Download SnapMagazine Blogger Template - Free Magazine Style Professional Template

There are so many blogger templates are available for us to choose from but the ones which are professional are very few. A good theme reflects the quality of the blog. Most of the professional bloggers use Magazine Style Templates for their site. Now here is a professional Magazine style template created by my friend Debajyothi Das of Snap How (http://www.snaphow.com). It is a very beautiful and clean template with very good features. He named it as SnapMagazine.

Screen Shot of Snap Magazine Template


Features of SnapMagazine Blogger Template

1) IE Compatible : Many Templates have problems in Internet Explorer (IE). The CSS of this Template has been Customized to face no problem in IE.

2) SEO Optimization : This template has been designed for ‘Search Engine Optimization’ (SEO). Thanks to some hacks and plugins this template has a better possibility of getting your blog’s posts a better place in Search Results.

3) Auto Related Posts Plugin : This is the best feature that this template provides. Automatically Adds Related Posts to your posts based on Labels. Will make your blog readers stay more time to your blog and the page impression will also increases.


4) Read more Plugin : Expandable Posts is also included.

5) Attractive Subscribe Widget : Makes it easy for Readers to subscribe via RSS

6) Attractive & Productive Header

As you see you need not want to work again to add these professional features in the template. Deb has already added it for you.

All he asks you is only to keep the footer credits in the template. Well that would be the respect you could give him in return for the hard work he has done in creating that beautiful template.

Download SnapMagazine Template

Read More About SnapMagazine Template (for customization)

See live Demo of SnapMagazine Template

Speed Up Firefox 3 - Make Firefox 3 Super Fast

When it comes to Speed Firefox tops. The World's Most Popular browser Mozilla Firefox is certainly speedy. Browsing with it is a great experience what's more the addons power up it really well. These days most of the users use a high speed broad band connection. So they wont get the full utility from firefox 3 because Firefox is configured to work on slow (dial-up) connections by default. Applying certain tweaks optimize Firefox 3 for Fast for broadband connections. Dial Up users wont get much benefit from this but certainly broad band users will.
Here are some tweaks that could speed up Firefox 3 by optimizing it for fast broad band connections.
Pipelining is a technology used to speed up firefox 3 really well. This technology will allow FireFox to load all the page elements simultaneously instead of loading them one by one. This will make Firefox really fast. Here's how to speed up Firefox 3 to the maximum.

1. Enter about:config in the address bar of Firefox 3. You can see lot of options displayed.
2. Type network.http in the Filter box.
3. You will see an option called network.http.pipelining double click the entry to make it true and do the same for network.http.proxy.pipelining. This is done to Enable Firefox to do multiple requests to a server at a time. So if you have a high speed connection you will be benefited.
4. Now for the entry network.http.pipelining.maxrequests set its value to 30.

This number 30 means that Firefox will make 30 requests to a server at a time.
For an Extra Speed boost right click in a blank space in the above window and select NEW> Integer from the right click menu.Give its name as nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it's value as 0. This is the amount of time Firefox waits before processing any information it received.

If you want to Speed Up Firefox 3 Even More then create these values

• network.dns.disableIPv6 set its value to False


• content.notify.backoffcount value as 5


• plugin.expose_full_path value as true”.


• ui.submenuDelay and value as 0

Make Firefox 3 Use Less Ram For Its Cache

This isn't really a speed boost but will be helpful for people with less ram.For this firefox tweak type about:config in the address bar. And search for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer and double click it and set its value to 0. (If you dont see it create one as a boolean value by right clicking and New -> Boolean)Thats it Firefox wont now eat up more memory for its cache.

Now just restart you browser and see the speed increase in Firefox 3. If you have any suggestions and tweaks comment it. I will include them in the post.

Control Your PC Actions with Mouse Gestures - StrokeIt is Back!

There might be many mouse gesture applications around in the web but there is nothing that could pose a strong rival to StrokeIt. This great mouse gesture application popped into the wild almost 8 years ago. But after February 2005 it seemed like the programs development staunched. Now Stroke it is again back in action! the program developer came up with the news that StrokeIt version 0.9.6 will run in all windows versions starting from Windows 95 to the newest Windows 7.

The developer had added a new portable feature too. So taking the program along with us on the go wont be a problem. This is what the developer says about StrokeIt.

StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor. What is a mouse gesture? Mouse gestures are simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen using your mouse. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the "action" associated with that gesture. In short, it's a nifty little program that lets you easily control programs by drawing symbols with your mouse.

StrokeIt can currently recognize more than 80 unique mouse gestures and can be easily trained to recognize many more. For each gesture recognized, StrokeIt can execute a user-defined set of commands within the active application. StrokeIt commands are defined within plugin libraries that can be easily created by third parties to do nearly anything.

The program supports Safari and Google Chrome too. StrokeIt can currently recognize over 80 programs. And with all these superb features available the program is absolutely Free for personal use.

Download StrokeIt

25 + (Most) Beautiful Themes for Your Apple iPhone

Here are some Beautiful Themes for your Apple iPhone.

1)FLAT theme for iPhone

Flat Theme for iPhone contains 100 beautiful icons, wallpapers, lockscreen etc.

Download Flat theme for iPhone

2)Glacies v1.1 - iPhone Theme

Glacies is a Beautiful WinterBoard Theme for iPhone with104 beautiful icons, wallpapers, lockscreen etc.

Download Glacies v1.1 - iPhone Theme

3)iPhone NewIcon Theme

NewIcon theme for iPhone created by AUTphoenix .

Download iPhone NewIcon Theme

4)BlueSpace Theme for iPhone

BlueSpace Theme needs the SummerBoard application installed on iPhone.

Download BlueSpace Theme for iPhone

5)Black and White iPhone Themes

Black and White iPhone Themes comes with a set of 37 icons, a beautiful dock, a beautiful wallpaper etc.

Download Black and White iPhone Themes for iPhone

6)Blue Matrix Theme for iPhone

A Matrix Style theme for your iPhone

Download Blue Matrix Theme for iPhone

7)ReText Wood Theme for iPhone

A cool woody style iPhone theme

Download ReText Wood Theme for iPhone

8)MatteFusionGZ iPhone Theme

MatteFusionGZ is one of the most Beautiful WinterBoard Themes for iPhone

Download MatteFusionGZ iPhone Theme

9)Matte iPhone UI v1.1 Theme

Matte iPhone UI v1.1 - yet another beautiful iphone theme

Download Matte iPhone UI v1.1 Theme

10)o theme for iPhone

o theme for iPhone - Great iphone theme with very beautiful icons

Download o theme for iPhone

11)Plastics Theme for iPhone

A Sleek and Clean Theme for your iPhone

Download Plastics theme for iPhone

12)Simple Blue Power iPhone Theme

Nice and Clean Theme for your iPhone

Download Simple Blue Power iPhone Theme

13)Soft v2 Theme for iPhone

A Nice Theme with more than 100 icon sets for two variations, Soft™ and Soft™ Light

Download Soft v2 Theme for iPhone

14)Blue Theme for iPhone

A dark blue beautiful theme for your iPhone

Download Blue Theme for iPhone

15)CUBE theme for iPhone

An excellent theme for your iPhone with a beautiful wallpaper

Download CUBE theme for iPhone

16)iBlue iPhone Theme

A clean blue theme

Download iBlue iPhone Theme

17)NewYork Theme for iPhone

Now take the NewYork city on your iPhone with this theme

Download NewYork Theme for iPhone

18)Kyle's Halo 3 iPhone Theme

Kyle's Halo 3 iPhone Theme has UNSC Wallpaper,Caution tape dock, 49 app logos, Status bar with halo 3 logo in center

Download Kyle's Halo 3 iPhone Theme

19)Matte Nano iPhone Theme

An iPhone theme made to complement the Matte UI theme that you saw earlier

Download Matte Nano iPhone Theme

20)Ocean Theme for iPhone

An iPhone theme made by a guy who havent used an iPhone yet!

Download Ocean Theme for iPhone

21)Point theme for iPhone

Point theme comes with 5 icon docks, Live Clock, Spring Jumps etc.

Download Point theme for iPhone

22)Radiance 2.0 Theme for iPhone

A nice iPhone theme with more than 150 beautiful icons

Download Radiance 2.0 Theme for iPhone

23)The Street Theme for iPhone

A different style theme for iPhone

Download The Street - iPhone Theme

24)Wizardy Theme for iPhone

A Harry Potter Style theme for iPhone

Download Wizardy Theme for iPhone

25)ChocoMilk Theme for iPhone

Another beautiful Theme for your iPhone with 208 icons sets, StatusBar, Wallpaper, Dock etc

Download ChocoMilk iPhone Theme

26)Black Neon Agua iPhone Theme

A dark beautiful Theme with more than 207 icons sets, StatusBar, Wallpaper, Dock, PSD templates etc

Download Black Neon Agua iPhone Theme

27)Glasklart 2.4 iPhone Theme

Really beautiful Theme with more than 150 icons sets, lock screen sliders, custom badges, SMS bubbles and popup dialogs.

Download Glasklart 2.4 iPhone Theme

Hope You liked the collection.
Do you have any more new themes? then post them as a comment i will include them here. If you like to thank me for the time and work putting all this together you can post a comment below and if you liked it Promote it by giving a digg for it..

Windows 7 RTM Build 7260 leaked (7260.0.x86fre.win7_rtm.090612-2110.client_en-us.ultimate.vhd)

The First candidate release on the Windows 7 RTM branch Windows 7 RTM is the Windows 7 Build 7260 has been out on the torrent websites today. This time too Wzor is behind the leakage of Windows 7 Build 7260. Windows 7 Build 7260 has the build string 6.1.7260.0.win7_rtm.090612-2110.

Screenshot of Windows 7 Build 7260 x86

More Details of Windows 7 RTM Build 7260 x86

MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.BUILD.7260.WIN7_RTM.X86.VHD.ENGLISH-WZT

FILE: 7260.0.x86fre.win7_rtm.090612-2110.client_en-us.ultimate.vhd

(the original VHD is packed RAR archive, size of the RAR file: 1,919,600,205 byte

SHA1: 0FF53F8ED2BBC0B1B174B47F80055BB3DACF2F01)

SIZE: 5,185,507,840 bytes

CRC: 67C23FE0

MD5: 0703C259676D7E4C58E0EF2184369663

SHA1: 7540399601506675CF1B329CB3507875F64C555B

Download Windows 7 Build 7260 x86

Since i cant post torrents here please check wzor.info for more details regarding Windows 7 Build 7260 or just see any popular torrent site you will get it.

How to Update Firefox Portable Version Easily

You might already know what the advantage of a portable Firefox version is. We can carry it on our pendrive and use in any pc. But you might have been got into trouble while updating Firefox Portable. Either your addons or themes might have been lost or your settings have been lost. Actually we can update firefox portable very easily.
In this tutorial before starting with i assume that you have already the portable firefox version from “ Portableappz.com “. If you don't have portable firefox make sure you have the portable firefox version from Portableappz.com  before starting with.

If you dont have the portable firefox version download it from http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable.

The process is very simple.

Download the Latest Firefox version from Mozilla.com

Start the firefox installation as normal by double clicking the downloaded exe file from Mozilla.

Click on “Next” in the first window.

After that in the next window click on “ Browse “ and select the folder called “Firefox” seen under the folder named “App”. Click “OK”.

Now “C:\Program Files\Portable Firefox\App\Firefox\” is in your destination path and proceed with the installation by De-selecting the three options that appear next (Set Up shortcuts) window.

There you go now you have a fully updated Mozilla Firefox Version  with all your settings as such! Happy Browsing.

Get Everest Ultimate Edition Full Version Genuine License key Free!

Here is how you can Get Full Version of Everest Ultimate Edition 100% legal Genuine License for Free. Yes you can get the Free license of Everest Ultimate Edition which costs $34.95 for Free.

Well if you dont know what Everest Ultimate Edition is, then i will give you a small explanation about it first. Everest Ultimate Edition is an advanced system benchmarking software. It will give you the A-Z information about your system.

Here is what the company says,

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

Here is what you have to do to Get the Full Version Free License of Everest Ultimate Edition

• Download Everst Ultimate Edition 4.60 From here.


• Visit http://www.pro.de/aktion/com/everest and register there by giving necessary details.(The page is not in English). Refer below if you have any doubts.


• Title : Mr.
  First Name :
  Last Name :
  Email* :


• Now check in your mail box for an email containing a confirmation link from them.


• After the confirmation you will receive the em,ail with the Genuine Valid Full Version License Key of Everest Ultimate Edition in your inbox.

Video and gaming on Nokia's widescreen mobile phone

Nokia's latest addition to the popular Nseries range, the Nokia N97, promises widescreen entertainment thanks to a 3.5 inch full touchscreen interface. The N97 features 32GB of internal memory, expandable up to 48GB thanks to a memory card slot supporting the MicroSD card format. The outstanding memory of the N97 is complimented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music store and continuous music playback of up to 1.5 days.

The N97 also offers full support for BBC iPlayer and YouTube allowing for streaming videos via the N97's HSDPA or Wi-Fi connectivity. Videos can be viewed on the 16:9 display or utilising the N97's TV output feature.

Nokia have confirmed that the N97 will include a powerful 5.0 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, LED flash, DVD quality video capture and support for services like share on Ovi for immediate sharing.

The built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support also promises the ability to Geo-tag photos to the exact location the photo was taken.

Full support for the Ovi store allows users to download applications as well as games on the N-gage gaming platform. A built in accelerometer and 16:9 widescreen display provide the perfect platform for N-gage games with full support for online multiplayer gaming. Nokia also promise a range of motion based games taking full advantage of the built in accelerometer and touch sensitive display.

Windown 7 build 7231 x86 Leaked (7231.0.x86fre.winmain.090608-1900.client_en-us.ultimate.vhd)

Soon after the leak of the windows 7 latest build Windows 7 build 7229 x86 & x64 another newer build just popped out now. It is the Windows 7 build 7231 x86 (32-bit). Wzor.info is behind the leakage of Windows 7 build 7231 x86 (32-bit) in the form of VHD image. Windows 7 build 7231 x86 has the build string 7231.0.x86fre.winmain.090608-1900.

Details of Windows 7 Build 7231 x86

MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.BUILD.7231.WINMAIN.X86.VHD.ENGLISH-WZT

FILE: 7231.0.x86fre.winmain.090608-1900.client_en-us.ultimate.vhd

(the original VHD in packed RAR archive, size RAR file: 1,956,847,719 byte

SHA1: E947CB5AAD1DB581162C1F44F97C9B0E49E70E0A)

SIZE: 5,214,876,672 byte

CRC: 5710D7DF

MD5: E11D5A0BE7EC9379141A07F831DE87ED

SHA1: D6315A1D8D89D30D7EA948AD93D572203D155193

Soon we can expect a Windows 7 Build 7231 ISO image leakage.

Screenshot of Windows 7 Build 7231 x86 Pre- RTM

Download Windows 7 Build 7231 x86 (32-bit)

See Wzor.info for more details to Download Windows 7 Build 7231 x86 (32-bit).

It is better not to downloaded these Windows 7 leaked builds due to security reasons.

How to Get Windows 7 like taskbar in Windows XP & Vista

The feature rich taskbar in windows 7 has played a great role in speeding up our work. The task bar in windows 7 is called the Superbar. The windows 7's new taskbar feature was warmly welcomed by the windows users beacuse it is simply superb. Live Taskbar Thumnail Previews, Aero Peek feature, Jumplist feature, big icons without the text, all added to its quick popularity. Windows Xp and Windows Vista users will really long to taste this windows 7 superbar feature. Here is a good new for all the Vista and XP users here is a utility that will emulate the same windows 7 taskbar in Windows P and Windows Vista.

Sbar Taskbar is a sleek utility that will emulate the windows 7 like takbar feature in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Now getting the windows 7 takbar in Xp and Vista is so easy.

Screenshot of Sbar Taskbar Replacement - Windows 7 Taskbar in Windows XP & Vista

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How to Edit Mp3, Wma, Ogg Audio files Free Online

The internet has been recently flooded with many websites that will help you to edit, retouch and share your favorite pictures online for free. Even there is a website that has features similar to the famous Adobe Photoshop for editing images online free. But here is something new you can now edit audio files too online for free. Yes there are websites that will help you to do basic audio editing and ring tone making online free.

SmartMp3Splitter is a three step finisher website. It will help you to cut audio files in MP3 format easily. What you need to do is that, you have to upload the MP3 file and select the portion you need. If you are satisfied with the portion you have selected click on "Save" and thats it in just 3 simple steps.

Makeownringtone.com offers even more exciting features. You dont even need to register in the website to do your job.

Click on "Upload" then choose your favotite audio file in mp3, wma or ogg format and click on "Open".
Now Move the markers to set range and clip duration.
Clicking on "Selected" will play the portion for you. You can also adjust the sound quality you need.
If you need you can apply a variety of filters such as Echo, Chorus, Fade, Bass, Speed etc.
The Final Output audio file can downloaded in mp3, ogg, aac, mp4, mmf, mpc and qcp formats else you can also get a WAP link.

ConvertMp3ToRingtoneOnline.com is also a step three finisher website. All you need to do is to scroll down the page select the audio file in MP3 format and Press on Upload. Then you need to enter Song Name, Artist details etc. Then you can cut your MP3 file and select the needed portion and download it. What makes this website special is that after you enter the audio file's Song Name, Artist details etc , it will appear in their index so that other too can enjoy it.

If you know any more websites like these feel free to comment it down.

Automatically Rotate Windows 7 Logon Screens - Enjoy Different Logon Screens at each Windows 7 Login

Here comes a great utility for all windows 7 lovers. Windows 7 has the new support for changing the logon screens without the need of any external softwares. So if you need a change in logon screen you need to manually apply a new image to be displayed at the logon time. Forget about that.!

Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator is a nice utility that will help you to display upto 10 random logon screen images at logon. luke_smily_face from Neowin.com created this nice utility. You can choose your favorite 10 images and Windows 7 logon rotator displays them randomly during login.


After selecting your favorite images at logon jusr click on "Enable Settings and Exit". Then a windows will popup asking you which logon screen to be displayed during the first login. Enter the number corresponding to your favorite image and Press "OK".

During each time from now on different logon screen's will be displayed with your favorite images.

If you dont want this feature and need to remove it, then just run "Remove files and settings.exe", which comes along with Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator pack.
Your Default logon screen will be restored.

Download Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator

Get Free license of Mozy Home or Carbonite Backup for 1 year

Mozy and carbonite are two backup solutions. Both of them will help you to backup your important files and folders online. But both of these backup solutions are not free. Here is how to get a free license of either one of these softwares.

Carbonite is a simple, safe online backup service for casual home computer users, students, home office users, business travelers, etc.Carbonite offers unlimited backup solutions for just $54.95 per year. Thats less than 5$ per month.

Mozy is also a similar bacup solution with nearly a same price as Carbonite Backup.
My friend from AvinashTech has organized a giveaway. He offers a free one year license of Mozy or Carbonite Backup. It costs $54.45 per year.

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Speed Up Windows 7 - Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!

Here is the Guide to Speed Up Windows 7 - Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!
Windows 7 is Engineered for speed. Special attention has been given by the Windows 7 team for making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating systems. Windows 7 is much faster than Windows Vista, but even then most of us don't get satisfied with it. There are many who still have their old PC. Installing Windows 7 on them wont be as soothing as they work with with XP and Even with latest hardware's installed some users still long for more performance. At least if we don't make it lightning fast we can optimize Windows 7 to the maximum possible extent and enjoy the maximum performance we could squeeze out from it. So for all the extra performance lovers, let me present you wit this Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Windows 7.

I guarantee you that after following this guide and implementing the recommendations on your PC, you will really get the performance gain.

The bare Minimum Requirements You need To Run Windows 7

1) 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
2) 1GB of main memory
3) 16GB of available disk space
4) Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
5) A DVD - R/W drive

Even if you don't have the DX 9 graphics card there is no problem because our target is performance not the " Eyecandy " . Of course if you need the aero experience you need a powerful graphics card for sure.

So lets startThe Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7

1. Speed Up the Windows 7 Boot Speed


A simple tweak will help you to decrease the boot time of windows 7. You will be benified by this tweak only if you have a multiple core processor. These days most of the computers have a dual core or quad core or something better than that CPU's.


• Press [Win] + R or take the RUN option from the start menu.


• Now type msconfig in there and press Enter Key to open up the System Configuration Window. Click on the Boot tab in there.
  You will see a box called Time out. This is the time (in sec) which the system waits for the user to select the operating system to boot to.


• If you use only a single operating system (don't dual boot) you can safely set the value to 0.


• But if you have more than one operating system installed then set it to 3 or more (which ever is convenient).



• Now after doing the above step click the " Advanced Options " button. The Boot Advanced Options Window will then pop up.


• Tick the check box saying "Number of Processors". Now click on the drop down box and select the maximum number of processor cores (might be 2 or more).


• Press " OK " and also tick the " No GUI Boot " option too.
  
• Click " Apply "and then on " OK " and thats it.




2. Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7



The aero user interface certainly adds some " Eyecandy " to Windows 7 but certainly is a resource hog especially when, what you expect from windows 7 is more performance juice. Aero user interface squeezes your graphics or video card to its maximum. So why cant we just avoid the Windows 7 aero? if we care more about speed and performance in Windows 7. So Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 certainly adds an extra speed boost to it.


• Right Click on your Desktop and select " Personalize " click the Window Color Tab.


• Uncheck the Box saying " Enable Transparency " and then click on " Open classic appearance properties for more color options".


• Then a window will open up. Apply a Standard or Basic theme from it. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.


Disabling the aero theme alone in Windows 7 will really speed things up.



3. Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects in Windows 7 to Speed Up more


Even though we have tuned off the aero effects in Windows 7 still there are many unwanted visual effects that can be safely disabled to speed up windows 7 even more.


• For this right click on " Computer" and select "Properties" from the right click menu.


• Click on " Advanced System Settings " from the left pane to open up the " System Properties " window.


• Select the "Advanced" tab from it. Then Under " Performance " click " Settings ". Choose " Custom: " Options From it.


• Now untick all the options and select only the last four options (actually three only needed; you can untick the second option from the last four). See the screen shot if you have any doubt.


• Now just logoff your system and turn logon.


You will now notice the speed difference now.



4. Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7



There are many services in windows 7 that we dont require for our daily use. There are some exceptional cases though. Services such as "print spooler" is only needed when we use a printer. If we use a printer only occasionally we can safely turn off that service in Windows 7 and turn it on only when we need to take a print.

I have previously prepared a List of services in Windows 7 that can be safely set to manual / disabled.

Disabling the unneeded services in Windows 7 can really speed up the system boot time.



5. Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature in Windows 7



The User account control (UAC) feature in Windows 7 is very annoying though it says it can protect your computer from harmful virus activity etc. But if you are a daily user of your computer this windows 7 feature will be a total nuisance to you.

To Disable and Turnoff UAC in Windows 7


• From the Control Panel open the " User Accounts and Family Safety " > User Account.


• Click the User Account Control settings link.


• Now just Drag the Slider towards "Never Notify".


• Click "OK" and Reboot your system.


Disabling UAC is for advanced users only i dont recommend doing it if not.



6. Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7


Most of the Windows 7 users do less searches in there system. The Search Indexing service in Windows 7 will index keeps track of the files so that they can be found quickly when asked at some other time. This feature is useful only if you perform frequent searches on your system.
For occasional file searchers the Search Indexing service in Windows 7 is a total resource hog. It unwontedly eats up your system resources. What you need from windows 7 is maximum performance from it then i would certainly recommend you to disable this resource hogging Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature.

To Disable the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7


• Right Click the "Computer" Icon in the desktop and select "Manage".


• Click "Services and Applications" in the "Computer Management" window.


• Click on "Services".


• You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for "Windows Search" in that.


• Right Click on "Windows Search" from the list and choose "Properties".


• The "Windows Search Properties Window" will open up. From "Startup type" click on the drop down menu and choose "Disabled".


• Click "Apply" then "OK" and thats it. The Windows 7 Serch Indexing Feature is now disabled.


If you want to completely disable the search indexing feature in Windows 7 you can set the Search Indexing Service to Manual (See the above method about disabling unwanted services).



7. SetUp the Windows 7 Ready Boost Service for an Extra Speed Boost



The ready boost feature in Windows 7 will help you to use your flash drive or pendrive or USB drive as Ram there by improving the performance and speed of windows 7 greatly. You can certainly experience it when launching bulky applications such as Adobe Photoshop etc.


• To configure the Ready Boost Feature in Windows 7 you need to have a High Speed Flash/USB or Pendrive with you which is ready boost compatible.


• After plugging you pendrive, open "Computer" > Right-click the on USB Drive/Pendrive > select "Ready Boost" tab > tick the "Use this device" checkbox.


• You can configure how much space on your USB drive/ Pendrive to be used as Ram.




8. Turn off Unused Windows 7 Features



There are many feature in windows 7 that we often dont use. Disabling these unused features in Windows 7 will really help in speeding things up.


• Open up " Programs and Features " from Control Panel.


• Click the " Turn Windows features on or off " from the left pane.


• Now uncheck all the Feature that you don't use in Windows 7 and restart the system for the changes to take effect.




9. Disable the Windows 7 Sidebar (Actually the Gadgets)



Disabling the window 7 sidebar is defenitely help you to to gain a few seconds during start up time. There are many useful utilities such as the RocketDock etc. which are good application launchers.

To Disable the Sidebar in Windows 7,

• Right click on the sidebar and select " Properties ".


• On the properties windows untick the check box showing " Start sidebar when Windows Starts "


• From now on windows sidebar won't start when windows 7 start up.




10. Disable the Aero Peek and Aero Snap features in Windows 7



Aero Snap will help you to maximize, minimize and resize the windows just by dragging and dropping it into the screen corners.

To disable Aero Snap Feature in Windows 7,

• Open the Windows 7 " Control Panel " and double-click on " Ease of Access Center " icon.


• Now click on the " Make it easier to focus on tasks " seen at the bottom in there


• Now untick the check box saying " Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen " .


That will now disable the Aero Snap in Windows 7.

Now To Disable the Aero Peek feature in Windows 7

The Aero Peek feature in Windows 7 helps you to peek through all open windows by hiding all other windows and showing only the outlines of all windows. Aero Peek is similar to the " Show Desktop " Feature in XP and Vista.

If you have followed step 3 then Aero Peek will be automatically disabled. If not,

• Right click on the Windows 7 taskbar and select " Properties ".


• Now untick the " Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop " option from there.


The aero peek feature will now be disabled in windows 7.



11. Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance



The Power settings in Windows 7 is not automatically set for maximum performance. By default the power plan in Windows 7 is set for a balanced performance with energy consumption on hardware. So you may not get the optimal performance from windows 7 if this is the case. So we need to change the power plan to High Performance Mode.


• Double click the " Power Options " in the Control panel.


• Click the down arrow showing " Show Additional Plans " to see the " High Performance " power plan
.

• Now just activate the " High Performance " plan and thats it.


• You may go for the advanced settings for further tweaking if you want.




12. Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing in Windows 7



The thumbnail preview feature in Windows 7 will show the small thumbnails of the contents of a folder instead of showing it's icon. But this feature really do take up some system resources. So by disabling the Thumbnail Preview feature in Windows 7 the file browsing in Windows 7 explorer can be speed up.

For disabling thumbnails in Windows 7,

• Double Click on " Computer " >click on the "Organize" drop-down menu and select the "Folder and Search options"


• Under ‘Files and Folders’ section, go to the "View" tab and tick the check box showing "Always show icons, never thumbnails" checkbox.




13. Most Essential Softwares To Speed Up Windows 7



In order to maintain your Windows 7 Performance and keep it up in Top Shape there are some very essential software's that can help us to Speed Windows 7. I will list some of them here. You can download these utilities. But i remind you that you need to run these utilities at least once in a week. Only if you do it regularly your Windows 7 will be in top shape every day.


• Wise Registry Cleaner


• CCleaner


• TCP Optimizer


• TeraCopy


• Startup Delayer


You can read this post which i have prepared earlier about the Top 5 Tools To Speed Up Your PC.
http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/05/top-5-tools-to-speed-up-your-pc-to.html There you can know more about these software i mentioned now.



14. Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Windows 7



Here are some registry teaks that can be used to speed up windows 7 even more. I have complied only the safest tweaks that can be applied to your PC. Apart from speeding up windows 7 they will also add some functionalities in windows like adding Copy to / Move to in right click context menu to speed up your daily tasks.

http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/01/registrytweaks-for-speeding-up-windows.html

If you have the complete version of Tune Up Utilities software with you then it is the best one to keep your Windows 7 in top shape.



15. Turn OFF Windows 7 Password Protection To save a few More Seconds!!!


If you have set a password for accessing your user account in windows 7, then you need to enter it each and every time you logon to windows. Logging into windows automatically without entering any password will save you a few seconds more. If you are the only person who use your computer then i would recommend to turn this off. If that is not the case you can skip this step.

How to Automatically Logon to Windows 7 without entering any username or password



16. Turn OFF Windows 7 Screen Saver and Wallpaper



In order to display the wallpaper and screen saver the system needs some memory. So by disabling those two we can save a few Mega Bytes of memory.

To Disable The Screen Saver and Wallpaper in Windows 7,

• Right click on desktop and choose "Personalize".


• Click the Screen Saver link " From the Screen Saver drop down menu, Set it to "None" and click "Apply" and then "OK".


• Now click on "Desktop Background" link.


• From the "Location" drop down menu select "Solid Colors" and pick one color and click "OK".




17. Disable Unwanted Start Up Items and Speed Up Windows 7 Start Up


This really matters when you have installed a lot of softwares on your PC. Many software such as AcdSee will run services such as device detector etc during the system start up. These are of no use actually for most windows users. So preventing such services from starting up during the start up of windows 7 can result in quicker start Ups. This will actually save some seconds during windows 7 start up.


• Type " msconfig " in the "RUN" option from start menu press [Enter] to open up the System Configuration Utility.


• Now navigate to the "StartUp" tab.


• Untick the Entries which are not needed




18. Disable Unwanted System Sounds in Windows 7


In order to play the sounds you hear in windows 7, system resources are being utilized. So if you can disable these sound effects you can gain some speed and also free some system resources too.

To disable the system sounds in Windows 7,


• Type mmsys.cpl in RUN From the Windows 7 Startmenu search box and press [Enter].


• Navigate to the "Sounds" tab.


• Now from under "Sound Scheme:" select "No Sounds" > Click "Apply" > "OK".


• You can keep some of your favorite sounds turned on if you want, but sounds played during the Windows 7 start up, shutdown, Logon, logoff, start navigation etc should be set to none if you want some real speed boost.

Thats it following all these steps will certainly boost the speed and performance of your windows 7 operating system.

Do you know any more ways to Speed Up Windows 7? Comment them below. I will include them in the post.