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Windows 7 Resource Monitor Icon Use Resource Monitor to Check Key Subsystems on Your PC [How To]In earlier versions of Windows, you’d need a third-party solution to help you monitor key subsystems (CPU, RAM etc.) of your computer. With Vista, came the Resource Monitor (Resmon) and with Windows 7 came improvements to the Resource Monitor.

In this guide, we talk more about Windows 7’s Resource Monitor. Previously, Angel Luis showed you how to determine if you need more RAM using Windows 7’s resource monitor. In this guide, we’ll show you what else you can monitor with Resource Monitor and help you interpret the data it gives.

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346 Update Your Drivers for Stable PC Performance and Security [How To]Hardware manufacturers frequently update device drivers for their hardware to improve compatibility, efficiency, performance, and security.

A device driver simplifies programming by acting as a translator between a hardware device and the applications or operating systems that use it. Programmers can write the higher-level application code independently of whatever specific hardware device it will ultimately control, because code and device can interface in a standard way, regardless of the software superstructure or of underlying hardware.

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This guide will show you how to update your drivers using three different methods:

  1. Update drivers using Windows’ Device Manager
  2. Update drivers with Device Doctor
  3. Update drivers manually by downloading them from the manufacturer’s website

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25 Download Windows 7 and Burn it to Disc/put it on a Thumb Drive [How To]Windows Forums member Bugsy points us to links to download the following versions of Windows 7:

  • Windows 7 Ultimate
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Windows 7 Professional

Note: 64 bit and 32 links available. You will need a genuine license to activate these Windows 7 downloads once installed.

Why Do You Need a Windows 7 Disc?

Here are some of the reasons for having a Windows 7 disc:

  • You have a license for Windows 7 but no disc.
  • You want to give Windows 7 a try for 30 days (or 120 — see below) before making a purchase.
  • Want to have the disc on hand for original files/recovery purposes (see Windows 7 recovery disc if you don’t want the whole thing.)
  • You just like owning discs with operating systems on them…

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close lid03 Keep Your Laptop Running when You Close the Lid in Windows 7 [How To]

I lost count (okay so it was only about 8 or 9 times) of the times people asked, in college, how my laptop stayed on when I closed the lid and moved to a different room or table. If you are in school or use your laptop and have to get up and move regularly, it can be a pain to:

  • Attempt to carry your laptop with the screen open.
  • Put your laptop on standby, walk for a couple of minutes, and then bring your laptop back out of standby.

This guide helps you learn how to keep your laptop running when you close the lid in Windows 7.

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Information Use a Script to Get Sizes of Temporary Folders with Just One Click [How To]There are several folders in your computer that can increase size without you having knowledge of it. It’s very common that programs use temporary files. Every browser also uses caches and cookies.

The Folders

Some of these applications don’t delete these files after they are used. In this post I am going to explain how to obtain information about the size of the following folders:

Temporary Folder

This folder which is usually located at “C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp” is used for almost every program to store its temporary files.

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