How to Disable Automatic Window Arrangement in Windows 7 (Video and Steps)
Windows 7 let’s you maximize a window by dragging it to the top of the screen, or size a window to half the screen by dragging it to the left or right side of the screen. I hate it–I already know...
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How to Test (and Understand) Hard Disk Drive Performance
That’s a screenshot from my favorite free tool for testing hard disk performance–HD Tune (there’s a pro version you can buy, too). That’s from my Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 1.5 TB SATA drive backup...
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Change Startup Programs in Windows 7
One of the best ways to improve your system performance is to remove any unnecessary startup applications. In Windows Vista, I suggested changing startup programs using Windows Defender....
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Windows 7 Product Key–You Don’t Need It
During installation, you can skip entering the Windows 7 Product Key–just leave the field blank (as shown above). Windows will run normally for 30 days, but it’ll be nagging you to enter the product...
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How to Buy a Hard Disk–Hard Drive Buyer’s Guide
If your computer seems slow and you’ve already upgraded your memory (say, to 2GB or higher), your next step might be to upgrade the hard disk. First, check out your current hard disk’s performance...
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Windows 7 Check Update Level (how to)
Here’s how to check which updates have been installed on your Windows 7 computer: Click Start, type installed updates, and then press Enter. As shown above, Windows displays all the Microsoft updates...
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How to Speed Up Your Website
Over at the Official Google Webmaster Blog, Matt warns that Google might (someday) factor in page load times when returning search results. In other words, if your website is slow, it might fall off...
View ArticleFirefox 3.6 Improvements
Firefox 3.6 has a couple of minor improvements. The one user’s will most appreciate is instant previews of personas, which are skins for Firefox. Basically, it shows a picture over the unused portions...
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Review of Online Backup Services
I go on and on about how important backup up your data is. All hard disks fail eventually, and when they do, you’ll lose all your stuff–including your personal pictures and home videos. So, you need...
View ArticleHaving Trouble Finding Those Hidden Control Panel Applets?
Ever have trouble remembering where to find specific Control Panel applets? How about the one for configuring Windows Defender in Windows 7? Its not on the Start menu. By default its not visible in...
View ArticleCreating a Custom DVD or CD for Troubleshooting and Eliminating Viruses
Ever have a friend ask you to help them repair their computer only to find that its so bloated with malware that you think they should just nuke the site from orbit? Some recent malware can be quite...
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Stop Windows Update from Nagging You
I get it, Windows. You downloaded an update and you want to restart. I postpone it four hours, which means six times a day, for the last three weeks, you’ve bugged me with the same stupid prompt....
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Open a .VHD File in Windows 7
Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD) files are used by Virtual PC and Virtual Server, and created by Windows Backup when you make a system image backup. If you ever need to access files contained within a .VHD,...
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Make a Picture Bigger (Photoshop How To)
Question: Can I add extra pixels in a picture saved im my computer by Photoshop or something else for enlarge or resize it?? Lauro Brasil Answer: Yes, but there’s hardly ever any reason to. When you...
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Windows 7 Video Training
I created a Windows 7 video training course for InfiniteSkills.com to help people get started with Windows 7. Here’s the course outline–click the links to view the beginning (and most basic) subjects...
View ArticleSoftware for Organizing, Tagging, and Captioning Photographs
Question from a reader: Tony, I don’t have 10,000 photographs but sometimes it seems like it. I would appreciate your opinion for the best program for organizing my files on the computer. I can’t seem...
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Creating and Customizing ISO Images
Microsoft offers several no-cost tools for burning DVDs and CDs. For example, if you insert a blank, writable disc AutoPlay will display a menu with options for burning audio or data discs. Windows...
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Find and Free Up that “Missing” Disk Space
A reader dropped a comment onto another page with a question that I’ve asked myself many times… I wonder if you can help with this perhaps related problem. Running Windows Vista, it reports the hard...
View ArticleComparing Digital Camera Noise Reduction in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS5,...
Here, I compare Digital Camera Noise Reduction in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS5, and Noise Ninja. Lightroom is the quickest for those times when the picture doesn’t have to be perfect, and Noise Ninja...
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Review of Image Space Media (ISM)
Updated 2/6/2012 after ISM’s merger, which seems to have dramatically changed their pay structure. Updated 7/1/2011 with information about ISM’s “Photostitial Units”, ads that appear automatically and...
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