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How to speed up Windows 7

By Joel Rivera, February 23, 2010

If you feel your new computer running Windows 7 is running a little slow then watch the following video to speed up Windows 7. Enjoy!



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Windows 7 Installation Tutorial

By Joel Rivera, December 5, 2009

This video will guide you through all the necessary steps to install Microsoft newest operating system Windows 7, just to remind you before you install Windows 7 make sure the computer meets at least minimum requirements.

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here’s what it takes:

  • 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

  • 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

  • 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

  • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

If you’re not sure if your computer meets at least the minimum requirements, download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to help verify.

And now Windows 7 installation video – Provided by Win7Tutorials YouTube user.

How difficult did you find the installation?

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Windows 7 Tips in 7 minutes

By Joel Rivera, December 1, 2009

If you are new to Windows 7 or had upgraded from Windows Vista don’t hesitate if you don’t know much about Windows 7, because in the following video you will learn useful tips that will help you get the hang of it. Enjoy

What do you think about these tips? are they useful?

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How to create a system repair disk in Windows 7

By Joel Rivera, November 28, 2009

windows7 150x150 How to create a system repair disk in Windows 7Having an emergency start up boot disk is very important, you never know when Windows will halt during the boot process, incompatible software’s and hardware’s are the common cuase of not booting. To create Windows 7 System Repair Disk do the following steps:

  1. Go to Start
  2. Maintenance
  3. Create a System Repair Disk

Viola! now you have a system repair disk to get your computer up and running in now time in case it won’t boot.

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Disable Windows 7 Aero Shake

By Joel Rivera, November 27, 2009

Maybe you’re happy with Windows 7 new feature “Aero Shake” but for those who aren’t happy and want to disable it here are the steps.

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Steps to Disable Windows 7 Aero Shake

  • Go to Start, locate the Run box and write inside the box regedit.exe and navigate until you find the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

  • Once you find this key right click on the Windows key and create a new key

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Now right-click on the right-hand side and create a new 32-bit DWORD with the following settings:

  • Name: NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts
  • Value: 1

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Once you finish adding this file make sure to restart Windows 7 to take the registry modification.

Another option you have is to download Disable Aero Shake from Howtogeek.com,  this little registry hack will do all the work for you.

Via [How To Geek]

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