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System Restore Point is a nice feature that is part of the System Restore in Windows 7. Doing every so often will save you a day or two down the road. And here are 3 ways that make you no excuse for not doing so.

Method –1: Windows 7 way

That’s the official way of doing so.

1. Right-click on My Computer and select Properties to open a Windows System Window, and click on the System protection link on the left panel.

2. Click on the Create… button at the bottom of the window to create a system restore point.

3. Type in a name for easy remembering the point, and hit Create button.

4. After a short little while, a system point has bee successfully created.

Method – 2: The easier way

The guys at The Windows Club have created a simple tool called “Quick Restore Maker” that easies the whole task. Simply download the zipped file and extract them to a place in your Windows 7. And double-click on the QuickRestoreMaker.exe executable file to launch the process.

Type in the name that helps you remember what you want to restore and hit “Create Restore Point” button.

The tool doesn’t require you to install it first before using it. So it comes quite portable and handy.

You can make the task even easier for you by simply pin the executable file to your taskbar.

Method – 3: the manual way

Here comes the manual way for those who like something different.

1. Create a new text file, changing the extension to .vbs.

2. Pasting the following code in to the file via notepad or any text editor you like.

‘use WMI moniker and SystemRestore class
set SRP = getobject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore")
CSRP = SRP.createrestorepoint ("My New Restore Point", 0, 100)

Note that, you will have to launch it as administrator in order to run the code.

That’s it. And hope it helps.

[via Download Squad]

I love keyboard shortcuts in any versions of systems that I use, which is why we have covered many of them separately in different topics here. But that’s still far from the whole sets of shortcuts covered in Windows 7.

Now, thanks to Nitin Aarwal who have composed a complete Windows 7 keyboard Shortcuts eBook and have published up on The Windows Club for you to download for FREE.

This 43-page of eBook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts covering pretty much every aspects of areas in Windows 7, including its default programs such as Paint, WordPad, Calculator, Help, Media Player, etc. etc.

The eBook is bookmarked-ready, both in PDF and XPS format, with a fully linked content index.

So, if you love the keyboard shortcuts, what are you waiting for?

Go and download the free eBook here.

Being a big fan of iPhone, I am actually not impressed about the new announced iPad at all. Quite disappoint actually. It’s nothing more than a big size version of iPhone, less actually because it lacks of a camera. It’s also less than what a normal Windows 7 powered netbook because it lacks of the flash support, USB, SD slots, and multitasking.

Well, actually with a larger screen at 9.7’ with resolution at 1024×768, you can have quite fun running Windows 7 on it, virtually via Remote Desktop Protocol.

Yes, of course you can’t really install Windows 7 on an apple product like iPad but what you do can is to remotely use Windows 7 via RDP through many already existed Remote Desktop Apps on App store.

Anyway, it’s still interesting to see what Apple finally comes up with the final version of iPad when it’s released.

LookINMyPC is another useful tool that helps you understand about your computer by providing you a very complete comprehensive PC profiling and diagnostic report that includes information on installed hardware and software, as well as a lot of system diagnostic information such as running processes, installed services, and startup programs.

The report is generated and saved in HTML format which can be opened and viewed in any type of web browser. Because it includes so much information about the computers you can definitely use it as a information resource to help you troubleshoot any problem you may have with your computer.

While the report is so much in detail, I do have a complaint about the HTML coding in the report. It just doesn’t seem right to me. It could have been coded better both on screen and printout with a CSS type of style sheet.

It’s a completely free tool for both personal and commercial use, and seems to be working on both 64-bit and 32-bit of Windows 7 as well.

[via AddictiveTips]