Tutorials to help speed up your XP, Vista or Windows 7 computer

There are plenty of things you can do to help improve the performance of your computer.  Most of us know a few of the different methods to accomplish this, but it is always nice to have access to a whole list of these methods all in one place.  Below are links to three “Master” tutorial to help you improve the operating speed of your computer(s).

• Windows XP Tutorial
• Windows Vista Tutorial
• Windows 7 Tutorial

Enjoy!

Transform Windows Vista into Windows 7 without using Customization Pack

I found this awesome tutorial for Transforming Windows Vista to look and feel like Windows 7 on Tweaking with Vishal. Here is a description of what this tutorial will help you do:

Windows 7 provides lots of new features along with a newly designed interface. It looks very similar to Windows Vista but there are many GUI changes like redesigned taskbar, Explorer, new boot screen and login screen, etc.

If you are still using Windows Vista but want to enjoy the new Windows 7 look, then this tutorial will definitely help you.

Here is a list of things that this tutorial covers:

• Windows Theme or Visual Style
• Boot Screen
• Login Screen or Welcome Screen
• Taskbar
• Wallpapers, Sounds & Icons
• About Windows Box
• Extras like “Aero Shake“, “Aero Snap“, “Aero Peek“, “Calculator” and “Paint“
• A Few Other Mods…

To view the tutorial visit Tweaking with Vishal: Transform Windows Vista into Windows 7 without using Customization Pack

Automate your download from File Hosting Sites with Mipony

When we download from file hosting sites such as rapidshare, the one thing which frustrates us usually is the waiting time imposed on us and the time limit set for free users before downloading another file. Monitoring all these things can be a tiresome issue especially if you have other works to do and just can keep focused on the download itself.

There is lots of software available around that resolves this issue, but Mipony is one of them which really stands out.

Mipony is a software specially designed to download easily files from free hosting pages like Rapidshare and Megaupload. It bypasses filling captchas, allows to download files in queue or multiple files from various servers at a time. What more included in this software is an integrated web browser with Link Detection feature; with which you can add a list of files in download queue. It works with both Free and Premium download account.
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Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

Windows 7 is the latest brainchild of Computer billionaire Bill Gates. It was made for a specific reason, which is to replace the enormous faults of Windows vista such as speed, usage of ram, space taken and the cost.

First let’s tackle speed. At any test, windows 7 has bested windows vista based on speed. Vista has had problems including reducing the performance of the computer since its beginning. For example windows vista mainly requires at least a 1 GB ram to function properly, while Windows 7 has only a 756 Mb ram necessity. I have tested windows 7 beta version in a laptop which has a 756 Mb ram and it still works perfectly, while in the same computer vista was lagging quite a bit.
The Space required for vista and the space required for windows 7 is almost the same. This region has a slight improvement but not greatly.

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ABK Freeware File Extension Changer .NET Solves All Your File Extension-Changing Troubles!

Have you ever come across any situation where you wanted to change the file extension types of certain files or folders? I do, and I come across situations like this a lot of times.

For example, my friend once sent me a Word file of Microsoft Office 2007, on which I accessed it on a computer with Office 2003 installed (which could not open Office 2007 files). Since I wanted to do some editing of her work immediately, I was forced to change the file extension of the word file from .docx to .doc just to open the file. There are also other examples in my life, like changing an audio file from .mp4 to .mp3, a video file from .avi to .wmv and many more.

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Aviary(talon), take a screenshot of your site(firefox Addon)

you may need to have an account to use it,don’t worry, it is free and easy to get one from here

Sometimes taking a screenshot of a webpage is hard as the page may be larger than the screen,now this is no longer a problem if you use firefox with this addon

it can take screenshots of the webpage or a part you select of it, then you can save it to your pc,copy to clipboard, or edit it

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Peer Block – A Peerguardian 2 Alternative

Peerguardian is a security tool that blocks certain IP ranges that has been added to its block lists. But Peerguardian has major issues when it comes to Vista and Windows 7. Although a RC test version was developed by Phoenix Labs it crashes and freezes most of the time not to mention its blocking ability getting disabled without reason.

Peer Block is similar to Peerguardian in fact its a branch of PG2, only with less bugs. This is due to Peer Block development being much more active than PG2. The driver signing issue in x64 is still there as a signed driver is required for proper functionality without workarounds, for which they are currently collecting funds. Check out their site or blog for more info.

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Restore a firefox profile backup

The first thing you need in this tutorial is a firefox add on called FEBE

(Firefox Environment Backup Extension)

There was a post about this addon and you can find it here

There is no problem in making a backup for the whole profile. the problem was in restoring it. i tried to restore it but there were some troubles that i could finally find a solution for them. i had to create a new profile to restore that backup to it and here are the steps to create one

• Close all running firefox instances.
• start?run? firefox -p , you should see something like that

• create a new profile. i don’t think there will be any troubles with this step
• start firefox after choosing the first profile (it is the one that have FEBE installed)
• When firefox starts go to tools ?FEBE?Restore?Restore profile
• Browse your pre backed up profile and then choose the new profile you created , by default (if you didn’t change it , it is called Default user. continue with it and close firefox
• Now again go to Start ? run ? firefox -p
• Choose the profile you created a min ago and start firefox
• Enjoy using your profile again
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Yahoo Messenger 10 (10.0.0.331) Pre-Alpha Version

I’ve found this version of yahoo messenger 10 (leaked) it is still pre-alpha but it works fine

Here are the new features you will find in it

• Multilanguage Support
• Changes in Main window, Contact & Y! Update Tab
• Manage Updates I Broadcast option
• Access to My Pingbox

And here are the download links

• RS.de
• Mediafire

And here is a patch to remove the ads.

Update. > Here is a link (Yahoo messenger + Patch)

Enjoy

Google docs backup

Now this is google docs backup app

Here is the home page

and here is the download page from google code

GDocBackip_0.3.2_Setup.exe