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A new use for your kid’s Easy Bake oven – fix video cards.

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Over the years spent working with computers; some 25 odd years by now, I have seen all kinds of weird and wonderful things that people have done to t heir hardware. From overclocking to submerging in cooking oil the fixes and tweaks have run the gamut.

However this is the very first time that I have ever heard of baking a video card in the oven as a way to fix it.

For most of us when the video card starts to go it’s because – well it’s broken or just outright dead. Little did I know that; according to the vid card backing crew, small micro-connections between the chip and the board can get fractured over time because of the constant heating and cooling.

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Category: Hardware

Start your new year of using Windows 7 with this massive e-book of tips

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win7tip-pdf If there is one thing you can say about Windows users it is that we love our tips and hints. Nothing gets our juices flowing faster that a good cup of coffee and a list of new tweaks to try out.

Well in that spirit the WindowsVJ blog has put together a 5.8 MB tome of Windows 7 tips and hints for you to download. So if you’re in the market to spend some time tweak that new install of Windows 7 then this might be just the e-book to get you started.

WindowsVJ Site

Windows 7 Tips and Hints PDF download

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Category: Windows

Simple access to the Command Prompt in Explorer

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There’s more than a few tweaking programs or registry edit tips out there to add the option of opening the selected folder (directory) in Explorer within the Command Prompt window but there is a much simpler way to do this in Windows 7 (and apparently Vista as well).

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[Win 7 Tips] Tip round-up for Sept. 19

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tech_tips_trasp Hopefully once Windows 7 launches in October, for the general public, we’ll see even more great tips surfacing so we can share them with everyone. In the meantime here’s another batch of tips for you to check out.

via @Csolarz on Twitter – Can you back up your wireless network keys and settings on Win 7? Sure can! http://bit.ly/ykwQN

via @MSWindows and @machethier on Twitter – Pin the Recycle Bin on your Windows 7 Taskbar http://portalti.com/?p=794

via @AndreBoyle on Twitter – Right-click the Explorer icon on the taskbar for access to system folders: Documents, Pictures, etc.

via @orionll on Twitter – Enable Windows 7 regional themes: http://bit.ly/csI2e

via @EvilEmuofDoom on Twitter – Windows 7 XP Mode Easy Setup http://bit.ly/XMSEP

via @MSWindows on Twitter – Use speech to control your #win7 PC. See quick demo here: http://bit.ly/2qKU7

via @JimAchuff on Twitter – Get your quicklaunch back! http://bit.ly/4YAJg

via @ztemio on Twitter – How to customize the logon screen http://retwt.me/wHU

via @TheWindowsClub on Twitter – How to move a window, when its title bar goes off screen in Windows 7 http://tinyurl.com/mn7vcg

via @mayurjango and @MSWindows on Twitter – How to Automatically Preview songs in WMP 12 on mouse hover in Windows 7 ? http://bit.ly/n13cK

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Category: Windows

[Win 7 Tips] Tip round-up for Sept. 15

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toolbox Here’s another installment in our round-up of Windows 7 oriented tips as discovered by people on Twitter. Have a tip we haven’t covered follow @winextra on Twitter and let us know about it. As I said on the original tips round-up post these posts will happen once we have found enough to make posting them worthwhile.

via @GuidoBR on Twitter: How To Change the Windows 7 Taskbar to Work Like Vista – http://bit.ly/e4dN7

via @MSWindows and @ciprian_rusen on Twitter: How to Connect to Hidden Wireless Networks – http://bit.ly/ZE5i8

via @MSSpringboard on Twitter: Middle click on an open Win 7 window will open another one, like holding shift and left clicking

via @MSSpringboard on Twitter: Middle-click on taskbar preview closes the application/window

via @mjbrodeur on Twitter: Looking for beta Windows 7 drivers for your Lenovo? Check out the beta site: http://tinyurl.com/rxl8by

via @mjbrodeur on Twitter: when installing win 7 RTM make sure that there is a floppy attached or it is disabled, MAJOR diff in time to install

via @NorfolkNChance and @marcusatmsft on Twitter: I used windows+pluskey on Win7 for a *live zoom* via magnifier

via @ttravelman on Twitter: ctrl+alt+down arrow = flip screen upside down

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Category: Windows

[Win 7 Tips] Tip round-up for Aug. 28

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computing-life Starting today I’m going to be a round up of tips that I find for Windows 7 as I wander around the web. Depending on the number of them I find the round up will be daily or every couple of days if things are a little slow on the tip front. The majority of them will most likely be via Twitter but regardless I will always try to give credit where credit is due. On the off chance I don’t and I share one of your tips just email me and I will correct the error.

On to today’s tips

via @MSWindows on Twitter – you can drag items from a jump list into Outlook as an attachment.

via @devmonster on Twitter – you can drag notification icons off the task bar to hide them.

via @MSWindows on Twitter – speed up Windows 7’s already better boot up time with these tips – http://bit.ly/win7tip-bootup

via @mattvogt on Twitter – drag any file to a pinned program on the task bar to have it open the file from its jump list

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Category: Windows

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