Respected Windows 7 Tweaks

To have never combine + no labels on the taskbar there is a registry change that can be done below. This also prevents a left click from opening up the preview windows and not the application. so it is no grouping but no labels. but a hover or mouse over still brings up the previews.

All that needs to be done is add a string called “MinWidth” to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics” and set to 38 then restart. make sure it is set to use small icons.

You could can set it any thickness you want above 38 but around that is square like the never combine option. Glad i found this change. :D
 
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Why would you change that, that is what makes peek and previews so useful as well as grouped views.
 
Why would i change it ?

because i don't like the extra click onto the previews and i have always hated grouping, But i realy liked the taskbar without the text labels, the small squares looked cool, so now i have the best of both :D

Perfect taskbar!

all they had to do was add an option under the other three called, never combine and no labels.
 
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what i would like is for the windows 7 taskbar is to have a option that the taskbar items are small like it is when you have grouping on, but not to combine them.

so have squares with no text but no grouping. i just do not see why microshaft have to be so difficult and not have customize options for simple things like that.

how does it get through testing ?

they must ask some windows 7 fan boys to test it who don't moan about a thing. like asking the guys from gizmodo to test an apple product. They won't find any bugs cause they are so blind in love with steve jobs...

Also what is seriously lacking is per windows properties, full window transparency and "always on top" settings for each windows. I mean other OS had this 10 years ago i don't see why MS can't do it when some 3rd party apps do it perfectly.

I seriously think they have the wrong people testing their operating systems.
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Don't forget to put your helmet on today groan.
 
Only thing I did is still use the hidden admin account and disabled the stupid moaning security center.

EDIT: Oh, and disabled the ''turn hdd's off after xx minutes'' option.
 
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Is there a way of cleaning/clearing the winsxs folder that lives inside windows dir? This folder stores up all the updates and patches and is used for things like roll backs. It not recommended anywhere that you delete this for stability issues but I dont see how it can play a vital role - storing 12gb of patch and update info.

Thats quite a big chunk and probably larger on some systems, if all else fails I can reinstall windows 7. Might just try shift deleting it to see what happens
 
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Is there a way of cleaning/clearing the winsxs folder that lives inside windows dir? This folder stores up all the updates and patches and is used for things like roll backs. It not recommended anywhere that you delete this for stability issues but I dont see how it can play a vital role - storing 12gb of patch and update info.

Thats quite a big chunk and probably larger on some systems, if all else fails I can reinstall windows 7. Might just try shift deleting it to see what happens
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that isn't that the winSxS folder stores! :eek:
The WinSxS folder stores alternate versions of DLLs and other critical system files needed for backwards compatablity and "compatability mode". The thing is, most of the files are hard-linked from elsewhere on the drive and so the space used is deceptively higher than it actually is.

I STRONGLY reccommend that you don't delete anything from the winSxS folder.
 
Aod said:
The WinSxS folder stores alternate versions of DLLs and other critical system files needed for backwards compatablity and "compatability mode".
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I dont use compatability mode. What is backwards compatability?

I use Acronis clone software so if anything knackers up I just restart my pc and boot from another drive and clone back.

Would be interesting to see why masses of gb are used up on nothing. (mine was 12gb last time i checked but is probably more like 20 now)
 
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I dont use compatability mode. What is backwards compatability?

I use Acronis clone software so if anything knackers up I just restart my pc and boot from another drive and clone back.

Would be interesting to see why masses of gb are used up on nothing. (mine was 12gb last time i checked but is probably more like 20 now)
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any program that wasn't written natively for windows 7 needs the dll's from the version of windows it was written for, these are kept in the winSxS folder.
 
Guest2 said:
I dont use compatability mode. What is backwards compatability?

I use Acronis clone software so if anything knackers up I just restart my pc and boot from another drive and clone back.

Would be interesting to see why masses of gb are used up on nothing. (mine was 12gb last time i checked but is probably more like 20 now)
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Aod said:
any program that wasn't written natively for windows 7 needs the dll's from the version of windows it was written for, these are kept in the winSxS folder.
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Also any DLLs that may be updated, changed or otherwise removed may also be kept as software will be written for previous versions. Would be an ******** move to go messing with DLLs that software relies on.
 
Actually, I do have a good tweak.

You'll find a file on your OS HDD called hiber.sys and this file is the same size as the RAM you have installed in your Rig. So if your Rig has 8GB of RAM then that's a lot of space for this file to consume.

This file is used by Windows to allow hibernation, since I have better uses for that 8 Gig, I removed the file by disabling hibernation.

This is especially useful if you have a small OS HDD (like a 40GB SSD).
 
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Just save your documents to another hdd and then map the new drive to each media library and then any other location changes needed in start > your name (downloads/desktop etc).
 
Yup.

So to give you a little more info:

1. Create a new folder on your non-OS HDD for all the 'My Documents' content.
2. Then open 'My Computer' and you'll see a 'Libraries' folder, which tabs out four folders (Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos).
3. You right click on each of these four (one at a time) and choose 'Properties' then click 'Include a folder' and find the folder you wish to move it to on your non-OS HDD. This will add it to the 'Library locations' list.
4. You'll want to remove the other folders in that list but first ensure that all your files are transferred from the folder on your OS HDD to the folder on your non-OS HDD before you remove it from this list.

That's it. Hope that helps.
 
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may have been stated already but turn off windows defender, as a whole win 7 is pretty much good to go from the off, however there are probably still few user controls that can be turned off to save annoyance later, i wouldnt go tweaking the reg or ripping out core components from the install to be honest though mate, was needed with vista but not anymore thank god, im so glad to see the back of fresh install tweaking
 
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