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Thursday, July 5, 2012

How to Move / Show “Navigation Pane” at Right in Windows 7 Explorer?

Here is another interesting stuff for Windows customization lovers. We have told you in past how to move "Details Pane" at top in Windows Vista and Windows 7 Explorer:
How to Move / Show “Details Pane” at Top in Windows Vista and 7 Explorer?
Today its turn of "Navigation Pane"! Navigation Pane is shown at left in Windows Explorer and helps you in switching to drives and directories with the help of a single mouse click.
This article will help you in moving Navigation Pane to right in Windows 7 Explorer. Following is a preview of the output:



Believe me it looks great and I found it quite easy to use. If you also want to move Navigation Pane to right-side area of Windows 7 Explorer, simply follow these simple steps:
1. To move the Navigation Pane to right-side, you'll need to edit "%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll" in Resource Hacker and replace lots of occurrence of "Left" test string with "Right". You'll need to replace it in following sections of the file while editing it in Resource Hacker:
UIFILE -> 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 31, 46, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58
It'll require expertise and a small mistake will make your system not bootable.
For your convenience, we are sharing ready-made Shell32.dll file. This file is available for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) Windows 7 editions.
Download Shell32.dll File for Windows 7 (32-bit)
Download Shell32.dll File for Windows 7 (64-bit)
2. Once you download the file, extract it using 7-Zip or WinRAR and you'll get the required Shell32.dll file.
3. Now you'll need to replace existing Shell32.dll file present in "Windows\System32" folder with this new downloaded one.
4. Once you take ownership, rename original "Shell32.dll" file present in "System32" folder to "Shell32_backup.dll".
5. Now copy your new downloaded "Shell32.dll" file to "System32" folder.
6. Restart your system and after restart Windows will start using your new Shell32.dll file and you'll get Navigation Pane at right-side of Windows Explorer.

[Direct Download Links] Windows 8 Release Preview (RC Build)

As you know that Microsoft has released "Release Preview" (Release Candidate) build of Windows 8 to public which can be downloaded using following topic:
Windows 8 Release Preview (RC Build) Released, Download Now
For your convenience, we are going to share direct download links for Windows 8 Release Preview build so that you don't need to go anywhere else. Just click on the download link and it'll start downloading Windows 8 Release Preview to your PC:
Windows_8_New_Logo.png
English
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Arabic
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Chinese (Simplified)
64-bit (x64) Download (3.4 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.6 GB)
Chinese (Traditional)
64-bit (x64) Download (3.4 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.6 GB)
French
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
German
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Japanese
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Korean
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Portuguese (Brazil)
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Russian
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Spanish
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Swedish
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
Turkish
64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB)
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB)
When you'll run Windows 8 Release Preview setup, it'll ask for a product key. You can use following product key provided by Microsoft:
TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF

3 Application Compatibility Registry Tweaks to Boost Windows Vista and Windows 7 Performance

We all know about "Application Compatibility" feature of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It helps you in running old software programs which are not compatible with new Windows versions. It monitors your system and whenever you run a program, it looks through a compatibility database. If it finds a match for the running application, it offers you the solution or compatibility fixes. If a match is not found, it shows a message that the application has a known problem with current Windows version.
Application compatibility feature comes with 3 main components:
  • Application Compatibility Engine
  • Program Compatibility Assistant
  • SwitchBack Compatibility Engine
Application Compatibility Engine is the main part of the system loader and performs the check through program compatibility database.
Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) monitors user initiated programs for known compatibility issues at run time and provides recommended solutions to the user.
SwitchBack Compatibility Engine provides older system behavior to older applications and new system behavior to new applications.
All these 3 components are enabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Turning off these features will boost your system performance. However it may degrade the compatibility of older applications and may not block known incompatible applications from installing. Also you'll not receive solutions to known compatibility issues when running applications.
Turning off "Application Compatibility" feature is useful for people who like faster systems and want to achieve maximum performance from their systems and are aware of compatibility of the applications they are using.
So if you want to make your Windows faster and don't care about application compatibility, you can follow these instructions to turn application compatibility feature off:
1. Type regedit in RUN or Start Menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\
3. Create a new key AppCompat under Windows key.
4. Select new AppCompat key and in right-side pane, create following 3 new DWORD values:
  • DisableEngine
  • DisablePCA
  • SbEnable
5. Set values of DisableEngine and DisablePCA to 1 and value of SbEnable to 0
6. If you are using 64-bit Windows edition, you'll also need to follow the same steps 3-5 for following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\
7. That's it. Close Registry Editor and restart your system to take effect.
Now you should notice faster system performance but you'll be unable to enjoy application compatibility feature.
PS: If you want to restore default settings and want to enable application compatibility feature, just remove the 3 DWORD values created in step 4.
NOTE: If you don't want to modify Registry manually and want a ready-made Registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it:

Download Registry Script