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This How To guide is going to show you how to customise or completely change the backgrounds in the Windows Card Games (Solitaire, FreeCell, Hearts & Spider Solitaire).![image1 Customize the Backgrounds in Windows 7 Card Games [How To]](http://mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/image1.png "Customize the Backgrounds in Windows 7 Card Games [How To]")
![106 Share Files Between Your Host Machine and XP Mode [How To]](http://mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/106.png "106")
When you’re using Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, you’ll likely need to access files on your host (Windows 7) machine. Luckily, Windows Virtual PC makes this really easy and there’s not much you have to do. In this guide, I’ll show you how to access your files in the intended way and also show you a trick that will make file sharing between the two operating systems even easier. Specifically, this guide covers the following topics:
- Basic file sharing.
- Customizing file sharing.
- Sharing removable devices (USB drives.)
- Send files to your host machine via the “Send to” menu.
This is a little something I’ve been working on for a day or so.
It changes the backgrounds and background thumbnail of your Windows 7 Card Games to a ‘Mintywhite.com’ theme-pack.
If you’ve ever spent any amount of time playing card games, i hope you find this to be a refreshing change.
Click the link below to see some screenshots of what i mean.
I’ve done a major rework on the PC Maintenance Handbook and the second edition is now available as a free download. Below is a changelog of some of the changes you’ll see in the new edition. As always, feedback–whether positive or constructive–is always welcome.
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On Saturday, we asked you which antivirus software you use on your personal desktop.
Thank you to everyone who took park in the poll. Here are the results:
![av results1 Which Antivirus Software Do you Use on Your Personal Windows Computers? [Poll Results]](http://mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/av-results1.png "av-results")
![xp mode improve performance06 Improve XP Mode Performance in Windows Virtual PC [How To]](http://mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/xp-mode-improve-performance06.png "Improve XP Mode Performance 06")
Although, by today’s standards, Windows XP doesn’t require much in the way of system resources, Windows XP Mode, running in Windows Virtual PC, can feel a little sluggish at times. This is because Windows XP Mode, by default, runs with 512MB RAM. In this guide, I’ll show you how to increase the allotted memory to Windows XP Mode using Windows Virtual PC Settings.
Note: A couple of weeks ago, we asked you if you used Windows XP Mode and many of you responded by saying you didn’t know about it so we wrote this guide: What are Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode and How Do I Use them? This is a good place to start if you’re new to Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode.
If you get to the end of this guide and still have questions about Windows Virtual PC or XP Mode, please ask them in the Windows 7 forum.
