Convert Your Windows 7 program library Icons the easily Way

Labels: Saturday, 9 July 2011 11:45

Have you anytime capital to bandy out the Windows absence icons with article else? The fresh Windows 7 library icons can be afflicted with a drudge to a argument file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.
Not abiding what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and analysis out the Libraries.
For today’s lesson, we’ll advise you how to change those icons with article else. (It’ll additionally assignment for your own custom Libraries).
Change Library Icons the Accessible Way
To change the icons out the accessible way, we’ll use a tiny apparatus alleged Library Figure Changer from a user over at deviantART. Thanks to Pratik for pointing us appear this tool!
Once you’ve opened up the tool, you’ll be presented with account of icons and libraries… aloof bang on the Library on the right-hand side, and again accept the figure on the left, and bang “Select Figure from dll”. You can additionally use the Select fresh Figure from book instead, if you don’t appetite to use a absence Windows icon.
Note that if you appetite to restore the figure to default, you accept to bang on the Library aboriginal on the right-hand side, and again bang the Restore absence figure button.
Another agenda is that if you appetite to change out the DLL, you’ll charge to baddest it, and again hit the Enter key. 
Once you’ve swapped out your icon, it usually shows up appropriate away, or you can Refresh with F5 (though logging off or restarting explorer.exe ability be required).
Download Replace Librarie Icons from deviantART [mirror copy]
Change Libraries the Manual Way
Don’t feel like messing with a allotment ofcomputer application from some being somewhere? You can accomplish these changes manually with annihilation added than Notepad. Just adhesive the afterward into the alpha card chase box, or Explorer area bar:
%appdata%\microsoft\windows\libraries
Then annoyance one of the icons from Explorer over to a Notepad window to accessible up the file.
Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll appetite to add one like so:
C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,301
The abstracts in the average is the path, either to the figure (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll charge to add the breach and cardinal position of the figure in the file. 

And now you’ve abstruse how to bandy out the icons. Awesome, eh? Alright, able-bodied it’s not that awesome. But still fun aberrant advice to have.

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Switch the Windows 7 or Vista Power push button* to Shut Down/Sleep/Hibernate

Labels: 11:31

The absence activity for the Power button on the alpha card in Windows 7 is shutdown, and in Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily advantageous for everybody, so we’ll explain how to change it here.
Change Windows 7 Abeyance Button
Windows 7 makes it absolutely accessible – aloof arch into the Alpha Card / Taskbar preferences by right-clicking on the alpha card and allotment Properties.
All you charge to do is change the drop-down for Ability Button Action to whatever you would prefer.
Change Windows Vista Ability Buttons
You can configure this ambience calmly by application the avant-garde ability settings panel, which is a little catchy to get to normally, but we’ll booty the shortcut.
Open a command alert (type cmd into the alpha card chase bar), and again blazon in the following:
powercfg.cpl,1
You could additionally booty the continued avenue (Control Console \ Ability Options \ Change Plan Settings \ Change Avant-garde Ability Settings)
Once you get to this dialog, browse bottomward as apparent to “Power buttons and lid”
From here, you can change the options:
* Ability button activity – Changes the accouterments ability button action
* Start card ability button – Changes the ability button on the Start Menu
You can change the ability button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down, or alike annihilation for the accouterments ability button.

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Modify the Number from past Items Shown on the Windows 7 / Vista Start Menu

Labels: 11:23

If you’ve anytime wondered how to configure the cardinal of abstracts apparent on the Recent Items menu, you’ve begin the appropriate article. The absence bulk is set to appearance 10 documents, but you can access that with a anthology tweak.
What we are alteration actuality is the bulk of abstracts apparent in this card (I afflicted abundance bottomward to 1 for illustration)
Manual Registry Tweak
Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key, creating it if it doesn’t exist.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Add a fresh DWORD 32-bit amount called MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane, and again double-click to accessible it up.
To set the value, you’ll aboriginal charge to change Base to Decimal, and again you can access any amount you want. For instance, if you appetite to set it to 50, access that into the Amount abstracts field. 

Now I’m not absolutely abiding what will appear if you set it to a huge number… I’d stick with article like 20.
Note that the aforementioned abuse works in Windows 7 as well, alike admitting the screenshots are from Vista.

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Shift Start Menu to apply little Icons in Windows 7 or Vista

Labels: 11:17

Windows Vista uses ample icons by absence in the alpha menu, and it hides the ambience for baby icons appealing well. No matter, we’ve amid it. (Thankfully Windows 7 is a bit easier)
Changing in Windows 7
Simply right-click on the alpha card orb button, accept Properties, again analysis the box for Use Baby Icons on the Taskbar tab:
Changing in Windows VistaRight click about the start push button, and pick out Properties:
Then click the Customize button:
Now annal bottomward all the way to the bottom. You should see a checkbox for Use ample icons, which you’ll appetite to uncheck:
Ahh, much best, peculiarly whenever you pin your favorites to the start menu:

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Add lost Off-Screen Windows back up to Your background (Keyboard Trick)

Labels: 10:53

If you’ve anytime absorbed up your laptop to a accessory adviser and again broken after canonizing to move the windows aback to the primary desktop, you’ve apparently encounted this problem:
The appliance is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s active on the accessory monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.
There’s a simple ambush to get about this. First accomplish abiding you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it already to accompany it into focus. Again right-click on the taskbar and accept Move
At this point, you should apprehension that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.
Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” aback assimilate the screen.
Note: For keyboard adeptness people, you can aloof alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, again M, again Arrow key, and again move your mouse.
This should assignment on any adaptation of Windows. It’s absolutely amazing how abounding bodies are not acquainted of this little trick.
Update: Note that you can additionally right-click on the taskbar and accept to Cascade your accessible windows, which will generally advice accompany the windows aback assimilate the screen.

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Boost Netbook velocity on a SD Card & ReadyBoost

Labels: 10:47

Looking for a way to access the achievement of your netbook? Here’s how you can use a accepted SD anamnesis agenda or a USB beam drive to addition achievement with ReadyBoost.
Most netbooks address with 1Gb of Ram, and abounding earlier netbooks alien with alike less. Alike if you appetite to add added ram, generally they can alone be upgraded to a max of 2GB. With ReadyBoost in Windows 7, it’s accessible to addition your system’s achievement with beam memory. If your netbook has an SD agenda slot, you can admit a anamnesis agenda into it and aloof leave it there to consistently addition your netbook’s memory; otherwise, you can use a accepted USB beam drive the aforementioned way. Also, you can use ReadyBoost on any desktop or laptop; ones with bound anamnesis will see the best achievement access from application it.
Please Note: ReadyBoost requires at atomic 256Mb of chargeless amplitude on your beam drive, and additionally requires minimum read/write speeds. Best avant-garde anamnesis cards or beam drives accommodated these requirements, but be acquainted that an old agenda may not assignment with it.
Using ReadyBoost
Insert an SD agenda into your agenda reader, or affix a USB beam drive to a USB anchorage on your computer. Windows will automatically see if your beam anamnesis is ReadyBoost capable, and if so, you can anon accept to acceleration up your computer with ReadyBoost.
The ReadyBoost settings chat will accessible back you baddest this. Accept “Use this device” and accept how abundant amplitude you appetite ReadyBoost to use.
Click Ok, and Windows will bureaucracy ReadyBoost and alpha application it to acceleration up your computer. It will automatically use ReadyBoost whenever the agenda is affiliated to the computer.
When you appearance your SD agenda or beam drive in Explorer, you will apprehension a ReadyBoost book the admeasurement you chose before. This will be deleted back you banish your agenda or beam drive.
Whenever you want to remove your drive to use elsewhere, simply release for normal.
Windows will acquaint you that the drive is currently actuality used. Make abiding you accept bankrupt any programs or files you had accessible from the drive, and again columnist Continue to stop ReadyBoost and banish your drive.
If you abolish the drive after ejecting it, the ReadyBoost book may still abide on the drive. You can annul this to save amplitude on the drive, and the accumulation will be recreated back you use ReadyBoost abutting time.
Conclusion
Although ReadyBoost may not accomplish your netbook feel like a Core i7 laptop with 6GB of RAM, it will still advice achievement and accomplish multitasking alike easier. Also, if you have, say, a anamnesis stick and a beam drive, you can use both of them with ReadyBoost for the best benefit. We accept alike noticed more good array activity back multitasking with ReadyBoost, as it lets you use your adamantine drive less.
SD cards and deride drives are almost bargain today, and abounding of us accept several already, so this is a abundant way to advance netbook achievement cheaply.

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