Some Useful Windows 7 Tools

1. PROBLEM STEPS Recorder As a Windows 7 user when you can’t solve any critical Windows problem(Fix error). You fill yourself as a poor and weak user, who can’t get rid of this problem. It's frustrating, but Microsoft feels your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in the Problem Steps Recorder. When any app or software starts misbehaving under Windows 7 then follow this steps.

1. Click Start button.2. Click Run or (Press Windows Key 

+ R)3. 

In Run dialogue box, type  and press Enter, then click Start Record.

If they then work through whatever they're doing then 

the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click and 

key press, take screen grabs, and package everything up 

into a single zipped MHTML file when they're finished, 

ready for emailing to you. It's quick, easy and effective, 

and will save you hours of troubleshooting time.

2. BURN IMAGES

Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that other 

operating systems have had for years - the ability to 

burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it couldn't be 

much easier to use.

Things you will need :

1.  Blank CD or DVD

2.ISO Image file.Now Just follow these steps to Burn an .ISO image file on any blank CD or DVD

1.  Just double-click the .ISO image

2.  Choose the drive with the blank disc.3.  Click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

3. CREATE AND MOUNT VHD FILES Microsoft's Virtual PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7 can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system. So Follow these steps to create and mount VHD

1.  Click Start

2.  Type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter

3.  Then click Action » Attach VHD and choose the file you'd like to mount.

After browse and select appropriate location, click OK button You are done. It will then appear as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written just like any other drive. 

Follow these steps to create a new virtual drive

1.  Click Start

2.  Type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter

3.  Click Action » Create VHD and you can now create a new virtual drive of your own (right-click it, select Initialize Disk, and after it's set up right-click the unallocated space and selectNew Simple Volume to set this up).

Again, you'll be left with a virtual drive that behaves just like any other, where you can drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do whatever you like. But it's actually just this VHD file on your real hard drive which you can easily back up or share with others.

1.  Right-click the disk (that's the left-hand label that says "Disk 2" or whatever)

2.  Select Detach VHD to remove it.

The command line DISKPART utility has also been upgraded with tools to detach a VHD file, and an EXPAND command to increase a virtual disk's maximum size. 

4. TROUBLESHOOT PROBLEMS

If some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don't know why, Then don’t worry.

Just follow these simple to solve.

1.  Click Start

2.  Click Control Panel » Troubleshooting to access the new troubleshooting packs.

These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.

5. STARTUP REPAIR If you've downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven't) it's a good idea to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into problems booting the OS later on. To do this.1.  Click Start » Maintenance » Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way to get your PC running again.

6. SYSTEM Restore Using System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a gamble. There's no way of telling which applications or drivers it might affect - you just have to try it and see. 

1.  Right-click Computer 

2   Select Properties » System Protection » System Restore » Next, and choose the restore point you'd like to use.

3.  Click the new button to 'Scan for affected programs' and Windows will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or recovered by selecting this restore point.

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