How to hide or remove column fields in explorer window

• To hide from “Sort by” menu, make a right click on header of sort column.
• Uncheck field name from popup context menu that opens.
• To remove it from details view, click on “More” located inside Sort by submenu.
• Dialog box will display with column header that are available. Uncheck the column that you want to hide and then click on “OK” button to get new changes.

How to Show columns in Windows explorer

• Make a right click on any column header that is available currently in details view and then click on “More” from opened context menu.
• Here you will see all column fields that are available currently. Uncheck means the field is not visible in file details view. To show it, simply check the box and click “OK”. All done!

• Explore Windows Explorer and navigate to path containing desired folder that you want to access quickly.
• Once you find it, right click on that folder and select “Create shortcut” from popup context menu. Here one of two actions will occur as given below:

1. Windows 7 will create shortcut of folder inside the folder that you opened (folder that contains your specific folder). Right click on shortcut that you created recently and select “Cut” from context menu. Now paste it on your desktop.
2. If the specific folder is located inside protected or special operating system folder such as “Program files” then Windows 7 will open a dialog box with confirmation message: “Windows can’t create a shortcut here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?”. If you click “No” button, nothing will happen. Click on “Yes” button and it will create shortcut directly on your Windows 7 desktop.

Now you can open folder directly from desktop without accessing it from location inside Windows Explorer.

How to add a new Favorite folder

• Open folder that you want to add to Favorites.
• Head over its navigation pane that you see in left side of window. Right click on “Favorite” and then click on “Add current location to Favorites” from popup menu that opens.
• Desired folder will be added to Windows 7 favorites. Second way to add folder in Favorites is simply drag icon and drop on “Favorites” label located in navigation area.

How to remove Favorite folder from Windows Explorer

Windows 7 includes few folders and directories into Windows Explorer Favorites by default that you can remove from Favorites area to avoid from cluttering

• Explore Windows Explorer and move ahead over navigation pane.
• Make a right click on desired folder that you don’t want to see in Windows 7 favorites.
• Select “Remove” from popup context menu. You can get it back any time when you need it.

Exploring the content of your start menu is quite easy to achieve and can be done if the user knows how to locate the All Users start menu folder. This folder contains shortcuts and such that are visible on your profile. The other is the standard start menu folder. To access the content in the start menu folder is pretty simple once people get to know how to access the folders. The steps below explain the procedure necessary to get familiar with in order to gain access.

Accessing Windows Start Menu Folder:

• Go over to your start menu and click on it.
• Go over to the built in search feature on the start menu display tray and enter the line  “%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu”.
• Easier way to do that would be to copy the given line and paste in the search field to prevent the trouble of typing it done. Once it is pasted, press enter.
• Windows would bring you to windows explorer screen with the folder searched for, open in front of you. Double click on the Programs folder and look around on the content that is present there.
• If you wish to know the location of this folder, just click on the link given in the address bar. Click on it and it should become highlighted; now you can cut, copy and modify it as you wish.

Mostly when we want to run a certain program, we get prompted by a warning that prevents us from running the program unless we have administrator privileges. Running a program as an administrator is different from a normal user. Running a program as an administrator can be done in two ways; either we can do this by using the start menu feature or from any folder on the hard drive.

Running Applications As An Administrator:

There are two ways to access the programs as discussed earlier. One of the first ways could be to access them from the Start Menu.

Accessing Programs From Start Menu:

• Go to Start Menu and then into the Programs menu.
• Locate the program that you wish to initialize.
• Upon the program of your choice, press Shift and then Right click on it.
• Choose the option Run As Administrator from the drop down menu that pops up.
• If you’re the administrator, then you would only have to press Yes on the UAC that pops up, otherwise if you know the Administrator password, enter it in the dialog box that shows up.

Accessing Programs From Any Folder:

The procedure is mostly similar, except this time you would have to locate the executable from your hard drive and would have to press Shift and repeat the process explained for accessing them through your start menu.

KMPlayer

KMPlayer came with unique design and matches VLC Media Player level. There is wide range of built-in internal and external codecs in it. It is free from advertisements. You can play all kind of media files including those files that are cracked or damaged.

Media Player classic

It is latest version of Windows Media player 6.4 and came with bundle of codecs. You can use it to run DVDs and other Real media files if Real player is installed into your PC. Great feature in Media Player classic is modification of filters when you play favorite video.

MPlayer

MPlayer packed 85 audio and more than 192 videos in it. It is enhanced version of MPUI front end and contains Binary Codes package. It does not support Light package.

UMPlayer

It works on MPlayer engine capable to provide additional options like You Tube integration. It contains a load of more than 270 Audio and Video codecs. Moreover it can open almost all media formats.

SMPlayer

With SMPlayer, you can play DVDs, videos, VCDs. The best feature is that it has capability to remember files settings that you play.

Steps:

• Plug-in flash drive.
• Choose an icon for the flash drive. The icon should be .ico file. Make sure it does not have resolution more than 256×256 Px.
• Go to Start menu and click all Programs > Notepad.
• Type the following command in the Notepad window. Remember to replace the filename with the filename of icon you chose for the flash drive.

{autorun}

icon=filename.ico

• In Notepad, go to File > Save as.
• Give the filename as autorun.inf
• In Save As Type, select All Files from the drop down menu.
• Place both the .ico and .inf file in the root of the flash drive.
• Remove your flash drive and plug it again. You will notice the new custom icon.

Follow the given procedure to install custom fonts in your PC.

• Download the custom fonts from the internet. There are many websites that offer custom fonts free for download.
• Make sure to download it in Windows format and file should have .ttf extension. Sometimes the file is in zip form and you cannot assess if it has .ttf extension or not, so go ahead and download it.
• If the file is zipped, then first extract it. Otherwise directly double click the .ttf file
• It will open the font previewer.
• Click the install button.
• You can also directly install the font and skip the previewer window. For this, simply right-click the font and click install. It will directly install the font without showing preview.

To confirm your font is installed correctly, click on the Start Menu and type font to open the Font Control Panel. Here you will see all the installed fonts. Scroll down to locate your font and verify if it is working correctly.

Steps:

• Open Microsoft outlook. Click on Tools from the menu bar and select Account Settings.
• Now press the Change button.
• In the displayed window, tap the button of More Settings.
• Hit the Advanced tab and press the Add button.
• In the resulting window of Add Mailbox, give the name to your additional mail box and press OK button.
• To verify, find the additional mailbox under the option of “Open These Additional Mailboxes” and press OK button.
• Click the Next button.
• Press finish button and then click close to exit the window and you have your additional mailbox.

Steps:

• First of all download the Calculator utility “Windows 7 Calculator” from http://www.winvistaclub.com/download/Windows-7-Calculator.rar
• Now extract the contents of “Windows-7-Calculator.rar ”
• You can run the Windows 7 calculator by double clicking on “calc.exe” file in the extracted folder.

If you want to replace your Windows Vista default calculator you have to perform following steps:

• Copy the “calc.exe” in the following folder

\Windows\System32\

• Copy the “calc.exe.mui” in the following folder

\Windows\System32\en-US\

• Now you can run the Windows 7 calculator as Windows Vista default calculator

Note: Keep the back up of Windows Vista Calculator.