It’s time to move on from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7. Windows 7 RTM should be released by this October, you can safely move from XP or Vista to recently released Windows 7 RC.
Microsoft recently released Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor beta that helps you check if your system is compatible with Windows 7.
This [...]
08.25.09 | Computer Tips And Tricks | admin
Download the Windows 7 Beta and burn it to a DVD
Once you have downloaded a copy of Windows 7, you will need to burn it to a DVD in order to do a fresh installation. Burn the ISO to a DVD.
Step 1: Partition you hard drive
06.30.09 | Windows 7 Tips | admin
Windows Vista and XP’s Autorun have become a hotbed for virus & malware activity, notably the Conficker worm spreading primarily via USB flash drives. To stop the spreading, Microsoft said it’s making a change to the default way of how Windows 7 handles USB drives. The first release candidate of Windows 7, which will soon [...]
06.25.09 | Computer News | admin
Before you jump into editing your registry it is highly advisable to first create backup of your registry.
1. Open your registry editor. Click Start>Go to RUN and type REGEDIT.
2. Navigate to the following keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, scroll down
04.18.09 | Windows XP Tips | admin
Windows 7: The Ups
It’s one of the more maligned features of Windows 7: The new Taskbar. There is no longer the uncomfortable mental leap from where you clicked when you wanted to start a program to where you clicked when wanting to access a running instance. With Windows 7, these are one in the same. [...]
04.16.09 | Software Review | admin
New computers don’t necessarily mean better, faster and stronger anymore. Netbooks mean smaller, cheaper, lighter, and many consumers are quite happy to use XP, the operating system they had gotten used to during Vista’s unusually long development. Microsoft simply did not foresee this new trend occurring when it was working on Vista; the demand for [...]
04.15.09 | Computer News | admin
Follow the steps below:
1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.*/q” (without the quotes) and save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select “Run” and type “gpedit.msc”.
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
03.22.09 | Windows XP Tips | admin
Some games require fixes to run in Vista. These games require the latest version of Directx9. Vista does not actually contain a full installation of Directx9, just some elements for compatibility purposes.
To install Directx 9c on Windows Vista:
1. Download the latest DirectX 9 redistributable file from Microsoft.com.
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your [...]
02.10.09 | Windows Vista Tips | admin
No matter how stable, any (Windows) operating system requires proper care, optimization and tuning to keep it fast and responsive
01.13.09 | Windows XP Tips | admin