Some branded laptops show only two power options in Windows 7 : Balanced and Powersaver. The High performance options can not be found! This tutorial shows, how you can easily enable this high performance power option in all Windows 7 laptops. Here is a HP laptop showing only two power options: Powersaver and Balanced. There is no High performance option: You can not even enable it from … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
Set your Windows 7 to Shutdown,Sleep or hibernate on closing the lid of your Laptop
A laptop running Windows 7 can be configured to go to Sleep, Hibernate or even shutdown upon closing the lid of the laptop; here is how you can set it. At the same time, the power button on the body of the laptop (or desktop), the sleep button on the keyboard can be configured too. Not only that, you can set separate action when the laptop is running on battery or on AC power. Suppose, you can … [Read more...]
Ten things you should not do with your computer
Most computers work perfectly normally most of the time. But, like any other machine things can go wrong. Without proper softwares all computer equipment stops working.Here is some points which you should never do with your Windows 7 PC. 1. Never turn off your computer simply by flicking the power switch, even if you have assigned the power button as shut down switch from Windows 7 Power options. … [Read more...]
Problems of using Registry Cleaners for Windows 7
When you make a choice to use a registry cleaner, there are some important questions you should ask yourself: Are you getting this from a reliable source? Is it a reputable program that will help me anyway? Why I need to use a Registry cleaner? You can usually answer these questions by doing a little research on it. Microsoft directly says nothing about registry cleaners and Windows 7. … [Read more...]
How to ensure your computer’s safety against virus
If you use a computer even rarely, chances are that at some point of time, you have been effected by a virus. If you were lucky, the virus may have been embarrassing you by only wasting your time and energy but if you were not so lucky may have you lost your valuable data. The viruses are a threat to Microsoft Windows based computer across the world. Thus, to reduce our risk of virus infection, … [Read more...]
Laptop Security: Do not leave home without it!
Hundreds of thousands of laptops are lost or stolen each year. What if it unfortunately happens to you? Think of all the relevant information stored in your laptop and the chaos that would come into your life if it becomes lost or stolen. All the pictures you downloaded from your camera and never had time to mount and print. More importantly, your personal information, your credit card and bank … [Read more...]
Happy New Year 2011 wallpapers
Here is a bunch of high quality new year wallpaper created by artists and submitted to our deviantArt group. Happy New Year 2011 Created by: trustbogdan Happy New Year 2011 Created by: ChOkRi-AchRaF 2011 Created by: Photshopmaniac … [Read more...]
Script to manage programs and applications in Windows 7 easily
When you are working with different applications and programs on your Windows 7 PC, a time may arrive, when you need to maintain the same order. For this some simple scripts can automatically arrange the applications in windows 7 and recover the overview of the applications have left open in your Windows 7 PC. We will get into each of the scripts, clicking on them, will arrange windows in … [Read more...]
Repair the boot in Windows 7 after installing a second operating system
If you have installed a second operating system, say Ubuntu Linux distro or even OSX86, popularly known as Hackintosh (for educational purpose only) after installing Windows 7, you will not able to boot into Windows 7 again. This tutorial shows how to repair the boot in Windows 7 as well as using the Windows boot loader for dual boot. Many website, blogs or forums wrongly guides (or misleads) to … [Read more...]
SIW: A freeware to check advanced hardware specifications in Windows
Sometimes we need to know the details of some of our hardware. For example, you need to know the manufacturer of your hard disk drive or the clock speed of RAM (important during upgrade). The Windows 7 default application gives enough information, but for advanced usage (as said above) it is of limited use. It is also a important tool while buying a second hand computer, to check individual … [Read more...]
How to use Windows 7 on screen keyboard effectively
The virtual or on screen keyboard is a graphic image that allows us to write without a physical keyboard in Microsoft Windows 7, with wide range of choice on different input methods: click mode, scroll mode and scan mode. Sometimes we need to use the virtual on screen keyboard in Windows 7: While most of the antivirus, antispyware can detect software keyloggers and malicious code: there are … [Read more...]
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