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...]
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...]
UMPC: Advantages and disadvantages
Previously, we have discussed about Tablet or Netbook : Which one to Buy? ; this time, we are going to discuss about a bit more smaller device: UMPC. UMPC Ultra Mobile PC comes from, and simpler explanation would be that it is a computing device that provides the functions of a laptop and the portability of a PDA, UMPC standing in an intermediate size between the two. Use of UMPCs is still … [Read more...]
HyperTerminal replacement solution for Windows 7
Where did the HyperTerminal in Windows 7? It was simply removed from the distribution! It is not very nice to some advanced users, because it was very useful for diagnosing if router fails, for example through a serial port. Fortunately, there are at least two solutions! Microsoft no longer wished to pay royalties to Hilgraeve's HyperTerminal to incorporate in the versions of Windows Vista and … [Read more...]
Windows 7 and Mac OS X: which one is better?
Microsoft and Apple compete with the new versions of their operating systems those launched two months apart. Thecustomizewindows presents an honest comparison after using both the operating system for more than one year. With Windows 7, Microsoft tries to forget the badpatch of three years after the introduction of Windows Vista. For this, the world's leading software company has not taken any … [Read more...]
How to install Windows 7 from a USB pen drive
Windows 7 may be purchased from physical stores and also as an ISO image from the Microsoft online Store. Netbooks, those have no optical drive it is a bit complicated to install Windows 7 in such cases. Burning an ISO image on a DVD is simple, but creating a bootable USB from a DVD installation can be complicated, Microsoft has launched its own utility software to create an USB bootable pen … [Read more...]
Install an unsigned driver in Windows 7
Unsigned drivers can cause malfunctions of the system. In Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 by default, installing an unsigned driver is blocked. However, it can temporarily disable the driver signature verification to allow installation of unsigned driver. 1) Disable signature verification of drivers in Windows 7 : Press Windows key + R from keyboard to launch run window; … [Read more...]
How pirated Windows 7 logo has spread all over the Internet
Have you ever paid attention to this logo Windows 7 ? Though the word "TM" (means TradeMark) is present at the lower left corner, its basically created for symbolizing pirated version of Windows 7 ! It is present everywhere, If you do a search with the keywords "Windows 7 logo" in Google search, it will yield the following results: The first result comes is of that Pirated Windows 7 … [Read more...]
Another method to recover forgotten password in Windows 7
Forgotten Password in Windows 7 (and other OS versions) can be incredibly annoying and irritable. It happened to me once, and I had to reformat the computer because I do not knew how to access it. The problem was I did not knew the application that allows you to restore passwords for Microsoft Windows 7. This application, called Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is useful for restoring … [Read more...]
Create a shortcut to start the screensavers in Windows 7
Create a shortcut to start those default screensaver is a trick that works on Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista and even Microsoft Windows XP. Instructions: 1. Right-click the desktop and select New Shortcut: 2. To start the screen saver, you must enter the full path to the screensaver file: [crayon-5dcc694cad384543611845-i/] You can substitute the name of the screensaver … [Read more...]