Posts Tagged ‘guides’

Blocks That Matter Closing Issue For Windows 7 64 Bit (FIX!)

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This video will help you on solving this annoying issue that will not allow the game to open for windows 7 64 bits! Here is the Link: steamcommunity.com Vote Up On Reddit! www.reddit.com AND www.reddit.com www.reddit.com I hope I helped!

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How to Find, Lock and Erase your Windows Phone Remotely

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips You never know when you might lose your smartphone, and with it all your personal contacts and data.  Windows Phone comes with a cool feature that will let you locate, lock and erase your handset from anywhere with an Internet Connection.  This feature is pretty well hidden in the OS and you’ll find it lurking under “ Find my Phone ” in the handset’s settings.

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How To Extract Wallpapers From A Theme

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips There is a huge range of Windows 7 themes on the web now, we have a great collection here at Windows 7 News. A lot of the time there is some fabulous wallpapers included with these themes, and you may want to extract them from the themes so you can use them elsewhere.

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How To Customize Your LogOn Screen

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I’m sure there are many of you out there who just love to customize Windows 7. Some of you have probably already customized your logon screen, but for those of you who haven’t, I’ve put together a little guide just for you! First off, if you want to change the Windows 7 Wallpaper you’ll need to download a little program called logon editor – you can download it below Logon Editor (36) Now extract that folder and then run the Logon Editor.exe file.

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How To Prevent Users From Changing Your ScreenSaver

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I’m sure some of you have had your screensaver changed in the past as part of a practical joke.

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How to create a definitive Windows 7 Install DVD or Pen Drive

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One of the problems with Windows 7 is that the ISO files are A) just available for DVD and B) only for a single edition of Windows (i.e. Home Premium, Professional etc.)  So what if you could install Windows 7 from a pen-drive and what if you could then use that pen drive to install any version? This is actually much simpler than it sounds although you will still need to repeat this process for the 32-bit and 64-bit editions.  It does cut down the need for a variety of DVDs or USB Pen Drives to be carried around down to just two.  Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7-64 bit.

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Manage Autorun Processes and More With SysInternals AutoRuns

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SysInternals AutoRuns is a great little tool which allows you to manage every single autorun process and application on your Windows 7 machine from a single easy to use window. Yes it’s true that you can manage processes and services from Windows 7 with a combination of the Task Manager and Services manager, but using this little program makes things that bit easier. AutoRuns allows you to manage all processes on your Windows system associated with the following Logon Explorer shell extensions Internet Explorer Schedule tasks Services Drivers Winlogon notifications KnownDLLs AppInit Image Hijacks Boot Execute Codecs Sidebar Gadgets Network Providers LSA Providers Print Monitors Winsock Providers All of these can be managed from just one simple program, but you can also look up more information about them online, stop them and see their location on you system.

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Instantly End All Programs With One Shortcut

Thankfully this problem doesn’t occur as frequently with Windows 7 compared to it’s predecessors, but the odd time it does happen. All is well, you’re in extreme multitasking mode, running a hundred and one things on 4 different monitors, and then suddenly, your computer seems to have a processor heartattack. It’s RAM becomes clogged up and nothing happens, everything just freezes and your stuck there frantically trying to close everything with your task manager, but nothing is working.

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Add Recently Changed Files To Your Taskbar

I’ve just stumbled across this great little program called “Piles”. What it does is places recently created or altered files in a Windows 7 jump list on the Windows Taskbar so you can quickly access them.

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Clean Out Old Entries From Your Boot Menu

I’m sure many of you like to boot multiple OS’s on your PC. You may have Windows XP, Vista or any flavour of Linux appearing in the start up boot menu.

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