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I’m trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there any services that I can safely disable? If so what are they? Obviously the services are there for a reason, so when…
I’ve posted a question here that I have a 32bits windows 7 on a dual boot machine with ubuntu 10.04 upgraded to 11.04. From the responses I had from the questions, I decided to reinstall the windows 7 but this time a 64bits version. I’ve install the grub on the first section of the HDD…
Just got myself a new computer and thinking of how set it up. I have win7 HP and will probably install at least some version of Ubuntu on it shortly to have dual boot. Might come other Linux distros too in the future. I have a 1TB HDD and my question is what’s the smartest…
I have some SD cards that I use. Is there a limit to how many times I can write over them? If I leave information on a card, is there anything that can cause it to lose this information eventually (other than a magnetic field)? What’s the preferred storage conditions for these cards? Solution: Flash…
In windows explorer, as soon as you rename a file, the list reorders and your focus stays on the file you edited, which is now in a new place in the list. file1.jpg –>editing to z.jpg…file2.jpgfile3.jpgm.jpgx.jpg jumps to file2.jpgfile3.jpgm.jpgx.jpgz.jpg —> selected here, which is useless. If you rename file1 to z.jpg, the list will automatically…
I often lock Windows and turn my screen off when I’m away for 10 – 20 minutes. Sometimes when I turn the screen on again and I enter my password the screen goes black. Then the system is unresponsive and I can’t do anything about the state except pulling the plug. How can I troubleshoot…
My disk cleanup seems unable to delete a lot of messages worth of “temporary files” that it sees, even after I went and deleted contents of various temporary folders I found myself. I would like to try delete such files manually, but for this I need to figure out just where are those “temporary files”…
I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment, I have listed a Product Key but no download link in sight. Where do I download my Windows 7 ISO…
I obtained a licence key for Windows 8 through DreamSpark. Is there a way to download a Windows 8 ISO image like you could for Windows 7? I am on a non-Windows machine, so I cannot use the Secure Download Manager to download Windows 8 directly using DreamSpark. Solution: My order confirmation says: If…
I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and I miss the Desktop Gadgets from Windows 7. What happened to them and can I bring them back? Solution: Microsoft retired the Desktop Gadgets in Windows 8 to push the usage of Store Apps. The purpose of the gadgets are served by the Live Tiles…
