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Has your Window 7 or Windows 8 computer freezes frequently or restarts unexpectedly? It might be due to an old or unused device drives. Here is how to remove unused and old device drivers from your Windows 7/8/8.1 computer without any software tool.

Creating multiple user accounts in Windows can have several uses. For instance, it is useful if you are sharing your PC with other people for security reasons, or if you are one of those who like extensive customization, tweaking in their PC or want to test new software, etc.

Mounting ISO images in your computer is a great way for you to view and run the content of the disk image without having to burn it into a CD/DVD. While Windows 8 is comes with native support to mount ISO and VHD images in the system, earlier versions such as Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP does not come with this feature. Now, Microsoft has come up with a little utility called “Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel” to bring ISO mounting feature in Windows 7, Vista and XP.

In Windows, the registry data is consistently being written to and removed during a normal windows operation. Overtime, registry can become bloated and large when there has been a lot of additions and deletions from the registry. It can cause various performance issues to the system. Here is how to solve this issue by compressing the registry.

If you would like to keep your programs neat and organized on your Windows 8 or Windows 7 taskbar, you might also like to get some space between each group of programs, so your taskbar looks simpler and more beautiful. Here is how you can separate each group of programs with a transparent icon.

Inspired by the Windows 8’s Modern interface and its new Start Screen, iObit has released a tool called WinMetro to bring the same feature on older versions of Windows such as Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP. Windows 8’s new Modern UI and Start menu is more attractive, customizable and better looking than the old one.

If you are one of those, who want something different on their computer may certainly like NanWick Windows 7 Start Button changer. As it name implies this little tool lets you use your own picture as Start button (also known as Orb) in Windows 7. Here is how this application works.

If you are one of those, who need something a little different on their computer may certainly like the little tool User Picture Tuner for Windows 7. As its name means, this tool lets you make changes to the appearance of User Picture in Start Menu of Windows 7 - like changes in transition animation, change the frame in user picture, etc.

Unlike previous versions of Windows, the newly released Windows 8 CP has several new quick access shortcuts for doing things quickly and effortlessly. For example, the new Win + X shortcut key brings ‘System Utility Settings’ menu, which includes several system utilities including Network Connections, Device Manager, Event Viewer, Disk Management, and many more in Windows 8. You can bring the same feature to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 with a free utility WinPlusX.

Microsoft has just released a new theme for Windows 7 based on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator game. With this free theme, you can beautify your desktop with a variety of Hawaiian landscapes available in Microsoft Flight.

Though Notepad is a simple text editor, it’s been used for many uses, especially for editing system files. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows, but its interface has not changed much including in the latest Windows 8. If you prefer rather an easy to use interface, you may like Notepad 7with MS Office 2010 like ribbon interface.

The forthcoming Windows 8 has a whole new look and design. Tiled interface, start screen, new Screen Lock and Login screen, etc are few examples. If you like to try some of its impressive features in your Windows 7, you can customize it with some third-party tools. WinLockPro is such a tool that brings Windows 8 Screen Lock and Login in Windows 7

Unlike Windows’ taskbar, Mac’s dock is more productive and aesthetically excel. The dock allows you instantly access frequently used applications without the hassle of going through the clutter of desktop shortcuts or the slow Start menu as in Windows. If you like to replace your Windows’ taskbar with Mac like dock, here is how you can do that with Winstep’s Nexus.

I think one of the most useful features of Windows context menu is ‘ Send to ’ option. You can move a file or folder from one location to another location very easily by just right clicking on it. However, by default, Windows offers only a few locations to move a file, you need to click and hold Shift key to get extra entries. Here is how to enable all context menu entries permanently in Windows 7 and Vista.

Microsoft Windows 8 has a new, intuitive Start screen called Metro UI. However, some users still like the old start menu of Windows. Previously we had published an article on enabling Windows 7 like start menu in Windows 8 developer preview, here is a new tool called Win Eight Metro UI Switcher that lets you switch between Metro UI and the Windows 7 styled Start menu in Windows 8 just with a click.

The developer preview version of Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system Windows 8 shows that it will have lot more advanced features and functionalities than the previous versions. Moreover, its UI has also slightly changed as compared to the earlier versions, for example logon screensaver and clock. If you like to have this Clock logon screensaver on your Windows 7, here is how it is.

Sometimes you cannot change your desktop wallpaper in Windows 7. For example, you see a black background even though you change your background picture. Another instance is, when you try to right-click a picture and then select ‘Set as desktop background’, you will get an error message “This image can't be set as wallpaper. An internal error occurred”, etc.

Of course, you can quickly and easily open a new window for a running program by just using a keyboard shortcut key Ctrl + N. However, if you are looking for an alternate way (to open and close a running program’s window) with your mouse, here is how you can do that in Windows 7.

Wish you could add your own items to your Windows 7 desktop context menu (right click menu) to access your applications more faster. Here is how you can do that with a little tool called Win 7 Context Menu Customizer. This portable tool, just weighs only 54Kb, offers a function to add and remove your own application files and internet links to the Win 7 context menu.

I think one of the very least used or never used Windows feature is password reset disk option. If you create a password for your computer, it is recommended to create a password-reset disk, so that you can use it to reset your password, if you lost it.