Are you still using Windows 7? You\u2019re not alone. Windows 7 is an efficient operating system, but you most likely are not taking advantage of all it can offer. Below are great tips to get more from Windows 7.<\/p>\n
Access videos from the Start menu<\/strong>: You can access your pictures and music from the Windows 7 start menu, but did you know you can customize Windows 7 to allow you to access your videos too? If you want to do this, right-click the Start button and click \u201cProperties.\u201d Then, on the Start Menu tab, click \u201cCustomize.\u201d A dialogue box will pop-up, scroll to the bottom and look for the videos section. Click \u201cDisplay as a link\u201d and hit \u201cOK\u201d and \u201cOK\u201d again.<\/p>\n Modify your Shut Down button<\/strong>: You know that your computer\u2019s Shut Down button turns off your computer. However, what if you hardly ever shut down your computer? A little known fact: you can customize your Shut Down button so that when you press it, it carries out another action, everything from restarting your computer to putting it in sleep mode. To perform this, right-click the Start button and pick \u201cProperties.\u201d On the Start Menu tab, select the \u201cPower button action\u201d drop-down menu. You can then select what action you would like the power button to take as a default.<\/p>\n Add some privacy to your online searching<\/strong>: When you search Internet Explorer, your computer will automatically display the most recent searches that you have performed. Maybe you\u2019d rather not have this information available to other users. Luckily, you can customize Windows 7 to make this happen. You can switch off the \u201crecent searches\u201d feature from the Start menu. Once you pull up the Start menu\u2019s search box, type GPEDIT.MSC and press \u201cEnter.\u201d This will set the Group Policy Editor in motion. Find the \u201cUser configuration\u201d option. Then choose \u201cAdministrative Templates,\u201d \u201cWindows Components,\u201d and \u201cWindows Explorer.\u201d Once you are here, you can double-click \u201cTurn off display of recent search entries in the Windows Explorer search box.\u201d Then select \u201cEnabled\u201d from the screen that comes up next. Then click \u201cOK.\u201d You will now experience greater privacy when searching the Internet.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you still using Windows 7? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n