Sometimes it happens that disk check always starts to check the file system on one or more drives for consistency on Windows Startup. If any key is pressed, the disk checking is aborted. In this article, we will prevent chkdsk from running every time Windows starts. Actually this is because some data structure of the […]
Although Microsoft has done a lot of work to speed up shutdown and startup times of Windows, it can still take a while if you are using an application which does not respond when Windows shuts down. For example, I have installed Skype on my Windows 8 PC. Windows 8 will not shutdown until Skype […]
Hibernation is a great feature of Windows which was introduced in Windows XP. Hibernation enables Windows to save all the data in RAM to the hard drive so that the computer can be shutdown without losing the current state of the system. When the user wants to start the computer again, Windows will attempt to […]
Registry cleaners have always been controversial and their effectiveness has been questioned by so many experts. But one thing is for sure, registry cleaners, as the name implies, are for cleaning the Windows Registry which gets overloaded with invalid file references and other issues left by the programs we keep on installing regularly in Windows. […]
We tend to install and uninstall applications in Windows and this list of apps becomes quite large with the passage of time. Windows system tray is an area where applications can install their icons and display notifications about their status. Windows 7 remembers all the items and their display settings which were installed in the […]