Category: Windows 7

Stabilisation Tips for Your Gaming Rig

GPU Temp Readout

For about a month now my desktop computer has been working fine after I had dropped in the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive but since then I have experienced some instability when playing games on it (particularly Team Fortress 2 or TF2 for short). The system wouldn’t crash but the screen would go blank …

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Open Regularly Updated Documents Quickly in Windows 7

Excel Jumplist

Here’s a tip for the Windows 7 users out there with Office 2010. Hopefully, you will be familiar with the concept of pinning applications to the redeveloped taskbar in Windows 7 so you can launch them straight away without having to go through the Start Menu. What you might not have realised is that you can also …

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Search the Contents of Files Under Windows 7

Not too long ago I wrote about how to use the search capability in Windows 7 to find files with certain text in the filename. Today, I’m going to show you how to restrict your searches to just the contents of the file exclusive of matching filenames. Again, it’s not difficult to execute and all …

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MiniBin – A Cleaner Recycle Bin Solution for Your Windows 7 Taskbar

Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A while back I wrote about a way you could get the Recycle Bin in Windows to appear on the Taskbar but it was quite a  hacky and inelegant solution. Well, there’s a great little application called MiniBin available here that will add the recycle bin to the system …

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Refining File Searching Under Windows 7

The Humble Search Box

As more of us start using Windows 7 you’ll need to get to grips with the various features built into it. One of the prominent features carried forward from Windows Vista is search. Now, you’d think that you could find stuff by clicking in the box and typing the words of the file you are …

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Open Multiple Regedit Windows

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …

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Why You Should Only Install Applications in the Program Files Folder

Most Windows software these days follows the convention introduced back in Windows 95 to install applications into the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folder on your computer (usually located in C:\). With more recent versions of Windows such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 this has become quite important as the “Program Files” folders …

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Why Won’t Windows Automatically Sleep?

Recently, I reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch after putting a brand new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive in my desktop computer but since then my computer hasn’t been going to sleep automatically after its nightly backup. After a bit of research, I found that I needed to use the powercfg tool to see what …

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OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Update

Thought I would provide an interim update on how I am going with the new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive that I received in the last week. Windows 7 Ultimate is up and running after a minor wrestle to get Windows setup up and running. I had to revert all of the other …

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