Windows 7 on USB

Software pirates in China realized that there is a great demand for a copy of Windows 7 on an USB stick.
Especially, netbook users have been looking for ways to install Windows 7 from an USB or flash drive rather than from DVD.

Microsoft considered this option, but they did not act!


Windows 7 10-in-1

The pirated Windows 7 USB Flash drive has 8GB and includes a copy of the Windows 7 10-in-1 Ultimate Steve Ballmer Signature Edition that is either bootable or can be used to install Windows 7 on your own HDD. Of course, the USB Flash drive from Netac is also pirated.

The price for the pirated USB drive including Windows 7 10-in-1 is only about $14 (about 9,5€). For a price of $291.99 (Amazon.com), wouldn’t it be great to receive a bootable copy of Windows 7?

Missing System Windows 7 -Repair

Run chkdsk to repair disk errors

First of all, don’t panic! If you panic and do things without thinking about consequences, you might damage your system and lose data. The solution to this problem is usually very simple. Your hard drive might have disk errors, therefore you are not able to start your system. This often happens when you restart your PC during a boot-up secquence while it’s loading safe-mode for example.


1. Find your Windows 7 DVD.
2. Start your PC, insert your Windows 7 DVD and hit a key when you are asked to (to boot from DVD). It is possible that you have to change the boot order in your BIOS to boot from DVD.

3. Follow the instructions on the screen, but don’t install Windows 7, instead click on “Repair your computer“:

The installer will now search for Windows installations on your PC and list them all. Select your Windows 7 installation and click on next.

4. Open the command prompt.

Attention: Do NOT click on “System Restore” or “System Image Recovery”. If you try to restore/recover your system that way, you might damage your Windows 7 installation irreversibly.

5.You will probably be in a folder X:\sources\ . Don’t worry, if your partitions are still there you can run a chkdsk on them.


Run a chkdsk for your main partition (e.g. C:), to do that enter:

chkdsk c: /f/r

/f /r will both fix errors and recover lost data.

/f will only fix errors on your disk

/r will only recover lost data

This will, in most cases, repair your disk errors and you will be able to start Windows 7 again.

Windows 7 Bootrec.exe – Repair MBR

While you’re at it, you also might want to repair and fix your MBR (Master Boot Record), add a new boot sector and scan your disk for Windows 7 installations.

/fixmbr

This will create a new Master Boot Record, but will not overwrite your exisiting partition table.

/fixboot

This will add a new boot sector. If you boot sector is damaged you might not be able to start your system.

/rebuildbcd

Scans your disk for Windows-7 compatible installations, needed to repair your Windows 7 installation.

Extensions in Windows 7!

your day dream think it is slightly annoying Windows 7 does not show you whoever expansion expansion file? Of course, discovery some people expansion expansion very trying file and the file icon will tell you file extension however, but sometimes they are needed.

This is a briefing tutorial which would account you ‘how to show expansion expansion Windows 's inside file 7'.

There are just three step of necessity is to show all expansion expansion file:

1. First of all, open up your Control Panel and click on “Folder Options”:



2. Go to the tab “View” and locate the entry “Hide extensions for known filetypes”.



3. Click on “Apply” to save your settings and Windows 7 will now show you all of the file extensions.

Show/Hide File Extension Toggle

A handy tool for Windows 7, AutoHotkey allows you to write macros:
http://www.autohotkey.com/

The howtogeek wrote a little tool that allows you to toggle file extensions, you can turn it on and off with a simple shortcut. Good stuff!


; WINDOWS
KEY + Y TOGGLES FILE EXTENSIONS

#y::
RegRead, HiddenFiles_Status, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, HideFileExt
If HiddenFiles_Status = 1
RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, HideFileExt, 0
Else
RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, HideFileExt, 1
WinGetClass, eh_Class,A
If (eh_Class = “#32770″ OR A_OSVersion = “WIN_VISTA”)
send, {F5}
Else PostMessage, 0×111, 28931,,, A
Return

Google Calendar for Windows 7

The new year is about to start. If one of your New Year resolutions is that you want to start organizing yourself, then a Google calendar gadget for Windows 7 might come in handy.




The easiest way to access the Google calendar on your desktop is to install Google Desktop first and then install the Google gadget. If you don’t want another sidebar (Vista and Windows 7 already have one built-in), you can subscribe to the Google calendar instead. This tutorial will show you both methods and you can then decide for yourself.








Download Google Calendar Gadget

Windows 7 Java 64 Bit

Something that still causes a lot of trouble on many Windows 7 x64 machines is Java. Java is needed for all those cool web 2.0 applications, but it’s also a resource hog and is often causing a very high CPU load, therefore many people deactive it completely. Nonetheless, it’s an important download.




Download Windows 7 64-bit

The JDK includes a 64-bit plugin for Windows. The JRE does not include this plugin, so you will have to download this large file.

http://download.java.net/jdk6/

Windows x64 self-extracting JDK file

Java Windows 7 64bit JDK 6u18, 64.79 MB

MD5 Checksum
MD5 (jdk-6u18-ea-bin-b05-windows-amd64-18_nov_2009.exe) = 56b37cda73413b35b2d666937e5874d0

How can I check what Java is installed on my PC?

There’s a very easy way to do that and you can also find out weather you are already running Java 64-bit or not.

Go to the website: Java Check Website

What is Java 64-bit needed for?
Answer: For a 64-bit browser.

Yes, you can run Java 32-bit on your x64 Windows 7 system, but if you download and install Java 64-bit, you can also run any 64-bit browser. Firefox for example offers a 64-bit browser for Windows 7 x64. By default, Windows 7 includes a x32 and x64 edition of the Internet Explorer 8.

IE8 64-bit location:
IE8 32-bit: C:/Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer/
IE8 64-bit: C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/

Firefox 64-bit download:

Download Firefox x64