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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

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: 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: Create A Desktop Shortcut To Clear The Clipboard In Windows 7 Or In Vista

Tony — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:58:59 +0000

The Clipboard is a temporary storage area used by all Microsoft’s operating systems including Windows Vista and Windows 7.The information’s such as text, files, graphics, sound, or video can be copied to the Windows Clipboard from one program or location and pasted elsewhere. The Windows Clipboard can only hold one piece of information at a time. Whenever something is copied to the Clipboard, it replaces whatever was there before automatically.In this article i explained how to read more

How To: Test Your RAM or Memory With Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool In Windows 7

Tony — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:45:57 +0000

Microsoft’s new generation operating system Windows 7 contains a boot-time Memory Diagnostic Tool that runs a detailed memory test.The Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool includes a comprehensive set of memory tests. If you are experiencing problems while running Windows 7, you can use the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool to determine whether the problems are caused by failing hardware, such as RAM or the memory system of your motherboard.Also if you are overclocking or tweaking your RAM read more