Brandon Checketts Blog Archive How to shrink a partition with unmovable files in Windows 7. For some reason Windows cant figure out how to move some files around on disk. When attempting to shrink a volume, it will only allow you to shrink it to where the last immovable file is located. These are some things I found necessary to temporarily get rid of those immovable files so that an NTFS volume could be shrunk. Disable System Restore Right click on Computer Properties System Protection System Restore2 Disable Virtual Memory Right click on Comptuer Properties Advanced System Settings Performance Settings Advanced Tab Virtual Memory Change No Paging File Set. Run Disk Cleanup to get rid of Thumbnails, Temporary Internet Files, and a bunch of other files that it makes no sense why they are immovable. Restart the computer to have 1 and 2 take effect. Try to shrink the volume again. If it still is unreasonably large, you will then have to look at Event Viewer to find which file is at the boundary. Right click on Computer Manage Event Viewer Windows Logs Application. Click on Filter Current Log, and put 2. Event ID3 Click on the latest event and look through the detail to find the problematic file. You can then attempt to delete that file or set of files manually. You may have to restart into safe mode to delete some files. It took me about 5 loops of doing the above before I was finally able to shrink my volume to the size that I wanted. After successful, you can then re enable the features that you want namely System Restore and Virtual Memory. Windows 7 Lets you Change the Logon Background Image Winhelponline. Just what the title says Windows 7 supports the ability to load images into the background of the login screen without the use of third party software or manual hacks. This excellent tip was published by Rafael Rivera in his Within Windows blog. To change the logon desktop background, you just need to complete two simple steps. Thanks Credits to the Within Windows blog. Step I Creating a Registry Value. Click Start, type Regedit. ENTER HKEYLOCALMACHINE Software Microsoft Windows Current. Version Authentication Logon. UI Background. 2. How to Clear Windows 7 Cache. There are several caches in Windows that are used to temporarily store files for quick retrieval. When these caches get too bloated. Recently Ive been playing around with some of the customization options in Windows 7, particularly enjoying themes, setting my own desktop backgrounds and alerts. Change System32 Files Windows 7' title='Change System32 Files Windows 7' />Create a new DWORD value named OEMBackground. Double click OEMBackground and set 1 as its value data. Exit the Registry Editor. Editors Note Ive observed that it also works if you create the OEMBackground value in the following Policy key HKEYLOCALMACHINE Software Policies Microsoft Windows System or Use the following Group Policy setting in Windows 7. Start the Group Policy Editor gpedit. Go to the following branch Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System Logon. Set the following option to Enabled. Always use custom logon background. Close the Group Policy Editor. Step II Include the Wallpaper Image JPGNext step is to place the background wallpaper JPEG file in the following folder C WindowsSystem. Note that the info folder doesnt exist by default. I am trying to set audit controls on a number of files listed in ACLsWin. WindowsSystem32 for example, aaclient. How can I completely disable UAC on Windows 7 Also, I know my own benefits, but what are the risks This article provides a detailed example of the phases in an actual Windows 7 startup including registry entries. On my Dell studio xps I have made all the changes needed in explorer to be able to see and change hidden system files Enable check Display the contents of system. You need to create the info and backgrounds folders manually. Place the background image file name it as background. Default. jpg into the above folder. As for the file naming info and maximum supported file size, check out Rafaels post Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization. Be sure to check out Rafaels blog for more information and screenshots And someone even wrote a small utility to change the Windows 7 logon background. About the author. Ramesh Srinivasan founded Winhelponline. He is passionate about Microsoft technologies and has a vast experience in the ITe. Copy File In Windows Terminal Commands on this page. S industry delivering support for Microsofts consumer products. He has been a Microsoft MVP 2. Windows support forums.