Saturday, January 2, 2010

Open folder as a seperate process in windows 7

 By default all the folders that are opened is considered as a single process in windows 7.This is highy useful to save precious System resources.But this also has got a bottleneck if any folder fails to respond or crashes inturn it leads to the failure of shell.So it a better choice to run some folders as a seperate process.


Open windows explorer navigate to the folder which u want to open as a seperate process.Select the folder .Now holding the shift key rightclick on the folder .Now you can see Open in new process option .Select it mission accomplished
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How to disable Aero shake in windows 7



Aero nice shake is a cool feature incorporated in Windows 7.This feature is extremely useful when multiple windows are open and you want to select one of them and make others minimized.In windows 7 You can do this by  clicking on the required window title bar just shake it, come on shake it baby.Now you can watch other windows get minimized leaving your window.You can disable this cool feature using small registry tweak
Steps
Open Windows start menu and type Regedit in Search progams and files box.
In the Registry window navigate to the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop


On the right hand side you can see a entry called WindowsArrangementActive change its from 1 to 0 to disable areo shake.
Reboot the system.
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How to know about a running process

It is a good idea to know about each process running on your system.With this knowledge you can identify any unwanted process or backdoor running in your system.Windows 7 made our life easy and we can get information about any process running on your system using online search.All you have to do is
Open start menu.
Type resource in Search programs and files box.

Now navigate to memory tab where You can see the list of running process.Now right click on any process and select searchonline.Now your system connects to internet and returns results about that process.
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How to Fix windows 7 search

windows 7 has come up with a powerful search function.By far it is the best when compared to the other windows platforms.But sometimes it fails to deilver the results bcoz sometimes the Start menu search displays only the category headings .You can get around this by downloading and installing the hotfix by clicking here Windows 7 search .
If you have a bit of knowledge in registry .You can fix that by yourself.However i strongly advise take a backup of Registry before changing anything in it .To know how to play safe with Registry click this Master Registry .
Follow these steps

Step 1. Invoke Registry editor by typing regedit in Start menu search box and hit enter Or type regedit in Run dialog box & hit enter.
Step 2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{ef87b4cb-f2ce-4785-8658-4ca6c63e38c6}
Step 3. Right-click on this sub key, and then select Delete.
Step 4. Restart your system
Step 5.enjoy

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