Are you looking for a way to help organize your channel guide in Windows 7 Media Center? Today we’ll show you how to quickly and easily add color coding by category to your channel guide. Add Color Coding Applying color coding is a cool way to help identify the content of each channel. To add color coding open up Windows Media Center and go toTasks>controls. Then click “Save.” Now, when you access your program guide, the TV listings will be nicely color coded....

Do you have a netbook and need to make the most of your screen real-estate? Depending on your personal needs this could be taking up a lot of screen real-estate. Your Extensions Management Window should also be visible too. Here is what the main window looks like right after the restart. Just for a moment you may be tempted to panic wondering how you will access anything…but relax. Once you use the Ctrl + Shift + A keyboard shortcut these parts of the GUI will be reactivated....

Note: Only 32-bit Outlook is currently supported, but they advise a 64-bit version will be arriving soon. We need to go in and uninstall the OSC that came included in Office 2010 beta. If you dont do this step, Outlook will crash…and we learned the hard way. After successfully installing OSC and LinkedIn Outlook Connector, youll see a new pane for contacts. Successfully logged in and connected to LinkedIn…click Finish....

Running The program created a VHD file - an image of your entire C drive. Only Microsoft would be able to tell us why this option was omitted. Thankfully it has been added into Windows 7. This is easily located by clicking theStartbutton and typing “task”: The Task Scheduler window then opens. To schedule a backup, click onCreate Basic Task… These are all detailed on Microsoft’s TechNet page (link below)....

Want to know exactly what your setup is made of? Speccy is available both in an exe installer and a portable version. Choose the one that works best for your needs, and download. Speccy needs to run in administrative mode, and brings up a UAC prompt by default. If it doesnt, you may see this warning. It will still spin up the program, but will not have all the information....

Related In the command prompt, jot down in “ipconfig” and hit enter. The IP address listed under “Default Gateway” should be your router’s. Enter it in the URL bar of your preferred web internet tool. choose the “Security” tab, and look for a checkbox labelled “Filter ActiveX.” Scroll to the bottom of the page and smack the “Apply parameters” button. you’re free to close your web internet tool now, and try Windows Update again....

Today we take a look at using ImgBurn to create an ISO from the physical disc. To create an ISO open ImgBurn and select Create image file from disc from the main menu. When everything looks good press the Read button to begin the process.

(Seriously, who would want that?) It’s a pathetic business model, and everyone who does it should be ashamed. Download Digs… oh never mind. Personally I’m sticking withPidgin.

Now you might easily access extended sharing goodness with the AddThis Bookmarklet. the official Google Chrome extensions website). Before Here are some common examples of very limited sharing power on webpages. Each of these examples only have a special chosen few' available for your use. press the View all bookmarklets… link to see the offerings available. Here are all of the individual social service bookmarklets available at the moment. Grab the bookmarklets that you need and drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar....

Without a doubt, one of the great features in Windows 7… but what about tiling vertically? Or more than two windows? (alright, maybe we would, but not today). Here’s a couple of our favorite stupid geek tricks that we’ve covered over the years:

Do you use Windows Media Center primarily to watch Live TV? In the Target box, you should see %windir%\ehome\ehshell.exe. Click Start > All Programs, then right-select Windows Media Center and choose Properties. Then and add the same switch in the Target text box on the Shortcut tab. Media Center will now open directly in Live TV mode on your last viewed channel.

The Clippings Manager Window and a one-time only Message Window will both appear. choose New Clipping to start your first text clip. you could see our first one here with a custom name and a standard/default fill-in-the-blanks letter. Clicking on our new text clips name automatically pasted the entire text into the text area. The Description Area will have whatever text was contained in the first line of the text you highlighted/selected....

If you see an image there it’s more than likely outdated. To get the new image head over to the Microsoft site and download restorecd.msi (link below). However, you point it to any directory on your gear you want to use. Actually you might want to send it to the Software share of WHS. They offer both a 32 & 64 bit version of ISO Recorder. You might also be interested in learning how toconfigure your rig to backup to Windows Home Server....