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Alternative Methods for Opening Control Panel Icons ...175Putting Control Panel on the Start Menu...176Rem

Keeping the Registry Safe ...233Preventing Other Folks from Messing with the Registry...

Checking Your Computer’s Security Settings ...303Making Sure Windows Firewall Is Turned On...

Sending a Secure Message...356Receiving a Secure Message...

Renaming Built-In Accounts for Better Security...405Using the Guest Account to Give Folks Temporary Access...406Determ

Did You Recently Change Any Application Settings?...445Did You Recently Install a New Program?...446Did

Last Known Good Configuration...484Directory Services Restore Mode...

Using a Network Connection to Wake Up a Sleeping Computer...539Disabling a Network Connectio

Configuring Windows 7 or Vista to Act as a Remote Desktop Host...587Configuring XP to Act as a

Renaming the Default Website ...629Changing the Website Location...

Microsoft®Windows 7UNLEASHED800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USAPaul McFedries

Working with Shortcuts ...682Working with Registry Entries...

A Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts 731B Understanding TCP/IP 741What Is TCP/IP?...

About the AuthorPaul McFedries is a full-time technical author who has worked with computers in oneform or another since 1975 and has used Windows sin

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IntroductionWe shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time

2Introductionthe focus from components (Internet Explorer, Mail, and so on) to subjects: customization,performance, power tools, security, troubleshoo

3How This Book Is Organized. I assume that you’ve used Windows for a while and are comfortable with conceptssuch as toolbars, scrollbars, and, of cour

4IntroductionPart V: Unleashing Windows 7 TroubleshootingWindows 7 may represent the state of Microsoft’s operating system art, but it is stillWindows

5Conventions Used in This BookConventions Used in This BookTo make your life easier, this book includes various features and conventions that helpyou

6CAUTIONThe all-important Caution box tells you about potential accidents waiting to happen.There are always ways to mess things up when you’re workin

Microsoft Windows 7 UnleashedCopyright © 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a ret

CHAPTER 1CustomizingWindows ExplorerIN THIS CHAPTER. Returning the Menus to TheirRightful Place. Changing the View. Viewing More Properties. Turning O

8CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows Explorerhave several useful commands that simply aren’t available through the taskbar, keyboardshortcuts, or even by ri

9Viewing More Properties. Content—This view, new to Windows 7, displays a vertical list of objects, and for each object it displays the object’s icon,

10TIPTo adjust all the columns so that they’re exactly as wide as their widest data, right-clickany column header and then click Size All Columns to F

11Turning On File Extensions1FIGURE 1.3 With file extensions turned off, it’s tough to tell one file from another.Turning On File ExtensionsMicrosoft

12CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows ExplorerThe need to become an expert in Windows iconography is bad enough, but it gets worse.Not being able to see fil

13Stopping Delete ConfirmationsFIGURE 1.4 With file extensions turned on, it’s much easier to tell the files apart. Stopping Delete ConfirmationsMy bi

14CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows ExplorerNow let’s consider this tweak from the opposite point of view. The reason Windowsdisplays the delete confirmat

15Running Explorer in Full-Screen Modepolicy. If you don’t have access to the Group Policy Editor, open the RegistryEditor and create a DWORD setting

16Restore button.) This mode takes over the entire screen and hides the title bar, menu bar,status bar, address bar, and search bar. To work with the

Contents at a GlanceIntroduction ...1Part I Unleashing Windows 7 Custo

17Exploring the View Options1. Always Show Menus—As you saw earlier (see “Returning the Menus to TheirRightful Place”), you activate this check box to

18CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows Explorer. Hide Extensions for Known File Types—As you saw earlier (see “Turning On FileExtensions”), you deactivate th

19Moving User Folders1Reading pane. For example, when you display a video file in the Reading pane,Windows Explorer includes playback controls such as

20CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows ExplorerTIPAn ideal setup is to have Windows 7 and your programs in one partition and your docu-ments (that is, your u

21Taking Ownership of Your Files1Note that, obviously, this is quite a bit of work. If you only have to do it every once in awhile, it’s not big thing

22CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows ExplorerRunning Custom SearchesWhen you open a folder window, you know that you can click inside the Search box, types

23Running Custom Searches1To fix this kind of thing, you can create powerful and targeted searches by using a specialsyntax—called Advanced Query Synt

24CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows Explorer>= Matches files where the specified property is greater than or equal to the speci-fied value. For example

25Running Custom Searches1NOTEThe Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT must appear with all-uppercase letters inyour query. Using Natural Language Queri

26CHAPTER 1 Customizing Windows ExplorerSimilarly, if you want all the JPEG images that were created today, you’d use the followingquery:jpeg images c

Part VI Unleashing Windows 7 Networking24 Troubleshooting Networking...49125 Setting Up a Small

Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Who Should Read This Book...2How This Book Is Organized...

3 Customizing the File System 45Understanding File Types...46File Types and File Extensio

5 Customizing the Start Menu and Taskbar 89Customizing the Start Menu for Easier Program and Document Launching....

Optimizing the Hard Disk................126Examining Hard Drive Performance Specifications.....