Fix PC Errors

The Professional Developers Conference has just been going on from October 27-30 and Microsoft has been releasing alot of info about their new upcoming products as well as demos of Windows 7.

Below are some links to the keynote presentations from Day 1 and Day 2. If you have any interest in Microsoft related products, you should find these very informative.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

When you click the start menu, on the left hand side it shows items that you commonly use. These items can be rotated based on use.

However, you can add more items to this part of the menu and it can make life alot easier.

All you need to do is click “Start”, then “All Programs”, then you just right-click on whatever you wish to add and then select “Pin to Start menu”.

The item will now show up when you click on “Start” in the main menu programs.

Just recently at the PDC conference, Microsoft has revealed further information about their Azure platform.

Azure is a Microsoft hosted platform that allows for internet-scale cloud computing and services. It can be used to add web service capabilities to existing apps, build web apps with minimal on premises resources, perform services off premises, reduce costs and develop new web services inexpensively.

Read more about Windows Azure

If your system has limited RAM, and you can’t update due to hardware constraints etc, then you might try upping the size of the Windows XP paging file.

This is a very simple little tweak and it may prove useful if you are using alot of applications at once and hence consuming lots of memory.

To change your XP virtual memory:

• Click “Start”, then right-click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”
• Click on the “Advanced” tab
• Click the “Settings” button under the “Performance” heading
• Click the “Advanced” tab
• Under the “Virtual Memory” label, click on “Change”
• Here you can select the drive to use for the paging file and size. For size you can set an initial size and maximum

If you are using up alot of memory and resources, give that a try and see if it helps boost performance!!

It wasn’t too long ago we were discussing the release of Windows Vista service pack 1. Well it seems that Microsoft is now hard at work with Vista Service Pack 2.

There is not a great deal of information available about this yet, but rumours have it that a beta version has been floating around and provided to a few customers.

There is a bit of info about this at the Microsoft support site, but not much. Anyway, the link is below:

Windows Vista Service Pack 2

In the meantime, you can fix all of your existing Vista errors and slowness with our free download.

Well it seems that Microsoft has finally come up with an official name for their new Windows 7 Operating system and it looks like they have thought about this long and hard.

The official name is……..Windows 7.

Pretty original huh?

Anyway, who really cares what they call it. Lets just hope it meets expectations and with all the new user feedback they are getting, it should be a better OS than Vista.

This is an old topic but probably the most requested. It seems that everyone has a PC that is (or was) running slow. Time and time again the problem is usually just poor maintenance.

Over time as you clutter your PC with more applications, drivers, software etc, things just start to slow down. Everything is controlled by the Windows Registry, so obviously as time goes on and your PC gets cluttered, so too does the registry. More clutter, means your PC has to do more work - which means a slower PC.

In cases of poor PC maintenance, extra tweaks and even hardware wont help much, because you are not hitting the cause of the problem. Tweaking your system and adding hardware is only good when your system is already in good shape, then it will respond much better to changes.

So what we recommend is that you start maintaining your PC correctly and on a regular basis. The easiest is to use a PC optimization tool. These can give a huge performance boost and they will fix the majority of problems on your PC. With most of these tools you can also schedule them to automatically run on a regular basis. This keeps your PC in great condition without any hassles.

Besides running an optimization tool, you should also ensure that your PC doesn’t have any viruses or spyware. These can really slow down a system and you might no know you are infected.

The last option would be a re-install of Windows on your PC. If things are really bad, this can be a good way to start over. If you do this, just make sure you don’t let your PC go bad again. Because re-installing can take hours and there is potential risk of losing data - so back it up!

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This is a pretty simple tweak, but can be very useful for keeping your desktop clean and clutter free. The XP desktop cleanup works be helping you remove shortcuts that are not used very often.

What we will do is set Xp to automatically run the desktop cleanup wizard every 60 days.

• Right-click on your desktop
• Select properties
• Click on the “Desktop” tab
• Click “Customize Desktop”
• Then check the box “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days”
• You can also run the desktop cleanup immediately by clicking the “Clean Desktop Now” button.

Done. You now have a nice clean desktop.

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One of the features that we have all wanted to see is support for the Windows Taskbar across multi-monitors and it looks like this could finally be addressed in Windows 7.

Microsoft have said that this feature is not as easy to implement as it may seem, and there is no promise that Windows 7 will feature this support. But nonetheless, rumours are that Microsoft is working hard on this feature. We will most likely see the outcome at the upcoming Professional Developers Conference in Vegas.