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This is a little something I’ve been working on for a day or so.
It changes the backgrounds and background thumbnail of your Windows 7 Card Games to a ‘www.Mintywhite.com’ theme-pack.
If you’ve ever spent any amount of time playing card games, i hope you find this to be a refreshing change.
Click the link below to see some screenshots of what i mean.
I’ve done a major rework on the PC Maintenance Handbook and the second edition is now available as a free download. Below is a changelog of some of the changes you’ll see in the new edition. As always, feedback–whether positive or constructive–is always welcome.
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According to Neowin, Microsoft is set to release the second Beta 2 of their (brilliant) Windows Live Essentials Suite next Tuesday.
Microsoft is planning to release beta 2 of Windows Live Essentials 2011 next Tuesday.
According to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the software giant will be issuing a second beta update to address a range of issues found in the recent public beta. The beta will also include….
On Saturday, we asked you which antivirus software you use on your personal desktop.
Thank you to everyone who took park in the poll. Here are the results:
![av results1 Which Antivirus Software Do you Use on Your Personal Windows Computers? [Poll Results]](http://i2.wp.com/www.mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/av-results1.png?resize=419%2C904 "av-results")
![xp mode improve performance06 Improve XP Mode Performance in Windows Virtual PC [How To]](http://i1.wp.com/www.mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/xp-mode-improve-performance06.png "Improve XP Mode Performance 06")
Although, by today’s standards, Windows XP doesn’t require much in the way of system resources, Windows XP Mode, running in Windows Virtual PC, can feel a little sluggish at times. This is because Windows XP Mode, by default, runs with 512MB RAM. In this guide, I’ll show you how to increase the allotted memory to Windows XP Mode using Windows Virtual PC Settings.
Note: A couple of weeks ago, we asked you if you used Windows XP Mode and many of you responded by saying you didn’t know about it so we wrote this guide: What are Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode and How Do I Use them? This is a good place to start if you’re new to Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode.
If you get to the end of this guide and still have questions about Windows Virtual PC or XP Mode, please ask them in the Windows 7 forum.
![PowerShell Icon Monitor CPU and Memory Usage with Just One Click in Windows 7 [How To]](http://i2.wp.com/www.mintywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/PowerShell-Icon.png?resize=271%2C230 "Monitor CPU and Memory Usage with Just One Click in Windows 7 [How To]"){kind=icon}
No matter how much money you have invested in a new computer, sooner or later you will face performance problems.
These problems are usually related with the CPU or the memory. Computers are becoming so complex that you need all the help you can get to find the source of the problems.
The first thing I do when I notice that my computer is not acting as it should is run Task Manager. With this tool you can easily see the usage of Memory and CPU of every process on your computer. I always do the same: look for the processes that are using more CPU and see if there are enough physical memory available.
So, why not have a utility that do the same with just one click and that can be easily found in your Windows 7 Taskbar?
To do this we are going to use one component of Windows 7, PowerShell, that can be also used in other Windows versions.
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