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If you have just bought your computer or laptop in the recent years, chances are the PC or laptop that you have bought were equipped with multi-core processors like Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad or the latest Core i7. For Windows 7 users, you can actually make use of these excess cores to speed up your computer’s boot up process. What’s best is that you won’t even need to install any software to do so. Here’s how to it: Click on your start button, in the search box, type msconfig and hit... (more...)

In this internet world, username and passwords are needed for most of the things. Instant messengers, social networks, emails, ….. all required username and passwords. Passwords are essential to us as our ID in this virtual world. Cut it short. You will want to use a secure password (to prevent identity thefts, hackers or anything else). It’s best to check the strength of your desired password before using it. How to check it? I personally recommend How Secure Is My Password? The website... (more...)

Let’s say you are someone who like simplicity. Dislike shortcut icons spreading all over your desktop. Because it will make your desktop looks very messy. So, you hide all the desktop shortcut icons (by un-tick the [Show desktop icons]). Now the desktop looks cleaner than before. Then, another problem pops out – how am I going to empty the recycle bin? The recommended way is to pin the recycle bin icon to taskbar. For that, I’m going to teach you on how to pin recycle bin to your... (more...)

Imagine that you have hundreds or even thousands of files in a single folder. You only want to select certain files (but in a large number) in that particular folder. What will you do? Ctrl-Select method? Select the files you want with holding the Ctrl key and click the files one by one. Or are you smart enough – use check boxes to select items? Although it’s just a simple option, most of people does not aware that there is such thing in the folder options in Windows 7. So, how to enable... (more...)

Windows 7 has been said to have some sort of compatibility issues in running old games like Diablo 2. In the case of Diablo 2, the most common issue that arises is the graphic issue which will occur around 15 minutes to half an hour after launching the game. Below is the screenshot taken when I am playing the game. Obviously, playing the game with this kind of graphic isn’t enjoyable at all. To solve this problem, all you need to do is to just go to your desktop screen, right-click it and click... (more...)

I am afraid most of the Windows 7 users know how to customize their windows 7 appearance including making the windows frame border transparent. These configurations are available in the ‘personalize’ section which can be accessed by right-clicking your desktop screen. However, the transparency customization can only make the frame border transparent to a certain degree only. Some people might prefer to make these borders completely transparent to add more ‘cool’ effect to their desktop. To... (more...)