windows tweaks

Is your mouse pointer waltzing across the screen with the panache of a ghostly marionette, programs launching and closing as if your PC has developed a mind of its own? Or perhaps new user accounts have appeared mysteriously, and your once-pristine desktop now sports a lineup of unfamiliar...

Cue the sound of countless IT managers, frazzled students, and caffeine-addled journalists breathing a sigh of relief: the taskbar calendar clock—the humble sentinel of many a Windows workflow—has returned to Windows 11. Yes, after three years and enough online petitions to fill a blockchain...

The Windows Insider Program is at it again, and just when you thought the pace of innovation in Redmond might hit a pleasant Sunday stroll, Microsoft emerges like a caffeinated developer at a hackathon—delivering a fresh slab of code to eager enthusiasts everywhere. Windows 11 Insider Preview...

The Definitive Guide: How to Force Enable the New Start Menu in Windows 11 Windows 11’s Start menu has never strayed far from the spotlight—sometimes for its charm, often for the storms stirred up in the user community. As the centerpiece of desktop navigation, every tweak ignites passionate...

Unlocking Windows Performance: The Art of Disabling Unnecessary Services Windows is a complex beast, brimming with countless background services that often run automatically without much consideration for their necessity on a typical user's system. Many of these services were designed to support...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then this ultimate level-up for Windows users paying homage to macOS is bound to delight both camps. Windows 11, as sleek as Microsoft aspired it to be, still treads far behind the polished and cohesive aesthetic appeal of macOS. But hey, it's the...

I really don't like the default logins for my windows 8.1 computer, as in I select a user from a list and it pops up a new screen and you enter the password then login. I would much prefer you type in the username, and then type the password. I am wondering if there is someway to do that through...

The only views that display the icon labels UNDER the icons are the Medium, Large and Extra Large Icons. I prefer the Small Icons View, but it displays the labels on the right side of the icons. Is there any tweak or tool that would move the labels under the Small Icons? Thanks. FP

For those (of us) that want to stay on the old familiar Desktop when using Win-8, having the charms bar pop up when we touch the right corners of the screen, is just not acceptable. Here's a fix that removes that activity. 1. Open Registry Editor (press Win+R, type regedit.exe in Run dialog...

# windows8 If you're afraid of, or just annoyed by, the concept of Windows 8's Metro (well formerly Metro, but whatever) UI style, there's a handy way around it. RetroUI is a program that will take users directly to the Classic desktop after login , and even lock Metro away completely. More*»...

Hello All I use Windows 7 Pro on my Sony VAIO Laptop and I have noticed in the last few weeks that it has became slower and slower so I did the defrag, virus check, disk clean up, windows tweaks and tips un-checked most of the start-up programs and it did make the computer faster except for the...

Not sure If I wrote the title of this discussion correctly. Let me try some other ways "What should my OS do for me?" "What do I expect from an OS?" "How involved with my everyday is my OS?" "My OS is trying to rule me" My basic argument (which may or may not be an argument) is that...

I had ignored it for the first few days here on Win7, but now it is being real annoying. First off hardware list. Win7-64-enterprise PhenomII 940 4Gb 1066 Muskin MSI K9A2 Platinum His 4890 1g Audigy 1 pci No raid in use No Overclocking Windows is installed on a 120 ide WD on a separate 14gb...

I believe I've got it down to a science. 1. Unhackme - http://www.greatis.com/unhackme/ removes ALL of those Antivirus 20xx both the fake alerts and the programs that can't be uninstalled. Deals with the registry so the usuall legalese to registry modification aplies so be careful. But by...

So I have 6 gb ram (4 corsair 2 G.Skill) but when I go to my system properties it shows Installed Memory: 6.00 GB (3.00 GB usable). When I pull the 2 G.skill's out it reads: Installed Memory: 4.00 GB (3.5 GB usable). Two questions: why is it when I decrease my ram from 6 to 4 GB do I...