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Ctrl+Alt+Del Secure Login Windows 7

contributed by Chris Luongo on October 2, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7

Add an extra layer of security on your Windows 7 login to make sure your not entering your precious password for a malicious program.

Enable Multiple Cores on Windows 7

contributed by Aaron St. Clair on September 12, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7

Many games and other processor-heavy applications really require the CPU power of multiple cores. However, even if you have a dual, quad, six-core processor, you are not guaranteed that all of them are always turned on. By default, Windows will run all your cores. However, in some circumstances windows will set your active cores lower than the max. Problems arise when the Windows OS then never re-enables all the cores. If you have experienced a drastic slowdown in system performance, this could be your quick fix.

Windows 7: Remove Pre-Installed Games

contributed by Siddharth Bose on August 25, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7, Windows

Windows 7 comes bundled with quite a few games. These classics such as minesweeper and solitaire can take up valuable hard drive space. If these games are not for you, you can reclaim this room in your system by removing these games from your system.

Windows 7: Automatically Login to Account at Startup

contributed by Jimmy Selix on July 16, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7, Windows

This tech-recipe will explain how to setup Windows 7 to automatically login a user account. This is handy for computers that you use as HTPC machines or even for a ‘guest’ computer that you want to login automatically to a restricted account.

Multi-Threaded Robocopy by First-Level Subfolder

contributed by Ben Kendall on May 2, 2011 under Batch file programming, Microsoft Windows 7

Robocopy is a wonderful tool for synchronizing directories, migrating servers, or just generally copying data on or between Windows systems. The built-in version of Robocopy on Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 introduced a multi-threaded copy option; however, this is not available in earlier editions of Windows. Read on to discover how to do multi-threaded Robocopy operations with a batch file with any version of Windows.

Windows 7: Disable Registry Editor for All User Accounts

contributed by sourojit on April 19, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7

Registry Editor is a powerful tool. Used incorrectly, it can cause serious damage to a Windows working environment. These few steps will allow an admin to disable the Registry Editor and prevent any user from accessing it.

Windows 7: How to Create Symlinks (Symbolic Links)

contributed by Rob Rogers on April 10, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7

Symbolic links are filesystem objects that point to other filesystem objects such as directories or files. This can be extremely useful if you want to sync application profiles via Dropbox or move the application profile to a more easily accessible location. There are two types of symlinks: soft, which act as a simple redirect or shortcut, and hard, which make it appear that the file or directory exist in the location of the symlink. Hard symlinks make the new location totally transparent to the application.

Windows 7: Share Wi-Fi Internet with LAN Users

contributed by sourojit on March 30, 2011 under Microsoft Windows 7

Windows 7 allows you to easily share your wireless internet access to those who are on your wired network as well. These directions will get you started.

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