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Customize the Send To menu in Windows 7 or Vista

You've must have used “Send to” command in the context menu many times. But you might be unaware that you can customize the items in this menu.
When you right click a file, you should see something like this:
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Mosaic: Windows 8 Metro UI in Windows 7

Mosaic is an open source Freeware application that brings Windows 8 Metro Style UI to your Windows 7 PC.
Mosaic isn’t a clone of Windows 8 but yes it is metro styled. You can add many widgets to it and customize it your way.
Currently This Application is in Alpha and Beta stage, but is stable enough for regular use, and will update gradually adding more features and removing bugs and glitches.

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Google Search features Explained

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Google not only find your favorite Website but also can do everyday tasks.
You can see weather, time of any country, City, You can do Calculations, You can do Conversions, You can find the Scores of your favorite Team, You can see Definitions of any Word, Spell Check your Words, Movie Show times. And many more tasks just by typing in the right phrase in Google!

How to Download any Video from the Web

Everyone likes to watch and share videos on the web. Youtube, Metacafe are few of the famous ones on the web.Best-Android-Browser-Apps-to-surf-the-Internet

But everyone Loves to download those Videos… There are many sites to download the videos from some of the famous video sharing sites like Keepvid.

But you can’t download every video with these services

When Embedding is disabled you can’t download it with the video downloading services.

Why to copy the url, go to a video downloading services and wait for the download to finish? We can do the same without downloading anything.

How to pin a Website to Windows 7 Taskbar



Earlier I shown how to pin Computer and Any Folder to the Taskbar.
To pin a Website like I have pinned Facebook as showed in above Screenshot, To pin your favorite Websites to youw Windows7 Taskbar follow the simple steps.

How to find when you joined Facebook?

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Today I was thinking and looking for the exact date I joined Facebook, but didn’t found it easily.
Then I tried the following steps to find it out.

Get the new Google Homepage (Google bar)

New Google Bar
If you are searching the whole Internet for the new Google Homepage(Google bar), your search ends here. Do it by a simple tweak, somewhat similar that we did in YouTube new layout tutorial.

Get the new YouTube | Video Tutorial

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That’s a cool one! YouTube is currently testing a new homepage design for its users. Since YouTube is currently testing this new design, not everyone can get. However, we’ve good news for you, you can get the new homepage design right now before everyone else thanks to the powers of the internet.
New YouTube Layout | Tech Tabs

Protect your Facebook Account

Several times a month I learn that one of my friends on Facebook has been hacked.
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Here are some simple practices that will help to prevent that from happening.

How to minimize Windows Live Messenger to the System Tray in Windows 7

I’ve been using Windows Live Messenger and I’m sure you’re too using it, have you noticed that instead of minimizing to the system tray, the taskbar button always stays put. But you can force Messenger to work the way you want by this simple Tweak.

To do so, we will use the Compatibility Mode feature— which will trick the application into using the old behavior for previous versions of Windows.(i.e. Minimize it to system tray)

Can your Computer run that Game?

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When a game is released, before buying it the first thing you worry ‘bout is ‘Can I run it’?
Like  I am a Diehard fan of Call of Duty, specially the Modern Warfare series and Modern Warfare  3 is released on Nov 8th   and before buying it I will insure that my pc will run it smoothly.

Can I run Battlefield 3, or Modern Warfare 3? Does my computer meet the minimum or recommended requirements for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Difficult questions. But evaluating whether or not your computer meets or exceeds hardware requirements is “Can you run it’’s specialty. Remembering your exact PC hardware specs is tough, deciphering the meaning of a PC game’s minimum requirements is challenging and combining those tasks together is almost impossible for mere mortals. But Can YOU RUN IT does this millions of times every month. See for yourself, takes less than a minute..

Enable Windows 7 “GodMode”

GodMode is a term devised by the Microsoft development team, which provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel.
This neat little admin feature for Windows 7 called ‘Godmode’ is definitely worth setting up and very easy to complete. Allowing you to see all system control panels in one place for easy access.
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Pin Computer to Taskbar. (Easy Way)

In this post I will show you how to pin Computer to Windows 7 Taskbar as an Icon on the Taskbar, not like a  Jumplist item on the Windows Explorer Icon.
See like this-

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There are two ways to do this-

Disable unwanted Features and services in windows7

 

Speed up winddows 7 meter

Windows 7 have many features and services are mostly left untouched, and they sometimes use a lot of ram and the system stats to lag.

 

You can stop / Disable these unwanted Features and Services easily.

Speed Up the Windows 7 Boot up Time and Shutdown time


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If you have a windows 7 pc or Laptop, and have many Applications installed and it boots slow, increase the boot time by simply following the simple steps-

How to See Your Windows 7 Restart Time


This will show you how to see how long in seconds it takes your Windows 7 to restart back to the desktop.
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This will show you how to see how long in seconds it takes your Windows 7 to restart back to the desktop.
You can also view the startup logs in Event Viewer (C:\Windows\system32\eventvwr.msc) under Applications and Services Logs, Microsoft, Windows, Diagnostics-Performance, and Operational. The logs will be in the middle to show you what ran at startup, how long it took, and more.
To see your Windows 7 restart time follow these simple steps-

Pin any folder in windows Taskbar (Tutorial with Video)

Windows 7 Taskbar

If you are a Windows user, you must have pinned many applications and shortcuts to your taskbar (a.k.a. Superbar). But you can't pin folders to taskbar.
 Also see our Search the Internet from you Windows 7 Start Menu post to make your windows better.


But now you can, by following these simple steps-

Don't Like the updated Facebook Profile? Get old one back!


Am back after a long gap. Facebook seems to be updated, while I was off. I can see some Lists, some subscribe button changes, the top bar is changed too, Newsfeed is changed again.. :\ with many small but useful tweaks, m.facebook appearance change  and facebook for android is changed and some small modifications too. I hope this is the same with everyone else too...


But if tou don't like your new Facebook profile get the old one easily by following the steps below :

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