Archive for August 25th, 2011

Automate Disk Cleanup Options With Cleanmgr at the Command Prompt

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Yesterday I introduced some options to customize the command line prompt. Today, I’d like to go one step further and introduce  Disk Cleanup Options With Cleanmgr  at the command line. There is one command, Cleanmgr.exe and two configurations: /Sageset:n and /Sagerun:n The first configuration, /Sageset:n,  opens a dialog box that allows you to select from various disk cleanup options

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How to make -WINDOWS 7 FASTER THEN EVER

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http://www.youtube.com/v/9L5Zvkmu_lM?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Continued here: How to make -WINDOWS 7 FASTER THEN EVER

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Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2010 released

Traditionally, Office Service Pack patches cannot be uninstalled without completely uninstalling the Office product. But with the release of Office 2010, service packs can now be uninstalled via the..

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Website Load Tool, Monitor Web Loading Times

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Website Speed has been integrated into Google’s search engine algorithm some time ago. Many webmasters have started to optimize their server and page loading times after the announcement. While it has been proven that faster page loading times have a positive effect on user interaction and sales, it is not clear how faster sites benefit from that in Google’s search algorithm Having optimized the page loading times of quite a few websites, I can say that the benefit is not as visible as many webmasters believe it to be.

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Kill Skype Home Removes The Skype Home Window

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I just tried to download the voice over IP software Skype from the official website to discover that I had to log in, or create an account, to do so. That was an annoyance and I decided to go to Betanews to download the software instead. I had been a Skype user before but somehow ran into a problem that shut down Skype right after start every time I would run it

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How To Quickly Rename Multiple Files In Windows 7

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips I’ve regularly found myself in a position where I need to rename multiple files in Windows 7. Generally I laboriously go through each file and name them one by one until it’s all done. I’ve always wondered if there was a quicker way to do it, so after a bit of research I’ve discovered that there is! Generally when you rename a file in Windows you hit enter after you type in the new file name to confirm it

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Upgrading To Windows 7

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Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Supports Tethering

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips This is the news that people have been wanting to hear for so long, but that few suspected would come this early.  WPCentral have discovered tethering support built into next month’s ‘Mango’ update for Windows Phone. Tethering is the process by which you can share you phone’s data connection with another computer, say a laptop or tablet.  It’s extremely useful for people who are out and about and either don’t have a SIM card slot in the laptop, or who don’t have or want to pay for a second data connection for it.  Tethering allows you to set up your phone as an access point, like a mini-router with it’s own Internet connection

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Spring Cleaning your Computer

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Using the Cleaner tool As mentioned in previous articles, CCleaner is a free application from Piriform. In this article I’ll show you one of its major features, a useful cleaning application called Cleaner that you can use to rid your computer of redundant space wasting files.

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