Ultimate Windows Customizer

There are Hundreds of free utilities available on the web to tweak and customize Windows 7. Tools are available to customize Windows Explorer, logon screen, start orb, taskbar, Windows Media Player (WMP), context menu and various other aspects of Windows 7. We have already listed the best customizations tools in our best free tools to customize Windows 7 article.

Most of the tools available to customize Windows 7 offer options to customize only one or two areas of Windows 7. For instance, you can use Logon Changer software to personalize the logon screen only. So, if you are looking for an all-in-one free tool to customize your Windows 7, download and try Ultimate Windows Customizer software.

Ultimate Windows Customizer is a free tool for Windows 7 operating system. It includes tools to tweak and customize Windows Explorer, Context Menu, Logon Screen, Windows Media Player, Taskbar, Start orb, Libraries and other areas of Windows 7. 

It’s a nice tool if you would like to personalize default look of Windows 7. The developer of this tool has also included some advanced tools such as System File Checker, Restart Explorer, Replace It, RegOwnIt, and System Restore Creator. We suggest you create a system restore point before making any changes to the system.

Do note that this is not a portable software and you need to install it. Also note that this program doesn’t support Windows 8 at this point of time. Support for Windows 8 will be added in upcoming versions. This program can’t be installed on systems with screen resolution smaller than 1024 x168.

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Change Win 7 Start Button

This freeware portable app allows you change the Windows 7 Start Orb or Button easily. This freeware is a propriety of thewindowsclub.com

If you are bored of look at the same old Windows 7 Start Orb, you can now change it easily.

Click on Select & Change Start Button to select a custom Start Orb

The program will backup you original explorer.exe, change the start button and restart explorer.exe.

To restore the default Start Orb and explorer from the backup, click Restore Original Explorer Backup.

The next time you want to change the start orb and you start the app, it will appear like this:

I have tried & tested it on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, personally and it works like a charm. Right  click the program icon and ‘Run it as Admin’.

The download also includes some 10 Sample Start Orbs, whose creators have been duly credited there. If you need more, you can always search for them on DeviantArt on on the internet.

 Download Start Button Changer Here 

More Start Buttons (Orbs)

Fast Reboot & Shutdown Your PC

This application performs quick reboot and shutdown operations, although they already can be performed elsewhere on your computer. The program is nothing more than two easy-to-understand shortcut icons that are displayed on your desktop after installation. SuperFast Shutdown performs an instant restart or shutdown with a click of its corresponding icon, although it doesn't prompt the user to save open files. Install is easy, but it's packaged as a ZIP file with no help or read-me files. Though this freeware offers nothing new, any user will find it useful for quick reboot or shutdown procedures

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Windows 7 Folder Background Changer

This freeware portable application, allows you to change the explorer / folder backgrounds in Windows 7.

UPDATE: Windows 7 Folder Background Changer has been updated to v 1.1. This version has the option to uninstall the changes made and restore to original state.

 You can now customize your windows explorer using your favorite wallpaper or photograph!

Using Windows 7 Folder Background Changer, you can also change the color of the text and show shadows under the text to help make your file and sub-folder names stand out! You can even apply the same background to all the sub-folders!

Once you have downloaded and extracted the app, right click on it and Run it as Administrator. Version 1.1 has the option to uninstall the changes made and restore to original state. Before running this or any other tool, do create a System Restore Point first, so that you can always revert back if you feel the need.

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Dream Scene In Win 7

About Windows DreamScene

Have you ever wished that you could make your desktop background something more exciting than just a regular picture? Would you like to use a video, even a slide show of your favorite pictures, as your desktop background? If so, then you're in luck. Windows DreamScene can make this happen. With Windows DreamScene, you can use a video—either the ones that come with Windows DreamScene, or one of your own—as your desktop background, the same way you would've used a regular picture.

What exactly is Windows DreamScene?

Windows DreamScene is a Windows Ultimate Extra. Windows Ultimate Extras are designed for Windows Vista Ultimate customers to extend Windows features to make using your computer more fun. With Windows DreamScene, you can change your desktop background to a video clip, which runs in a continuous loop to make your desktop come to life. 

Here are some things that you should know before you start using Windows DreamScene.

• Windows DreamScene supports only WMV and MPG video file formats.
• To set a video as your desktop background, you must have a video card that supports Windows Aero.

Here are the steps to enable DreamScene:

Step 1: Download and run the DreamScene 1.2 Download Here

Step 2:  Click on "Enable" button and then "finish" . Next is to reboot once!

Step 3: Now once installed correctly, Right click on any video you lick and click on "Set as desktop background" ...Done!

You can pause the video by right clicking on desktop and selecting "Pause DreamScene"

Hide Disk Partition Using Command Prompt

Now hiding the disk partitions is becoming more popular than encrypting the specific drives, because this process takes plenty of time slowing down the PC an creating many problematic issues. Evan third party softwares are also not upto the mark.

Hence in this topic we will hide our specific partitions by the command prompt. It's fast, easy and safe, no need of reboot even!!!
Follow the setps correctly-


Step 1: Open the command prompt from the run window

Step 2: Run the prompt with privileged mode, type in diskpart

 Step 3: Then type "list volume"

Step 4: Suppose u wanna hide drive e: then type "select volume 3"

Step 5: Now type "remove letter e". Now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }

Step 6: To access the content of hidden Drive repeat the process mentioned above. But in 5th step replace " remove" to "assign" i mean type "assign letter e"

NJOY :D

Free Disk Space After Installing Nero 11

You can free up your disk space after installling nero 11 as it saves it's files in temp folder, deleting that files would cause no problems, after installation follow these steps-

The latest version of Nero comes with several new features and improvements.
Many of you might have already installed Nero 11 on your Windows 7 PCs.
Though Nero 11 doesn’t support the Developer Preview build of Windows 8, one can follow our how to install Nero 11 on Windows 8 guide to install and use Nero 11 on the latest version of Windows

So, if you would like to free up ~1.9 GB disk space after installing Nero 11, here is what you need to do-


Step 1: Open Run dialog box. To do this, use Windows + R keys.

Step 2: In the Run dialog, type %temp% and hit enter key to open Temp folder.

Step 3: In the Temp folder, locate the folder named NeroInstallFiles and then press Shift + Delete keys to permanently remove the folder from Temp folder and your PC. You are done! Enjoy Nero 11 on your PC.

Aero WinShark: Change Taskbar Thumbnail Settings

Aero WinShark is another free utility to tweak and personalize the Taskbar and thumbnail preview. The best thing about this software is that it supports both Windows 7 and the latest Windows 8 as well. Options are available to set minimum thumbnail size, maximum thumbnail size, top thumbnail margin, bottom margin, left margin, right margin, and taskbar item width.





It also offers settings to change the wait time before the taskbar preview is displayed, and to disable/enable Taskbar thumbnail preview.





If you are trying to change the Taskbar item width, you may need to do a system reboot to apply the change. All other settings can be applied without a reboot.





Aero WinShark is a portable utility, which means that it can be used without an installation. This tool was originally developed for Windows 7, but it works great on Windows 8 as well. We tested this on x64 version of Windows 8 without any issues.



Restore Default option is also available to restore all settings to the default.

Download Aero Winshark 

Change Logon Screen With Logon Controller

Now you can change the default windows 7 logon screen without rebooting your computer. This program was brought to you by Murgee. Just install the program like any other program, its a freeware. Run the program,
Now select the background or image you want to apply as logon screen background, and that's it, Your'e Done!!! To test it just click on the Lock PC button and find out the change.,

Its a small program and doesn't slow down your computer!

 Download Logon Controller

Microsoft Gorgeous Desktop Wallpapers For Windows 7

Birds of Prey, Hopes and Dreams, and Green World themes earlier this week, Microsoft  has updated the  gallery with 7 new desktop backgrounds. All these gorgeous photographs were submitted by Windows community users.



Areca Palm Buds, Bubbling Fountain, Head in the Clouds, Moss, Pride of Barbados Flower, Spider Web, and Wheat Close-up are the new wallpapers for Windows. To download these wallpapers please visit wallpapers section of Windows Personalization gallery.



 If you are interested in sharing your own art or photography with the Windows world, you can send one or more pictures to the Windows personalization gallery team. Do note that the photos must be at least 1920 pixels wide by 1200 pixels tall. Please check out our how to send photos to Windows personalization gallery article to know more about the same.

Use 7z For Compressing & Encrypting Data

In Windows 7, we can easily send and receive files and data to Compressed folder to generate the industry standard compressed file in Zip format and secure  them in EFS format but evenly it’s not quite practical to deal with Zip files which often are accessed by other parties. And when an EFS-encrypted file needs to be accessed outside the organization, exchanging the digital certificate isn’t something that is easy to do.

You can also try out WinRAR and WinZIP, the two arguably the most popular file archiver, but none of them are completely free. Yes, you can basically use them for free but in reality they are both shareware that you should pay for license if you intended to use them in a long run.

7-Zip is another popular file archiver but is an Open Source that can be used on any computers including a computer in a commercial organization without paying a dime. One of the nice things about it is that the encryption that is built in the software is very easy to use and highly secured with AES-256 encryption method.

7-Zip adds a series commands in to the context menu after it’s installed on the computer to make your life easier when it comes to zip the files.

To encrypt the final zip file during the compress process, you can simply highlight the files and folders you want to compress, right-click on any of those, and choose 7-Zip to Add to Archive.

Then in the Add to Archive dialog window, select the Archive format, put in the password, make sure the Encryption method set to AES-256 before pressing OK.

Different archive format offers different encryption methods, since AES-256 is the highest method when it comes to encrypting the data, make sure you use it to take the most advantage out of it.

To encrypt a Zip file, you will need to right-click the file, go to 7-Zip, and choose Add to Archive.  I would hope the program can encrypt directly to a zipped file without adding it to another compressed file but I guess there might be limitations there that prevent the program from encrypting it directly.

Note that making a use of encryption doesn’t mean that you can provide a weak password. You are still vulnerable to the password attack if you choose a password like "abcdef" or "123456" to encrypt a highly confidential compressed zip file. The bottom line is whenever you see a place where it requires a password, picking up a good password that is tough to the hackers but still easy to remember to yourself. :D

Team Viewer For Windows 7

The Beta version of upcoming TeamViewer 7 has been released for Windows and is now available for download. TeamViewer 7 has been packed with numerous new remote control features for enhancing your online meeting experience. For those users who are not familiar with TeamViewer, it’s an excellent software for remote control, desktop sharing, and file transfer between computers.

This free for personal use software lets you control a PC from anywhere on the Internet.

TeamViewer 7 Beta for Windows comes with enhanced multi-monitor support,  AVI converter to convert your recorded sessions into AVI format, movable TeamViewer panel, integrated screenshots feature and performance improvements.

Key features and improvements:

# Direct connections and file transfer are now even faster

# Record your screen presentations and convert videos into the AVI format

# Schedule meeting and send invitations directly from your email client

# Save connection settings for each computer in computers and contact list

# Enhanced multi-monitor support

For more information visit the official website

 Download Teamviewer 7 Free Version Here

Windows 7 activator !

Activate your windows 7 for lifetime, this activator is by DAZ,
Just click on the install button, don't panic if the window disappears, windows will be activated in next reboot.
Enjoy the tweak :D


Windows 7 activator

How to Install Windows 7

Windows 7 DVD is bootable. In order to boot from the DVD you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.

Step 1 - Place Windows 7 DVD in your DVD-ROM drive and start your PC. Windows 7 will start to boot up and you will get the following progress bar.  

Step 2 - The next screen allows you to setup your language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method. Choose your required settings and click next to continue. 

 

Step 3 - The next screen allows you to install or repair Windows 7. Since we are doing a clean install we will click on "install now". 

Step 4 - Read the license terms and tick I accept license terms. Then click next to continue.  

Step 5 - You will now be presented with two options. Upgrade or Custom (Advanced). Since we are doing a clean install we will select Custom (Advanced).

Step 6 - Choose where you would like to install Windows 7. If you have one hard drive you will get a similar option to the image below. You can click next to continue. If you have more that one drive or partition then you need to select the appropriate drive and click next. If you need to format or partition a drive then click Drive options (advance) before clicking next.

Step 7 - Windows 7 starts the installation process and starts copying all the necessary files to your hard drive as shown on the image below. 

Step 8 - It will go through various stages of the setup and will reboot your system few times.  

Step 9 - When your PC reboots it attempts to boot from DVD as its the first boot device. Do not press any key during the boot prompt so Windows 7 will continue with the installation by booting from the hard drive.

 

Step 10 - After the reboot your computer will be prepared for first use.

Step 11 - At this stage you need to choose a user name and computer name. Click next to continue. The user account you create here is the Administrator account which is the main account for your Windows 7 that has all the privileges.

Step 12 - Choose your password and password hint just incase you forget your password and need to jog your memory.

Step 13 - You can now type the product key that came with Windows 7 and click next. If you do not enter the product key you can still proceed to the next stage. However Windows 7 will run in trial mode for 30 days. You must therefore activate Windows within 30 days otherwise you can not access your computer after 30 days.

 

 Step 14 - Help protect your computer and improve Windows automatically. Choose Use recommended settings.

Step 15 - Review your time and date settings. Select your time zone, correct the date and time and click next to continue. 

Step 16 - Select your computer's current location. If you are a home user then choose Home network otherwise select the appropriate option.

Step 17 - After the final restart Windows 7 will start to boot up.

AND YOU'R DONE,.!!! :D

ILL UPLOAD THE WINDOWS 7 ACTIVATOR BY DAZ IN NEXT POST!

IT WILL ACTIVATE WINDOWS 7 FOR LIFETIME! :D

Intro 7

Microsoft Windows 7 is  most advanced operating system ever. Compared to earlier Microsoft operating systems, Windows 7's changes under the hood improve performance, security, reliability, compatibility, and the user experience. There are those who say that since this is so that Windows 7 doesn't need to be tweaked. Tweaking is about more than just performance tweaks. It is about setting up the computer the way you want to use it, maintaining it, and securing it and your data. Tweaking done in the full context of this guide can provide a  noticeable speed boost, tighten security, increase reliability, and improve the user experience. I highly recommend you use Windows 7 in its default state for at least a week before you start tweaking it.  There are new features in Windows 7 that may seem like unnecessary bloat at first that you may discover actually help you get things done faster. So in my this brand new blog, we will come accros ways to make our Windows 7 run faster, smoother, and work for you more efficiently.

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