Windows Tools, Help & Guides

If you’re the type of person who installs a lot of software on your PC *puts hand up*, then you may have seen the following message after successful installations:

Most of the time, the program I am installing installs fine and this message is an inconvenience. In a quest to click my mouse less, I set out to disable this dialog box. Learn how to disable this also in this guide.

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We love the holiday season, we also love customising our desktops.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with mlewallpapers.com to bring you 5 festive Windows 7 Themepacks for your PC this Christmas!

Each pack contains 5 unique, hand-picked wallpapers and are totally free.

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New in Windows 7, Peek gives you the power of X-ray vision, so you can peer past all your open windows straight to the Windows 7 desktop. Simply move your mouse over the little transparent rectangle in the lower right corner of your screen—and watch open windows instantly turn transparent, revealing all your hidden icons and gadgets. That’s a fast way to find files on your desktop, or get a peek at the latest traffic report.

If, however, you don’t want to use Aero Peek or if you find yourself accidentally activating it when your mouse works it way in to the bottom right corner of your screen, you can easily disable (and enable) it again.

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WMC TV for your PC

Back in a previous post (add a tuner) we talked about the features available in the TV section of Windows Media Center made possible by the installation of a TV tuner card.

In this article we’ll take you through the whole process, step by step, with plenty of screen shots. The tuner for this report is the WinTV-HVR-NovaT very similar to the model shown below.

Here at Windows Guides, we’ve showed you how to make a custom start orb, apply a custom start orb automatically, apply one manually, and we even share custom start orbs and will create one for you by request.

(The Yoshi orb, made by UVAIS — as well as four others — can be downloaded here.)

So here’s a quick one-question poll for you: Do you use a custom start orb?

In the quest for an ever more perfect media center, our focus now turns to the EPG – the Electronic Program Guide – the data that comes with our programs, but is not a part of our programs. When you stand at the back of the room farthest from the TV, they look like this:

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