Alt+tab is the most quickest and easiest way to switch across opened windows and programs but sometimes the size of the small thumbnail in alt+tab switching makes it difficult identify the what is actually going on a particular opened program window.
Alt+Tab Tuner is a free program which helps you increase the size of the thumbnail, and tweak lot more other settings of the thumbnail images of the programs showing while alt+tab switch.
  
As shown in the screenshot of this application, you can change the margins around thumbnails, increase columns in thumbs grid shown, increase the spacing in between thumbnails shown, increase the icon size and shit its location, increase the thumbnail and increase the fading and transparency of alt+tab switch. You can also revert to the old style alt+tab as there in windows xp.
You can get get the layout of alt+tab switching like the one shown below just with minor tweaking.
  
How To Use ?
Using and testing this program is quite simple just, change the options, click apply and then see the changes in alt+tab switching.
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With days passing by now renewable resources of energy are getting depleted and to overcome this problem people are being made aware of the steps one could take for saving energy. In today’s world even smart people like us forget to save energy and thus waste it. Its the electrical products like the Computer or television etc using a lot of energy which we are hardly concerned about even when they are turned on and no work is being performed on them and such appliances either should be turned off or brought to a state where less energy is used.
If energy consumption is considered your Computer consumes a lot and if working under a suitable power plan, will certainly save energy as well. But switching between power plans is very tiresome and uninteresting since one would need to open Control Panel first, then click on Hardware and Sound, further on Power Plans and finally on Choose Power Plan.

Then a window will appear where one would see only two power plans – Balanced and Power Saver, and on the drop down list you will see High Performance plan which was earlier not visible. Isn’t the procedure very boring? To make switching between different Power Plans more convenient a new software has been developed named as Power Plan Assistant.
This software is of great usefulness as it not only lets you switch between different power plans but also enables you to switch between plans automatically by clicking on a few options at the first time of use.

Tasks Performed On Power Plan Assistant

• Switching between power plans becomes more easy by simply clicking left mouse button on the icon appearing in the system tray and from the drop down menu choosing the suitable one.
• One can also enable some options for switching between plans automatically. For example:-

Compatibility

If you have used any of the Dock Applications which allow you to add all your running task into central place where you can launch, Task Dock is one which does it without giving you a  feel that it’s not Windows 7 feature. This application center aligns everything on your Windows 7 Taskbar so it looks like you are docking everything to one place.

Task Dock

Resize Taskbar area

Windows 7 taskbar icons or buttons are quite large they take hell lot of space, so it would be great if they can moved to right or left or in center so as to release some space for some others programs, however you can also make them smaller by resizing the taskbar icons in windows 7

TaskDock is free to use program which allows you to move windows 7 taskbar [ superbar ] icons in the middle center of the taskbar, all the icons shown in the windows 7  taskbar will be always centrally aligned irrespective of the number of taskbar buttons or icons shown at a given point of time.
Even of you have some pinned items in your windows 7 taskbar they will also get centrally aligned with other icons which are there due to temporary, all these icons will be dynamically centrally aligned as per the number of items in windows 7 taskbar aka superbar.
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Windows 7 by default doesn’t remember all the windows explorer’s default position on your desktop. In fact if you move anything beyond the desktop view i.e. like moving it extreme to the end, it will open that again in the scope. Though this feature does have advantage but many users would like Windows to remember individual explorer exact position like you want games to open at right and my computer to always open in left and so on.
Windows Where is an application which can help you achieving this. All you need is to install it and run it with Windows Startup and you are done. It sits on your system tray and monitors what all you open. However it wont remember changes of the child windows i.e. If you traverse from My computer to C and close, it doesn’t make it remember for C but for My computer.
Here is small demo explaining how first windows behave by default and how this software changes it.

Make Windows Remember Explorer Positions

There are times when you may need to know the product key of the windows you are using, you have a right to know your product key however Microsoft does not allow or provide any software which can help you view the product key of your computer, you can also use this free software Microsoft Product Key Finder but I am not sure that it works on both 32 bit and 64 bit version of windows, however it might work also.
We have written another tip on how to retrieve windows serial number which applies to all windows versions till now, including windows 7, You can also recover other software licenses installed on your computer stored in registry with License Crawler. Today we will tell you about another useful utility called WinKeyFinder which can recover windows license key which works on all the versions of windows and also works with both 32 bit and 64 bit of windows, although we have tested this program on our windows 7 ultimate.
   
This application is simply a straight forward application which helps you find the product key in windows, you can copy it save it or print it for any use, it will also display the build number of your windows if there are any service packs installed.
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If you are working on your laptop which has a weak battery which might not last long, In such a case it is advisable for you to customize the powers plans and keep switching across the power plans as per your requirements and to save the battery and get more backup from your battery. It is quite easy to change the power plans in windows 7 without using any utility as it is just a single click thing.
In order to change your power plan quickly in windows 7, click the battery icon in system tray and it will show you the small pop up window where you can change the power plan just by clicking the radio button for that plan – you can also go to advanced power settings by clicking More Power Options to customize the power plan further.
 
We hope you like this simple tip for with windows 7, you can also read more about other windows 7 tips we have written before.