Month: February 2011

Windows 7 has enhanced search feature that enables users to search for files and folders present in the computer efficiently. The search is faster, more accurate and fetches the results in seconds. Windows Explorer saves and remembers these search terms along with locations of the files and visitors for future use.

These items will be shown when you start typing the part of the search term of location of a file or folder.While this is pretty useful you might also want to have a choice to delete them when you don’t want them to show up in the Windows Explorer location bar on in the search bar.

The Easy Way:

In the Windows Explorer window, right-click on the location bar or address bar when it is out of focus and choose “Delete history” from the context menu. This will delete all the files and folders search terms history that were typed in the location bar and search bar. This should delete the file history in your Windows 7.

Alternate Method:

The same can be achieved using Registry Editor as well. Type regedit in the Start Menu search and open the Registry Editor from the results or press Windows button + R to open the Run command and type “regedit” and hit OK to open the Registry Editor.

In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\WordWheelQuery

and delete all the entries (each one corresponds to a search term) present inside this sub key. That is it. Now all your history related to files and folders would be deleted.

Connecting to a wireless network in Windows 7 is pretty much simple and straightforward compared to the days of Windows XP and earlier operating systems. However if you have more than one wireless network available at your home or workplace, you might want to assign priority to these networks to tell your windows to which it should try to connect first. Al though you can choose to a wireless networks from all of the available wireless networks that appear under the network icon in the taskbar, it would be better if your computer connects to your favored networks automatically. This tutorial explains how you can change the priority or order of wireless networks in Windows 7.

Steps:

1. Open the Network and Sharing Center either from link in the network icon in the taskbar or from Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center

Click on the “Manage wireless networks” link found on the left-hand side pane.

2. In the Manage wireless networks window, right-click on the wireless network for which you want to change priority and you can either move it up (giving more priority) or move it down (lesser priority) depending on your usage.

3. Now the order of preference of the wireless networks used by your Windows will be changed.

You are now done with setting up the priority order for your wireless networks. So from now on, Windows will try to connect to the first one wireless network in the priority list. If it isn’t available, then it will try the next connection and so on. You can also change the settings to not connect to a particular wireless connection automatically.

If you are looking to change the order of priority among the various wired and wireless network cards on your computer, read our popular post on changing the network cards priority order in Windows.