From the category archives:

Windows 7

Vienna 5 transformation-pack for Windows 7

March 28, 2010

I still remember the time when the first Vista transformation pack was made available for XP and how I went so crazy to download a 31MB file on my dial-up connection. Well, Vista came and gone and even Windows 7 seems so 2009. We need something new, don’t we? So here it is – The [...]

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WMP 12: Automatically preview songs on mouse hover

March 27, 2010

Beginner Quick-tip Windows Media Player 12 is my favorite music player on Windows and it has evolved to a great extent. I have shown some WMP tricks in the past and today I am back again with yet another small trick that will enable / disable automatic preview of songs just by hovering over them. [...]

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Dream Desktop – a unique wallpaper manager!

March 21, 2010

There are lot of wallpaper managing software available on the internet today. Mostly all of them have pretty much similar functionality like maintaining a list of wallpapers and changing them at regular intervals. Today we have featured a slightly different wallpaper managing software – Dream Desktop. Dream desktop is different in a sense that the [...]

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Windows 7: Use new 256 x 256 icons for folders

March 19, 2010

Beginner Tip Today I had a discussion with my friend about a troubleshooting session in which he wanted to change icons of some the folders. He wanted to use the native new Windows 7 icons which he could not find the new icons in its default location. Although he figured out after a while, I [...]

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Windows 7: Select multiple items using check-boxes

March 4, 2010

Windows 7 has been around for a year and by now, I think everyone using it might have gone thoroughly familiarized with it. However, Windows 7 has some hidden perks that very few might have discovered; one of them being able to select multiple items using check-boxes. Like this: Unlike the traditional tiring method [...]

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How to: Disable file delete confirmation dialog in Windows

March 1, 2010

Beginner Quick-tip Confirmation dialog boxes in Windows are like the best thing after sliced bread just because they give you a ‘second chance’. However, if you are smart enough and consider yourself as the ‘one who can do no wrong’, you might want to turn off confirmation dialog boxes that appear when you delete a [...]

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Windows 7: Make your own Start Orb with Start Orb Creator

February 23, 2010

Everyone loves customizability and that is why at TechExplorer we regularly include posts related to desktop customization. Today we’ll feature a small application called the ‘Start Orb Creator’ developed by a deviantArt user Blizo. Start Orb Creator lets you use a custom image as your Start button image. The application is very intuitive and self [...]

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Glow Air theme for Windows 7

January 26, 2010

Didn’t I tell you that the guys at deviantArt are crazy geniuses? Well, some of them are Winboys too. A deviantArt user kAtz93 made a superb Windows 7 theme called ‘Glow Air’ that caught my attention. Yes, it is a full fledge theme and not a themepack. Glow Air is for those who seek slick1 [...]

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Desktop Currency Converter: ‘Coz you don’t know when you’ll need it!

January 24, 2010

I wish to keep this short and sweet. So, without an intro paragraph (which you don’t read anyway ), here goes. Desktop Currency Converter is well, a currency converter (duh!) with some decent features. It is a small widget-like app that stays on your desktop and converts the amount inputted in one currency to the [...]

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Stop users from running specific applications in Windows

January 20, 2010

As a security measure, there are times when you need to stop access to certain programs to other users. In Windows, using the Local Group Policy Editor, you can specify which all programs you want to prevent from running. This is very useful if you are administering an Internet lab in school and colleges or [...]

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