Windows 7

Protecting Your Hard Drive and Filesystem On Windows 7

Following any OS release, there’s always a lot of excitement as well as a bunch of new wrinkles to iron out. Nowhere is this more true than with Microsoft’s Windows platform. While often touted as the easiest and most user friendly system out there, it tends to make up for that with more than its fair share of glitches and bugs.

As far as overall computer life is concerned, taking good care of your hard drive is of paramount importance. So here, in no particular order, are some of the best free software tools available at the moment for Windows 7 to keep your HDD humming smoothly and without incident.

Garbage Collection
Unwanted programs, applets, redundant files and other junk have a funny way of piling up over time so stealthily that, before you know it, you have untold Gigs of space eaten up by random trash. Rather than go through your entire registry entry by entry, these programs can easily sort through and rid your hard drive of all that detritus that you don’t need.

In this department, the clear winner head and shoulders above the rest is CCleaner. On any version of… Read the rest

key antipiracy protections of Windows 7 have been bypassed by hacker

Microsoft official statement

“We’re aware of this workaround and are already working to address it,”

more information @”Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation” (cnet)

A bug with Intel’s P55 chipset prevents Windows 7 from syncing their iPhone, and motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has issued a BIOS update to resolve the issue for some.

Appleinsider

Gigabyte has released its beta BIOS for the GA-P55-UD4P motherboard and you can download it from here

In this post we won’t talk about Windows-7-defrag

When you are looking for another better, faster and free defragmenting software for your Windows-7 system and stumbled across this post, I’m sure you will find this post very useful.

Why is defragmenting so important for your system performance

“[...] defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. [...] The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation. These files can be safely moved when the operating system is not in use. [...] The outer tracks of a hard disk have a higher transfer rate than the inner tracks, therefore placing files on the outer tracks increases performance. [...]“

via Wikipedia

4. Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag is an application with full and ease of functionality. Smart Defrag doesn’t only offer the possibility to defragment your system, it also can optimize your systems file access time, by moving the most commonly used system files to the fastest areas of the hard-drive.

Auto Defrag is beside Smart Defrag’s optimize-system-files the most interesting feature.

Auto Defrag (standard setting) is very practical, because it works quietly in the background when… Read the rest

Playstation 3 Dualshock on Windows 7 x64 RC

This video tutorial is based on Windows 7 x64 RC but should also work on the future Windows 7 builds 32/64 Bit Versions.

Sixaxis & Dualshock 3 drivers

Sxiaxis Dualshock 3 driver for 32bits Windows xp,Windows vista,Windows 7

Sxiaxis Dualshock 3 driver for 64bits Windows vista,Windows 7

The software available here from MotionInJoy.com are provided “as is” with NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

Installation instructions

Download the drivers from here

MaximumPC presents in their post ”Windows 7 Buyer’s Guide: Which Edition is Right for You?” in a short and useful manner, which decisions need to be made, to choose the right Operating System for your brand, company, personal use Operating System

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