Technical Zone

Hi Folks,

Here I am going to elaborate Windows 7 Tips, Tricks and Security Features in 50 points, .
I will describe all this in next 5 post.

1. Problem Steps Recorder
As the local PC guru you’re probably very used to friends and family asking for help with their computer problems, yet having no idea how to clearly describe what’s going on. It’s frustrating, but Microsoft feels your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in the Problem Steps Recorder.

When any app starts misbehaving under Windows 7 then all your friends need do is click Start, type PSR and press Enter, then click Start Record. If they then work through whatever they’re doing then the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click and keypress, take screen grabs, and package everything up into a single zipped MHTML file when they’re finished, ready for emailing to you. It’s quick, easy and effective, and will save you hours of troubleshooting time.

2. Burn images
Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that other operating systems have had for years – the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it couldn’t be much easier to use. Just double-click the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

3. Troubleshoot problems
If some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don’t know why, then click Control Panel > Find and fix problems (or ‘Troubleshooting’) to access the new troubleshooting packs. These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.

4. Take control
Tired of the kids installing dubious software or running applications you’d rather they left alone? AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users can only run the programs you specify. Launch GPEDIT.MSC and go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Application Control Policies > AppLocker to get a feel for how this works.

5. Switch to a projector
Windows 7 now provides a standard way to switch your display from one monitor to another, or a projector – just press Win+P or run DisplaySwitch.exe and choose your preferred display. (This will have no effect if you’ve only one display connected.)

6. Understanding System Restore
Using System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a gamble. There’s no way of telling which applications or drivers it might affect – you just have to try it and see.

Windows 7 is different. Right-click Computer, select Properties > System Protection > System Restore > Next, and choose the restore point you’d like to use. Click the new button to ‘Scan for affected programs‘ and Windows will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or recovered by selecting this restore point.

7. Calibrate your screen
The colours you see on your screen will vary depending on your monitor, graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same default Windows colour profile. And that means a digital photo you think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else. Fortunately Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard that helps you properly set up your 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.

8. Right-click everything
At first glance Windows 7 bears a striking resemblance to Vista, but there’s an easy way to begin spotting the differences – just right-click things.

Right-click an empty part of the desktop, for instance, and you’ll find a menu entry to set your screen resolution. No need to go browsing through the display settings any more.

Right-click the Explorer icon on the taskbar for speedy access to common system folders: Documents, Pictures, the Windows folder, and more.

And if you don’t plan on using Internet Explorer then you probably won’t want its icon permanently displayed on the taskbar. Right-click the icon, select ‘Unpin this program from the taskbar’, then go install Firefox, instead.

9. New WordPad formats
By default WordPad will save documents in Rich Text Format, just as before. But browse the Save As Format list and you’ll see you can also save (or open, actually) files in the Office 2007 .docx or OpenDocument .odt formats.

10. Custom power switch
By default, Windows 7 displays a plain text ‘Shut down‘ button on the Start menu, but it only takes a moment to change this action to something else. If you reboot your PC a few times every day then that might make more sense as a default action: right-click the Start orb, select Properties and set the ‘Power boot action’ to ‘Restart’ to make it happen.

Lets Start


Requirements: USB flash drive of 4 GB, windows 7 DVD and Windows Vista or Windows 7, because the Diskpart utility doesn’t work in Windows XP.

Keep in mind: USB drive must be completly formated and the system you want to install the Windows 7 have the capability to boot from USB drive. You’ll need to check your specific hardware in order to be sure.

Using the DiskPart utility

The DiskPart utility is a command-line version of the Disk Management and designed to allow you to manage disks, partitions, or volumes from within scripts or directly from a command prompt.

You can now launch the DiskPart utility by typing DiskPart on the command line, but run as administrator. You’ll then see the DISKPART prompt, as shown in Figure A.




DiskPart has its own command-line environment complete with a special prompt.

Now that you’re in the DiskPart environment, As you can see in Figure B, the List Disk command has identified my USB flash drive as Disk 5.


Using the List Disk command displays all the disks in the system.

Once you identify the drive number of your USB flash drive, you will need to set the focus of the DiskPart environment on that disk. So I will use the command Select Disk 5, as shown in Figure C.



To shift the focus over to the USB flash drive you’ll use the Select Disk command.

Now clean all your partition on USB use the Clean command shown in Figure D.



Use the Clean command to remove all partition and volume information from the USB flash drive.

You’ll now use the Create Partition Primary command to create a primary partition on the disk. After you create the partition, you will see a success message. You’ll use the Active command to mark the partition as active, as shown in Figure E.


Using the Create Partition Primary and the Active commands, you’ll create a bootable partition on the USB flash drive.

you’re now ready to quickly format the drive and set up the FAT32 file system using the Format fs=FAT32 quick command. Once the drive is formatted, you’ll use the Assign command, as shown in Figure F, to allow the drive to be assigned a drive letter.


At this point, you can use the Exit command to exit the DiskPart environment and then close the Command Prompt window.

Copying the Windows 7 files

Copying the Windows 7 files is easy. Just open Windows Explorer, access the Windows 7 DVD, select all the files and folders, and then drag and drop them on the USB flash drive icon, as shown in Figure G

Installing Windows 7 from the USB flash drive

Just boot the system from the USB drive and the installation procedure will begin as it normally would, as shown in Figure H. However, the installation procedure will actually run quicker off of a USB flash drive since it doesn’t contain any physically moving components.

CHERRSSSSS