Earlier we told you how to add Windows 8 user tile to Windows 7 taskbar? Discoveries about the new features coming in to Windows 8 continues. Well, still there is nothing earth shattering so far but now Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveals an other visually subtle but pleasing feature related to the Windows, taskbar and other GUI elements color. As we know Windows 7 already supports the new Personalization features but set of customization seems to be a bit limited. Microsoft has improved the ...

These days all kinds of images and features are leaking around the net for the upcoming highly anticipated Windows 8 OS from Microsoft. We have already shed light on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide (if early Windows 8 builds are any indication). One of the features that was clearly visible in the very early leaked images of Windows 8 was use of a currently login user’s tile that ...

As the time is passing by Windows 8 based rumors and news are heating up. Microsoft is already hard at work to shape the future of Windows. Over the past of couple of days a number of new GUI elements from a pre-alpha version of the Windows 8 has leaked to the web that are now painting a slightly more clear picture of what to expect in the next generation of the OS at least in terms of the user interface and some other features. Although still not much about the backend and behind the scene technology ...

One of the many new features included in the Windows 7 was a vastly improved taskbar/superbar. One of the exciting features supported by the new revamped taskbar in Windows 7 is the ability to pin the items to taskbar. It can be very useful to quickly launch application without going through the start menu. However, if you have lot of favorite windows programs that you use regularly then you might attempt to pin all of them to the taskbar to have a quick access. As you will notice the taskbar becomes ...

Windows 7 was released with many great new features. Most of these fall in to the visual eye candy and refinements to the GUI to have a smoother experience for it’s users as compared to the Windows Vista. In particular, Windows 7 taskbar got a big bump in terms of new functionality. One of the new features was the introduction of the real-time taskbar preview for the running application with their buttons listed in the taskbar. Regarding this functionality a problem that many of the users might ...

Recently released Internet Explorer by Microsoft is really a strong web browser which is a marked improvement over the previous Internet Explorer 8 in every imaginable way. However, one thing that I am sure many people might have noticed is the lack of a real-time spell checker. This is somewhat of disappointment for the people that were expecting it to be coming in the latest incarnation of this popular Microsoft browser. But fortunately for us this limitation can eliminated by using a free real-time ...

Normally in Windows a user can lunch any desired executable file with a double click on the file. Same is true for the other files such as document files, audio/video files that are opened in this case with the associated program in Windows. However, there are some cases a user might want to launch multiple programs at once for example: to start the Excel when launching MS Word, or running a time-tracking application whenever starting a development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio to track ...

Internet Explorer has recently been officially released by Microsoft. Overall it is an impressive product and a significant improvement over the previous iterations of this popular web browser. As soon as IE 9 has launched there are already some tools starting to come to light that allows to tweak the Internet Explorer 9 user interface and other aspects to a users likings. One such tool is called Tweak IE9 that allows to customize a number of Inter Explorer 9 settings from nice single window interface. ...

Microsoft has put significant effort in the development of their latest browser for Windows to reverse the fortunes and put a brake on the rapidly decreasing market share as compared to the two big guns in the Internet browser arena namely: Firefox and Google Chrome. If it does succeeds to reverse the fortunes for Microsoft or not ? – only time will tell, but one thing is for sure that they have introduced some desperately required feature in the latest release. Key new features include the extensive ...

We have already brought you some leaked insights on Windows 8, and now Win7China is reporting some new leaked screenshots of the highly anticipated Windows 8 OS. Furthermore, they have some nice info to share with us. First and foremost according to their info, Windows 8 will include a feature to restore the OS to it’s factory default setting in just 2 minutes, in case you messed up with something or just want to start with a neat clean system. Furthermore, even if you do decide to install Windows ...