Windows 7 Full Backup OR Create Operating System Image on HD/USB

Windows 7 is the best because it provides very useful features like system recovery, complete PC scan, automatic system repair, andsystem backup support. 

The backup features is really very useful, because in case your windows corrupt any file, then you can easily restore your windows tooriginal condition. 

Although there are a lot of third party software's available for creating system image for windows 7, but third party softwares are not reliable. 

It may contains virus, trojan or it can crash your operating system. The only safe way to create image of your windows 7 is to use the built in feature of windows 7.

Image is a backup copy that stores in your hard drive, and in case of any problem you can always revert your system to that position. The problems occurs when there is any problem or issues with your windows. You can read my previous post about windows 7 issues.

Now back to the topic, and that is how we can create a image of the hard disk to restore the data inside your computer. Well this method is very simple and you canstart from inside the windows 7.

How to Create Image for Windows 7

1. Click on “Start” button, and then type “Backup” in search menu. In the next box you will see “Backup and Restore” option. OR you can also access from Control Panel > Backup and Restore.

2. After launching Backup and Restore, click on “Create a system image” option located at the right side panel. Now you have the option to backup your data inside your hard disk, USB, DVD, CD or any other hard disk. Select any option and confirm the space for the backup. Click on “Start Backup” for confirmation.

How to Restore From Created Image

1. In case there is minor problem and your windows 7 can start then you can easily backup your system from inside the windows. Go to “Control Panel” and click on “Recovery” and then “Advance Recovery Method” , then select the first option which says “Use a system image your created earlier”. That’s all, restart your computer and every thing is fine now.

2. But if your windows is not starting up or there is serious problem then Turn ON your system and press F8 to access “Recover your Computer” option. Select keyboard layout and enter your password and username if you have. Finally you will see “System Image Recovery” option. click on it and follow all the instructions.

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Know the model of your computer

Go to Run Type 'dxdiag' without quote


you can see model/Specification of your computer

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Desktop Icon Toy

Download Desktop Icon Toy here

What cool things could you do with Desktop Icon Toy?

• Arrange Desktop Icons
• Do you want to dazzle your co-workers with flying icons that magically fly
  into amazing formations like polygons and hearts?
• How about an amusing way to remind your family of the time with
  an amazing figure of a fully functional analog clock?

With this cool simple tool you can even organize and arrange all your desktop icons into simple rows to the right, along the top or place them anywhere your mind chooses?

All these things could be easily done with Desktop Icon Toy.

You can arrange your desktop icons into many complex figures and shapes, like a:

• Clock (all the icons will be aligned as a analog clock, showing the exact time).
• 4-pointed, 5-pointed, or 6-pointed Stars, a Cross, and all kinds of Hearts.
• Horizontal or Vertical Ellipse, Spiral, and Circle.
• Triangle, Rhombus, Pentagon, Hexagon, and many many Shapes.
• Align desktop icons to the left, right, top or bottom.
• Neaty Around all the Edges.

Of course, not only that, you could also:

• Arrange icons precisely with:
  • "CTRL" + "Arrow Key", which moves an individual icon in that direction by one pixel.
  • "ALT" + "Arrow Key", which moves an individual icon in that direction by ten pixels.
• Customize the layout by changing the order of the icons such as placing "My Computer" as the last one, sorting icons by name, or changing the start position of the first icon.

• Save Desktop Icon Position

Would you always work on different screen resolutions? Is your desktop icon's layout always messed up? Desktop Icon Toy can save desktop icon layout for different screen resolutions, and it will automatically repostion and restore the proper layout when the screen2 resolution has been changed. You can also save multiple layouts by different layout names.

• Mouse Gesture

Desktop Icon Toy also supports Mouse Gesture. You can simply hold down the left mouse button in the empty area of desktop, and then move mouse to right (left, top or bottom) and release it. All icons will be arranged to right (left, top or bottom). More features can be configured in option panel.

• Animate Desktop Icons

With Desktop Icon Toy, you could make cool effects.

• Hover your mouse cursor over an icon to make it dance.
• Drag the icons at different speeds and drop them at another location and they will:
  • Race around the desktop at blinding speed or a snails pace.

• Remove Desktop Icon Texts

Usually, you could easily identify different programs by their icons and positions on desktop. However, (as I suspect you do) you may have many icons cluttering your desktop, and as you can see, it has become very slow to refresh the desktop. Now, you could remove the classic ugly text below the desktop icons, and replace it with a cool customized pop-up tooltip which contains the full text. NOT, just the limited text that normally appears. Miraculously, this will significantly improve the performance when refreshing your desktop, and your desktop will finally become very neat and tidy; more like a window on the world that you expected.

• Show/Hide Desktop Icons or Desktop Icon Texts on Demand
• Have you chosen a favorite picture as your wallpaper?
• Do you have a little regret as desktop icons covered up your wallpaper?
• Do you wish to show/hide your desktop icons or desktop icon texts on demand?

With Desktop Icon Toy, your desktop icons or desktop icon texts could be always hidden, and would only be shown when you really need them. (Such as click desktop, mouse over desktop or over desktop icons.) Now, you will always enjoy your beautiful wallpaper.

• Lock Desktop Icons

Besides saving and restoring the layout your icons, Desktop Icon Toy allows you to also lock the desktop icons. (Don't worry about carelessly moving your icons again.)

• Swap Desktop Icons in Primary Monitor
• Do you have multiple monitors?
• Do you frequently switch between single monitor and multiple monitors?
• Have you frustrated by frequently arranging the icons druing switch of monitors?

With Desktop Icon Toy, you can always keep icons in the layout of multiple monitors. If you switch in single monitor mode, you still could swap secondary monitor icons in primary monitor, which allow you to access them temporarily. 

• Change Desktop Icon Size

If you are tired of the small desktop icons, now you can

• Resize them and make them bigger, like:
  • 48x48
  • 64x64
  • 128x128

• Revise Tooltips

Would you to change what the tooltips on your desktop say? With Desktop Icon Toy, you change the wording of the tooltip for any icons. It will be displayed when you hover the mouse over the icon. You can also embed HTML tags into the tooltip to enrich its appearance.

• Change Desktop Icon Text Color

Sometimes you change to use a beautiful wallpaper, but maybe hard to see your desktop icon text again as its default color is similar to your wallpaper. Even more there will be an ugly background under the test. With Desktop Icon Toy, you can change the desktop icon text or background to any color. You can also make the background of desktop icon text transparent.

• More Features

• Remove all desktop icons, and only keep the icon texts.
• Change desktop icons to small mode,
  (all the icons will become small, and icon texts will be placed on the right of icons.)
• Remove desktop icon shortcut overlay.
• Activate desktop icons using single mouse click.
• Automatically select icon when mouse hovers over an icon.

Download Desktop Icon Toy here

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Windows 7 Log On Background Changer

Windows 7 Logon Background Changer is a free open source software that let you change the wallpaper of the Windows 7 logon screen (also known as "welcome screen", "login screen" or LogonUI).

It has been tested successfully with the final version of Windows 7 (RTM) and Windows 7 RC 7100. It works with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise, in x86 or x64 (32 or 64 bits). It does NOT work with Windows 7 Starter (edition sold with most netbooks). It works also on Windows Server 2008 R2 (but you are not supposed to customize a server).

On a side note, this small program is WPF based, it's a nice technical demo of Windows Presentation Foundation capabilities for those interested in WPF. It requires a decent GPU for the 3D animations to run smoothly. It runs fine with my Radeon HD 3200 on my laptop computer, but it should also work with lower end graphic cards, albeit slowly.

What does it do?

• It does NOT change any system file, and the program itself does not requires admin rights to run : it will just ask you to run as admin a very simple cmd file that creates the required folder and registry key with the appropriate rights. Any user of the computer will then be able to change the Windows 7 logon screen wallpaper. You can also prevent users from being able to change the logon screen wallpaper if you don't want them to be able to modify it without administrator rights (option available by clicking on the "Settings" button).
• It creates a few JPEG files based on the image you want to put as wallpaper for the Windows 7 login screen, applies the appropriate cropping and sizing and saves them using the best compression quality possible.

Change log:

Fixes the following bug
-When running the application as administrator, if the "background" folder is not created, the application can't apply the wallpaper and will ask to run "enable background change.cmd".
Adds a feature:
-Allows the user to prevent other users from changing the logon background wallpaper.


Download here- Windows 7 Log On Background Changer

Install & Check It by Pressing Win+L

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G-mail as External Drive (up-to 7 GB)

This is shows you how to use your Gmail account as an extra drive with 7.18 GB of extra space.
You do need to be connected to the internet to access it.

This preety much uses your gmail space as an online drive.

Step 1Download the Program

You can download the GMail Drive shell extension here:http://download.softpedia.com/dl/3dd87b31ec2f5f4ef9a07557423bf601/4a84b019/100015944/software/internet/email/gmailfs114.zi
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Step 2Follow through the setup

Click on the Setup icon. Then click on run. And follow through the steps and enter your Gmail Email and Password. The when you're done you should see another drive in My Computer called GMail Drive
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Step 3Enjoy your free 7.18GB !

Just log-in with your usual Gmail Email and Password.

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