When you install the Windows 7 beta version, you can see some changes in the start menu when compared to Windows Vista. Similar to Vista, the Run command is not available by default in Windows 7. Many people who are still using Windows XP might want to see the run command in the start menu. Run can be enabled in Windows 7 as well like Vista.
1. Right click on any open area in the start menu and select Properties.

2. Select the Start Menu tab in the properties window and click …

By default Firefox’s in-line spell checker does not work in all text-boxes and forms and you need to right-click and select “Spell check this field” to manually start spell-check, however this behavior can be automatically activated by following the steps provided below.

Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and press Enter.
Type layout.spell in filter text box.
Change the value to 2 as shown below.

There are times when Windows or a software doesn’t allow us to click a button. It could be a shareware that only after registering the button would be enabled or a feature that doesn’t make any sense if it was enabled. For example, if you run Windows Task Manager, go to the Users tab and click on the user that you are currently logged on as, the Send Message button is disabled. This sending message feature is useful if there are a few users logged on and you can send …

Want your Windows XP Taskbar to look like the icons only taskbar in Windows 7? You can accomplish this with a registry hack.
1. Click Start > Run and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Control Panel
then Desktop
then WindowMetrics
3. Right-click WindowMetrics and select New > String Value.
4. Give it a name of MinWidth.
5. Give it a value of -255 (that’s negative 255).
Restart your system, and the programs running in the taskbar will only have icons. This saves a great deal of space on your taskbar.