Ready Your Windows 7 For Editing (22.jan.2009)

Ready Your Windows 7 For Editing System Files and Normal Files
This guide works on Windows 7 - build 7000 (public beta)

This guide should be read and performed before you perform any other guide on this page, this is because Windows 7 will remove changes to systemfiles on reboot, unless ofcourse, if we disable that function, so that our changes will be permanent!


Lets get started... Shall we?
In brief steps, we want to remove SYSTEM RESTORE and UAC (User Account Control) in Windows 7 so in order to do, we go ahead and find the Control Panel.
It is where it always are, at Start - Controlpanel


TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE:

Now click the "All Control Panel Items" at the bottom right and you will be able to find eveything I say we need...


1. Then find the "System" icon and click that...
2. On the left side of the screen click the "System Protection" link



3. A new box will appear, make sure its tab says "system protection" as you see on the picture.
4. Find your Windows 7 drive (the C: drive) and select it
5. Press the "Configure" button and then a new dialog will pop up. Under "restore settings" choose "Turn off system protection" and press OK (and then OK again)



6. You will now see that you are asked to REBOOT, please do so now...



You have now disabled System Restore and Windows 7 will no longer restore the files that you choose to change or edit.... This is very nice when doing the things we do in this blog!



TURN OFF UAC (User Account Settings)

1. Go to your Control panel again and find "Action Center" and double-click that icon.
2. Then in the menu on the left side, click the "User Account Control Settings" link.
3. Drag the slider all the way down to "Never Notify" and then press OK.
4. If asked to restart your computer, please do so now...



You have now successfully disabled the UAC (User Account Control) and you are free to edit most files...
If you later encounter NTFS locked files, then all guides will demonstrate how to open those files, if you need to...

Sincerely, AlexData

Disable Feedback Link in Windows 7 (22.jan.2009)

How to disable the Feedback Link in Windows 7 Ultimate
Remove Send Feedback link from your windows 7 - build 7000

If you are like me, you would want to disable the Feedback Link that you find in every window you open inside Windows 7. I mean, it can be practical to report broken features in the beta using that link, still, if you really really need to send Microsoft some tip about some broken feature, why not use the shortcut on your Desktop, or the icon inside your Control Panel.



Well... If you want to remove that link from Windows 7, then follow me on this....

FIRST THINGS FIRST:
YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR WINDOWS READY FOR ALL KINDS OF CHANGES
CHECK OUT THE GUIDE CALLED:
"Ready Your Windows 7 For Editing"
BEFORE YOU CONTINUE WITH THIS GUIDE!!


1. Open Notepad - go to Start, Search and write "notepad.exe" and then click the icon...



2. Write the following in notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FeedbackToolEnabled"=dword:00000000



3. Save this file as "DisableFeebackLink.reg" on your Desktop and remember to choose the filetype you want to save it as should be "All Files", if not it will be saved as an .TXT and we need it to be saved with .REG as its filetype...

4. Find the file on your Desktop and double-click it...

5.Press YES on the message that is asking you: "Are you sure you want to continue?"

6.Press OK on the follow-up message about "Keys and values has been added to the registry"

7. Log off your user account, and log back on...
You will notice that the Feedback Link is all gone...

Enjoy your New and much Smoother design...

Sincerely, AlexData!

Remove build 7000 send feedback link from your windows 7