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Windows 8 – Prevent Current or New Drives from Being Defragmented / Optimized

16 Oct

Windows 8 will attempt to defragment current and newly-connected drives on a schedule – learn how to turn this off.

By default, Windows 8 will attempt to defragment, or optimize, your hard disks and partitions every week, an often useful tasks that can speed up your computer by moving data around.

You might determine that certain external hard disks should not be optimized on a schedule, instead choosing to optimize them on an as-needed basis. Also, defragmenting a solid state drive is not recommended and can actually shorten its lifespan. Thus you can configure the Optimize Drives tool to ignore certain drives or not optimize every new drive connected to the machine during the regular maintenance window….

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Windows 7 – Need to Access Older Systems via Telnet?

13 Sep

Install the Windows 7 Telnet Client, or Better Yet, Try PuTTY.

If you need to access older remote systems via the Telnet protocol (which is a security risk as by default, all information including passwords is sent in clear-text without any encryption), you may have noted that Windows 7 does not by default offer a Telnet client … or so it seems.

If you need to use Telnet, here are a couple of options:…

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Windows 7 – Dim a Laptop Screen Even More

25 Aug

Is your laptop screen too bright, even though you have the settings turned all the way down? Here’s a general tip on how to dim your screen even more.

While many people have the opposite problem, not being able to read a laptop screen in the sunlight or a well-lit area, others may find their laptop screen way too bright. If you are in a coffee shop or other area and don’t want everyone from all the way across the room read what you are typing*, the following general tip may help for Windows 7 users.

Note that this tip provides general suggestions that may or may not work based on your laptop configuration. Some with the exact same laptop configuration as the author may find that this tip exactly points to where to adjust the brightness; others may need to look around their system settings some….

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Windows 7 – Resize Columns in Explorer’s Details Mode

25 Aug

A couple of ways to make more information visible when viewing file details via Windows 7 Explorer.

These tips are for Windows 7 beginners – though some who have used the operating system for a while still may not know about them!

When viewing file information in Explorer’s “Details” view (right-click an empty area in a folder and select “View” – “Details”), more information may be available than can fit on the screen without having to use the horizontal scroll bar. If a particular column is too large, move your mouse pointer to the column edge until the pointer turns into an arrow pointing to the left and right. Then double-click the left button to resize the column to the width of the widest item in the column. Or……

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Windows 7 – Title Bar Tricks and Tips Including Keyboard Shortcuts

25 Aug

Other ways to maximize windows and bring up window options in Windows 7.

Here are a couple of tricks with window title bars in Windows 7 – some of these tips may work in other Windows versions:

* Double-click the title bar of a window to maximize it (if the current window supports maximizing). Double-click the title bar again to restore the window to its previous size. …

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Windows 7 – Don’t Like How Songs, Photos, Videos or Webpages are Opened?

22 Aug

Tired of webpages opening in a particular browser, or movies in an old multimedia player you no longer use? Change these associations in Windows 7.

When installing and uninstalling software on Windows 7, you may note that files that used to open in one program now pop up in other software. For example, install a new text editor or notepad replacement tool and you may notice that text files open up in said tool instead of Windows Notepad. Install a multimedia player and your songs and videos may not open in Windows Media Player anymore. Run a new web browser and your web pages may appear differently than how you remembered.

While many applications ask you before making such changes, you may accidentally gloss over such screens when installing them. Plus, some software may just make the changes for you. Thus, if you want to open files in different software packages, do the following:…

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Windows 7 – View or Print out a System Summary

21 Aug

View and print Windows 7 system and performance information, useful to compare computers or to provide to techies if you are having problems.

Windows 7 users – are you comparing computers at a local store and want to ensure a PC has everything the vendor claims? Or for your own machine do you need a list of programs that run at startup, a list of running tasks, data on devices that Windows cannot recognize, or the amount of video adapter available RAM? Or are you having computer difficulties and need to print out a list of system information to provide to a technician?

There are a couple of ways to view and optionally print system information, depending on how much detail you or a technician need….

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Lytro Light Field Camera now works with Windows

01 Aug

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Lytro, the maker of the Lytro Lightfield Camera, has today announced that its ‘Lytro Desktop Application’ – the software that allows you to ‘refocus’ light-field images after they have been taken, is now available for Microsoft Windows. You’ll need to run the 64bit version of Windows Home, Professional or Ultimate on a computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo or better processor and at least 2GB RAM. At the same time the company announced two new accessories – a USB wall charger and a tripod mount, which are available for around $ 20 each.

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[MODIFIED] Windows XP and DOS – Unix Du (Disk Usage Command)

01 Aug

This Windows XP – Windows 7 DOS replacement for the Unix du command determines the disk space used in various directories, and can output to CSV for import into Excel.

Most Unix operating systems come with a du command for users and system administrators to help determine which directories use the most space on a hard drive or other media. This is useful if file space is getting low and one needs to determine where to start looking for files to remove and/or archive.

The Sysinternals website, part of Microsoft TechNet, offers a free alternative to the disk usage command, and runs under Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (not tested in Windows 8). Simply download the zip file du.zip, unzip the executable inside to your main Windows directory, and you can check disk usage via the command line:…

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Windows Internet Explorer 9 – Always Start in Full Screen / Kiosk Mode from Windows 7 Taskbar

01 Aug

Need full screen web browsing via Internet Explorer 9, free of distractions? Force the Windows 7 Taskbar button to open Internet Explorer in full-screen / kiosk mode.

If you want more screen real estate dedicated to browsing web pages via Windows Internet Explorer 9, pressing F11 toggles a full-screen view that even hides your Windows taskbar.

However, what if you use this feature often and want Internet Explorer to always open in full-screen mode, let’s say from the Windows 7 Taskbar? And what if you don’t feel comfortable modifying the Windows 7 Registry?…

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