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How to connect Dual/Multiple monitors on your PC/Laptop

Tony — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:59:11 +0000

Did you ever think of connecting two monitors to your computer? If you are using a laptop – why not connect one more display device and enhance the desktop real estate space? A “dual” monitor setup is advantageous in many many ways. You will be quite amazed to know how easy it is to connect two monitors to your computer. First of all lets have a look at the advantages of having two monitors. Two monitors connected to a computer works as two different desktops. It is not a read more

Essential Windows 7 applications you must have

Tony — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:18:21 +0000

Here I am listing some essential application that you must use on your Windows 7 to make it more useful,productive and beautiful. Lets start with some really cool free applications. Well lets start with much needed photo editing application, an alternative for Photoshop. 1. GIMP Although windows 7 comes with much upgraded paint software, it can never be compared with an application like Photoshop. And you know photoshop comes with a price tag. Here comes GIMP a free application that can read more

How to improve your PC audio quality

Tony — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:47:20 +0000

We all are great fans of music and we use softwares like Windows media player, Vlc media player etc. to process the sound. Have you ever given a thought about how these stuffs really work? Well our PC has a hardware for processing sound. Most motherboards have built in audio processing capabilities but that’s for the average sound enthusiast! What if you are a sound maniac? A sound and audio freak who likes to listen music in 7 channel and Dolby quality? Obviously you should buy an read more

How to speed up your Windows 7 without compromising performance

Tony — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:18:34 +0000

Many of us have been using Windows for a long period of time – may be you guys have started from Windows 95 like me. From there it has been a long way till the recent Windows 7. Windows XP started the graphics revolution which continued through Vista (but compromised OS speed for its luxury graphics and huge demand for system resources) and reached up to Windows 7. When Windows Vista entered the market, the main reason many a guys switched to vista from Xp was for its killer graphics read more

Install Windows 7/Vista from Pendrive -Boot from USB

Tony — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:06:19 +0000

Do you own a laptop ? If yes, then you also must have faced a problem similar to mine atleast once in your laptop saga. A common problem with most of laptops is its DVD RW frequently showing complaints. It wont read some disks, some disks may get crashed inside and in some cases (like mine) your DVD RW may not even show any signs of life at all. Though a DVD RW is of not much use now a days, we all still find it unavoidable for Installing/Repairing your operating system – may it be read more

How To: Enable Quick Launch Toolbar In Windows 7

Tony — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:18:37 +0000

You know that Quick Launch Bar is no longer available in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch.But some users may find that they really need the Quick Launch bar back like it was in Windows Vista and XP. Windows 7 doesn’t give you any instant way to bring it back, but it is still possible.Because Microsoft has not read more

How To: Disable Or Turn Off Taskbar Thumbnail Preview Feature In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:09:20 +0000

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is an interesting feature in Windows 7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. So it is better to disable this feature on low configuration computers running on Windows 7. For this you can adopt any of the following three methods: Method 1: Throgh Group Policy Editor: Click on start and type on search bar gpedit.msc and press read more

How To: Speed Up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:03:52 +0000

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is a new feature in Windows7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons.Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. But if you have enough hardware resources , then it would add an extra appeal to your Windows 7 user interface .But one issue with Thumbnail Preview feature is, it takes some time(about 400 ms) to display thumbnail once you hover your mouse on taskbar icon by that time read more

How To: Run Windows Sidebar Gadgets With UAC Disabled In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:34:22 +0000

In Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7, desktop sidebar and UAC(User Account Control) are closely related. This means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work. The reason for this is that Microsoft made the assumption that the sidebar process would never be run in an elevated state. This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget in windows 7. But in previous Microsoft’s operating system Windows Vista, read more

How To: Unlock Hidden Regional Themes In Windows 7

Tony — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:47:22 +0000

Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 has 5 themes by default, but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden & locked themes provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.Since these hidden themes are installed along with your Windows 7 installation, you can easily unlock/unhide these hidden Windows 7 Themes for regional countries. To unlock Windows 7 hidden regional themes: Open Windows Explorer and read more

How To: Fix The Bug “Windows Update Crashes Windows Explorer In Windows 7″

Tony — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:36:33 +0000

When you try to run Windows Update from Internet Explorer (Safety – Windows Update) in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 or sometimes when you try to run Windows Update directly or installing an application, the explorer session might crash and stop responding. Microsoft has identified this issue in Windows 7 may be related to a configuration change in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) client.Any process that calls WinSqmStartSession in ntdll.dll will read more

How To: Use ClearType Text Tuner In Windows 7

Tony — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:56:15 +0000

ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of the text on existing LCDs,Flat panel monitors and other display devices.ClearType font technology makes the text on your computer screen sharp and clear.To get the full benefit of ClearType font technology, you’ll need a high-quality, flat-panel monitor, such as LCD or plasma. ClearType is turned on by default in Microsofts new operating system, Windows 7. Windows 7 also includes a ClearType Text read more

How To: Prevent Use Of Offline Files In Windows 7 Or In Windows Vista

Tony — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:17:41 +0000

About Offline Files In Windows Vista/Windows 7: Offline Files is a very useful feature in Windows operating systems including Windows Vista and Windows 7.This maintains a local cache of remote files and folders on your Windows computer, so that they are available to you when you are working offline, improving the experience for mobile (laptop) users.You continue to access these files in the same way that you accessed them when you were online because the shared network resource paths and name read more

How To: Clear Print Queue In Windows Vista Or In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:36:43 +0000

It is a fact that Microsoft Windows won’t allow anyone to remove a hanging print job.This is because the Windows operating systems including Windows Vista and Windows 7 has to wait for the confirmation from the printer.But if the printer also hangs,the print job is stuck in the queue.A print queue is a list of all the print jobs waiting to print on a particular printer.One way to solve this annoying problem is to restart the Windows computer.But in some cases even a computer restart read more

How To: Configure VPN Connections In Windows 7

Tony — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:45:51 +0000

Many people don’t know how to configure the computer for accepting VPN(Virtual Private Network) connections in Windows 7.A VPN(Virtual Private Network) is a private network created over a public one.A VPN is a method of connecting to a private network by a public network like the Internet.There are basically two connections in VPN one for Incoming & another for outgoing.This tutorial will help you to configure your computer to connect to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Windows read more

How To: Use Display Color Calibration Tool To Calibrate Your Display In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 includes a feature called,Display Color Calibration tool to calibrate your display.Calibrating your display ensures that the colors are displayed correctly on your monitor.You can control the display factors such as gamma, adjust brightness and contrast and color balance.Display Color Calibration tool in Windows 7 allows you to set your Color Management much more accurately than ever before.Display Color Calibration Wizard in Windows 7 also read more

How To: Delete Undeletable Previous Operating System Files In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:22:23 +0000

You know the fact that Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade is possible and Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade is not possible.When you install Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 on a different hard disk partition and the data from your previous operating system(say Windows Vista) becomes Undeletable in Windows 7.Usually this problem of undeletable previous operating system files and folders in Windows 7 is due to the Access control list of these object is associated with SID of old read more

How To: Enable Or Turn On Guest Mode Feature In Windows 7

Tony — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:11:33 +0000

Microsoft’s new generation operating system Windows 7 includes a hidden and interesting feature called Guest Mode that is primarily aimed at shared consumer PCs that need to be returned to their original running state after being used by a child or guest.Windows 7 Guest Mode isn’t the same as the “Guest Account”, sometimes enabled on your system.It is just a feature of the User Accounts setup that an administrator can enable or disable, with one sub-option to control read more

How To: Fix Desktop.ini Pop Up During Windows 7 Startup

Tony — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:34:36 +0000

Symptoms: You may have noticed that a Notepad window will automatically open upon every system startup or reboot in Windows 7.This opened Notepad window will open desktop.ini with the following text: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 Causes: This is a bug in Microsofts new generation operating system Windows 7, that desktop.ini file been mistakenly been placed or created on the Windows startup folder. To fix for this Windows 7 desktop.ini read more

How To: Activate Hidden Windows 7 Administrator Account

Tony — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:06:03 +0000

Similar to former operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new OS Windows 7 also has a built-in administrator account which is created when it is installed and it is disabled by default.Whenever you want to perform tasks under the administrator account with no UAC (user account control) in Windows 7, you need to enable the administrator account.You can go through this grand Administrator account to solve a problem or blocking rights, or simply activate it and keep it in reserve in read more