By default, Windows 7 displays the Shut Down button on the Start menu. If you frequently restart your computer, it may be more useful if the power boot option on the Start menu is changed to Restart, instead of Shut Down.
To change the Start menu’s power button in Windows 7:
Right click the Start button.
Click Properties.
Set [...]
Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 lets you easily customize the Windows log-on screen. By editing a single registry value, you can change the current Windows log-on background image. The only caveat is that the new image must be less than 256KB in size.
To change the Windows log-on screen in Windows 7:
Open the Registry [...]
Windows 7 lets you customize the notification area by adding or removing icons. Take for example, the volume icon. If you don’t use the volume icon in the notification area, why not just remove it?
To remove the volume icon from the notification area in Windows 7:
Right click an empty space on the taskbar and click [...]
We all have tasks that we put on hold while we complete the more urgent tasks. But part of managing our workload is being able to get the urgent tasks done quickly and efficiently so that we have time to get back to our regular jobs.
But then we have some tasks that we would like [...]
If you have XP applications, you don’t have to worry about the applications not working under Windows 7. Any of those XP applications that don’t run under Windows 7 can be run in an emulated XP environment using Windows XP Mode.
Windows XP Mode is a virtual PC image of Windows XP Service Pack 3 that [...]
One of the first things you will notice about Word 2007, and other Office 2007 applications, is the Ribbon. The Ribbon provides you with quick access to different commands that are all logically grouped. For example, commands related to fonts, are contained within the Font group. However, one of the downsides of the Ribbon [...]
In Word 2007, it’s easy to change you the capitalization of words, even sentences, and paragraphs. Once you select the text for which you want to change the capitalization, complete the steps outlined below
Click the Home tab within your Word document.
Within the Font group, click Change Case.
Select the appropriate capitalization option:
Select sentence case to capitalize [...]
As you learned in Part I, PowerPoint 2007 lets you run a presentation on multiple monitors using Presenter View. If you want to use this feature, you need to configure PowerPoint to use multiple monitors as described below.
On the Slide Show tab, in the Monitors group, click Use Presenter View.
Select the Monitor tab.
Select the monitor [...]
One of the challenges of delivering a Slide Show view is that you do not have access to your speaker notes, unless you wrote them down or printed a hard copy. However, if you use Presenter View instead, you can run your presentation from one monitor while the audience views your presentation on a second [...]
When you are ready to deliver a PowerPoint presentation, you can run a slide show. When you run a presentation in Slide Show view, the slides are maximized on the screen and the desktop is hidden from view. Furthermore, you can configure various aspects of the slide show from the Set Up Show dialog [...]
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