Friday, July 29, 2011

Prevent Certain Applications From Running

If your a system administrator or a regular user you may have problems with your users running programs or applications running automatically Adobe Acrotray (acrotray.exe), iTunes, FNPLicensingService.exe, If you want to stop such programs from running, here’s how to use Group Policy to prevent users from running certain programs.

  • Click Start –> Run, type: gpedit.msc
  • Find “Don’t run specified Windows applications”

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  • Double-Click it

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  • Enable it
  • Click Show
  • Add your applications

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

i-Tweak: Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaking Guide Part 4

I’m a tweak freak!!! I love my car clean, my desk organized, and my computer fast. I have a Lenovo W510 Core i7 1.73GHz, 128SSD, 16GB RAM. Why all that? Simply I don’t have time to waste! I’d rather spend the time eating my corn flakes than waiting for this PC to finish booting!!!
Control your CPU and Push It To Its Limit
Windows 7 comes with a lot of features, however it does not usually gives you the full capabilities of your CPU nor it does utilize it very well. You understand this is because Microsoft wants a generic deployment, configuration, that works for all types of PCs.
Some of the most annoying thing I came across is Core Parking, Weight Distribution or Load Balancing, etc. There are a lot of website out there that shows you how to turn off Core Parking and load balance work between your CPU cores, but if you use their way and check your “Performance Monitor”, you’ll see Parking Status still shows are ‘1’, i.e. cores are still parked. Not a good way.
There is a lot of configurations you have to go through, I’ve done all combination and testing and currently I have my CPU working to its Max and all cores are put to work, work is distributed among all of them.
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It took me some time to get to this to work perfectly, If you are copying this post to another site, please put a reference/credit to this blog.
Steps:
  1. Backing Up Your Registry:
    • Click Start
    • Run
    • Type: regedit
    • Hit Enter
    • Select the key:
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00
    • Click File->Export
    • Create a name for it
  2. Download and run the configurations below (eMail me for the password: i-tweak@hotmail.com):
  3. Activate the Power Setting
    • Open your command prompt
    • Execute: Powercfg –setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Apple iOS 4.3.5 Official Direct Download

Direct Download Links for Apple iOS 4.3.5 (Official from Apple). Choose your device:
After you’ve downloaded your device’s respective firmware, you can install the software manually by launching iTunes, locating your device on the sidebar and pressing "Restore" while holding the Shift key on Windows and Alt on the Mac.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Microsoft Word 2010–Deleting Pages

You can delete a blank page in a Word document, including a blank page that occurs at the end of the document, by deleting page breaks. You can also combine two pages by deleting the page break between them.

Delete a blank page

Make sure that you're in Draft view (on the View menu in the status bar, click Draft). If nonprinting characters, such as paragraph markers (¶), are not visible, on Home, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide Paragraph mark.

  • To delete a blank page, select the page break at the end of the page, and then press DELETE.

 

Delete a single page of content

You can select and delete a single page of content anywhere in your document.

  1. Place your cursor anywhere in the page of content that you want to delete.
  2. On the Home tab, in the Find group, click the arrow next to Find, and then click Go To.

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  1. Type \page and then click Go To.

The content of the page is selected.

  1. Click Close, and then press DELETE.

Delete a blank page at the end of a document

Make sure that you're in Draft view (on the View menu in the status bar, click Draft). If nonprinting characters, such as paragraph markers (¶), are not visible, on Home, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide Paragraph mark.

  • To delete a blank page at the end of the document, select the page break or any paragraph markers (¶) at the end of the document, and then press DELETE.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Windows Logon Screen Changer

You can use this small and simple software to change your logon screen. There is no installer, just click and apply.

Download.Com Logon Changer users

Here is my logon screen:

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i-Tweak: Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaking Guide Part 3

I’m a tweak freak!!! I love my car clean, my desk organized, and my computer fast. I have a Lenovo W510 Core i7 1.73GHz, 128SSD, 16GB RAM. Why all that? Simply I don’t have time to waste! I’d rather spend the time eating my corn flakes than waiting for this PC to finish booting!!!

Access Hidden Tweaks

This is a great free program that allows you to access some hidden but powerful tweaks on Windows. You can also use the “Cleaner” button to clean your system and save some disk space.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Adobe PDF Printer–Disable Opening Converted Files

When a file is converted to PDF using Adobe PDF printer, the output file will be opened by default by the Adobe PDF printer. If you are converting one file this is fine, but when you’re doing batch conversion this would be very annoying. To disable this feature:

  • Start
  • Devices and Printers
  • Right-Click on Adope PDF
  • Printing Preferences
  • Un-Check “View Adobe PDF results”

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Monday, July 18, 2011

i-Tweak: Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaking Guide Part 2

I’m a tweak freak!!! I love my car clean, my desk organized, and my computer fast. I have a Lenovo W510 Core i7 1.73GHz, 128SSD, 16GB RAM. Why all that? Simply I don’t have time to waste! I’d rather spend the time eating my corn flakes than waiting for this PC to finish booting!!!

Turn Off Useless Scheduled Tasks

Windows 7 has many tasks that are scheduled to either run at boot time or triggered. Some of those tasks may not be relevant to you or you may not even need them. To view all the scheduled tasks:
  • Click Start Button
  • Click Run
    • Type: %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc /s
    • Hit enter
Some of the useless tasks for me which I have then turned off are:
  • Application Experience
  • Autochk
  • Customer Experience Improvement Program
  • Defrag (I have SSD and this is useless)
  • Diagnosis
  • DiskDiagnostic
  • Maintenance (Eats my CPU)
  • MemoryDiagnostic
  • MobilePC
  • Registry
  • SideShow
  • SystemRestore
  • Windows Error Reporting

Friday, July 15, 2011

Apple iOS 4.3.4 Official Direct Download

Direct Download Links for Apple iOS 4.3.4 (Official from Apple). Choose your device:
After you’ve downloaded your device’s respective firmware, you can install the software manually by launching iTunes, locating your device on the sidebar and pressing "Restore" while holding the Shift key on Windows and Alt on the Mac.

NOTE: a new iOS 4.3.5 has been released: http://i-tweak.blogspot.com/2011/07/apple-ios-435-official-direct-download.html