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All Tasks can be accessed through a special Control Panel

The All Tasks folder gives a quick overview of all the options available in the Control Panel. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, control-panel, windows-explorer

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Make sidebar and gadgets work with UAC disabled

Windows 7 sidebar will by default not allow applications that requires administrator rights. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, user-account-control, sidebar

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Troubleshoot problems with entering sleep mode

Diagnose what is preventing your computer from entering sleep mode, or wakes it prematurely. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, power-management

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Configure the login and Welcome Screen in Win7

Microsoft Windows 7 no longer have the classic logon screen, which has been replaced by the Welcome Screen. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, windows-login, welcome-screen, login-screen, branding

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Activate ACHI to enable Native Command Queuing

Native Command Queuing (NCQ) can improve hard disk performance, as it optimizes the order to execute read and write commands. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, sata, disk-performance, SMART

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Use process affinity to lock application to a single core

Applications optimized to run on single CPU systems, will perform worse on multi CPU systems. Tags: tips, windows-7-win7, process-scheduler, dos-emulator, cpu

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Facebook chat password for external application

Facebook chat with two step verification requires a password and then a login token. This is not supported by most application, as they will only use the password. The solution is to configure the chat...

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Perform clean install using Windows 7 upgrade

Install Windows 7 using only the upgrade DVD without needing to install it twice.

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Disable the MSDOS and Win16 subsystem

For security measures then one should consider disabling the ability to launch the 16 bit subsystem.

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Encrypted backup to OneDrive or DropBox

Create removable encrypted hard-disk-image, and use that for Windows Backup.

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