Windows 7 compatible games list (32/64)

 

Age of Conan
Audiosurf
Bioshock
Brothers in Arms - Hell's Highway
Burnout Paradise Ultimate
CMR DIRT
Call Of Duty (World At War)
Call Of Duty 4
Call of Juarez DX10 Benchmark
Command and Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath
Command and Conquer Generals/Zero Hour
Counter Strike: Source
Cryostasis
Crysis 32bit
Crysis Warhead 32/64bit
Crysis Wars 32/64bit
DeadSpace
Dawn of War 2 Multiplayer Beta
Devil May Cry 3
Devil May Cry 4
Diablo 2/w mods
Doom 3 1.3.1  (works 2000comp mode)
Dreadnought 64bit demo - works, "paintball" must be selected.
Eve Online
Exodus from the Earth
F.E.A.R
F.E.A.R 2
Guild Wars
GRID
Hawx
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 Death-Match 64bit
Heroes 3
Left 4 Dead
Lost Planet Colonies DX10
NecroVision demo DX10
Medal Of Honour: Pacific Assault
Might and Magic 6
Might and Magic 7
Mass Effect
Mirrors Edge
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights - Mask Of The Betrayer/Storm Of Zehir
NFS Carbon
NFS Most Wanted
NFS Undercover
PES 2009
Prey
Prince Of Persia
PT Boats Knights of the Sea DX10 Benchmark
Quake 3
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Red Alert 3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Rise of the Argonauts
Sacred 2
Silent Hill 5
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow Of Chernobyl
Starcraft Brood War
Super Mario Forever
Test Drive Unlimited
The Last Remnant Benchmark
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Tomb Raider - Underworld
Unreal Tournament 436 GOTY (98/me compmode)
UT 2004
Unreal Tournament 2
Unreal Tournament 3
World of Goo
World of Warcraft

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Windows 7 compatible software list (32/64)

 

Programs

3DMark 05
3Ds Max
7-Zip
A-squared
A4 TECH camera
AIM
AIM 6.8 (32)
AMD Fusion For Gaming 1.0
AOD (AMD OverDrive)
ATF Cleaner
ATI CCC 8.11 Vista64
ATI Catalyst™ Beta Driver Package
AVG 8.5
AVG Internet Security
Ad-Aware
Adobe Audition 3
Adobe CS3 Master Collection
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Reader 9
Advanced System Care 3 Pro
Alcohol
Asus AI Booster
Asus Software Suite
Asus Xonar Drivers and Control panel
Autoruns
Avast Anti virus
Avast Internet Security
Avira AntiVir
BHODaemon
Bit Lord
Bit Torrent
CCleaner
CCleaner
CPU-Z
CPUz
Cakewalk Sonar 8 producer edition
CircleDock (.92 A8)
Combined Community Codec Pack
Comodo Firewall Pro
CoreTemp
Creative Gameport
Creative Mediasource 5
CuteFTP 8.2
Daemon Tools
DamnNFO Viewer
Download Accelerator Plus 9.1
Driver Cleaner.net 3.2
Driver Sweeper
EarthDesk
EasyBCD
Everest
Everest Ultimate
Everest ultimate 4.6
F-Prot anti-virus
FFdShow Tryouts x64
FileZilla
Firefox
Fl Studio
Flashget 1.9.6
Foxit Reader
Fraps
GPUz
Google Earth
Google Talk
Guitar Rig 3.2 (32bit)
HDDLife Pro
HDTune
Hardware Monitor
HijackThis
ImgBurn
Itunes
K-lite 445
Kaspersky Antivirus 8 8.0.0.1015 (win 7 beta version)
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 (8.0.506)
K lite codec pack
Logitech's GamePanel Software 3.01.180(x86)
Logitech G-series Key Profiler
Logitech SetPoint 4.70 (32/64bit)
Malwarebytes
MaxPi
Memset
Microsoft Office 07
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
MobilEdit! 3.0.0.38
Mozilla
NForce 15.23
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3.1 and 3.2
Native Instruments Kontakt 3
Nero 9
Nod32 SS 3.0.667
Nod32 v2.7
Norton Internet Security 2009
Norton internet security
Notepad++
Nvidia 181.20
Nvidia 181.22
Nvidia WDDM 1.1 Driver
OCCT
Open office 3.1
Orthos StressPrime
PerfectDisk 10
PhysX 9.09
Pidgin (IM client)
PowerDVD 8
Power ISO
Power Tab Software
Power iso 4.2
Procmon
RAS Plus
Reaper 2.54
RivaTuner v2.22
Riva tuner
Rivatuner 2.24,
Sonar 6 Producer Edition patched to 6.2(32bit)
Sony E.r.i.c.s.s.o.n Software Suit
Sony Sound Forge
Speedfan
Speedfan 4.3
Spybot – Search & Destroy
Spybot S&D
Steam
SuperPi
TVersity
Teamspeak
Thunderbird (2.0.0.16)
UltraVNC (1.51)
Utorrent
VLC Player
Ventrilo
Virtual Clone Drive
Virtual Earth
VistaCodecs 5.0.9
WinRAR
Winamp 5.54
Windows Home Server
Windows Live 8/BETA
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Player
Winrar 3.71
WorldWide Telescope
X-mouse button control
Xbox 360 Gamepad
Xfire
Yahoo Widgets

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How to Customize or Disable Windows 7’s Action Center

 

Windows 7’s Action Center does a great job of compressing all of Windows’ update/alert/whatever notifications into one icon, but it takes some tweaking to make it show what you want, or disable it entirely.At the How-To Geek’s home away from Lifehacker, his partner in serious Windows customization, Mysticgeek, details the process of defining exactly which kind of system message get displayed through the Action Center’s little white flag icon. It’s all done through the Control Panel and right-click options, no registry hacking required, but the process might not be apparent to Windows 7 newcomers. And for those who don’t want their system to bother them at all, there’s a simple fix for disabling the Action Center for real. Hit the link for a walkthrough full of explanatory screenshots.

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How to Unlock the Windows 7 Hidden Themes

 

The Windows 7 beta has a pack of hidden and locked themes. To unlock hidden themes do the following:
Step 1: Open the Explorer (Windows + E) and go to C:Windowswinsxs
Step 2: Enter *.theme into the search field. Alternately you can use the * sign on the number block.
Step 3: You’ll get the Click me prompt
Step 4: Double-click the themes ZA, US, GB, CA, AU to install them.

 

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Edit hosts file in Windows 7 & Windows Vista

 

his may sound silly suggestion to even post on Windows Reference but will help avoid some annoyance with Windows Vista and Windows 7. The host file is the one where one enters hostname and IP Address pair manually as against being served by a Name server (ex: DNS). As always the “host” file is under C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ or %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\ and hence cannot be edited by normal users.

To edit the host file,

Click Start – search for “Notepad“, right-click and select “Run as Administrator“. This should launch notepad with elevated privileges. Now, open the host file from the File menu, edit and save.

How to Enable the Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7

 

It is a surprising to see that the Quick Launch Bar has not been enlisted in the easy to enable list. Here’s what you gotta to do to enable the Quick Launch Bar.
Step 1:Right-click on the Taskbar and select Toolbars > New Toolbar from the menu.
Step 2: Copy and paste the address provided below into the Address bar ‘%SystemDrive%Users%username%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet Explorer‘ then click the arrow to the right of the Address bar to navigate to the folder.
Step 3: Select the Quick Launch folder listed and click the Select Folder button

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How to Change Windows 7 Log On Screen

 

If you don’t want the same old blue log on screen for your Windows Vista, here’s what you gotta do. Go ahead with the steps below. (An alternative way can be found here: Windows 7 Logon Changer)
Step 1: Download the file – http://www.mediafire.com/?e9y3j3vme0w
Step 2: Click on Save and save the .zip file to the desktop
Step 3: Open the .zip file and extract the .reg file to the desktop
Step 4: Right click the .reg file (On Desktop) and click on Merge.
Step 5: Click on Run, and press Yes, Yes, and OK when prompted
Step 6: Save the custom .jpg image you want to use to the desktop with the name backgroundDefault.jpg
Step 7: Check to see what your primary display screen resolution is. (You can do it by right clicking on any empty space on your desktop and choose screen resolution and then actuate it with your monitor’s specification.)
Step 8: Open Paint, and click on the File icon (top left corner), Open, and navigate to and select the .jpg image from step 6. [NOTE: You can open Paint by typing mspaint.exe in the Start menu search line]
Step 9: In Paint, click on Resize, dot Pixels, uncheck Maintain aspect ratio, then resize the .jpg image to the screen resolution size in step 7 (whatever be yours)
Step 10:Save the .jpg file to the desktop with the exact file name below with the screen resolution size of the image. When completed, close Paint
Step 11: In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:Windowssystem32oobeinfobackgrounds
Step 12: Copy and Paste the .jpg files from step 10, and from step 6 into the C:Windowssystem32oobeinfobackgrounds folder, then close the window
Step 13: You’re logon screen is now changed. You can press Ctrl+Alt+Del to test it. Click on Cancel to return to the desktop.