Category: Windows 7

In Windows 7, you can order the prints of your photographs very easily over the internet. This is achieved by the Order Prints task built right inside the Windows Photo Viewer. The printing service is provided by the commercial printing companies in your area.

We have earlier published an article on how you can use the Order Prints wizards in Windows 7 to order the prints of your photographs online. But once you use this Order Prints wizard, it saves the printing companies information in the Windows registry. If you do not order prints online using this wizard very often, then you may want to get rid of this information.

The Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer’s hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score. If you have installed a new piece of hardware like a GPU unit, then you can force Windows 7 to re-run all the tests and rebuild the Windows Experience Index.

The default picture viewer in Windows 7 shows a menu item Order Prints under Print in the toolbar. This Order Prints task can be used to have your picture printed by commercial photo printing companies in your area. But most people have color printers these days and do not need really this task.

Windows ReadyBoost in Windows 7 can speed up your computer by using the extra space on the storage devices like USB sticks and SD cards. You can choose which USB storage device or SD card is to be used and how much memory space can be used on a device for accelerating your computer using Readyboost.

Windows ReadyBoost in Windows 7 can speed up your computer by using the extra space on the storage devices like USB sticks and SD cards. We have earlier discussed how to use Readyboost in Windows 7 for a storage device. But once you assign a device to use for Readyboost, Windows tries to use it for Readyboost every time you insert it. But do not worry, you can easily turn it off.

Have you ever wondered how fast Windows 7 drains your notebook battery? Although it may be that you have a crappy quality notebook battery, yet you can try to optimize the power usage inside Windows 7 to maximize the battery life.

There is a possibility that your user profile might get corrupted and when you logon to Windows you get an error message telling you that your user profile might be corrupted. For one of those days, you should make a backup of your user profile files.

Windows 7 hides important files and folders by default – they are called protected operating system files. These protected operating system files are not visible in the Windows Explorer. But you can change the settings to make Windows Explorer show these protected operating system files.

The Disk Cleanup utility can free up space on your hard disk. Disk Cleanup finds and then removes temporary files on your computer that you decide you no longer need. Normally you have run the Disk Cleanup from the Start Menu shortcuts, but you can also add the Disk Cleanup to the right-click menu of hard disks.