There are a lot of tricks out there that let you tweak properties of Windows 7 using registry edit hacks. If you'd rather skip the manual hacking, SetteMaxer (http://tevfikbinen.turkiye.it/Projects/SetteMaxer/) is offering a small freeware application that lets you tweak a whole bunch of Windows 7 settings/properties directly in their application without resorting to regedit. It's a time saver, it saves you from messing up your registry, and it may tweaks in it that you didn't even know you could make.