Disable Smart Window Arrangement in Windows 7

Windows 7 uses its own intelligence to arrange your windows. For an example, when you drag a window to the top of the screen it automatically maximizes. But if your wanna master Windows 7 at your behest, you need to disable this arrangement. Let's see how to go about it

1. In the Start Search type regedit to edit the registry

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

3. Set WindowArrangementActive value to 0, and reboot

Now your windows will behave as in the earlier versions.

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Get a Power Efficiency Report in Windows 7

This one's especially for the laptop users gasping for their battery life. Well, WIndows 7 is equipped to provide you comprehensive information about the power consumption. You can use this feature to increase your laptop's battery life as well as performance. Here's how to get to it

1. Type cmd in the Start search to open the command prompt
2. When it opens right-click it and choose Run as administrator
3. Type in powercfg -energy in the command line and hit Enter

Windows 7 will scan your system suggesting ways to improve power efficiency. To find the results you must follow the path. Typically its in the System32 folder.

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Use VLC media player as Video Cutter

The latest version of VLC media player lets you cut videos and use it as a video cutter. There has been a lot of several cool features added to the latest version of VLC. If you haven’t downloaded the latest version yet, then download it from here.


How to Cut Videos Using VLC

Install the latest VLC player.

Open player and under option “View” select “advanced controls”.

Now you can see some extra icons available in your control panel. First button from left is the “RECORD” button.

Open the video file from DVD or hard drive and just click the record button to start cutting the video. Press it again to stop recording.

After you finished cutting the video clip from vlc, you can find those clip in your “Documents” folder named as VLC Record with the date and time. By this you could save your favorite video clips from right inside vlc player itself. The recorded clip will be saved as an MP4 file.

Download VLC Media Player 1.0

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Increase Torrent Download Speed By Half Open Patch

Increase your torrent download speed by allowing more more concurrent half-open connections. By default Windows limits the number of half open connections to 10. This limit is entered by company Microsoft trying to make slower virus spreading from infect computer and cut down opportunities of participation of a computer in DOS attacks.

This limit imposed by windows on the half open connections could be removed by patching the TCPIP.sys file. Patching the TCPIP could sometimes cause problems with certain routers like frequent auto restarting. So use this patch only as a final resort.

How to Half Open Patch TCPIP.sys - Windows VISTA / Windows XP / Windows 7

This half open patch will allow you to start more concurrent half open connections and hence increase torrent download speed.This Patch works for both 32 and 64 bit versions of windows.

Download the Half-open limit fix

Run the file Half-open limit fix

Choose the new limit of concurrent half-open outbound connections quantity as 100 and press "Add to tcpip.sys".Restart computer.

Open Utorrent and inside preferences. Take Advanced settings. Change the max_halfopen value to 100.

Download a sample torrent file and check for the new increased torrent download speeds. If you are not satisfied with the torrent download speed or have problem accessing internet then open Half-open limit fix file and click restore original file to change back everything to normal.

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Copy Files From Damaged/Corrupted Hard Disks, CD’s and DVD’s

Most of us use CD’s, DVD’s or hard disks to backup our important files. But these storage medium have the risk of getting damaged at any time. And when you try to copy data from those damaged CD/DVD’s or corrupted hard disks, you would definitely get a Windows Error or cyclic redundancy check error. Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier is freeware utility which helps you to copy data from a damaged disks.

Unstoppable Copier from Roadkil allows you to recover data from disks with physical damage or from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. This Free software will recover every readable piece of a file and put the parts together. This also helps you to recover important files from damaged CD’s or DVD’s. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

How to copy data from damaged Disks

1)Install the Unstoppable copier software.

2)Specify the source of the damaged disk and destination to copy and the program will copy the files ignoring the Windows Error message.

3)You can also pause and continue data recovery at your choice.

4)Option to choose from fastest copying speed or the best data recovery. [for the impatient one’s]

Download Unstoppable Copier

[Supports Linux/Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7] [Free][~380kb]

Program Summary: Copies data from damaged disks[CD/DVD/Hard disks], Ignores windows error messages and recovers every readable information]

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How to Back Up the Registry

Before you edit the registry, export the keys in the registry that you plan to edit, or back up the whole registry. If a problem occurs, you can then follow the steps how-to restore the registry to its previous state.

How to Export Registry Keys

1.Click Start, and then click Run.
2.In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3.On the File menu, click Export.
4.In the Save in box, select the boxs at the bottom the bottom according to weather you want to export all or only selected branches of the registry.
Next select a location in which to save the backup .reg file. In the File name box, type a file name, and then click Save.

How to Restore the Registry

1.To restore registry keys that you exported, double-click the .reg file that you saved.

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28 themes for google chrome

I f your are a chrome user then this is for you.Google has launched theme gallery for Google Chrome which has 28 different kinds of themes.All the themes are good.

click here for themes..

https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html



How to install the theme ?


First visit the theme gallery, choose your desired theme click on Apply Theme. Save the .crx file and Chrome will automatically load that theme for you and also offers you an option to go to default theme. There is no option to preview the theme before installing.

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