How to localize Windows 7 to your language

- Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise can be localize trough Windows update, but what if you have Professional, Home Premium or Home Basic, and want to localize to your (or any other) language?

- You have two choices. Buy another version of Windows or read this tutorial.

- First go to this link and download desired Language pack for your Windows 7 SP1.
http://www.rtwincustomize.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3811:windows-7-sp1-mui-language-packs-direct-download-links&catid=69:unattended-tools&Itemid=433

- In my case I will use a Croatian locale, but you can replace hr-HR option to your locale (de-DE, fr-FR, hu-HU, ru-RU, sv-SE or any other locale what you have been downloaded in previous step).

- After you download your locale pack from the link above, you need to unpack file to temporary folder. For this step you will need program to unpack. I suggest using WinRar.

1. Create a new folder on your hard disk e.g. C:\LP-HR
2. Extract content from previously downloaded Language pack file in to that folder. (Easiest way is to copy or move your Language file to previously created folder, right click on file, and under WinRar section select "Extract here").

3. Click Start, and in Search type CMD.
4. On search results select cmd with right click and select "Run as administrator"

5. On Command promt type DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:C:\LP-HR (Replace
C:\LP-HR with your folder name, and wait a few minutes, depends of your computer speed).

6. On Command promt type bcdedit /set {current} locale hr-HR (Replace
hr-HR with your Language set (de-DE, fr-FR, hu-HU, ru-RU, sv-SE ...)).

7. On Command promt type bcdboot %WinDir% /l hr-HR (Also replace
hr-HR with your Language set (de-DE, fr-FR, hu-HU, ru-RU, sv-SE ...)).

8. Click Start, and in Search type regedit.
9. In regedit go to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages and delete key en-US.

10. Reboot machine.

11. After restart your Windows 7 is localized to language of your choice, and you can delete previously created folder (In my case C:\LP-HR).

How To Disable This Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly Prompt In Windows 7

Okay so you probably have seen this before. Every time when you try to install some application but decided to quit before the installation was completed or was unable to proceed the installation due to some other reasons. As soon as you quit the setup, a prompt window in Windows 7 from “Program Compatibility Assistant” will show up with two options, “Reinstall using recommend settings” and “This program installed correctly”. In my opinion, neither of those options are useful. And really, the whole PCA (program compatibility assistant) is just annoying.Here is How You Can Disable This Prompt

Begin by going to Services, simply click on Start menu and type in “service” in the search box, double-click the one called “view local services“.Find the services name called “Program Compatibility Assistant Service” and stop it from running by right-clicking its name and choosing “Stop“.
By stopping this service will kill the prompt, but will not kill it permanently. If you want to completely disable this service, you need to go to the Properties by double-clicking on the service name.Choose “Disable” under the Startup type dropdown menu. Click OK button when you finish.
From this point on, this type of prompt will not bother you anymore until you re-enable the service.

How To Hack Windows Experience Index Values in Windows 7

Windows Experience Index was introduced in Windows Vista, back then the top score was 5.9. Now in Windows 7 Microsoft has increased the top score to 7.9 for balancing out some of the new recent emerging hardware like Solid State Drive, quad core, hex core CPUs and more.

Here Is How You Can Change the WEI Score

Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore find the file started with Formal.Assessment . WinSAT

Open the file for edit (if you only have the “Initial” then open that for edit, if you have a “Recent” open the most recent one)

Search for the String “SystemScore” from there you can change the value in between the tag. You can also change all the following values for Memory, CPU, GPU and disk scores etc.

Once you’ve done that save the file and go back to the System page in the control panel. Woooha !

Hidden Send To Menu in Windows 7

When you right click on an file or folder in Windows Explorer the default Send To menu contains only a few locations:
What many users do not know is that it is possible to expand the Windows 7 Send To menu by pressing Shift before right-clicking on a file or folder. Pressing the Shift key before right-clicking will expand the Send To menu with more than ten new entries like My Documents folders, Downloads or Contacts.

Display More Popular Sites in Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 includes a new tab view that displays the sites you visit most frequently. The view can be accessed by clicking the new tab button or by navigating to about:Tabs in the address bar. Frequent sites listed are limited to 2 rows (10 total sites) on the screen but this can be customized with a simple registry tweak. With a little help you will be able to expand the most popular sites feature to create a useful dashboard to quickly load your favorite sites without typing in the addresses.

Get started by launching the Registry Editor. Click on the start button and type in regedit and hit Enter.

When Registry Editor loads, navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, TabbedBrowsing and NewTabPage.

Right click on NewTabPage and select New DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Name the new item NumRows and hit Enter.

Next, right click on NumRows and select Modify. Set the value for the number of rows you want and click OK.

Finally, close and restart Internet Explorer 9 and you should instantly see the result of your change.

Configure Internet Explorer 9 To Start With Most Popular Sites

New to Internet Explorer in version 9 is a tab view that displays your most frequently visited sites so you can jump to a site with just one click. By default this new screen is only displayed when you click the New Tab button. A simple tweak allows you to view this page every time Internet Explorer 9 is started by setting it as your home page.

The key is to set the special browser page, about:Tabs as your home page. You can do this by bringing up the tools menu (hit Alt + X) and then select Internet Options. Set the Home page section to about:Tabs and click OK.

Fix Taskbar Preview One Click Switch To Last Active Program

With the new taskbar preview feature added in the Windows 7, navigate around all the open tab now require one more click from the thumbnail after you click on the icon on the taskbar. If you have been using Windows for a long time you might not get use to this. So here is a way you can fix by only clicking the icon once and that will open the last active window of the same type program without clicking on the preview thumbnail again.

Here is how you can save the extra Click

To start you need to go to registry and navigate the following path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Now right click on the left empty space and add a new 32-bit DWORD value

Rename the new value to LastActiveClick

give the new value 1

When you finish you it should be looking some thing like the first image

Because you have changed the registry you need to log out and log back in again in order for the new change to take effect.

There you have it, now you can just click once on the taskbar and it will jump you to the last active window.