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Tweak Your Windows 7 with EnhanceMySe7en

Windows 7 is overall quite satisfying but still if you need to tweak your system for better performance and stability there is always 3rd party tweaking tools. EnhanceMySe7en is a free tool which takes care of the Windows registry, disk clean up, disk defragmentation, start up management , and all other such sort of things [...] (more…)

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Measure Performance Of Your Hardware With Windows Experience Index In Windows 7

It is very important that you must have good analysis of your system and that you should run only those applications which suit your hardware specifications. Windows Experience Index is one the most popular tool which lets you measure performance of the key hardware components like processor, memory, graphics chip, primary hard disk, etc. It [...] (more…)

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Exploring Windows 7 Font Manager

Almost all releases of Microsoft’s Windows don’t have any remarkable utility to manage fonts and people have to rely mostly on third party utilities to work with fonts. Microsoft’s upcoming windows 7 has introduced a very cool font management interface. The new Windows 7 Font manager will include the ability to group, install, uninstall, preview [...] (more…)

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How To Configure GMail Account With Microsoft Outlook 2010

Microsoft Outlook is the most powerful and intuitive e-mail client software. Microsoft’s Outlook 2010 provides  a very rich set of e-mail management tools to help you better manage your emails with a cool user interface. If you have a GMail account, then configuring the account with Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a piece-of-cake. (more…)

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How To Backup And Restore Important Files/Folder In Windows 7

In the world of computers, always prepare for the worst. Almost all versions of Microsoft Windows provide some data backup utility but these are limited to some basic features only. Now, Windows 7 provides you with an enhanced utility to backup and restore your important data in a very easy way. Windows 7′s Backup & [...] (more…)

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Exploring Windows 7 Parental Controls

What Is Parental Controls Parental Controls let parents restrict which games their children can play, which programs they can use, and which websites they can visit ,etc. This feature was originally introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista but was limited to website-filtering capabilities and some other basic features, but the upcoming Windows 7 has added many [...] (more…)

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What Is Windows 7 Libraries And How To Use It

What Is Windows 7 Libraries The upcoming windows 7 has introduced the concept of Libraries which lets you organize your data in a more professional way. Libraries are actually the collection of folders on the computer system. As you know that many users do not save their documents, images and other files in one place [...] (more…)

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Windows 7 Disk Defragmentation

The defragmentation process searches your disk partitions and makes sure that the stored files are in one contiguous piece which results in better system performance. If you want to maintain your file system then the easiest and perhaps the most important way is that you should routinely defrag your drives. The windows 7 has improved [...] (more…)

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Use AppLocker To Stop Unauthorized Programs From Running In Windows 7

It is a common security tip that you should run only trusted software, if you are running an unauthorized app then your system might be on risk and can get infected anytime. The upcoming Windows 7 is more conscious about your system security.  AppLocker tool lets you specify which programs to run in your system. [...] (more…)

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How To Open A Folder In New Process In Windows 7

In order to save system’s resources, the upcoming Windows 7 opens all folders in the single process, i.e. all open folders are being controlled by single explorer.exe process. But there is a huge problem, if  one open folder crashes then all your open folders will get closed too. The solution to this problem is to [...] (more…)

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Create/Attach Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) In Windows 7

Virtaul Hard Disk (VHD) is basically a file format  that contains complete structure of a hard disk. It is a virtual machine hard disk that can reside on a native host file system encapsulated within a single file. It is used to store virtual operating systems,  their related program files and it acts like a [...] (more…)

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Disable Windows 7 Smart Window Arrangement

Windows 7 lets you arrange your windows in an intelligent way with the help of Smart Window Arrangement.  For example, it lets you maximize the window by dragging it to the top and minimize the window by dragging it to the bottom to the taskbar. Although it is very useful feature but if you find [...] (more…)