When you use the print screen command in Windows, it takes the image of the whole screen.
If you want to display only a particular portion of that image, you have to use an image editing tool (like MS Paint) to crop.
In case you wanted to take the image of only the active window, you can just use Alt + Print Screen (prt Scr) to take the image of the active windows alone.
Go to Control Panel Home (Start -> Control Panel) -> System and Maintenance -> System.
On the left side pane, under the Tasks, Click Advanced System Settings.
Click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Under System startup, you can change the Default operating system between Windows 7 and Vista. If you have installed any other OS, you can change between those settings as well.
Click OK and the next time you start your computer, the boot order should have changed. You can also change the time duration for which it shows to change the booting OS.
Step 1: The options are available at ‘Disk Management’.
Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
In here you should be able to see different partitions along with a partition which doesn’t have any letter assigned to it.
Step 2: Right click that partition and click Change Driver Letter and Paths.
Step 3: Click Add and Choose Assign the following driver letter. You can choose a different letter if you prefer or leave the one by default. Click Ok.
Step 4: Now if you go to Computer, you should be able to access the Vista partition.
FOLLOW THE BELOW STEPS:
* Download and install Virtual PC.
* Launch it, click Next to start the wizard, and click Next again to create a virtual machine.
The wizard then asks you to confirm the amount of memory and disk space to dedicate to the virtual machine. If you have 2GB or more on your host PC, give 512MB to the virtual XP machine. Unless you plan to install lots of apps, the default hard disk size is usually fine.
* Click Next and then finish, and your virtual machine will appear in the virtual PC Console.
* Insert an XP Installation CD, and then double click the virtual-machine icon in the Virtual PC Console to start it up.
* Select the optical drive in the Virtual C’s CD menu, choose Action, and then click Ctrl-Alt-Del to boot the virtual machine from the CD.
After that, the installation process should proceed just as it would on a non-virtual PC.
To Run your virtual XP machine
* Select it in the Virtual PC Console and click Start.
* To close it down, click Close, choose Save state from the list of options, and click OK.
* Clicking within the virtualized OS Window once allows it to capture the mouse pointer.
Importable Features
In the Virtual PC menu, click Action * Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions to install several tools that will allow you to copy and paste text between the virtual machine and the host PC. You will also be able to send documents back and forth via a shared folder on the host system.To get the mouse pointer to release back to the host OS, press the right-hand key and drag the mouse out of the Virtual PC window.
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Overview:
• To describe Windows 7 in a few words it is Windows Vista with a few new features, with all the bugs fixed, the annoyances removed and the rough edges smoothed out.
• The first public beta is exceptionally stable and solid. By comparison, it is more stable in its first beta release than either XP or Vista was when they were released to manufacturer.
• With very few exceptions, any hardware that works with Vista will work with Windows 7.
• Windows 7 is about 22% smaller than Vista. Some of this size reduction is because things like Windows Mail, Calendar, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Contacts (address book) have been removed from Windows 7 and are now part of the download able Windows Live Essentials. The rest is due to tighter, more polished code.
• Every honest review I’ve read about Windows 7 has commented on its performance. In actual performance bench tests, Windows 7 exceeded XP and Vista on just about every measure.
• Windows 7 running on notebooks has shown to be much more reliable with its ability to sleep and resume than XP or Vista.
• The Windows 7 power management tools are easy to get to, and estimates of remaining battery life are generally quite accurate, which certainly wasn’t the case with Windows XP.
Desktop Search
• Probably the biggest advance in Windows 7 search though, is the way that the Start menu search works. In Vista, you can type a term into the Search box, and you get a subset of the total results. If the thing you’re looking for isn’t in that list, you have to click Search Everywhere and fuss with an extra set of options in Windows Explorer. In Windows 7, each heading is a live, clickable link
• Clicking any of those headings opens an Explorer window restricted to just that type of search result and with a much friendlier set of options that makes it easy to scan results quickly
Window Management
• After using Windows 7 for a little while, I find the window handling features to have become automatic. When I go back to a computer running XP or Vista, I find I really miss them.
• Comparing contents two different folders or documents is much easier with Windows 7.
• Expanding a window to full screen and back by dragging it.
• The Show Desktop feature, commonly referred to as “Aero Peek” is used frequently. Some call it “eye candy” but I find it very useful. I keep several gadgets on my desktop.
Improved User Interface
• there are many differences “Gestures" that will interpret your mouse hovering over something as an indication that you'd like to see more information about it.
• Moving your mouse over a Taskbar button brings up horizontal preview thumbnails of each document open in an app, and hovering over one of those brings up a full-screen preview of the document.
New Applications
• Some new apps are included like Sticky Notes and Snipping Tool.
Better Security
• Windows 7 isn’t a huge step forward from Vista in security, but does include some useful additions, including security for something that more and more people are using: USB thumb drives. (Requires the Group Policy editor)
• IT departments can set a group policy that forces USB drives to be encrypted before the employee's allowed to copy files off the corporate network on to the stick, saving IT departments from employing more drastic measures, such as disabling USB ports.
Less Annoying
• In Vista it is the UAC (User Account Control) that is responsible for the incessant pop-ups that ask you if you're sure you want to install this app, or delete that file, or allow access to this drive to this program.
• In Windows 7, the UAC enforcement can be adjusted with a slider ranging from Always Notify to never Notify and two settings in between.
Summary:
• I believe that Windows 7 will be the success that Microsoft had hoped for with Vista. There is nothing really wrong with Vista other than the bad reviews it received. The lack of drivers and the increased hardware requirements got it off to a bad start and it never recovered.
Is Windows 7 any better and faster than Vista? Yes !!!
1. Boots Faster Than Vista
When tested with identical configuration and software packages, Windows Vista took 37 seconds to boot from boot screen to log in screen. There Windows 7 took only 27 seconds, exactly the same as Windows XP but with many more features.
This is attained by loading device drivers in parallel instead of keeping it sequential.
2. Battery Life and Wireless Connectivity Optimization
Windows 7 is supremely optimized for battery conditions and process management. It manages wireless radios better allowing them to drop below 100% power draw while managing the connection. The effort behind OS kernel is also evident. The CPU can sometimes run at a lower frequency and stay idle for long. This results are a minimum of 11%-15% better battery life for Windows 7 compared to Vista.
To better Windows Vista was tough and that too by 11%-15% is pretty impressive.
Step 1:
Make a shortcut for the application . Create the shortcut, right-click the program file and then click Create Shortcut to create one. If the shortcut is being made in the desktop, move it to a folder under ‘My Documents’.
Step 2:
Right-click the shortcut and click Properties.
Step 3:
Click the Shortcut tab and under that you will find Shortcut Key box.
Step 4:
If no keyboard shortcut is being assigned then it will display none. All shortcut keys are used in a combination with CTRL + ALT. So, select another key along with CTRL + ALT and click OK.
Step 5:
Now, you can use this keyboard shortcut to open that application when you are using the desktop or any other application.
This is applicable for both in Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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