Friday, January 8, 2010

How to customize windows7 Screensavers

Windows7 got installed with many cool screensavers such as bubbles,ribbons,mystify etc.To tweak the settings of the screen saver we have to do some registry editing.If you dont want to messup with registry editor there is a small portable app called System Screensavers Tweaker  .Using this app you can tweak several changes such as speed,transparency,amount etc easily

After changing click on apply.This software supports 32bit-windows,62bit-windows,windows7 as well
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Make your older programs run compatible with windows 7

Many of us must have shifted to windows 7 tempted by its awesome features.But some of our older favourite programs may not run on windows.To make those programs play safe with windows here is a small trick .Right click on any shortcut present on our desktop and  select properties

Now choose compatible tab and

Check the box Run the program in compatible mode for and from the drop down list select windows-xpsp2.Click on ok.............

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How to dualboot windows xp and windows 7

Now many laptops are being shipped with windows 7 os.Some of the users may still want to  use the  trusted windowsxp.So iam gonna teachu how to install xp on a system preinstalled with windows7.To install windows xp to  dual boot with windows7 we require either an empty partition or you can create an new partition yourself by shrinking free space present in  a drive.If you have a windows7 preinstalled system with many drives then you can select any drive to install xp.Some of the  laptops are shipped only with only one partition,to install winxp on such systems you have to shrink some amount of available free disk space into new partition .Let me tell you how to do that
Open your start menu now type partition in search programs and files box.Now click on Create and format harddisk partition

The disk management window opens now  now click on your c drive and select shrink partition

Now a window fires out querying how much of free disk space is available.You will be shown the total size of the disk,amount of free space available to shrink


Now give the amount of space required for ur new drive and click on shrink button.
After shrinking you will be displayed with raw partition   now right click on it and select New simple volume.

 
New simple volume wizard starts up  confirming again for simple volume in mb,then it assign a drive letter .Now under Format partition section NTFS is selected by default leave it,also give the volume label name ,check the quick format box.

Click on next after the format is completed you will see the new healthy volume with ur volume label.
thats it a new partition is created .Now boot your system with windowxp bootable cd .Select the newly created volume for installing xp after installing you can see that your system starts with windows xp this is bcoz the xp bootloader overwritten windows 7 bootloader.Dont panic now use the software called EasyBcd 1.72 and click on Writembr and see the magic .Restart your computer now you can see both operating systems


Download the software by clicking here EasyBcd 1.72 .
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