By default Windows installs all programs into the C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86) directories. If the hard drive you have the operating system installed on is running out of space though, or you just want to have the OS on a separate SSD, you might want to consider changing these default installation paths. Be ... Read more
When important system files break, hardly anything on your machine remains working. Many programs won't be able to start and you will be flooded with error notifications and Bluescreens of Death. Windows 7 has a function to solve that kind of problem itself. All you will need for the procedure is access to your machine ... Read more
The system properties Window in Windows 7 has space for two Windows logos - one is the Windows logo that is shown by default on most systems and one is for manufacturers (computers by Dell and others will have their logo placed there). This manufacturer logo can be changed to an own picture using the ... Read more
There are more than one way to slipstream (include) Service Pack 1 into your Windows 7 installation disk - this guide describes the manual way without third party software. What you need is your Windows 7 installation disk, the Service Pack (download it from here, one of the files titled windows6.1-KB97693 depending on your architecture ... Read more
Sometimes the situation might come up where a device that was working flawlessly before will stop doing so, even if you try everything - replugging it, reinstalling its drivers, rebooting the computer - but nothing will help. A possible cause for this is a driver filter that was either installed by any third party software ... Read more
In the time you used your current Windows 7 system you undoubtly have plugged in a lot of different USB devices into your computer, most of them never to be used on it again. You will have notices that for every different device, Windows comes up with a message telling you that it automatically installs ... Read more
Whenever you need to call executables from the command line, this is not possible unless you either have directed your console to its location with the cd (change directory) command, or have set it in the PATH variable. The Path variable is a string consisting of one or more data paths seperated by a semicolon ... Read more
There is a possibility to create a Windows 7 installation DVD that runs fully automated without any user interaction - this is done by placing a file called autounattend.xml into the image's root directory. In this file you specify all the keywords that will be read into the fields of the installation process. To create ... Read more
By default it is not possible to connect to webdav resources without SSL encryption in Windows 7. To enable unencrypted connections (http and not just https), follow these steps: Press the keys [Windows] + [R] to open the windows command line and enter regedit to start the registry editor. Then go to the registry branch: ... Read more
If you saved a password for a network drive in windows and want to remove it, press the keys [Windows] + [R] to open the windows command line. Then enter control keymgr.dll and click on "OK" to open the windows credential manager which allows you to manage and delete passwords saved in Windows. This procedure ... Read more