You are using installing updates for Windows 7, and Windows always asks you to reboot your computer afterward? Normally you can only delay the prompt by four hours or shorter. However, you can turn off the repeated reboot prompt.
Category: Windows 7
Codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna, Windows 7 is the youngest member of the Windows family.
Windows 7: Search the web directly from your taskbar
Windows Vista offers you the option to “Search the Internet”, directly above the search box in your start menu. The new Windows 7 does not contain this shortcut anymore, Microsoft has removed it from the start menu. If you like to, you can re-integrate it.
Windows 7: Cancel command line operations
Some DOS commands take a while for running through. If you don’t want to wait until the command has finished running, you can cancel it.
Windows 7: Release Candidate starts nagging soon
Some users are probably still using Windows 7 Release Candidate. In the coming weeks and months though, these preliminary OS versions will stop working, according to a reminder issued by Microsoft TechNet.
Windows 7 SP1: Internal Testing
According to a report by the US magazine ZDNet, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft’s current operating system Windows 7 is already tested internally. It might thus be available earlier than expected. The latest unofficial news consider September 2010 as possible release date.
Windows 7: Don’t minimize all windows
Freeing your desktop and minimizing all windows is no problem with Windows 7. One click at the right-bottom edge of the taskbar or pressing [Win]-[Space] will do. But what if the currently active window should stay open? Windows 7 Aero Shake helps.
Ten reasons for Windows 7
Windows 7 is designed to simplify the things you do every day, work the way you want, and make some exciting new things possible. Want examples? Here are 10 good reasons for Windows 7.
Windows 7 is out. What now?
Windows 7 is generally available since yesterday. Never have the expectations for a new operating system been as high as this time, as we as end users have never been integrated into finding ideas for a new Windows, like we have this time. On top of that, Windows Vista has moved to the storage siding and is called a big flop by some people. Surely expectations climb up then – can Windows 7 embrace them?
Windows 7 browser ballot screen accepted by European Union
Microsoft may distribute Windows 7 with the browser ballot screen proposed by the Windows team. The European Commission accepted the offer. From Windows 7 onwards, the user sees a selection dialog to install other browsers than Internet Explorer, when they set up the system. Within the dialog, the 5 most
How-to: Minimize Messenger to the system notification area in Windows 7
If you are running Messenger quite frequently, perhaps even permanently, the rather big Messenger icon in the “normal” taskbar might get into your way rather quickly. How would it be to force Messenger to act like in previous versions of Windows—that is, to “minimize to tray”? Here is how you can.