1.In your Explorer window,click Organize then click Folder and search options

2.Go to to View tab ,then you can check the checkbox of Always show icons, never thumbnails then click OK to disable thumbnails preview in windows 7 explorer

Please be noted you need to log on with an administrator account to do the below steps

Shrink a partition

1.Type partition in your search box then press Enter to launch Disk Management

2.Right click the partition you want to shrink and click Shrink Volume …

3.Enter the account of size you want to shrink from the partition then click Shrink,eg:I shrink 2000M size from my E: partition

4.Done.Then you can see there are 2000M(1.95G) disk space been shrinked

Extand a partition

1.Right-click the partition you wan to extand,then click Extand Volume…

2.In the wizard window,click Next ,then enter the amount of space you want to extend for this partition

3.Click Finish ,Done

Note:To extend a partition ,pls make sure there are unallocated or free space after the partition.Or you need to use 3rd party tool to expand a partition

1.Download wmpband.dll from below link .(You can right-click Computer then click Properties to check your Win 7 is 32bit or 64bit)

                                 wmpband-32bit

                                 wmpband-64bit

2.Unzip the .zip file and put wmpband.dll to your C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player

3.Open an Elevated Command Prompt   (Press Yes if prompted by UAC)

4.Run the below 3 commands one by one in your command prompt window

sc stop WMPNetworkSvc
 
regsvr32 "%programfiles%\Windows Media Player\wmpband.dll"
 
sc start WMPNetworkSvc

5.Restart your WMP and Minimize it,right click your taskbar to enable taskbar toolbar for Windows Media Player

1.Click Start then type regedit then press Enter to open registry editor

2.Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop ,in the right pane ,double-click wallpaper and change it’s value to your own wallpaper file(eg: C:\wallpaper\wallpaper.jpg ) ,then click OK

3.In the left pane ,right-click item Desktop and click Permissions.. ,then click Advanced

4.Go to Owner tab and change the owner to yourself (Only 2 choices,one a administrator one is your user account)

5.Click Add to add everyone to security group,then select account everyone and grant it the Read permission(Do not set to Full control or special permissions)

6.Click Advanced again,then clear the check box of Include inheritable permission from this object’s parent ,and click Remove on the popped up window , then click OK twice then exit Registry Editor

7.Go the folder (Eg: C:\wallpaper ),copy your wallpaper file to here and rename to wallpaper.jpg ,then reboot to enjoy your new wallpaper

8.To change your wallpaper ,log off  then log in is ok  ,no reboot needed.

1.Press key F5 to refresh your desktop then try to delete it again

2.Go to the desktop folder ,C:\users\<your user name>\desktop ,then try to delete the item

3.If you get the error message like “The action can’t be completed because file is open…”,pls follow the below post to end the process which is using the item you want to remove

Windows 7 how to Delete File being used

4.Reboot and try again

5.If your issue is cannot delete icon from desktop,you can refer

How to delete Windows 7 unremovable desktop icons

6.If all the above steps do not work,you may need to 3-rd party tool such as File Assassin or Unlocker or Delete Doctor

7.If you just want to remove recycle bin icon or other system icons,pls refer:
How to hide or show Recycle Bin on the desktop in windows 7

1.Click Start ,go to All programs — Accessories ,then click Command Prompt (Or click Start  type cmd in search box ,then press Enter)

2.To enable hibernate , type in command powercfg -h on then press Enter,to disable hibernate just type in command powercfg -h off then press enter

powercfg -h on

or

powercfg -h off

3.Exit command prompt window,now you have finished enable or disable hibernate in windows 7,and you can continue below steps to specify how long your laptop is inactive before hibernating

4.Go to Control Panel(small icons view) and click Power Options ,then click Change plan settings of your current power plan

4.Click Change advanced power settings

5.Navigate to Sleep and Hibernate after  to set a specified time

6.Click Ok to enable your setting.All done,now your windows 7 will hibernate after the specified time

On the Desktop, press and hold the Ctrl (Control) key then roll your mouse wheel up  and down until you have the custom icon size you want, then release the Ctrl key

Metho Two

On the desktop,right-click an empty area,go to view ,then select Large icons or Medium icons or Small icons to change desktop icon size(see screenshot below)

1.Open Folder Options in Windows explorer ,and show hidden files

2.Then go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs ,If you can see accessories folder there,maybe it’s hidden,then you can go to up level,and right-click Programs and select Properties then clear the check box of hidden

3.If you cannot see accessories folder under the above path,maybe it was removed or moved the other place,in this case you can

a)If you know it was moved to other place,then search your computer to find it and move it back the to correct path

b)Copy the accessories folder from another computer

c) If system protection is turned on,you can right-click folder Programs ,click Properties and go to Previous Versions tab to restore your accessories folder

Normally the reason is your exe file association was changed,and just follow below steps to check and fix this problem.

1.Open a command prompt.(Click on Start,go to All Programs / Accessories ,right-click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator)

2.In the Command Prompt windows,type assoc | find “exe” then press Enter to check if your exe association was changed.If the value of .exe is not  exefile,pls type assoc .exe=exefile and press Enter to restore your exe association.(See screenshot)

3.Reboot and try again.

1.Click on Start,go to All Programs / Accessories ,right-click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator

2.To enable Trim command in windows 7 ,just type in the below command and press ENTER

fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0

2.To disable Trim command in windows 7 ,just type in the below command and press ENTER

fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1

3.To check the status of Trim,type the below command and press ENTER.

(1 mean TRIM is disabled, 0 mean TRIM is enabled)

fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

Enable AHCI in Windows 7

1.Click Start,type regedit in the search box then press ENTER

2.In the Registry Editor windows,browser to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-System-CurrentControlSet-Services-Msahci

3.In the right pane of Msahci , double-click Start and change it’s value to 0 (Number zero)

4.Exit registry editor and reboot and  go to BIOS to enable AHCI,then just follow the instructions to install AHCI driver.