Quickly fix Windows 7 problems with 7 Quick Fix
If you’re using Windows and not running a good antivirus, then you have a high probability of getting your computer infected.
While you may be able to disinfect your computer at a later date, some virii can mess up a lot of settings that your antivirus can’t fix.
Or, maybe you’re just looking to tweak a few settings in your Windows 7 installation.
Like its successful predecessor “XP Quick Fix Plus“, 7 Quick Fix is a simple, fast and efficient click and fix tool.
Features:
- Includes 21 common Windows 7 fixes
- Only 472kb
- Portable with no install just click and run, small and fast
- Visit 7 Quick Fix homepage
- Download 7 Quick Fix
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How to Modify the Bubble Screensaver of Windows 7
The bubble screensaver of Windows 7 may be the Windows 7 users’ favorite screensaver. In fact, these transparent bubbles can become solid and metallic balls through a little modification.
The operation is simple as below: Start-Run-Regedit. After the Registry Editor is opened, locate in: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER? Software?Microsoft?Windows?Current Version?Screensavers?Bubbles”. Right-click on the blank in the right pane to new build a “DOWRD (32 bit value)” and name it as “Material Glass”. Then double click the “Material Glass” and input the value “0” in the popup window. Finally, save the modification and exit the Registry Editor.
Now you can open “Personalization”-“Screen saver” and choose bubble to preview the effect.
About Bob:
Bob is a freelance writer and software developer for registry cleaner for Windows
About Bob
I'm Bob, from Guangzhou City in China, a software developer and tech writer for many years.
Extend Battery Life on Vista with AeroFoil
One of the major reasons I detest Windows Vista is because of the magnanimous bloat that it carries around as “necessary” default “features.” While this bloat has a tendency to annoy on desktop PC’s (e.g. slowdowns, immense hard disk activity etc.) Those annoyances cross over to the realm of death if you’re on a laptop with Vista! Especially if you’re the kind that uses the laptop frequently on battery!
However once in a while a software developer comes by with the heart and common sense to produce a simple yet amazingly effective software that the corporate bigwigs couldn’t figure out, Benjamin – of silent development is exactly that type of developer and his open source AeroFoil is exactly that type of software!
Aerofoil is a stand-alone utility that automatically disables the Windows Aero Glass interface and also allows you to switch off Windows PowerPlans and windows sidebars when the laptop is on battery. What does that do? It increases your battery life that’s what!
Designed to be 5~6 times more minimal and optimal than its competitor `Vista Battery saver’ AeroFoil will give you the same features except with a smaller memory footprint (which means less memory and processing power will be used and that means less power will be consumed from the battery!) Once run it will place an icon in the system tray where you can right click instantly can access features such as disabling the Aero intrerface switching to an Auto power plan and even the option to Hibernate is there!
Here are some of the other features:
- Allowing you to manually disable Aero Glass.
- Optionally managing Aero Glass user interface.
- Optionally managing the best two power plans.
- Optionally managing Windows Vista Sidebar.
- Optionally showing a quick hibernate button – hibernate and power management were greatly improved in Vista.
- Much more efficient – Aerofoil is 100% unmanaged C++.
- Much smaller than older versions and other similar software.
- UPX compressed meaning Aerofoil.exe is as small as it can be.
- No configuration file – everything is done with the installer.
Check out AeroFoil
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SysTrayMeter: displays CPU and RAM usage
I needed a monitoring software to see when my CPU usage would cause a spike alongwith a noticeable drop in the free RAM. Although, I found a great many freeware and shareware options, very few met all the criteria I had in mind:
- should be freeware
- should be portable (no installation needed)
- should be as small as possible
- should have some customisable features
It didn’t take me long to find, use and now recommend SysTrayMeter.
It meets all the criteria set out above – weighing in at a measly 15 KB (That’s right! Fifteen kilobytes.), and occupying only between 1 and 2 MB of RAM while running. It resides in your notification area (sometimes, mistakenly referred to as the system tray) and displays the stats in realtime.
The top half displays CPU usage as a percentage while the bottom hald displays the amount of RAM in MB currently available i.e. unused RAM. Of course, the accompanying INI file can always be modified as per a user’s requirements, allowing the sections displaying CPU usage and RAM availability to be interchanged, or even for only a single stat to be displayed.
The colours can also be modified and can act as a visual aid to show when your RAM might have dropped to a significantly low level or to show very high CPU usage. The thresholds can be adjusted from within the INI file. Details on modifying the INI file are available on the author’s page.
I recommend creating a shortcut to the executable in your “Startup” folder because it’s a fairly usefu icon to have around. Oh, and there are no context menus so don’t expect to find on if you right-click the icon. Double-clicking the icon will make the app exit.
Works well and tested on Windows XP SP3, Vista and Server 2003.
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Hello ! While I'm waiting for extra-terrestrial contact to be made, I like to dabble in photography, listening to U2 and lend a helping hand to anyone who needs it. Got a techie problem? Let me know...
Windows Vista SP2 RC now available
Service Pack 2 Release Candidate for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are now available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release.
SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging standards.
SP2 weighs in at a sizable 302MB for x86 systems and 508MB for 64-bit operating system versions of Windows Vista.
SP2 includes better application compatibility as well as some good hardware and software improvements for better performance. Windows Search 4.0 is now bundled with SP2. Check out the detailed list of notable changes in SP2.
SP2 is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2009.
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