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Shortcuts to minimize all or only inactive windows to the taskbar

Keyboard shortcuts are quite useful and make you work faster and more efficiently. There are several hotkeys or keyboard shortcutcut combinations which carry out different functions. Most Windows users know that, if you wish to suddenly minimize all your open [...]

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How to install Windows 7 on a PC having less RAM.

If you wish to install Windows 7, 32-bit, on a PC with say less than 512 MB RAM, you can try to install it with 512 MB RAM and then once installed, remove some memory leaving only say, 256 MB [...]

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Windows 7 Stop Errors or Blue Screens Guide and Resources

Starting with Windows Vista, the incidence of Blue Screens or Stop Errors have drastically come down. When Windows encounters a condition that compromises safe system operation (i.e. a “bug”), the system halts. Windows 7 Blue Screen This condition is called [...]

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10 more common Windows Blue Screen Stop Errors

You may have read our earlier article 15 Most Commom Stop Errors / BSOD’s in Windows, along with relevant Microsoft KB articles. The article applies to Windows 7 too. I have compiled below, from various sources, a few more Windows [...]

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How to center your taskbar icons in Windows 7

Give your Windows 7 a different look! The program icons on the Windows 7 by default are situated on the left side on the taskbar, next to your Start orb. But if you’d like them to appear in the center of [...]

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Windows Bug Check or Stop Error Codes.

When Microsoft Windows encounters a condition that compromises safe system operation, the system halts. This condition is called a bug check. It is also commonly referred to as a system crash, a kernel error, or a Stop Error or a [...]

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Monitor Changes To Registry In Windows 8 | 7

Windows does not have an in-built Registry monitoring tool. But what you can do is, harness the Windows command-line program File Compare or fc.exe to compare two registry export files, and thus monitor changes in the Windows Registry. Monitor Changes To Registry File [...]

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Troubleshooting Windows Disk Defragmenter utility

Like Windows Vista, the disk defragmenter utility in Windows 7 is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to [...]

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How to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7

If you have skipped Vista and are now planning to upgrade from XP to Windows 7, then this read may help you. The upgrade option of upgrading from XP to Windows 7, is not available in Windows 7 Setup when [...]

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Change the Location of Search Index in Windows 7.

You may, if you wish, chose to change the default location of search index in Windows 7. It is, by default, stored at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data  folder, which is a hidden system folder.