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Wireless sharing of your Desktop PC internet connection

pycckuu — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:20:36 +0000

Problem: Ability to share Desktop PC internet connection to a laptop or your iphone/htc wirelessly.

Solution: First of all you need to purchase an USB Wireless Adaptor (since there is no wireless in a pc by default), in order to share your connection wirelessly (your laptop is a must have wireless already). I purchased it from eBay for 6$.
1.Open Network and Sharing Center
2.Under "Change your network settings" choose:

3.Next choose → Set up a wireless ad hoc network

4.Give your network a name, a password (example on picture) and save this network

Boosting Windows 7 performance in one-two-three

pycckuu — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:06:24 +0000

The first and the most important thing to do:

Disable system protection on all drives, and after that i advise you to backup manually.
— Win+pause break (right click My Computer → properties) → Advanced System Settings → System Protection then turn off System protection on all drives (it will boost your Windows 7 experience dramatically
Disable unnecessary services.
— Type in Run → services.msc, read the descriptions and disable services that you won't be using for 100%.
Some of my personal disabled services are:

Fax;
Telephony;
Offline Files;
Security Center;
Windows Search;
Windows Backup;
Table PC Input Service;
Windows Media Center services;
Windows Error Reporting Service;
Windows Update (after installing all updates at a time);

Removing Skype 4.2 from taskbar in Windows 7

pycckuu — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:34:50 +0000

Many of you are dissapointed with the new version of Skype 4.2.0.155 and Skype 4.2.0.158 also, it has new feature which really slows the work, but most annoying is the fact that you can't remove Skype from a taskbar when it is minimized to system tray. This is the solution i have found recently:

quit Skype,
right click on Skype icon on your desktop and click properties,
in the Compatibility tab check and choose Windows XP (Service Pack 3),
Click OK, and start Skype.

Another option is to rollback to Skype 4.1.0.179, which is my personal choice, because 4.2 is a real bug.

Quick Computer benchmark with WinRAR

pycckuu — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:23:13 +0000

If you want to quickly benchmark or desktop or laptop, and not willing to install any additional software, you may use WinRAR (most of you have it installed i suppose). So, open WinRAR or just any archive you have. Then click Alt+B or Tools→Benchmark and hardware test.
I recommend you closing all the applications and everything from tray for benchmark results to be the maximum.

Feel free to post your results with WinRAR in comments!

Disabling UAC (User Account Control) in Windows 7

pycckuu — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:01:57 +0000

If you want to disable UAC (User Account Control) notifications, type in run msconfig then go to Tools → Change UAC Settings and press Launch. In the next pop-up window choose Never notify and press OK.

The procedure is very similar in Windows Vista, so i hope you can handle it.

Disabling Action Center in Windows 7

pycckuu — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:51:49 +0000

If you are absolutely exhausted reading messages popping up from your Action Center in Windows 7 i will probably help you today.

Go to Action Center (Open Action Center), on the left side on the very top - click Change Action Center settings, and on the next screen just uncheck everything and hit OK.

To completely turn off Action Center → click Turn system icons on or off here:

In the next window find Action Center and choose off, then hit OK.