Quick Tip: Speed up Minimize and Maximize of Window in Windows Vista

To see is to believed: For two days now, I am trying to emulate the speed of Windows 7 in Vista. One feature that can be access by anyone is increasing the speed of maximizing and minimizing a window by removing the animation feature.

Simply press Windows Key + R to launch the Run Window and type rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL SysDM.cpl,,3

Alternatively, you can press Win+Pause and once the System Window opens click the “Advance system settings” located at the left side of the window. Afterwards UAC will open, just push the Continue button.

In Performance Group, Click the Settings Button. Performance option window will open and in Visual Effect Tab click the “Custom:” option.

Simply uncheck Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing and hit the Apply Button.

That’s it.

Proof: Disable the feature and open a Picture (.jpg or png) in  Pictures folder using Windows Photo Gallery.

I’m sure you’ll noticed a huge difference… especially if Windows Vista SP2 is already installed. It’s close to Windows 7 speed.

Enjoy :D

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Clean-up your Registry using RegistryBooster 2009

I would like to thank Uniblue.com for this month donation in this blogsite. It will help me maintain and create more products faster… Thank you very much!

The truth is, they did not ask me to write something about their product. However, when I tried it out, I was amazed because it was very very easy to use.

The product is good. It will help you automate finding problems easily.

Also, the most important thing… It will let you create a backup before cleaning your registry.

It’s a must to try.

CLICK HERE

Enjoy! :)

If you want to learn more about the registry and what can you do about it. Check out my Tips:

Windows Vista Tips and Secrets, Tricks, Tweaks, Unlocks and Downloads

Also… Please check out my other Softwares related to Registry Booster 2009:

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Getting Computer Specs, Performance and Speed Information in Windows 7 and Vista

If you want to buy a new laptop, netbook or PC. There are several simple ways to check the specifications and performance if it is running in Windows Vista or 7.

 

Windows Experience Index score indicates the overall capability and performance of your PC or for simple explanation it is a free benchmark tool that will guide you in buying a new computer. You can access them through Performance Information and Tools Window.

Speed and Performance Information

Simply type “Performance info” in Start Menu Search and press the Enter Key.

You can re-check the values by clicking “update my score” to prevent yourself from being trick if the wei scores was hack. You can also check in Windows 7 from my previous article – click here.

What do these numbers mean?

You can click the link to open the help documentation by Microsoft as shown in the picture above.

Monitoring the Performance in real-time

If you want to check the computers performance using the task manager. Simply Press CTRL+Shift+Esc to launch the tool and click the Performance Tab.

You can also make it like a widget… Read here

Checking the specifications of the computer

There are several ways to check the hardware specifications. One of them is by launching the Old tool called DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

Simply Press Win+R > type “dxdiag” without quotes and you can check and see the overall System Summary Information, Display (or Video Card Information – really useful!), Sound and Input devices.

or you can also launch a more detailed view of System Information using msinfo32.exe tool.

Enjoy! :)

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Standard Battery Benchmark will accelerate Innovation

AMD is proposing a simple and realistic benchmark using only two parameters: Active Time and Resting Time. For simple explanation – Best Case and Worse Case.

If all the manufacturers will agree to this idea, I think it will accelerate the research and development because it will put some pressure to big companies to invest on extending the life of batteries in the future.

It will start a good competition that will benefit the users and the world.

Thanks Mr. David Pogue of Nytimes.com for the video.

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Innovation Wave – Users will become more Happy Soon

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Windows Vista Ultimate Users wants a FREE Upgrade to Windows 7

 

I personally thank Microsoft for making the world better in Windows 7 but unfortunately Vista Ultimate Users still left in the dark. After buying the ultimate EXPENSIVE Vista Machine, now we will not get any rewards?

 

I am starting to believed that the world needs a new company in between Microsoft and Google. Google is more on a science-oriented company and Microsoft is more on a business-oriented one.

Money first.

I know… Money makes the world go round. But sometimes you need to let go of your mistakes and give users some benefits for FREE.

The GREAT STRATEGY?

I’m young (middle-aged guy)  but I’m intelligent and understand different cultures and sides…

Why this is good?

• Vista Ultimate users invested both hardware and software
• WE didn’t get HUGE benefits from the Windows Edition
• They said we will have a Good Extras but all of them are junk
• We love Microsoft products because we think in the long term and wants to make the world better

Be fair… No DATE Restrictions – When or Where.

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How to Remove Invalid “Open With” Menu Program Entry

In Windows 7 and Vista, there is no option or easy way to clean-up any incorrect Open with Menu items.

Today, I’ll give several ways to remove any wrong program from the list.

Open the powerful Registry Editor by typing “regedit” in Start Menu Search

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to the following Subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

Instance 1:

Next, find the corresponding extension. e.g. .txt

Click OpenWithList

MRUList data value ab means a and b will be included in the list (notepad and google chrome). If you want to remove Google Chrome. Just change the Value data of MRUList to a only.

How about Visual Basic and C#?

Simply navigate to .txt in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\OpenWithProgids

simply delete the two registry entries…

That’s it!

You can also backup first using the Export option.

Note: Back-Up First Before Removing any entry

Instance 2:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.mp3\OpenWithProgids

Choose and Simply delete the binary value type registry entry of the program you want to remove.

Instance 3:

If instance 1 seems confusing because many program is listed but not included in the list, browse the file extension like the path below and  you’ll noticed a registry subkey that corresponds to the Program.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp\OpenWithList

Again, simply delete the subkey.

Instance 4:

Some programs like mspaint.exe is very difficult to remove. Go to the path below and delete the corresponding supported file type such as .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif and .png

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\mspaint.exe\SupportedTypes 

Difficult? Please stay tuned for the next version of WinBubbles!

If I find again new ways to delete the wrong program in Open with menu, I’m going to update this article.

Be careful and don’t forget to Backup… Enjoy! :)

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HideDrivesWithNoMedia

This is a new registry value added in Windows 7 that will let you hide empty drives in My Computer Window.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Type “regedit” in Start Menu Search, open the Registry Editor and go to the Registry key or folder above.

You’ll see the dword type HideDrivesWithNoMedia is set by default to 1.

It corresponds to checked option in Folder Options

If unchecked, HideDrivesWithNoMedia will be set to zero.

Check out more about the hidden option in my new Windows 7 Blogsite. Click here

Enjoy!

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To all Websites that Violates my License Agreement

This time I will take it seriously. To all websites (including main companies) that violates my license agreement will be reported to their advertising partners such as Google Adsense, Ad Brite and others. I will file a complaint to Google, their respective web hosting company and other legal things that I can do.

Change it now when you have still time.

License Agreement

Other Announcements

I’ll be busy for few days or weeks. I have many work to do regarding my software(s) and some personal things that I left behind because of RegDevelop and Windows 7. I’ll try to post new articles, login to monitor everything If I can.

I’m sorry I have no time for now.

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How to Copy & Paste Text from CMD or Command Prompt Window

This is an old tip but useful in everyday Windows Geek computing. Some of the articles in the internet uses the Title Window to copy text. My Tip will let you directly copy Text from your old DOS-like command line interpreter screen.

While googling and randomly reading articles from the web (getting to sleep). I noticed the instructions to copy Text from Cmd tool.

Right-Click the Title Window > Edit > Mark

I’ve been using a different procedure for a very long time now. Maybe since Windows 2000 and XP. I don’t remember.

Just Right-Click the screen then Choose the Mark option.

That’s it! :D

Simply select the Text that you want to copy by highlighting the text. No need to press Shift key and arrow keys.

To copy the Text: Push the Mouse Right-Click Button.

or press Ctrl+C

The text has been copied to your Clipboard… You can now paste the data to any application such as notepad, wordpad or MS Office.

Still works in Windows 7 and Vista!

Please my other Tips.

Enjoy~

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Innovation Wave – Users will become more Happy Soon

This is the list of New Products recently that I think has a fair and big chance of hitting the jackpot.

Windows 7

 

Windows 7 is the new operating system by Microsoft. The OS is fast, stable, user experience is amazing and few annoyances. The good thing in this OS is that it will run on low end PCs.

For more information about Windows 7, check out the article from Wikipedia and my new blog dedicated to Windows 7 tips and tricks.

Google Wave

Google Wave is the new project by Google designed to unite different messaging technology into one. It is an open-source computing platform that will merge e-mail, instant messaging and social networking.

Watch the Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009. It’s really cool… Nice!

For developers check out some Google Wave API samples.

Project Natal

It is a new way to play games: no controller is required. Personally, I think the project is possible. I have seen some small science technology projects that utilizes only the camera to analyze the movements and play games. If they added sensors for more accurate detection. It’s possible.

Watch the advertisement at Youtube.com and I’m sure you’ll be amazed.

Bing

Bing is the new Search Engine develop by Microsoft. They said it was designed to compete with Yahoo and Google but I don’t see any competition because some of it’s features are different.

I will use Google to search anything but certainly I’ll use the Image Seach by Bing. why? It’s a man thing. :D

Check out Bing and try some of it’s features.

 

I’ll add more soon…

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