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9 Essential Tips To Speed Up Windows 7

Posted by Scott Jarkoff in Shorts

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At first glance it may appear as if all we do around TechMiso is post story after story about Apple, Security and Social Media. Well, how is this for something different – nine essential tips for speeding up your Windows 7 experience to help make Microsoft’s latest operating system feel a whole lot lighter:

The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system has been designed for delivering better speeds than its predecessors. However, as time passes by, the laptop/PC might tend to get slower. This is not exactly the fault of the OS. As the matter of fact, it is a common problem faced by many operating systems.

The major reasons for this are accumulation of junk in the system or a highly stuffed hard drive or running of too many unnecessary services and programs. Here we shared a few essential tips that can help speed up Windows 7 performance on laptops or computers.

Many of the tips are quite easy to implement, no matter whether you are a computer novice or major geek. Some of the tips, such a disabling sound, are things I do on just about every operating system I install because I find them to be far more trouble than they are worth. Others, like disabling unnecessary services may require a little more mojo to work out but can still be taken care of with relative ease.

While I do still use Windows, I currently do not have a single workstation running Windows 7. At work I am forced to use Windows XP and at home I use that same operating system because I have not found a truly compelling reason to upgrade my somewhat ancient HP AMD/64 desktop. I primarily use my MacBook Pro so upgrading XP to W7 is not a priority.

If you find any of the tips particularly useful, or if you have others not listed, please feel free to share them with our readers in the comments.

Microsoft Drops 3-App Limit, Publishes Strict Windows 7 Netbook Limits

Posted by Scott Jarkoff in Articles

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Windows 7 LogoIf perpetual Windows apologist Paul Thurrott’s sources are reliable, and there is no reason to doubt the ultimate Microsoft supporter, it appears the company has finally done something right by opting to drop the much-despised 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition. But just when you thought Microsoft was being generous they turn around and cause even more ill will. This time the company has published very restrictive limitations on what types of machines will be allowed to run this stripped-down version of Windows. Why is it so hard for the company to do good without pissing off [potential] customers?

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Windows 7 Starter Edition Blows Chunks, Limits Users to Three Simultaneous Applications

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Windows 7 Starter Edition - Too many programs openIn early February we wrote about Microsoft’s plan to offer Windows 7 in 6 flavors. The least expensive version offered, Windows 7 Starter Edition, is directed towards the netbook market because netbooks are [supposedly] not used for much other than web browsing. That in and of itself is no big deal – what is absolutely as crazy as a bed bug is Microsoft’s peculiar decision-making process: the company has implemented a limit of running three simultaneous applications in Windows 7 Starter Edition!

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Windows 7 in 6 Flavors – Microsoft, Are You Kidding?

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Windows 7 VersionsWhen Microsoft initially released Windows Vista, the operating system was available in six flavors, causing major confusion among consumers which led to only four Vista versions being offered currently. The company was derided by most people for such a perplexing decision – what value to consumers could there possibly be in offering Vista in so many versions? All indications were pointing to a much more thought out Windows 7 strategy so Microsoft could avoid many of the Windows Vista failures.

Or so we thought.

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