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How To Enable Hidden Explorer UI Animations In Windows 7 & Windows 8 [Tip]

The Windows 7 and Windows 8 Explorer have some hidden animations that cannot be enabled via Control Panel or Registry Editor. Why Microsoft has chosen not to include them in Windows settings is a mystery, but as curious as people are, things like these cannot stay hidden for a long time. Earlier, there was a [...] (more…)

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How To Switch To A New Desktop Background Using A Hotkey In Windows 7 & 8 [Tip]

The themes in Windows 7 and Windows 8 usually contains a number of images in each theme. Other elements remain the same, but the image changes to a new one after a specified amount of time. This time interval can be changed by opening Personalization settings and selecting the Desktop Background option. The time interval [...] (more…)

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Get Windows 8 Metro Task Manager’s Compact View Mode In Windows 7

The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 has a lot of similarities to Windows 7, but there are also a lot of changes as well, especially in terms of features and GUI. Windows 8 is the first PC-based operating system featuring the Metro UI. After the Windows 8 Consumer Preview got released, most developers had been [...] (more…)

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How To Add Separators In Windows 7 Explorer Jumplist [Tip]

Amongst all the useful features that Windows 7 brought to its users, Jumplist probably tops the list of most used ones. It lets you quickly access most frequently used functions and tasks of an application without cluttering your desktop with shortcuts. You might have noticed that some applications have separate sections in their jumplists. For [...] (more…)

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How To Transform Windows 7 & Windows 8 Into Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion skin pack hits Windows 7 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview shortly after the preview version of the OS was released a few days back. Earlier, we had covered skin packs for Windows 7, and more recently, Windows 8 as well, but as Mac OS X Mountain Lion gets ready [...] (more…)

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7 Quick Fix: Fix 108 Common Windows 7 Errors & Apply Tweaks

If you have been using your copy of Windows since a long time, it must have retained a lot of junk from all the installed and uninstalled applications, downloaded zips, etc. Sometimes, viruses get into our system which mess with some settings, for instance, many viruses block the Windows Task Manager as the first step [...] (more…)

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Easily Tweak And Customize Your Windows 7 System With Sunrise Seven

Most users want their Windows to be customized to their own liking and comfort, and they start changing options here and there soon after installing the OS to their system. Customizing your Windows, starting from your desktop icons and background to the way your queries are handled and files are displayed in Windows Explorer, are [...] (more…)

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How To Share Windows 7 System Folders Across The Network

Unlike previous versions of Windows, including Windows XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7 allows you to easily share files and folders over network without having to follow tedious process of setting up IP address on network PCs. The inclusion of network groups, such as Homegroup, Work and Public type of networks make is easy to [...] (more…)

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RT Se7en Lite: Create Customizable Windows 7 Installation Disk/USB

It can be difficult for common users to understand the complex process of creating an unattended installation disk (that requires for no manual interference during operating system installation), add custom wallpapers, themes, screensavers and other components to a Windows 7 disc. RT Se7en Lite is an application that simplifies the process of adding such features [...] (more…)

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A Comprehensive Tool For Tweaking Windows 7 Logon Screen

We have covered some very effective Windows 7 logon screen editors, including Pulse, which periodically changes the logon screen background, and Windows 7 Branding Changer to change the Windows 7 branding logo. Today, we have Windows 7 Logon Screen Tweaker, a portable tool that allows you to change the User Picture, Logon Screen Background, Logon [...] (more…)

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Windows 7 App Launcher: Run Programs In One Go From Taskbar

Ever wanted to launch multiple applications for performing routine tasks in one go, without having to manually create a batch script to invoke applications’ execuatables? Although the batch script file (.BAT) can be used to run multiple commands and applications, it’s a bit tiresome to manually add new applications to batch file and edit the [...] (more…)

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How To Transfer Files & Settings From Windows 7 To Windows 8 [Step-by-Step Guide]

Migrating applications, personalized system and application settings, and other important data from old PC to new PC isn’t only time consuming, but also a wearisome task, as one needs to make a list of all the installed applications, Windows components, User Profile folders, System settings including Personalization, Color Management, Fonts, Accessibility, Keyboard and Mouse settings [...] (more…)

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Lion UX Pack Transforms Windows 7 To Mac OS X Lion User Interface

Those of you who have been regularly following AddictiveTips, would know that we have covered a number of elegant skin packs for our readers in the past, including the Android , Mango, iOS, Windows 8 and the Ubuntu Skin Pack. Most of these skin packs were developed by Hamed, and required following a simple setup [...] (more…)

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WinUSB: Create Bootable Windows Installer USB In Ubuntu Linux

WinUSB is an Ubuntu application for creating a Windows USB installer for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Like other applications that enable creating installer USBs, you can create a bootable (installation) USB from an ISO disc image or a DVD. While other tools like Unetbootin can perform similar tasks, however, WinUSB is much simpler than [...] (more…)

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WinLaunch Brings Mac OS X Lion Launchpad To Windows 7

Finding applications and system utilities from Mac OS X default Application folder (which is accessed from system Dock) can become quite wearisome, especially when you’ve installed applications in great number. For this reason, Mac OS X Lion brought a complementary utility for Application folder, namely Launchpad, which lets users quickly find, organize and launch installed applications. [...] (more…)