
It will then analyze it and create a report in HTML format in the folder you specified. For about a minute, Windows 7 will examine the behavior of your laptop. Where \Folder represents the folder where you want the report to be placed.ģ. Powercfg -energy -output \Folder\Energy_Report.html At the command line, type in the following: To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator."Ģ. Run a command prompt as an administrator. Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it. You can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination - although doing that is not nearly as much fun. To make them return, shake the title bar again. Click and hold the title bar of the window you want to keep on the desktop while still holding the title bar, shake it quickly back and forth until all of the other windows minimize to the taskbar. With Windows 7's "shake" feature, though, you can minimize every window except the one in which you're currently working - in a single step.

This can get annoying if you're working on one program and want to minimize all the other windows - in previous versions of Windows you had to minimize them individually. If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. They will be listed in their own section. You can now use them as you would any other theme or background, by right-clicking the desktop, choosing Personalize, and choosing a background or theme. That will install a shortcut to the theme and wallpapers in the Personalization section of Control Panel. Double-click the theme you see there (for example ZA).ģ. Each subfolder has wallpapers for a specific country: AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, US for the United States, and ZA for South Africa.įor any of the countries whose wallpaper and themes you want to use, go into its Theme folder, for example, C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT\MCT-ZA\Theme. Windows Explorer will launch and show you a list of subfolders under C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT: MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA.

(Note: If Windows 7 is installed in a drive other than C:, use that letter instead.)Ģ.

In the search box in the Start menu, type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press Enter.
