Windows 7 Keyboard shortcut Tricks

Person who works professionally with a computer always has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance. An easy solution to this problem is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete your as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.After reading this article  you might never want to take your hands off the keyboard again.

Note that some of these keyboard shortcuts will only work if Windows Aero is enabled in your Windows 7. If Aero effects are disabled on your computer, it might not be powerful enough to support resource intensive graphical features. Aero effects are not enable in Windows 7 basic as default but these can be enabled by a downloading a tool known as Aero Enabler  The visual effects may also have been disabled to increase overall performance.

Keyboard shortcuts :

• Aero Shortcuts

  [Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek)
Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.

  [Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek)
Show or hide the desktop.

[Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake)
Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.

[Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap)
Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.

[Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximized and restores the selected window.

[Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.

[Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip)
Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.

• Windows & Taskbar

[Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Tag] + left/right/up/down arrow
Flip window.
[Alt] + [Tab]
Cycle through open windows.
[Windows] + [T] OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [T]
Move focus to front or back of taskbar. Press [T] again while holding the [Windows] key to cycle through items in the taskbar     from left to right or, with [SHIFT] button held too, from right to left.
[Windows] + [B]
Puts focus on the ‘show hidden icons’ button on the system tray.
[Windows] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [9]
Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar.
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [9]
Starts new instance of respective taskbar icon.
[Windows] + [Ctrl] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Ctrl] + [9]
Cycles through multiple instances of the respective icon.
[Windows] + [Alt] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Alt] + [9]
Opens jump list for respective icon.

• Multiple Monitors

[Windows] + [SHIFT] + right arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + left arrow
Move selected window from one monitor to another. They will remain in the same relative location.
[Windows] + [P]
Select presentation display mode.

• Magnifier

[Windows] + [+] OR [Windows] + [-]
Activates Windows Magnifier to zoom in or out of screen.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [D]
Switch to docked mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [L]
Switch to lense mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F]
Switch from docked or lens mode back to full screen mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [I]
Invert colors.
[Windows] + [Esc]
Exist magnifier views.

• Other

[Windows] + [G]
Cycle through desktop gadgets.
[Windows] + [X]
Launches Windows Mobility Center. Especially useful if you’re working on a laptop.

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How To Boot And Install Windows 7 From USB Drive|

Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive :

We face lot of problem when we have to reinstall windows on our computer or laptop. First thing we have to decide by which medium we have to install windows? The options available to us are DVD or USB Pendrive. In the latest new netbooks, mostly there is no DVD drive. So if you want to install windows you have to go with the other option, i.e. USB Pendrive.So here I’ll teach you how to make your USB pendrive bootable.

Steps to make your USB Flash Drive Bootable :

1.Run command prompt (cmd) by clicking start and typing typing cmd in Windows 7 and In Windows XP by clicking on start and then clicking on run. Type cmd and run. This will open the command prompt which will look like this:

then type “cd..” 2 times to make it look like:

2.Then run diskpart utility from command prompt, by typing ‘diskpart’ on command prompt and pressing enter. This will run the diskpart utility in a another windows, which is shown in 2nd picture below:

3) Now insert your pendrive in a USB port. Your pen drive must be atleast 4 GB but 8 GB pendrive is best for this purpose. Now go back to the diskpart console and type ‘listdisk’ and press enter. This will list the various storage devices available. You can see the size column of the disk and here by seeing the size of disk you can confirm that which is your pendrive but here in our picture we can see that ‘disk 2′ is our pen drive. In our case it is ‘disk 2′.

4) Then you have select disk 2 by typing ‘select disk 2′ and then pressing enter. Note: in our case it is disk 2, in your case it may be disk 3, or disk 1 or any other number. You can enter ‘detail disk’ to see the details of the disk after selecting it to verify that you have selected the correct disk. You can see these steps in the image below:

5) Then you just have to run a series of various commands. The commands should be run in a order as shown below:
– clean

- create partition primary

- select partition 1

- active

- format fs=fat32

These steps is diskpart window are shown in the image below:

 

6) The format step will take few minutes. After the completion of format you have to run ‘assign’ command. And after this you can exit diskpart utility by using the ‘exit’ command. The steps are shown below:

- assign

- exit

in the figure:

7) After the pend drive is formatted completely, put in your original Windows 7 DVD in your DVD drive, or if you have an .iso image of the DVD, mount that image using any virtual drive software like Power ISO or MagicDisk.

- Now go to My Computer, and open the contents of DVD Drive. Press ‘ctrl+a’ to select all contents and copy all the contents by pressing ‘ctrl+c’.

- Now go back to My Computer and open the USB Drive and press ‘ctrl+v’ to paste all the contents of DVD into the USB Pendrive Disk.

After the completion of copy phase, you are almost done just remove the USB Drive safely and now you can use this USB Pendrive to install Windows 7 in your computer/laptop.

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Top 5 Data Recovery Softwares Free Download

Sometimes  when we accidentally delete our data from computer,memory cards or pen drives it creates a lot of problem and we want to get it back.Many times we are lucky to get our deleted data  back from recycle bin but what if the deleted data also not found in recycle bin.

There are many freeware and as well as shareware software available on web that claims to recover deleted data from PC, pen drive or even memory cards bur some of them works great and remaining are just useless.
so here in this post we will learn recovering data by free data recovery software which actually recovers deleted data from pc.

Before Recovering data see how these data recovering software works-

When we delete a file on our computer then firstly it goes into the recycle bin. Emptying the recycle bin doesn’t actually remove it instead of, it only delete a link between our computer file system to deleted file and designates the space that file is using as free space for future use.So,until a new file is added and it overwrites that space where the original file is present on your hard disk, The data recovery software in that case rebuilt the links between deleted data to our computer file system.

Data Recovery by different softwares :

• Recovering Deleted Data using Recuva :

            Recuva is a most trusted and a simple data recovery software by which we can recover deleted files from our PC, pen drives,memory cards and so on.

To free download Recuva click here.

To recover files  Run the software, then select which type of files you want to recover and  select the drive from which that file was deleted and click on scan button.After scanning it will give you a option to recover all files or selected files from your deleted location.

• Recovering Deleted Data using PC Inspector File Recovery :

            PC Inspector File Recovery is also a great and handy software designed  to recover data from FAT and NTFS file systems.Working of PC Inspector    File Recovery and Recuva Is almost same.they both scan for deleted data and give us a option to recover them.
To download PC File Recovery click here.

• Recovering Deleted Data using Pandora Recovery :

            The user interface of Pandora Recovery is about very easy and straightforward.It Supports three kinds of searching modes Browse, Search, and Deep Scan and each has its own description so that you’ll know which to choose.

To download Pandora Recovery click here.

• Recovering Deleted Data using Undelete Plus :

            Undelete plus is also a good file recovery software that works on many versions of operating systems like Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003.This small software supports all Windows file systems for hard drives and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5.

To download Undelete Plus click here.

• Recovering Deleted Data using Easeus :

            EASEUS is another great Free file recovery software to recover 1 GB files free of charge.It recovers files from formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths.It can also able to Recover files from Linux file system partition under Windows.

To download Easeus click here.

We have tried our best to provide you every tool to recover your deleted data again.

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Now Run Android App on windows PC

Here’s a Good news for the android fans!  BlueStacks now makes it possible for you to run Android applications on Windows systems tooooo…….  ))
Now you can enjoy your favourite apps on your pc also.

BlueStacks does not  use any virtual machine as such but does this by running an emulation of the Android Davlik on top of Windows. While BlueStacks plans to patent some of the technology in its Android emulator, LayerCake, the technique dates back for decades.
The most well-known modern emulator is Wine. This popular open-source program, along with its commercial sibling , CrossOver, enables Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix users to run Windows application. It does this by bridging the gap between the Windows program’s applications programming interface (API) calls and the underlying operating system.

If you’ve always wanted to run all your favorite Android apps on your Windows computer with a big diaplay then you are very luck. A company called BlueStacks has recently come up with a solution that will allow you to do just that. Called BlueStacks, this program for Windows computers will grant you an Android interface for which you can use to run all your Android apps.
Designed for laptops, netbooks and tablets, BlueStacks lets users experience the functionality of both Windows and Android without having to purchase two devices – it’s an elegant way to experience the best.

In addition to running Android apps on a Windows computer, data sharing can also be between both operating systems. Apps that run in BlueStacks work with touchscreen, regular mice, and magic trackpads. This means that you can install BlueStacks onto a Windows tablet to run your Android apps from there without a hitch.

BlueStacks also has a related application, Cloud Connect, which lets you synchronize Android apps from your phone or tablet to a PC running BlueStacks App Player.

To download Bluestacks click here.

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cool Rain meter 3d theme

Are you fed up by the same old desktop screen then here we brought very interesting thing for you i.e. Rainmeter desktop customization tool which will give you a whole new look for your desktop or laptop.

This tool install different unique , artistic and 3D themes and you can set that themes to your desktop. It is also having many gadgets like weather, calender i.e. which are always active on your desktop.

Here are some screenshots of different themes  :

To download Rainmeter desktop customization tool click here

To install themes to Rainmeter desktop customization tool click here

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Extend Your Battery life Of your Notebook in windows 7

Windows 7 is having new power options for you notebook that can  help you to improve your notebook’s battery life from normal to higher.

To see different power options in your notebook , click start button in windows, in the search bar there just type “Power Options”. You will see that power options will be visible to you in the top in the heading name “COntrol Panel”.Click that option namely “Power Options”, the new window will appear as shown below:

Here click on “Change plan settings” with Power SAver option and you will be redirected to a new window. Here in this new window , click on “Change advanced power settings”. Here a new small window will appear having a title as “Advance settings”. Here in this window browse through the other settings and ensure they’re set up to suit your needs to optimize your battery power.

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Windows 7 Power Button Change

Sometimes it happens in your daily use that you use restart button or Log Off button more than the “shut down ” Button. But everytime when you have to restart or log off your computer system then you have to click an arrow next to “Shut Down ” power button and then select an appropriate option for definite task.

But here in this post we will teach you that you can customize your Windows power button according to you which means that you can place your most used button i.e. “Restart” , “Log Off”, “Hibernate” etc in place of  “Shut down” as your power button.

Steps  to customize Windows Power Button :

1. Firstly open start menu .

2. Then in this start menu just Right Click nearer to  “Shut Down” Power Button and select “Properties”.

3. In this properties windows in “Start Menu ” tab you will see a “Power button action” as shown in figure above .

4. In this “Power button action” menu , select the appropriate button for your use and press “Ok”. Now your settings are done and your power button will show the button selected by you.

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