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Windows 7 Tips: How To Make Internet Explorer 8 Load Faster



If you want Internet Explorer 8 to load faster, you need to disable the add-ons that slow it down, so go to Tools -> Manage Add-ons and check the load time for each one.

You can choose for yourself the ones you can live without and ones that would increase the load speed.
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Windows 7 Tips: Advanced Disk Defragmentation



Fortunately, Windows 7 offers much better defragmentation than Vista and also lets you configure it a bit from the command line.

To activate advance disk defragmentation feature, press the Windows Key and then type “CMD”. You can defragment your hard disk from the command line by typing “defrag” and you have the following options: “/r” will defrag multiple drives simultaneously, “-a” performs a defrag analysis, “-v” prints the report, “-r” treats files with at least 64 Mb of fragments like are not fragmented, “-w” will defrag everything. An example is “defrag C: -v -w” to defrag the whole drive C.
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Windows 7 Tips: Turn Off Recent Search Queries Display




Windows 7 holds and displays the recent search queries by default. This can often prove to be irritating. No need to stress though because it can be disabled.

To turn off recent search queries display, Press the Windows Key, type “gpedit.msc”, then go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer and double click on “Turn off display of recent search entries”.
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Windows 7 Tips: Configure Your Music Favorites



The Windows Media Center creates a list of favorite songs based on how often you play them, your ratings and date you’ve added them. If you aren’t comfortable with the way they thought it out, change the way it sorts your favorites by going to Tasks -> Settings -> Music -> Favorite Music.
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Windows 7 Tips: Mouse Gestures



Windows 7 has not only brought gestures for those who use touchscreen devices, but for mouse users too. So, instead of right-clicking a Taskbar icon to access the jump list, you can hold left-click and drag upwards to smoothly call it up.

In addition, clicking and dragging down the address bar in Internet Explorer will open the browsing history. There might be more gestures yet not discovered.
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Chrome Extension For Web Designers: Lorem Ipsum Generator



Chrome Extension For Web Designers: Lorem Ipsum Generator

Use this extension to create random, dummy text on the fly so you can fill out your designs and get a sense for the aesthetics when no copy has been written for the site yet. It just takes a couple clicks, and it’s not complicated at all.

Grace Smith called the Lorem Ipsum Generator “a web designer’s favorite filler.” She also said that “it’s uncomplicated, minimalist and isn’t memory hungry.”
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Windows 7 Tips: Search Everything In Your Computer



Windows 7 offers the possibility to search all file types, including unknown ones and this could help you in some cases.

Though it is not recommended, because it’s much slower than normal search, to search everything in your computer, you can give it a try by doing the following: Launch Windows Explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View and check “Try to search the content of unknown file types”.

If you don’t need it anymore, don’t forget to clear it for an increase in speed.
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Windows 7 Tips: Fix The Media Player & Media Center MP3 Bug



If you have the final version of Windows 7, then go ahead and skip this one, since it applies only to Beta and RC versions.

Both Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center come with a bug that can damage your MP3s by filling missing metadata automatically on imported MP3 files. This can cut a few seconds from the beginning of the tracks and can prove really disturbing.

This problem was fixed by Microsoft using the fix that you can download here.
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Windows 7 Tips: Use Gadgets With UAC Turned Off



Maybe you noticed that once you turn off UAC you can’t use the gadgets anymore, as a security measure. But if you want to risk using them, there a simple way to do it, even with UAC turned off.

To use gadgets with UAC turned off, Press the Windows Key, type ‘regedit’, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar\Settings and create a DWORD value named AllowElevatedProcess and set its value to 1.

Now you should be able to use your gadgets. If not, then reboot your PC and you should be done.
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Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter User Date Creator



Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter User Date Creator

This is a fun one. Other than pure nosiness, the only real reason we could see for anyone needing this data is journalistic/research purposes.

Usefulness aside, this extension will let you see the date that any user joined the micro-blogging service.
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