When multiple Operating Systems installed with Windows 7 then editing boot loader is not easy as Windows XP.  This small post shows how to use free GUI Boot loader editor for Windows 7 to easily manage and edit boot options.

In windows 7 Boot loader  called ‘ Boot Configuration Data (BCD)’ and its having complete command line utility. Though command line utility works well, but GUI is easy to work.  In earlier Operating Systems editing boot loader options, such as changing boot order, timeout, display name, disks and partitions numbers can be done easily by going to Startup and Recovery settings under advanced system properties, then open like text editor. But Windows 7 is not having same option.  Read more...

If you get a message you have been logged into a temporary profile in Windows 7 computer, then it’s not your correct profile. You may miss your icons on desktop, any customized settings in Windows 7 by this temp profile issue. This post explains how easily you can fix temporary profile in Windows 7 issue.

By restarting or re logging to Windows 7 computer will not help you in this case. This temp profile issue rises because of a registry key.

Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7 Issue

1)      Log in with temp profile.  Read more...

Previous Version (Shadow Copy) is a nice feature to restore deleted or corrupted files and folders in Windows 7 without any additional tools. This is a Windows 7 built in tool to protect your data. This article explains the reasons why previous version (Shadow copy) not working in Windows 7 sometimes.

Available previous versions for a file or folder can be viewed in property tab.

Here are the reasons why Previous version (Shadow Copy) not working in Windows 7.

1) This works only on NTFS partitions.  Read more...

Windows 7 system image backup created for restore a whole computer from Windows installation CD.  You could avoid time wastage and additional work by system image back up when Windows 7 computer crashes. This post explains how to restore files and folders from Windows 7 system image backup without restoring full backup.

When you don’t have latest normal backup to restore your data, this Windows 7 system image backup can be used to get your files and folder back.  Windows 7 Backup and Restore in control panel doesn’t have straight option to restore data from system image backup, so we will use a tricky method to access data from image backup.  Read more...

After seeing several blogs about Internet Explorer 9, I wanted to try it.  Is IE9 ready? As other blogs posting, IE9 is not ready for downloading .But an IE9 preview tool is available from Microsoft to try on your PC. I suggest to not downloading IE9 from any other websites.

IE9 preview tool is for testing purpose of performance and compatibility of web pages.  You can open any web pages in IE9 preview tool and see the difference and inform or suggest Microsoft for any difficulties you face in IE9.  Read more...

Whether it’s a home or office Windows 7 computer, how about backup? Windows 7 backup has a cool feature called System Image Backup. In this article, let me explain how to take Windows 7 system image backup and later in this blog I will explain how to restore it. So, is your Windows 7 fully backed up? If not, let’s create a system image backup.

Two Type of Backups in Windows 7

1) Choose the system state settings and personal files to backup. Read more about normal backup and how to take normal backup in Windows 7.  Read more...

How to make Windows 7 faster? Here are the 22 easy and free steps to make windows 7 faster and faster. I combined these methods from my experience and experiments which worked much better in improving windows 7 performance.  These following steps can be done by any Windows 7 user and not required third party or paid software and extra technical knowledge.

Network is a major factor of deciding a OS speed. Slowness in networking directly affect speed of Windows 7. There for I have added some tweaks to improve windows 7 network performance also.  Read more...

This article explains how to install admin pack for Windows 7 computer and start using. Even if you don’t have high end Windows 2008 servers but to manage small network from your windows 7 computer these admin pack tools help lot. Administration pack tools do not come with Windows 7. You have to download it from Microsoft site and install.

This administration tools pack allows doing most of the Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 server tasks from your Windows 7 computer.  Read more...