Windows Tricks

10 simple, secret Windows tricks and tips designed to save you time.

CALCULATE MORE: The new Calculator is packed with useful features and functionality

At first glance the Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista's version, but explore the Mode menu and you'll

see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views. And if you're clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options menu instead.

This offers many different unit conversions (length, weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two dates?),

 and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle mileage, mortgage rates and more.

Don't take any Windows 7 applet at face value, then - there are some very powerful new features hidden in the background.

Be sure to explore every option in all Windows applets to ensure you don't miss anything important.

Turn off all balloon notifications in Computer.

Balloon notifications can be annoying many a times. Good thing is they can be disabled easily in Windows 7. To disable balloon tips in the notification area, follow these Methods:

 Using GPEdit (Group Policy Editor)

This setting turns off the Balloon notification in the notification area using Group Policy editor.

1) Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc

2) Navigate to Local Computer policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start             Menu & Taskbar in left hand side pane.

3) Select Turn off all Balloon notifications setting from right side pane.

4) Open it and enable it so that no notification balloons will be shown to the user. .

5) Press OK

Rename Admin account in Windows 7...

Sometimes in the Computer/Laptop, Windows is installed already with default Username already set. For users who are not satisfied with this and need to change this can do this using Group Policy Editor. :

1. Go to Start And Open Run Dialog Box.

2.Type "secpol.msc"..  Now Local Security Policy Window has Opened Shown In below Image.

3. Than Go to  Local Policies > Security Options > Accounts: Rename Administrator Account.

4. In the right pane, there is a Policy, Accounts: Rename administrator account, Double click over it.

5. Change the name of Admin account to the one you wish to have now.

6. Close the Local Security Policy window, Log off to save the changes.

Rename Multiple Files @ Same time...

Have a Two or more number of files in Folder At your Leptop/PC and rename It?
Use This Trick To save your Time and Work.It's very Easy To use.

 Although you can save some time if you follow the steps to rename all files @ a go given below:


Step 1: Open the folder where you have all the files you wish to rename .

Step 2: Select the files you wish to rename

Step 3: Press F2 (Dell users press Fn + F2) or right click any one of the file in your selection and select rename option. Keep all the files are selected.

Step 4: Rename one of the file amongst your selection.

Step 5: You are done. All files have been renamed with a counter value different in each one of them.

This trick can be used to rename multiple Files At same time and save your Gonden time and work..


How to check Health Your Battery is on Your Laptop?

This is amazing Tricks for Windows 7 has a feature through which we can find out exactly how much battery you are actually getting from your Laptop battery, i.e. its efficiency, maximum charge potential,manufacture detail.

We can find out exactly how much the battery of laptop is giving now. We can use the powercfg -energy to find out how health your battery is.

1.     Go to start and open command prompt by typing "cmd"  & opening it with administrator privileges.

2. Type “powercfg –energy” into the command prompt & press Enter.

3. The command enables tracing for 60 seconds & would collect all the data after observing the system behavior.

4. After analysis it would generate a report.

5. The energy report is generated in HTML format in the directory shown in the command prompt.

Cmd Prompt Address\energy-report.html by default.

6. In the HTML file, scroll to the end till you get information like this

This shows the battery ID, Manufacturer name, Chemistry, Design capacity and most importantly the last full charge.