Windows 7 printer or print management gives a central administration point for sharing printers on a network and managing print server and performing network printer operations.
PCs installed with Windows 7 can share printers on a network and consolidate print server and network printer management tasks via Print Management Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. Printer management allows you to verify print queues and get notifications when print queues stop processing print…
Sometimes dual-booting can be very beneficial to try a new program, a latest Windows, or an application that needs to be run on a specific Windows platform. Other reasons to multi-boot may include replication of a client environment.
Windows manages dual-booting by using boot.ini file to display a menu of OS choices or partitions found on the current system. In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, the bootloader was moved…
Do you have a problem with installed Windows 7? You can go for its reinstallation, which is also called as repair installation, of Windows 7 using the Windows Setup program. Repair installation is not as same as clean installation. People generally go for a repair option, if they want to preserve user accounts, data, programs and system drivers.
Follow the given instructions to perform a Windows 7 repair installation:
STEP 1. Log in…
Let’s create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive for the purpose of installing this latest operating system. Here we are assuming that you own a PC with already Vista installed on it.
Requirements:
- A USB flash drive more than 4GB capacity
- Microsoft Windows 7 installation disk
- A computer running Microsoft Vista
Format the Drive
Follow these steps to use the command prompt to format the disk completely using the diskpart utility:
Warning: This will remove everything…
Consumers can easily download the Windows 7 installation files from the Internet files to clean install on new computer or migrate existing Windows operating system.
Earlier, the electronic download of Windows 7 setup files was available in a box format, which encompassed a starter executable, setup1.box of 32 bit Windows 7 installation files and setup2.box of 64 bit Windows 7 installation files respectively. These files and utility tools cannot be burned to…
If you’re running Vista or already aware what are the minimal system requirements to run Windows 7, the answer should be obvious to you. However, for an average PC user who have no idea about his/her PC configuration is, Microsoft has provided a much easier way to find out if their computers are capable of running Windows 7 i.e. Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.
This program scans your computer’s configuration and informs…
Windows 7 batch files allow you to perform many automated or repetitive tasks. It is the best way to execute many repetitive or time-consuming tasks. While batch files can be very complicated, the functionality is simple enough to be useful even to the novice PC user with no knowledge of programming.
Windows 7’s batch file scripts
Batch files or scripts are small, easy-to-write text files that contain lines of commands. They are…
Windows 7 offers new tools that can be used by programmers worldwide for developing applications that offer enhanced experience and productivity for its clients.
Some of these fresh features include: the ability to include custom tasks to the Taskbar JumpLists, supporting the new Libraries and making the application Library aware, enable enhanced Graphic User Interface with Multi-Touch facility, and expanding the application to “react” to its surroundings by adopting the Sensor…
The Windows 7 Control Panel is quite similar to Windows Vista’s control panel. A few things are obviously changed but the look and feel is almost the same. Because the Control Panel has so many options, Microsoft included a Search box to make it convenient for you to find the program that you need to accomplish a specific task. You may want to use the Search box when you need to…
With Windows 7 Release Candidate, Microsoft has also provided guidance on the minimum system requirements for Windows 7, indicating that Windows 7 will work on a broader array of hardware than any other edition of Windows.
Here are the minimum system requirements for installing Windows 7:
- 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64-bit)
- DirectX 9…