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Although there are several free Windows Tweaking Utilities utilities, like our free Ultimate Windows Tweaker software, there are some who love tinkering with the Windows Registry. This article is intended for these people. Most of these optimizations are applicable to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but can also run on later versions.

Remember that touching the registry is risky and save the registry and first create a system restore point.

To start, type regedit in the Windows Start search box and press Enter to open the registry editor. read more

Last year Microsoft brought us the Windows 8.1 update of their first touch operating system and this update. In addition to some changes and fixes, this update also included new features and integrated applications. One of them is the Alarms App application. Many users currently using Windows 8.1 may have missed it.

In this article, we will discuss this simple but useful application that is included in your operating system. The alarm application has three main zones : Alarm, Timer, Stopwatch. Let us now examine in detail the functionality of the different sections. read more

To open or access the Windows registry, we usually open the Run field, type regedit and press Enter. Do it twice and yet only one instance of the register will open. If, for some reason, you need to have multiple instances of the registry editor open in Windows, how would you do?

Open multiple registry instances

As I said, if you try to open more than one registry editor instance using’regedit’ several times, you will notice that nothing happens … ; that is, only one instance is open.

To open additional regedit instances, simply use the -m or /m switch! read more

In Windows 10/8/7, if you check the Windows Task Manager at different intervals, you may notice that it sometimes contains a VSSVC.exe process. When you move your mouse over the process, the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service message does not always run, but is triggered by certain events to create a copy of your entire hard disk as single or multiple sets, depending on the number of disks you have. In this post, we will (what is) Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service in Windows and try to cover as much detail as possible. read more

In Windows 10/8/7/Vista OS, you can select a network from public or private scenarios to share with devices within range. For the network in public locations, you do not need to share it, while you can allow sharing for devices if your system is limited to your home or private location. These parameters can be managed in the Control Panel under the cover of the Network.

However, if you need to navigate to different locations and change the sharing settings of Network in the short term, there are shortcuts that you can use to easily configure these settings. In this article, we discuss different ways to allow or disallow sharing for the network to which you are connected. read more

Some Windows users find it takes a long time to load their Windows 8/10 applications. Other Windows 8.1 users find it takes forever to load their Windows Store applications after upgrading to Windows 8.1.

When you launch a Windows Store application, you are first greeted by the startup screen, which consists of a simple background color, a swirling circle, and an image of 620×300 size. Your operating system displays this screen until the open application is fully initialized and enabled. Once the application is fully initialized, the screen disappears and you access the application’s user interface start page. read more

Windows Remote Assistance is a great way to give remote control of your Windows computer to someone you trust. With your permission, your friend or technician can even control your PC with their own mouse and keyboard and show you how to solve a problem – or how to solve it yourself.

In this post, we will see how to configure and use Windows Remote Assistance in Windows 10/8

Press Win+X and select’Control Panel’ from the menu. Search system. The window displays all the basic specifications of your computer such as model number, CPU configuration, installed memory, etc. read more

Windows offers the ability to compress files by supporting Zip functionality. Although this is a very useful feature if you are already using a third-party compression program, some of them can disable built-in Windows Zip support and associate the external Zip program with the Zip file format. In this article we see how to disable this ZIP feature built into Windows.

In Windows XP this solution worked. All you had to do was uninstall a DLL file. Open the Run field, type and press Enter : read more

If you move the mouse pointer over a folder or desktop item, a description or tooltip appears. This pop-up window displays details such as the total size, free space, creation date, size, folders and files it contains, etc. If desired, you can disable pop-up description for folders and desktop items in Windows 10/8/7.

Folder and desktop item description

If you want to disable folder and desktop item description, open Folder options. Under Windows 8, you can enter folder options in the search on the Home screen and select the result. Click the View tab and deselect Show description of folders and desktop items . read more

You may receive a Windows error code 0x80070643 when installing certain applications on Windows. Some users are faced with this error when installing Windows Live Essentials such as Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Security Essentials, or even the.NET Framework. This article shows you how you can try to fix this Windows error.

If an error message appears at the end of the installation during the installation of Windows Live Essentials : These programs could not be installed.

0x80070643 – These programs could not be installed

I suggest you take the following steps to resolve the problem: read more