK and changes will be made permanently until you change them manually again.

you can make changes as you wish like if you don’t want Windows 7 Action Center icon cluttered on the Tray but you wish to be notified if any issue appear: so for the set it to “Only Show Notification”. And for example if you want your printer’s icon to be shown on the tray then it’s good to set it to “Sow icon and notification”.

Everything is in your hand, you decide and choose what should be and shouldn’t be there on the System Tray.

Here is good news for all Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista users, “AquaSnap” a new and free multifunctional tweaking application. AquaSnap enhances your Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista with Aero-style effects. It is a free firmware and works with Windows XP through Windows 7.

With Aero-Style effects in Windows XP you can:

• Snap application windows to the edge of your monitor.
• With additional AquaSnap tweaks, you can step beyond the basics in XP, Vista and Windows 7.
• Set Application windows semi-transparent when moving or shaken.
• Specify whether you want windows snap like true Aero windows.
• Or snap with AquaSnap’s custom snapping, that enables to all edges of the monitor.

Download AquaSnap for free. . .

It is a very useful firmware; HijackThis inspect the browser and OS setting of your computers and generate a log file of your computer’s current state. With this log you can manually select and remove unnecessary setting and file, you have to select it by yourself with extreme caution as Hijackthis log cannot distinguish between legitimate software and unwanted Malware.

You can easily download HijackThis from the licks given bellow:

Download HijackThis 2.0.2 Installer
Download HijackThis 2.0.2 Executable

There are so many reason for this password protection, there is very interesting way through which you can make disappear the guest login password. You just need to do is to make the guest account in the windows disable. In order to disable the guest account follow bellow step by step guide:

Step 1:

Go to Start

Step 2:

Click on “Run”

Step 3:

Then write compmgmt.msc in Run window

From left hand pane select

Step 4:

Expand “Local Users and Groups” tree.

Step 5:

Click on “Users”

Step 6:

On the right pane, you will see an option Guest, click it and go to its Properties. There you’ll see a check box option “Account is disables” check it.

This problem has now been solved by “Windows 7 in a Box”. Through this you can;

1. Find each and every tool and setting from within the Windows 7 in a Box.
2. Portable tool, no need to install it.
3. Can be run smoothly from anywhere, desktop, any folder, or USB
4. Designed to guide about the new operating system from Microsoft
5. Everything is on the placed Desktop

When we talk about everything on the desktop it includes:

• Theme setting
• Parental control
• Free Spyware, Adware, and Malware

With all these placed in a box, everything is easy to navigate and finishes all the frustration caused in searching all the setting. Windows 7 in a Box does everything within seconds. Below is a screen shot of Windows 7 in a Box! Where different menus and lists in the menus are shown

Above is a screenshot of one of the list in the menu. Each and every menu consists of almost all the setting. Windows 7 in a Box is n excellent which can store all the setting in just one place which is easily accessible. You can download Windows 7 in a Box.

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With this problem, many users switched to windows media player 11 as an alternative for window media player 12 in windows 7, just for the reason to get back the WMP toolbar in their taskbar. But now there is nothing to worry, Justin Buser has a solution for the windows 7 users to get back to the Windows Media Player toolbar for windows media player 12.

Let us now discuss how to re-enable Windows Media Player 12 toolbar in Taskbar of Windows 7, and also the mini toolbar for Windows Media Player 12. Unfortunately, WMP icon or button does not hidden and made disappeared from Windows 7 Taskbar to replace with just a mini toolbar, although the toolbar itself already comes with volume adjustment, backward, forward, pause, play and other controls. Thus, it makes the toolbar for WMP12 kind of redundant.

You have to do it manually by just following few steps;

• The first thing you need to do is get a copy of wmpband.dll from windows vista, but it should be from same operating system (32-bit: wmpband-x86.zip and 64-bit: wmpband-x64.zip). This provides the functionality of WMP toolbar on Taskbar. Download them alternatively.
• Then copy wmpband.dll into %ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\folder of windows 7 (with WMP12).
• Then browse to
  • Control Panel
  • Then go to System and Security
  • After that to Administrative Tools
  • And then open Services panel
• Click on Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service to Stop it.

• After that, open a command prompt as administrator.
• Then Run and Execute the following command: Regsvr32”%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\wmpband.dll”
• Then restart the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
• Start Windows Media Player 12.
• Then minimize the windows of WMP.
• Right click on windows Taskbar, and select Toolbars, and choose Windows Media Player from the list.

• Then Windows Media Player Toolbar will appear close to notification area, as seen below.

“The Windows Media Player toolbar isn’t compatible with this version of windows. If you continue, the toolbar might appear incorrectly. To check for an updated version, go to the software publisher’s website. Do you want this toolbar on your taskbar?” In the case of the above error message just click “yes” to continue. If there is any problem in enabling WMP12, repeat the steps again after rebooting.

Do inform us about your experience with your valued comments.

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In order to address the users concern on this matter and to encourage their confidence, Redmond Company has introduced some influential changes in both the functions (AutoPlay and AutoRun) in Windows 7. The users of Windows 7 must have noticed by now that the AutoPlay feature no longer supports the AutoRun function for nay non-optical removable media. When the CD/DVD is inserted in the computer only then the AutoRun features works, and when a USB device is inserted the AutoRun won’t be initiated. With these changes in the Windows 7, Microsoft hopes that it will reduce the chances of spreading malicious program through AutoRun.

However, The AutoPlay can be shut down manually by simply following some steps;

1. Go to Start Menu
2. Go to Control Panel
3. Then Hardware and Sound
4. Then click AutoPlay

• Click on “Change default Setting for media or devices”

• Uncheck the box “Use AutoPlay for all media and devices”

You can also customize the preferred setting manually.

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