Disable Windows 7 ‘Aero Shake’
One of the interesting features about Window’s 7 upgraded Aero interface is the ability to quickly minimize all window except for the one active. With Aero Shake, you can grab any window by title bar and just ’shake’ it back and forth to minimize other windows. Its a very neat feature but just in case someone finds it annoying, luckily there is a way to disable it.
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Automatically Log On To Windows 7
This feature bypasses the Windows login screen and allows Windows 7 to automatically logon to a specific user at startup. If you share your computer and have multiple accounts, setting your computer
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Clear Recently Open Items and Documents on Restart
For convenience, Windows saves your recently open applications and documents on the start menu for easy quick access. Ever wonder how you can clear the clutter from the Recent Items menu every time computer restarts? Clearing the Recent Items also clears out the Jump List.
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Change And View Workgroup Name
By default on every newly installation Windows automatically creates a workgroup and gives it a default name ‘WORKGROUP‘. Computers on a workgroup can easily share common resources and responsibilities such as file and printer sharing.
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Add New User Accounts
If you’ve just begun using Windows 7 you may have notice the UI (user interface) for adding new users in Windows 7 has completely changed from previous versions of Windows. In any event, if you share your computer, you may want to consider creating separate individual accounts for each user in your house hold.
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Defragging Multiple Drives In Windows XP
Were all familiar with fragmented hard disk and how it can slow a computer down to a snail. Also the time it takes for Windows to fully defrag your system is unbearable because it various upon computer speed, hard disk size and how fragmented the hard disk has become.
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Force Applications To Open Maximized
This tip resolves having to always resize the application screen. It will either force to open to maximize or minimized and also normal window. All that needs to be done is to right-click on the application’s
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Resolve ‘The Event Log Is Full’ Error
If you are having this problem there are two methods which you can take. One is to configure Windows to automatically delete the very last event log to create space for the newest event log which
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Create Sound Notification For Caps Lock Key
This has occur to me on numerous occasions where I am chatting with friends and family on the internet, midway through my message I realize I have ‘CAPS LOCK‘ enable. Wish there was a way to notify you that ‘CAPS LOCK‘ is enable? Luckily there is……
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Locate Missing USB or External Hard Drives On XP
Ever inserted a USB thumb drive or external hard drive into your computer and realize the device did not appear under ‘MY COMPUTER‘ ? Most likely Window has assign it a drive letter which was already assigned to a different
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