If you’ve recently switched to Windows Vista or 7 from Windows XP, you may have noticed that the Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard is missing. Without this handy tool, downloading your digital photos and scans to your computer is very inconvenient. Unfortunately, you can’t download the Scanner and Camera Wizard for Windows Vista or 7

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Download and Edit Digital Photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery

Many people who have been using Windows 7 for awhile might be surprised to learn that there is a not very well known secret right-click feature that can be used for all sorts of purposes. To see how the “secret” trick works, bring up any file manager, for this example, we’ll use Windows Explorer .

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Take Advantage of Window 7′s “Secret” Right-Click Feature

Desktop wallpaper sets the mood for all we do on our Windows-based computers. But, even the best vacation photographs grow stale after a while. To keep energy flowing while behind a computer screen, we should change our desktop wallpaper often—or at least periodically.

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Rotate Your Desktop Wallpaper Automatically with Photos from Flickr

Sometimes it seems that Microsoft assigns a team of software engineers to take a look at every single aspect of their Windows operating team between versions, and then tells them to make suggestions as to what might make their part cooler; how else to explain the update to the simple clock in Windows 7? In its normal default status, the clock is pretty simple, it’s just what we’ve all come to expect with the clock on our computer; in Windows 7, it looks like this: Then, when you click on it, you get this: But clicking on Change date and time settings… brings up this popup menu: Under the Date and Time tab, are buttons for allowing you to change your date and time, as well as your time zone; nothing new here.

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Use Windows 7 Advanced Clock Features

If you have a list of file names in a directory you want to copy to a spreadsheet or text document, normally you would copy and paste each name individually. However, you can easily copy all file names to a text document for free using the command prompt in Windows. No need to download other software.

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Copy File Names from Windows Explorer to a Text List