Last week, one of my friends updated his office computer to a newer one. He had an old desktop with Windows XP. He updated his hardware with an HP office station and his operating system to a Windows 7 64bit.
When he tried to reinstall all the old software he immediately run into trouble. One of the problem was with 16-bit software. The problem is that this software are not compatible with the new 64-bit operating system. Read More
This error is usual on a 64bit OS (Windows 7 or Windows 8) when you need to open an older software/game. For example, if you try to play Counter-Strike 1.6 on a computer with 64 bits Windows 7 you will definitely get this error.
In order to clear the error and get your program/software going you need to make a simple configuration. Right click on your program (executor or .exe file) and choose “Properties”. On the new window click on “Compatibility” tab. Then check “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and try with Windows XP SP3.
If Windows XP3 option is not working, then choose other version until you find one that works fine with your program. Usually, the above setting will work great.
Have fun!
Control Panel in Windows 7 is more compact and intuitive with categorized actions (options). But for some users this compact way means some additional unnecessary clicks. This is why a more classic view (more like that in Windows XP) is more practical. To change the Control Panel view you have to:
1. Go to Control Panel. Click on Start icon and type “Control Panel” and hit enter or just click on your Control Panel option.
2. Change view from the “View by” option in the top right of the window. Change it from Category to Large all Small icons.
Large icons view:
Small icons view:
One of the most common icon you can see on desktop computers is the “Recycle Bin” icon. For various reasons you may want to remove that icon. To do that you have to:
1. Right click on desktop and choose the last option “Personalize”
2. A new windows appears. Click on “Change Desktop icons” link from the top-left side of the window.
3. Remove the selection of Recycle Bin icon.
This post can be applied when you:
If you want to change your computer in order to have a new desired name you have to:
1. Click on Start button and Control Panel
2. Open “User Accounts”
3. Click on “Change your account name”
4. Type a desire username and click “Change”
5. Optional. If you want to change your computer name (network) you have to:
5.1 Go to Control Panel -> System
5.2 Click on “Advanced system settings” from the right list
5.3 In the new window go to “Computer Name” tab and click on “Change…” button.
5.4 Type desired name in “Computer Name” field and click OK.
Restart your computer and that’s all.
Today one of my friends asked me if I can find out what is his Windows Installation date. This can be find very easily and because some of you may be interested in this I thought to share it with you.
1. Click on Start button, type CMD and press ENTER key
2. Type “systeminfo” in the command line.
A list of information will appear. Look after “Original Install Date:”. And this should be your windows installation date and time. Have fun!
1. Go to Start -> Control Panel
2. Go to “Display”
3. Click on “Set custom text size (DPI)”
4. Select size as percent
Then select OK to close this windows. Click on “Apply” and that should be it.
If you use Winamp in Windows 7 you may be familiar with this message:
One program still need to close:
(waiting) winamp.exe
To close the program that is preventing Windows from shutting down, click Cancel, and then close the program.
“Force shut down” | “Cancel”
It appears when you try to shut down your computer and have Winamp running. Fortunately, this error was resolved with the new update of Winamp. If you encounter this error go to winamp.com and download the last version.
http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en
Problem: I bought my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from eBay. After installing updates I received this error: “Windows 7 Build 7601 This copy of windows not genuine” How do I fix this? Read More
Well … it happen to me to have installed on my computer a lot of additional new fonts. Around 2000. Some of them ware installed manually but most of them was found on a collection on the internet. After I installed all this fonts I start to experience a lot of problems with the way some websites and applications were showing information (strange scripts or ugly fonts). The problem was that I replaced some of the default fonts and the only solution was to restore my windows font folder to its default form. For that I followed this steps:
1. I went to C:\Windows\Fonts (C:\ is my Windows drive) and I deleted as much fonts as i could. (ctrl+a to select all and delete key to delete … skipped where the system couldn’t remove the files)
2. Download the default Font folder (.zip file, 183MB):
Download “Windows 7 Default Font Folder” Windows7DefaultFonts.zip – Downloaded 37238 times – 183 MB
3. Extract the content of that folder.
4. Select all the files in the extracted folder (ctrl+a)
5. Right click and select Install
And that’s it. Hope you’ll enjoy. The post picture can be found here.
[UPDATE] In case you need to download Windows 8 Fonts click here.
You can take a screen shot of your pc in 2 different ways in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
