Tag Archives: Windows 7

How to run a program with administrative privilege using keyboard shortcuts?

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Simple Version

  • Find the program from the start menu
  • Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Detailed

I was fed up on right-clicking programs and choose “Run As Administrator” to run in the elevated mode. I can simply set the properties of any programs in Vista/Windows 7 to always run as administrator. Or simply you can turn of UAC, in the worst case I can turn of few services to make explorer to run as administrator always.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But rather I prefer to use

  • Find the program from the start menu
  • Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
You can run any programs in elevated mode using this shortcut!
 

How to set Windows 7 Navigation Pane like Windows XP Explore View?

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While we’re navigating back and forth between files, the old Windows XP Explorer view is quite helpful. In Windows 7, Navigation pane appear by default but it won’t expand to the current folder by default. Rather they made address bar intractable by click-able folder names to enable better navigation. But it’s not really handy when I wanted to navigate back and forth quite frequently.

Image Taken From Microsoft.com

You can easily restore it from Explorer options. Go Tools->Options. Under the Folder Options dialog box, click the General tab, and then do one or both of the following:

  • To show all the folders on your computer in the navigation pane, including your personal folder, select the Show all folders check box, and then click OK.
  • To automatically expand the navigation pane to the folder that’s selected in the folder window, select the Automatically expand to current folder check box, and then click OK.

Mind that this may reduce your system performance if you’re working with network drives or clear-case views.

 

What you can do if Windows Startup repair fail to repair your bootsector?

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It was painful time with Ubuntu and Windows Dual Boot Information. With my foolish thoughts I removed the native Linux Partition where I had installed Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Also I removed the boot sector. Then I decided to install 11.04 under Windows Partition itself. Just installed Ubuntu and rebooted to finish the installation. Yea it was gone. It displayed a grub rescue command prompt and I was in blues.

Somehow I managed to get the Windows 7 boot USB to repair my startup for Windows. Again it had happened. The Master Boot Record wasn’t promptly recognized by Windows. It says no problems at all with your Windows Installation. What’s next. I have tried several options to like Fixing the MBR with command line and exporting and importing the boot record and importing it again to corrupt the MBR and tried the repair again. No ways!

Finally how I had to recreate the MBR. How do we do that? (BTW, do this at your own risk. Don’t blame me later)

1. Insert your bootable DVD/USB or Startup repair disc to your computer.
2. Choose Recovery options.
3. Click on Startup Repair and check if it works.

If doesn’t work

4. Open the command window and enter the following commands 

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

Now you’re done. Reboot your PC and see if it works. Under Windows Vista, you will have to change to X:\boot\ folder to access bootrec and bootsect executable.