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6 Essential Tips to Speed up Windows 7

19.03.2010 by · 1 Comment

6 Essential Tips to Speed up Windows 7

Author: Tanmay

Without a doubt, Windows 7 is a much better operating system than its predecessors, but that doesn’t mean it is the speediest of them all. Due to the hardware requirement, those who still have their old computer may not get the same performance as good as they had with Windows XP. Even if the computer comes with all the latest hardware installed, there are still many factors that can substantially slow down the performance. In this article, we are going to show you 6 useful ways to improve the speed and performance of your Windows 7.

1. Disable Unnecessary Visual Effects

  • Right click on “Computer” in windows start menu and choose “Properties”.
  • Click on “Advanced System Settings” at the left pane.
  • Under the “Advanced” tab, click on “Settings” under “Performance” category. Select the “Custom:” option.
  • Look through the list and uncheck the effects that you have no used for it. (Note: For optimum result, uncheck all the check box except the last four items). Click OK.
  • Restart your computer.

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Find Product keys Of Microsoft Softwares and Serial Keys of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

19.03.2010 by · Leave a Comment

Author: Soumen Halder

The biggest problem after a fresh Windows installation is obvious – you have to start installing all the softwares from scratch. This includes installing your browsers, office programs, media players and so on. Most of the applications come free these days but there are some applications which are not (e.g Microsoft Office, Microsoft frontpage etc). And to install them, you have to find the old product keys which came with the CD or DVD pack you bought years ago.

Now, if you have lost the CD case (high chances that you would), the product keys can be extracted from Windows registry. Wouldn’t it be wise to first extract all the product keys of software and keep them at a safe location? This ensures full installation of programs after a system format. This article shows you ways to extract the serial and product keys of application software in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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The 4 Proven Simple Tips to Organize Your Files on Windows

29.09.2009 by · Leave a Comment

I am an organizational nut case. My desk has nothing on it except what I am working on right at the moment. Likewise, my computing is clutter-free. I have my desktop, my browser, the ‘My Documents’ folder, and my drives organized and efficient.

My desktop has only the documents that I am working on today, plus the shortcuts I use each and every day. If I don’t use it within 48 hours, I create a folder and file it. Much like the situation with my desk, keeping my computer organized improves productivity. It also helps my less organized co-workers. The moment they can’t find an important email or paper, they ask me for it. I find it – quickly.

Let’s look at some simple and basic tips to organize Windows that you may be overlooking and won’t cost you a nickel.

Folder Structure

Many people go through their day to day computing work not even realizing they can create a new folder practically anywhere by right-clicking and then selecting New –> Folder. You can then rename the folder to whatever you would like. Your desktop, in Outlook Mail, within My Documents, within My Music, and in your browser’s “Favorites” or “Bookmarks” are all places you can create new folders.
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Check Pagerank of Internal Pages

05.06.2009 by · Leave a Comment

Check Pagerank of Internal Pages

Checking Pagerank of your site after a pagerank update is critical to see how your site has fared. I have already written about Visual Pagerank in this post. Visual Pagerank doesn’t work anymore though but fortunately for us, there is an even better method to check pagerank of internal pages using a firefox extension called Seoquake. You may have heard of it before as it is one of the most common SEO plugin available for firefox. With this little tool, we can easily see pagerank of internal pages for a site in a matter of seconds!

Now, first you will need to install the plugin. You can do that by clicking here. Once installed, you will notice a new icon in the bottom right side of the status bar. This is the SEOQuake icon. You can easily activate and deactivate it by clicking it. Now, to check pagerank of internal pages on your site, just load up google.com. Enter a query like “site:yoursite.com” and press enter. This should display all pages of your site that are indexed by google. [Read more...]

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How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X

17.05.2009 by · 1 Comment

How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS XThe open source Qt development toolkit is a popular choice for cross-platform development. It provides native-looking widgets and tight integration with the underlying platform on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Qt applications that are written in C++ are easy to compile and deploy across all three platforms, but what if you don’t like C++? I prefer Python, a dynamic programming language with a richly expressive syntax and exceptionally powerful support for introspection.

Fortunately, there are cross-platform Python bindings for Qt. The downside, however, is that packaging PyQt applications so that they can be deployed to users on Windows and Mac OS X is an immensely frustrating and arcane process. I declared victory last week after spending several hours battling with MacPorts and distutils. Now that I have unlocked the toolkit’s dark mysteries, I can show you the hidden secrets that will allow you to achieve mastery of the alchemical art of cross-platform PyQt application deployment.

First, you’ll need access to each platform for which you want to build redistributable packages. The easiest way to accomplish this is to use a Mac and either triple-boot or virtualize Windows and Linux. The initial setup process for Mac OS X will require a lot of very heavy compilation, so you are going to be in for a world of pain and a very long wait if you try to do this on a Mac mini.

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Five home cinema tips I learned the hard way

16.05.2009 by · Leave a Comment

I’m a movie fan. I go to the cinema as often as I can, but I also watch a lot of movies in the comfort of my own home. I’ve got a neat little setup that is not at all high-end and hasn’t cost me an excessive amount of money. I did hand-pick every component. But because I bought all the components one by one and didn’t quite go through all the specs beforehand, some things didn’t work out as well as they could have. Here are some things to be aware of when buying AV equipment.

1. Get a TV with more than one HDMI interface

Mine has only one. I didn’t even use it at first, but now my cable decoder is connected to it. So I’m out of HD connections. No fancy set-top boxes or blu-ray players for me, unless I go for a switch box of some kind too. Most of those come with yet another remote control, and add to the already pretty embarassing power consumption of my setup.

Having a digital reciever built into your TV set also saves you an HDMI position, but here in The Netherlands, where DVB-C is the most popular option, TVs with the right tuner are scarce.

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Putting the low power computing puzzle together

16.05.2009 by · Leave a Comment

I’ve been fascinated by this new trend in computing. Every hardware manufacturer seems to be introducing low power components aimed at simple ‘internet PCs’. Not everyone needs their PC to be able to run Crysis at 60 fps. I think it’s great that manufacturers are recognizing this, but it really is a shame that most of these products don’t quite fit together just yet.

Intel’s Atom

Take the Intel Atom CPU. The single core version uses only a maximum of 2.5 watts of electricity. A mid range desktop CPU uses fifteen times that, if not thirty. The Atom N270 in my netbook really is fast enough for surfing the web and office work. But the Atom is usually bundled with an Intel chipset that is far less efficient. As a result, the combo has a hard time when compared against a Core2 Duo chip on an Intel G31 chipset based motherboard. The latter is far more powerful and uses only slightly more energy (at least when idle).

Intel apparently has a chipset planned (codenamed ‘Poulsbo’) that will use less power, but at a cost. It will not support graphics resolutions over ‘HD ready’ and use PATA over the newer SATA standard. Hmmm, I think I’ll pass.

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