Posts under Hardware tag.

Windows 7 Tablets: Wheat and the Chaff

Past few weeks have been a typical bloggers delight. Dissecting iPad’s sales and usage scenarios, exploring alternate tablet operating systems, and quoting mythical folks from Microsoft and hardware manufacturers like HP and Asus. Oh yes, the weekly shift from announcing [...]

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Thinking of upgrading your Hard Drive? Recycle your old Hard Drive as a portable !

Thinking of upgrading that smaller hard drive for a larger one? Maybe you own a laptop and can’t add an additional hard drive, or maybe you have already added as many hard drives as you want to add to your [...]

How to open a stuck CD or DVD Drive Tray of your computer

It may happen at times, esp if your computer is old, that your CD or DVD tray just will not open even if you click on its Eject or Open button. Well, here are a few things you can try! [...]

Fix: Windows 7 Startup takes long time on UEFI or Intel Nehalem-EX CPU

If the startup takes a long time on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has an Intel Nehalem-EX CPU installed or on a UEFI-based computer computer, then these hotfixes may be able to help you!

Windows Phone 7 Prices In India

Microsoft is aware of the fact that , in a developing economies & emerging markets like India, mobile devices with higher prices may not generate the volumes as expected! Microsoft has therefore tied with most active cell phone distribution company [...]

Sony introduces 14” & 17” VAIO E laptops & VAIO J All-in-one desktop

Sony has introduced two new new laptop models VAIO EA 14-inch laptop and VAIO EC 17.3-inch laptop, and a new VAIO J all-in-one multitouch PC.

Share your Windows 7 Experience Index with WEI Share

WEI Share or “We Share” is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world anonymously to a Windows Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI [...]

Monitor temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load & clock speeds

The Open Hardware Monitor is a portable free open source application that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your Windows computer.

Device Stage feature in Windows 7

Windows 7 introduces a new way to interact with your phone, camera, printer, or portable media player from the Windows desktop called as Device Stage. It works like a home page for select compatible devices and printers.

Analyze and benchmark your Windows computer system

PC Wizard 2010 is a powerful freeware utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also does some more analysis. It is among the most advanced system information programs on the market.

Identify & Fix Dead Pixels on LCD Monitors

Dead Pixels are a common problem that LCD screens face. When a pixel goes dead, the LCD monitor does not display the correct color output.

How to Benchmark & Monitor Hard Disk & USB Drives

Here are two freeware portable utilities which will help you benchmark & monitor your hard disk & USB Drives.

The Laptop Scout from Microsoft

Looking for a new laptop for your Windows 7 ? The Laptop Scout from Microsoft is there to help you!

What is the maximum memory (RAM) limit for 64-bit Windows 7 ?

Different Windows editions have had different upper maximum RAM limits. 64-bit Windows support different amounts of memory as a SKU-differentiating feature, with the low end being 512MB for Windows XP Starter to 128GB for Vista Ultimate and 192GB for Windows [...]

Pen-drives to intoxicate your Windows computer.

These unique pen-drives are sure to send your PC on a high!

The smallest USB Flash Drive in the world.

Geeks, who have been around for long enough, remember their first hard-drives. Some remember their first gigabyte, others remember forty megabytes while even some remember luggage-sized 5 meg drives. It continually shocks us when newer and smaller storage is made [...]

Determine your processor’s security features with SecurAble.

SecurAble is a security freeware from GRC. Recent AMD and Intel processors contain three features which can be extremely beneficial to the system’s overall security.

Calibrate color, contrast & display settings easily in Windows 7

Windows 7 provides you with a Display Colour Calibration Wizard, that helps you set up your computers brightness, gamma, contrast & colour settings easily.

Computer Hardware Chart – A Pictorial Guide.

From every kind of memory to A/V input/outputs, processors, and hard drives, this guide shows in easy-to-recognize pictorial form the possible guts in your computer.

Whats new in DirectX 11 ?

DirectX 11 is just around the corner, offering a dazzling array of new toys for game developers and many people would like to know a bit about it.

The Windows Club

The Windows Club covers Windows 8, Windows 7, tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware and more. It is created by Anand Khanse, a Microsoft MVP.