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: 31%

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: 26%

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: 30%

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: 32%

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

Popularity: 28%

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: 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: 87%

Action Center will show message alerts for things like Windows Update, Internet Security Settings, Network Firewall, User Account Control and Virus Protection.

You can disable any of these alert messages by using the following method:

1. Start / Control Panel
2. Go to Action Center / Change Action Center settings
3. Uncheck any item that you dont want to show

Popularity: 42%

This is a quick tutorial on using Windows 7 built-in sticky notes on your desktop. Win7 sticky notes is very simple and easy to use.

1. Click on the Start button
2. Type in Sticky Notes
3. When it is highlighted, press the Enter key
4. You will now have a sticky note on the desktop
5. Right click and you can change the color of the sticky notes
6. Click on the + to create a new note
7. Click on the X to delete the note
8. Press Alt-F4 to close a note you want to keep
9. You are not required to save the notes. The same notes will be there if you open the program again.

Popularity: 58%