Windows 7

How to schedule Windows 7 to shutdown

Many people ask me how they can get their computer to shutdown at night automatically. With windows XP I used a nice little freeware program that would sit in the tray, but with Windows 7 it is much easier. There is a task scheduler built in that you can take advantage of. Click on Start>Control […]

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Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7

The wallpaper presented to you at the logon screen in Windows 7 gets pretty boring quickly. Easy to change? Relatively. You can find some third party tools, or have a go yourself with the instructions below: 1. Press win+r key and Type Regedit at run prompt 2. Locate following registry key HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background 3. […]

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Alternative to Synergy to use with Windows 7

Synergy is a great program to control 2 computers with one mouse and keyboard. But it doesn’t appear to work with Windows 7. Is there any options? Well yes! I found another program that works well with Windows 7. It’s called Input Director and works quite well – in fact I think better than Synergy […]

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Windows 7 beta download

Microsoft has announced that the beta version of Windows 7 will be released for download on Friday (US time). In fact Microsoft is encouraging everyone to try it, and having seen a pre release version I would jump at the chance if I were you. Windows 7, from what I have seen and tried thus […]

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