How to Fix a Slow Windows 7 Computer in Minutes

Windows 7 from Microsoft had made a great impact with its cool features and interactive Graphic User Interface (GUI). It has avenged the RAM issues of Windows Vista by using lesser RAM space for GUI attributes and the speed troubles of Windows XP by intelligently utilizing RAM usage.

However, like its successors, when the hard disks are full and the registry is overwhelming with files there’s nothing left for Windows 7 but to go “turtle mode.” Let’s face it, no matter how powerful your Operating System is, once the RAM sense that you ignore managing the software tools and files you create and download, say hello to your, now, slow computer.

But fixing a slow computer especially Windows 7 is actually easy and can be done in no time as long as you have patience to follow instructions and of course, the willingness to do the task.

And without further ado, here’s your instant computer help on how to fix a slow Windows 7:

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1. Disable the Aero theme.
The Aero theme makes your Windows look gorgeous but inside your CPU, it pushes the video card to its limit leaving it no choice but to slow done. Disabling it can be done in, well, three steps:

* Right click on the Desktop
* Choose Personalize
* Then, scroll down and choose the basic themes

2. Get rid of the sidebar.
Windows 7 inherited this feature from its older brother – Windows Vista. The problem is Vista users find it difficult to cope up with this feature because it makes the system sluggish. Naturally, Windows 7 also inherited this problem but here’s the solution:

* Open the Control Panel
* Type features into the search box
* Click the Turn Windows on or off link
* Uncheck Windows Gadget Platform
* Click Ok
* Restart your computer

3. Some Registry Optimization.
This is a bit technical; you can download a registry optimization software tool to do this but to give up you an idea of what registry optimization is about, here’s a tweak that will modify the amount of time mouse-over boxes and clicked menus take to appear:

* Click Start Button
* Type regedit into the Search programs and files box (regedit stands for Registry Edit)
* Left-click on the expandable arrow next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
* Expand the Control Panel and directly click on Desktop in the hierarchy
* Focusing on the right pane, search and click MenuShowDelay
* Decrease the value from 400 to 1 or any number lesser that 400. (this is the milliseconds of delay between your mouse click and a menu’s display)
* Below the desktop, search and click the folder named Mouse
* Look for and select MouseHoverTime Registry key.
* Again, change the value to a lesser figure.
* Restart your computer

4. Install Anti-virus software.
This is very text book and yet many PC users neglect this believing that their OS is invulnerable to any computer threats.

There you have it, simple instructions on how to fix a slow computer for Windows 7 users. As I’ve told you, fixing you computer is easy and can be fun as well. Just don’t forget to manage your files in a way that you will effortlessly distinguish which ones should be removed so that you can enjoy the speed of your Windows 7.

Isn’t It About Time Microsoft Announced Some Exclusives?

LittleBigPlanet 2 [review] kicks off Sony’s PS3 exclusive push for 2011 in a matter of days now, and it’s going to be swiftly followed by the wonderful Killzone 3 [hands-on].  These two games alone will keep many gamers busy for a good few months – the former especially.

But that’s not all that’s lined up for the PlayStation 3 this year – look out for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, inFamous 2, The Last Guardian, Motorstorm: Apocalypse and Resistance 3 as big hitters, with the likes of MLB 11, Disgaea 4, PlayStation Move Heroes, SOCOM 4, Sorcery, Twisted Metal and a new Yakuza bringing up the rear.

It’s an impressive line-up, arguably, in fact, the strongest set of games that Sony and their third parties have pushed out this generation – something presumably spurred on by competition from the currently on a roll Xbox 360.  The problem on that count, though, is that Microsoft don’t really seem to like talking about anything lined up themselves this year apart from (the admittedly massive) Gears of War 3, Forza 4 and a few other titles that run the gamut between potentially mind-blowing and ‘still codenamed’. We want to know what’s coming.

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Sure, there’s the rather vague Panzer Dragoon-esque title, a new Steel Batallion, a Kinect survival horror from SEGA and the Crytek developed Codename Kingdoms, but what we want are the likes of Halo, guys, the stuff we find familiar and can get excited about. Halo sells consoles, it ignites gamers and – yes – we’ll happily settle for a HD remake of Combat Evolved this year if you’re taking a year out.

Exclusives are big business, the whole concept of having games that only play on your console (we’re, for the sake of this blog, ignoring PC and Windows phone releases) goes towards how one console manufacturer sets themselves apart from the others; and on that aspect alone it seems Sony have got this year all sewn up, at least going off what we know from the two houses.

For the first time, too, some might say – the PS3′s had a rather uneven release schedule ever since it was released with delays and misfires peppering what has actually at times been an underwhelming few years – but for the next twelve months we’re struggling to find what Microsoft are up to.

Maybe it’s the new emphasis on Kinect that’s absorbing all their energy.  Certainly, the brand new motion control device has meant that the 360 has seen far more TV-time than anything else this Christmas – the games are fresh, massively fun with mates and require no grasp of traditional games to enjoy: put your Granny in front of Kinect and fire up Bowling and she’ll be off – the line-up has actually resulted in a solid set of highly playable games that are far weightier than we first thought. Dance Central is, by all accounts, bloody fantastic.

But are Gears of War 3, Forza 4 and some unknown quantities going to be enough to convince Microsoft’s hardcore following that they’re still the company’s focus?  Of course not – and we don’t think for a second that there’s only going to be the games mentioned (and don’t forget that there’s still loads of multi-format games coming out) – and Greenberg’s already talking about how 2011 will be big for Xbox 360 exclusives. But that’s the point of this article – with Sony having already announced a good deal of their 2011 exclusive offering (and they’re still not talking about Starhawk) we have to wonder why Microsoft are being so cagey with their games.

Are they holding off for a massive bout of list-wars E3, or is there something else set for Los Angeles that’ll blow us all away…? Microsoft, we’re all ears.

Microsoft Surface 2 is real and it looks amazing

Microsoft’s eternal Surface project that never seems to actually reach the consumers whose lives it has the potential to revolutionize has hit version two, and today at CES Microsoft gave it a public outing.

The second incarnation runs on Windows 7 and has some very impressive hardware inside to make it leaps and bounds better than its predecessor. According to Tom Warren:

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The new version of Surface, due this year, is powered by a multicore CPU and GPU by AMD. Microsoft’s Windows 7 will power the new Surface. Samsung manufactures the device in partnership with Microsoft and the new model is just 4″ thick. Due to the new size of the Surface 2, customers have the option to mount it vertically. The top part of Microsoft’s Surface 2 uses the biggest piece of gorilla glass that has ever been bonded to an LCD.

The new vertical mount capability will greatly add to its potential use case array. The first announced customer, Royal Bank of Canada, will install the devices this year.

The new Surface is to be widely available later this year, and again according to WinRumors will be priced lower than the first version of Surface.

I had the chance to play with Surface 1 in 2009 at Microsoft’s PDC, and I found it to be a very powerful piece of research hardware. The new surface has taken the original concept and made it appropriate for mass consumption and use.

It could be that, given the new tile interface that is supposed to be under preparation for Windows 8, the Surface 2 has a large future in Microsoft’s hardware and software lineup. Mass mountable Surface computers with two hand multi-touch in my apartment? Sign me up.