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Download Monitores To Automatically Turn Off Monitor Display

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:30:33 +0000

Well friends, its time to go Green with Monitors. I must tell you that monitors consume lots of energy and it is advisable that if you are not at your desk or if you are not using your PC, you should turn off your monitor to save electricity.

Recently, I found a utility that can do that job for you. Monitores is a simple, free and portable utility which helps you to save electricity. It can be used to turn off monitor or activate screensaver automatically when your computer is not in use for example when you lock down your computer. This can save energy and also your electricity bill. Also when you lock your machine, it will pause all your media programs like Window Media Player & set your IM Messengers like Google Talk status message to “Away” and restore it back to normal when you login again. You can simply add it to your windows startup tasks’ list and every time you start your computer, you will see it running in the system tray.

This utility comes handy especially if you own a laptop. Unlike normal monitors, most of the laptops do not have the option to switch off the screen display. So you can use Monitores to either switch off the display or to change it to screensaver mode. With just the help of a single hot key – Ctrl+F2, you can switch on/off your monitor display.

Completely Remove Security Applications in Windows 7

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:22:43 +0000

Few weeks back, we have talked about various antivirus’ removal tools but the problem is that they are antivirus dependent. NOD 32 antivirus removal tool will not work for McAfee or McAfee removal tool does not support Norton. So here I am going to discuss about one single application for un-installation purpose that can take care of almost all well known security applications.

AppRemover is a free and portable security applications removal tool. It enables you to completely uninstall security applications like antivirus and antispyware from your computer. It supports almost all major security applications like Norton, McAfee, AVG etc. and more than that it is extremely easy to use. You just need to double click the AppRemover.exe and it will automatically search and list all possible security products installed on your system. Now it is up to you to uninstall all or only the selected ones.

AppRemover comes in handy when you are switching between two security suite or when you have forgotten the password of already installed application. As I said earlier, it supports most of the Antivirus and Antispyware products. Also, it supports all the version of Microsoft Windows including Windows 7.

Wallpapers Slideshow in Windows 7

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:13:30 +0000

We have already seen how Windows 7 is lot different from earlier version of Windows. Many say it’s an improved form of Vista while others believe it’s the best ever Microsoft’s Windows product. Whatever the case may be we will prefer not to go deep into it instead provide some valuable tips and tricks as far as Windows 7 usability is concerned.

Today, let’s focus on how to automatically change wallpapers in Windows 7 like a slideshow
. Windows 7 comes with a unique feature that can automatically change desktop wallpaper. Just follow the below mentioned steps:

1. Right Click on Desktop
2. Select Personalization and then click on Desktop Background.
3. Click on Browse button to select the folder containing images you want to apply as the wallpapers.
4. This will display all images present in that folder.
5. Now you can select specific images or all the images as you wish.

You can also enable or disable Shuffle option to change the images randomly. There is a Picture Position option as well and you can select picture position as Fill, Fit, Title, Stretch and Center.

Click on Save changes button when you are finished with the settings. From now on you will see the wallpapers slideshow on your desktop.

All New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:11:52 +0000

You have got many reasons to fall in love with Windows 7. You can customize this new version of Windows as per you liking. The most important part about this latest release is that customizations are so easy that even a newbie can apply those without any fuss.

Here we are going to discuss about the few Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts that are released recently.

Here goes the list:-

* Win + Spacebar – Aero desktop peek, just like that small rectangle at the right bottom corner next to the time display.

# Win + Left Arrow – Toggle docking to half the screen starting by the left half.
# Win + Right Arrow – Toggle docking to half the screen starting by the right half.
# Win + Shift + Left Arrow – Move the window one monitor left in a multi-monitor display.
# Win + Shift + Right Arrow – Move the window one monitor right in a multi-monitor display.
# Win + Up Arrow – Maximize
# Win + Down Arrow – Minimize
# Win + Home – Minimize/Maximize all inactive windows.
# Win + P – Show presentation mode projector options.
# Win + G – Show desktop gadgets.
# Win + Any number (1, 2, 3, .., 0) – Open the corresponding taskbar pinned program.
# Ctrl + Click – A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open windows.
# Ctrl + Shift + Click – A pinned taskbar icon to run a new instance of the program as administrator.
# Shift + Click – A pinned taskbar icon to run a new instance of the program.
# Win + T – Focus the first taskbar entry, similar to ALT +TAB.
# Win + Shift + T – Same as above in reverse order.
# Win + +/Win + – - Zoom in and out of Windows.
# Alt + P – Show/hide Preview Pane in Explorer.
# Win + Tab – Windows Aero Task Switcher.