Have you bought a new PC? Or upgraded your OS to Windows 7? In any case, a just-installed system gives us an immense choice of making some useful changes. In this article, I would like to discuss about the top 10 things to do with a new windows 7 system. This article would concentrate on what we can do to fix up our system for its regular operations, but no separate applications are required. Here is the list:
- Change your theme: Windows 7 turns out to be a lot better than its predecessors as it offers a number of ways using which we can change the complete look of our desktop. Occasional checks are carried out by Microsoft to add more and better themes from time to time. You can also enhance the look of your desktop and lessen your own pressure by setting up Bing’s backgrounds as an auto-rotating wallpaper feed. You can also Unlock Hidden Regional Themes in Windows 7.
- Extend your activation period: Is your activation code not working? Even though you’ve never used this copy of Windows 7 before or deactivated the license on the other system on which you did use this copy. In any such case, if its necessary to extend your activation period, give yourself 120 days to purchase one activation code.
- Get your “old” Show Desktop button back: Is it difficult for you to use the Windows 7 desktop features after having used an XP? So, to smoothen this transition from one OS to Windows 7, and to avoid clicking on the little translucent bar for your show desktop operation as provided in Windows 7, you can bring back your old icon and button for the same purpose by an alteration with the visual blog. It’s a popular tweak and would reduce your problems.
- Set up “XP” mode for your ease: You might have got a number of applications which do not work that well with your new OS. In such a case you can set up an XP mode in your system for free to add to your convenience. This is done with the concept of virtualization provided by Microsoft for a Virtual XP. If you are not satisfied with this too, then you can also run the XP Mode Image in Virtual Box to have full power over the states, hardware usage and other variables.
- Customize and manage your Libraries: Windows 7 libraries are definitely one of the most ordered and most useful features but they are not as self-explanatory as really required. You would need to study in detail about the various ways for adding and removing of files and folders and organizing them to make them more convenient. If you want to handle your folders by yourself, you can simply disable the libraries too.
- Take advantage of the better printer-setups: Windows 7 provides us with a number of better printing tools after all the printer incompatibility that Vista brought along. So, you can make the most of the Windows 7 printing tools for your own advantage. For e.g. Laptop users can gain advantage by changing their system’s “default printer based on network connections”. Also, XP and Windows 7 can share printers and hence you can gladly keep your XP systems connected to the network.
- Learn the shortcuts: Windows 7 gives you a lot of facilities to have a control of the Windows, the new taskbar and various other features on your finger tips. Thus, it provides you with a number of useful shortcuts which should be read, tested and learnt by you to gain a lot of benefits and immense ease.
- Integrate Dropbox with your system: A dropbox in itself is a must-install application as it essentially synchronizes your files, starting at 2 GB, from folder that keeps data up to date across all the systems and devices. You can use it more efficiently by synchronizing folders outside your main Dropbox and change the location if required. Adding a dropbox to your start menu can also pay-off in long term savings.
- Install your must-have applications with Ninite: There might be a number of free, downloadable applications that you commonly download on every system. Each of these applications has a license agreement, a usually constant and known series of options and clicks and a wait for some time till the application downloads. Ninite can be quite useful in such cases as it lets you pick your web apps from a web form, then download a customized installer that plugs all such apps into your system at once. No extra clicks are needed.
- Set up a Dual-Boot System: Usually, we want to set up our Windows System to run another system when its new and just-installed. In fact, at all times we install Windows first when we are dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Also, if we’re running a Mac and want to add in Windows 7 as its own OS, we can get that done with Boot Camp. A system is also available if we want to add Windows 7 in as a companion to XP.
