The colours you see on your screen are depending on your monitor and graphics cards settings. Most user use the same default Windows colour profile. That means a digital photo you think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else.

Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard which helps you adjust the brightness, contrast and colour settings, and a ClearType tuner to ensure text is crisp and sharp. Click Start, type DCCW and press Enter to give it a try.

Popularity: 25% [?]

If you have a laptop, you can use the power efficiency calculator to get Windows 7 to generate the power efficiency report about its power consumption.

When you use this report properly, this can help you extend battery life and performance. Now you must start a command prompt as an administrator by typing ‘cmd’ in Start > Search, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.

Then at the command prompt, type in powercfg-energy and hit enter. Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML file, usually in the System32 folder.

Popularity: 24% [?]

If your Windows 7 have some problem loading programs or crashes, then go to Control Panel > Find and fix problems to access the new troubleshooting packs.

These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.

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You can now create a system repair disc  in case you run into problems booting into Windows 7.

Click Start > Maintenance > Create a System Repair Disc

Windows 7 will build a bootable emergency disc. If anything corrupted or crashed then this system repair disc could be useful to get your PC running again.

Popularity: 26% [?]

Microsoft’s Virtual PC uses virtual machine hard drives in VHD files. Windows 7 can easily mount them and access them in the host system.

Go to Start, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter, then go to Action > Attach VHD and choose the file to mount. It will then appear as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written just like any other drive.

Go to Action > Create VHD and you can now make a new virtual drive of your own. You will have a virtual drive where you can drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do whatever you like.

Popularity: 25% [?]

Windows 7 introduces a new feature to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. Just double-click on the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

The burn image feature is available in any version of Windows7

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There is a simple program that quickly records your step in Windows 7. Problem Steps Recorder provides a simple screen capture tool that enables you to record a series of actions. When you press record, it tracks your mouse and keyboard and captures screenshots with any comments together with them. Once you stop recording, it saves the whole thing to a zip file, containing an HTML-based “slide show” of the steps. This program is called psr.exe you can also search for it from Control Panel under “Record steps to reproduce a problem”.

Popularity: 28% [?]

You now can easily adjust the type of projection in Windows 7. You can anytime display the Projection Menu in Windows 7 by pressing the Windows Hotkey+P

You can easily change to any of this option in the Projection Menu.

a) Computer Only

b) Duplicate

c) Extend

d) Project Only

This save you lots of time. You do not need special driver to control the type of display in Windows 7.

Popularity: 26% [?]

Now you can “dock” any window to the left or right half of the screen by simply dragging it to the edge. You can do the same with your keyboard shortcuts too.

1. Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow dock
2. Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow maximizes and restores / minimizes
3. Win+Shift+Up Arrow and Win+Shift+Down Arrow maximizes and restores the vertical size

Popularity: 31% [?]

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Do you have problem running programs in Windows 7? This solution might helps you. Any unsupported software can still be run in Win7, you can force them to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode

1. Right click on the icon
2. Go to Properties
3. Click on the Compatibility tab
4. Check “Run this program in compatibility mode”
5. Choose one of the options such as Windows XP (Service Pack 3).

Popularity: 97% [?]