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Display Your Drives in Windows 7

Its a new feature of Windows 7 that doesn’t display empty drives such as memory card and USB flash drives. But if you want to see the list of empty drives in Windows Explorer you can follow the given steps.

Step 1. Open the Control Panel from the Start menu.
Step 2. Open Folder Options in the Control Panel.
Step 3. Select the View tab in the Folder Options window.
Step 4. Uncheck Hide empty drives in the Computer folder.
Step 5. Click OK to save the changes.

Your dream operating system comes with a library where you cannot only aggregate data from different sources into a single folder view but also create your own library. Actually it provides an indexed view of multiple data sources.Here, it gives you the system to segregate your personal and public data. For every Documents, Downloads, Photos, Videos and music, you will have Personal and Public folder.Because of the new library functionality, many of the common user folders in Windows 7 have been renamed.

In Windows Vista you had Documents, Downloads, Photos, Videos, and Music. In Windows 7, these folders have been renamed and now you have Personal Documents, Personal Downloads, Personal Photos, Personal Videos, and Personal Music.Besides these personal document folders, each Windows 7 computer is going to have public folder such as Public Documents.The purpose of Libraries is to join together these personal and public documents into a single documents directory (as well as any other libraries that you create).Thus, the default Libraries in Windows 7 are:

1. Documents: made up of Personal Documents and Public Documents
2. Downloads: made up of Personal Downloads and Public Downloads
3. Music: made up of Personal Music and Public Music
4. Photos: made up of Personal Photos and Public Photos
5. Videos: made up of Personal Videos and Public Videos
If interested you can create your own libraries as:

Step 1. Navigate to the window explorer, to reach the libraries.
Step 2. Right click on the libraries to open the different option, here navigate to new and then to New Library.
Step 3. The New Library will be added to the Window explorer in the right hand side under the Library option.
Step 4. Once you create it, you need to decide what you want included in the library. To do this, right-click on the folder and click Properties. On the Library Tab, click Add, select a folder, then, click Include in Library. Now you can add any folder of your choice to the New Library.

Now no need to call any Network Engineer. Here are the steps:
Step 1. Click on the Fix a Network Problem, in the Network and Sharing windows.
Step 2. It will gives you link for: Internet Connections, Connections to a Shared Folder, Home Group, Network Adapter and Incoming Connections to This computer. Under hardware device also it will give you option to trouble shoot it connectivity with the Network.
Step 3. Now your issue is at your one click access, choose from the above link where you want to troubleshoot.
With the launch of Windows 7 defragmentation is better than the previous Windows versions. Windows 7 offers better defragmentation than Vista and it also enables you to configure the disk defragmentation from command line. Performing disk defragmentation also ensures that the disk is running at the optimum performance.Perform the following steps to run Disk Defragmentation from command line.

1. Run the cmd command to open the command prompt window.
2. Run the defragcommand line utility to launch disk defragmentation.
Following parameters can be used along with the defrag command.
* /r: this parameter can be used to defrag multiple drives simultaneously.
* -a: this parameter is used to perform a defrag analysis.
* -v: this parameter is used to print the reports.
* -r: this parameter treats files with at least 64 Mb of fragments like are not fragmented.
* -w: this parameter is used to defrag everything.
Unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 does not seem to feature a sidebar. However, the sidebar still exists in Windows 7 and runs in the background. The sidebar automatically launches at startup. Perform the following steps, if you want to get rid of the sidebar:
1. Run the msconfig.exe command-line utility to start the Microsoft Configuration utility.
2. Click the Startup tab and deselect the Sidebar box.

The task can also be achieved by performing the following steps:
1. Run the REGEDIT command-line utility to start the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key.
3. Right-click the registry and click delete.
Perform the following steps to accomplish the task:
1. Right-click My Computer and select properties.
2. Navigate to Advanced System Settings > Performance > Settings.
3. Clear the Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing check box.
4. Click OK to finish.

However, if you don’t like the settings or you are not comfortable with the settings, you can change the way the favorites are sorted.Perform the following steps to accomplish the task:
1. Open Windows Media Player and select Tasks.
2. Navigate to Settings > Music > Favorite Music.
3. Configure the settings as per your requirements.

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