performance optimization

Higher user ratings are one of the success factors for apps in the Windows Store. Understanding and acting on customer reviews and minimizing app crashes help increase customer satisfaction, and that in turn will increase app ratings. In the new unified Dev Center dashboard you now have access...

I had my computer custom built for me about 2 years ago from Micro-Center, a computer store near me that sells every PC component you can think of, and they'll put it all together for you too. My PC is still running fast and does everything I need it to do, but I'm ready for a refresh! Overall...

I have read that one should not defragment a SSD Drive. If this is true then... My OS is windows 7 64bt. I am have 2 256GB SSDs running in raid 1 as my 'C' drive and 2-2TB hard drives are 'D' & 'E'. My system tells me that windows is handling the defragmentation of my drives. What I would...

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012, 0900 - 1700 PDT for an all-day Windows Camp focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. This event will be streaming live right here on Channel 9 (media player will be on this very page)! All sessions will...

Hi there, I have a couple of errors listed here since I don't know if they are connected or not. System: Windows 7 Home Premium Intel Core i7 2600k @ 3.4GHz ASUS Sabertooth P67 EVGA nVIDIA GTX560Ti All these problems have happened since I builded the computer a week ago: 1) When my pc...

I need some help with my PC. Over the past 3 to 6 months it has gotten weird. I have a HP I purchased at a store just over a year ago. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 System Manufacturer...

I would like to know what the purpose of the "drive wiper" on CCleaner is for and whether it is safe to use? Your comments will be most appreciated

Did you ever want to write a game with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Ryan Plemons, Sr Developer with Terralever, shares his journey in optimizing the Silverlight based Zero Gravity game to work on Windows Phone 7. Ryan shares how he built the application using Isolated Storage, how he applied...

I was having a discussion on another forum, and got fascinated by an observation another member had made. If you use the default desktop, the welcome screen only stayed for 2 or 3 seconds. If you customised the desktop, this deteriroated to, in the worst cases, about 50 seconds. I began to...

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This will ENABLE the 20% bandwidth that the system reserves for itself. Click Start and type and enter "gpedit.msc" This opens the group policy editor. Then go to: Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable...

I recently installed Windows 7 RC1 x64 from the download Microsoft had been providing. I have many questions about it as a new user to Windows 7 and am curious if there are solutions to these, or if they are known bugs. Also, some questions are more general in nature. 1) Sometimes while using...

These have full windows 7 support for both 32bit and 64bit. It also supports WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.1 "this new WDDM 1.1 support utilizes DirectX 10 rather than DirectX 9 and can cut down your GPU memory usage by half when opening up multiple windows thereby enabling increased...

Seems like a new entry to me. Anyone know what this is supposed to do?