What is Aero Peek, Aero Shake and Aero Snap feature of Windows 7 ?

August 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Features: Microsoft Windows 7

Aero Peek

Aero peek is one of the recently and freshly introduced features by Microsoft for its users who always want some flashy and graphically pleasing features in every new Operating System by Microsoft. Aero Peek is just another great enhancement made by Microsoft to the Aero Graphical User Interface feature of Windows Vista.

Aeropeek Windows 7

The whole sole idea behind the Aero peek functionality is that it makes the management of multiple open windows on the computer easy for the user. This is also very pleasing in looks and appealing in its working.

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How to make Command Prompt (CMD) Transparent, Glassy in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

July 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Now you can make your command prompt transparent using the Glass CMD application for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and XP.

I personally have a very good feeling  for the artist/ designer/ programmer who created this brilliant artistic piece. The main advantage of using the Glass CMD application is that it is very small in size and it is a complete freeware.

A different application is also there which makes Windows XP’s command prompt Transparent and gives a glassy look to it.

Another great feature of this software is that it is very small in size and portable too. This means we do not have to install it for it to run. Just double click on the EXE file and just watch your new transparent, glassy CMD. [Read more...]

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How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash Drive | Run Windows 7 directly from a USB drive.

July 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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As we all know, Microsoft plans to release its much awaited Windows 7 in October 2009. But, most of the  times people are always interested in knowing how to install Windows 7 on a pen drive or USB drive. They were always eager to know the whole procedure of “Installing Windows on a USB drive so that Windows could be run directly from there.

Nowadays, Creating a bootable USB has become a breeze and so is installing an operating system on it. Linux already provides the option of creating a live CD or even a USB start-up disk for itself.

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Get the Snap to Slide Functionality of Windows 7 on Windows Xp and Vista using Windows Space.

July 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Windows Space is an amazing and interesting utility which gives you the power to enhance and manipulate your current windows behavior. Some of the most fantastic and notable features of Windows Space include snapping windows to the screen edges and other windows, moving and resizing them with keyboard shortcuts, maximizing vertically or horizontally. The software can also be used to pin a window on top of the other windows, hide from view and can also be minimized to tray.

Windows Space: Snap to Slide Functionality

Furthermore, the Windows Space also gives its users the facility to Cascade, Tile and Close All Windows at once by using hot-key combinations. [Read more...]

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