Keyboard shortcuts are the fastest way to navigate and manipulate windows and data in the Operating System.

Here’s a list of the new Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts:

Win + Home : Hide/Unhide everything but the current window.
Win + Space: Make all windows transparent so you can see the desktop.
Win + T: Cycle through the entries on the taskbar.
Win + P : Cycle through projector or secondary video output mode.
Win + (+/-) : Activate the windows magnification tool and zoom in/out.
Win + Up: Maximize the current window.
Win + Down: Restore or minimize the current window.
Win + Left/Right : Move the window to the left or right of the screen, or over to a second monitor.

[ "Win" is Windows Key ]

Have you ever wanted to change the name Windows is registered to without reinstalling the computer?

First load up the registry editor (Start -> Run then type regedit and press the ok button) and follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> WindowsNT -> Current Version. In the window on the right find the RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner string values and change them to whatever you like. Once that’s done simply exit and you’re set.

Now whenever someone looks at your system properties, the OS will be registered to the right person.

The RunAs Command option is great but sometimes its best not to allow users to have access to that feature. Disabling it is quick and simple, all we need to do is edit the registry.

First load up regedit (Start -> Run then type regedit and press the Ok button) and follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> policies -> Explorer. From there create a new DWORD value and name it HideRunAsVerb and give it a value of one. Once that’s done you’ll need to restart your machine. Now users won’t have the ability to run programs as other users.

Task Manager is an extremely powerful tool in Windows, from diagnosing problems or closing stuck programs/services, even accounts that are limited have access to this program. While this might sound like a good thing it can cause huge headaches for system administrators if there are trouble makers in the company.

To Disabling Task Manager, click the Start button and go to Run and from there type gpedit.msc and press the ok button. The Group Policy Editor window should open and from there follow this path User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Delete options. From there on the right hand window find the Remove Task Manager option and change its value to enabled. Now on Task Manager will be disabled.

Though System Restore is a very useful feature, you might not want it to back up everything. If there’s a specific folder or location that you’d like system restore to pass over, you’ll have to do a bit of registry editing.

Click on Start then select Run and from there type "regedit" then follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> BackupRestore -> FilesNotToBackup. From there create a new multi-string value and name it something descriptive so you know for the future. From there double click on the value to open it up and type in the full path of the directory you do not want to restore.

From now on when you create a restore point, System Restore will bypass any folders you mentioned in the registry under FilesNotToBackup.