You may have accidentally hit a sequence of keys and now you notice your Windows’ screen is upside down. Don’t panic. It’s easy to use a couple of quick hotkeys to rotate your screen back to normal. Or, maybe you would like to flip your monitor to sit vertically instead of horizontally. In doing so, you will need to rotate the screen to accommodate for your monitor’s orientation.

Press Ctrl + Alt + arrow (left, right, up or down) to rotate the screen.

Press the hotkeys and arrow keys until you have the desired rotation. This works with most video drivers on Windows XP. If this doesn’t work, proceed to the next option.

Click “Start,” then “Control Panel,” “Display,” the “Setting” tab, and then the “Advanced” button. Check for an “Orientation” option. Select your desired orientation.

You can also change it in the graphic’s properties. Example is for Intel Graphic card.

User Profiles:
With the release of Vista/Win7, Microsoft significantly changed the folder structure and mechanisms used by the operating system for user profiles. One of these changes was to make roaming profiles more explicit. Roaming profiles allow users to log onto other systems in the domain and have their profile information follow them. They have been around for many years, and in Vista/Win7, Microsoft decided to make what follows a user, and what doesn’t follow a user much more explicit. Hence within a user profile in Vista/Win7, there are now two different set of folders: Roaming and Local. For our purposes, we want to be able to determine where our browser artifacts will be located in this new file structure. Traditionally Microsoft has included cookies in a roaming profile and excluded cache and history files by default. Thus, cookies are now found under the Roaming folder and history and cache can be found within the Local folder.

Open a Command Prompt at any Folder:

Command prompt fans will welcome this handy tip. With it, you can open command prompt at any folder when you are in Windows Explorer. Remember – Powertoys for Windows XP ?? One tool in this PowerToy was ‘Open Command Window Here’.

Now, you can get exactly the same interface by this simple unknown trick: Before right clicking any folder, hold down the Shift key and then you would see the ‘Open Command Prompt Here’ in the context menu on clicking on which you can start a command prompt session from that folder as shown below:

Here’s a neat Windows 7 trick that’s been doing the rounds on the Internet. It enables “GodMode,” a term devised by the Microsoft development team, which provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel.

To use it:

1.Create a new folder.
2.Rename the folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
(note that you can change the “GodMode” text, but the following period and code number are essential).

3.The folder icon will change — double click it to show the GodMode window:

The window shows nearly 50 sections with quick links to configuration options. Strictly speaking, it’s not a God Mode since all the options are available elsewhere. It’s more akin to an “all tasks” list — but you may find it easier than stumbling through Windows numerous screens and panels.

Depending on your system settings, when you go to computer in Windows Explorer, you might be in for a shock –> you may not see all your drives such as memory card readers if those drives are empty. If this disconcerts you, there’s a simple way for you to see them even if there’s nothing there:

1. Launch Windows Explorer and move below back-forward button and click on organize –> Folder and Search Options and move to View tab.

2. Under ‘Advanced settings’, uncheck box next to ‘Hide empty drives in Computer folder’. Click OK.

Group Policy is a feature of Windows 7, as well as earlier versions Windows NT systems. It is a set of rules which control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. In some public computers, you may not need screen saver feature, and do not want others to re-enable it, neither. This guide will show you the steps to Completely Disable screen saver in Windows 7.

Click Start , type ”gpedit.msc” in Windows 7 search field then hit enter.

Navigate to “User Configuration ->Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization”.

Double click “Enable screen saver” item on the right-side pane, change its status to “Disabled”.

Click OK to confirm the configuration.