Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Windows 7 comes with a new interface to manage your portable devices and printers. This is a great way to manage all the gadgets we seem to have these days and in this guide, you’ll get a sneak peak at the interface and learn some of the things you can do through it.

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You may not want other users of your computer having access to certain data on your machine. In this guide you’ll learn about permissions and how to apply them to drives, files, and folders in Windows 7 and Vista.

One of the readers of Windows Guides asked me how to protect an entire drive from access by other users, which is something you too may want to do. The procedure for this is very simple and very effective.

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Like Windows Vista, Windows Seven comes with a performance rating tool, which rates your system and then gives you tips on improving it. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use Windows 7’s Performance Information Tools to rate your system.

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There are many free fonts available online; to install a new font (note: if you’re an XP user, scroll down to the XP Method Section):

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
2. Right click on the font file and click Install

Install a New Font – Method 2

To install a font through the font manager, do the following:

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
   
2. Click the Start button, type font, and click on Fonts
3. Drag the font file into the Font manager

XP Method

For Windows XP users:

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
2. Open C:\Windows\Fonts
3. Drag the font file to the Fonts folder:

Enjoy your new fonts.

Like in Windows Vista, you can configure the behavior of the mouse wheel in Windows 7. I use a mouse with a wheel most of the time and I frequently utilize the mouse wheel. If you too use the wheel, you may find benefit in configuring the behavior of it.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to configure mouse wheel behavior in Windows 7. This guide also applies to Windows Vista.

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ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft. This technology improves text on LCD screens, which typically come with laptops, PDAs, and flat-panel monitors.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to use Windows 7’s ClearType Text Tuner, which will sharpen fonts and make writing look almost as good as it does on paper.

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