Windows 7 Tips, Tricks and Tweaks

Testing out the Windows 7 beta? Here are a handful of ways to get around the interface and make it act the way you want.

Running the Windows 7 beta, and want to bend it to your will? No problem. We’ve got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, bringing back the Quick Launch toolbar, forcing User Account Control to act the way you’d like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more.

So check out these tips. If you like them, we’ll keep more coming.

Note: A few of these tips involve editing the Windows Registry. If you don’t feel comfortable creating a Restore Point, finding your way around the Registry or performing tasks such as creating a DWORD value, see“The tweaker’s guide to the Windows Registry.”

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