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How To Disable Audio Enhancements in Windows 7

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A popular post on Technically Easy is where I recommend disabling audio enhancements on Windows Vista to help reduce the CPU usage of the audiodg.exe process. Depending on the enhancements that were enabled, this can have a large effect or no effect on the CPU usage. While the above post covered how to disabled the [...]

How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 4

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So far in my Windows security series, I have looked at securing your system using a hardware firewall to keep your Internet connection secure. I then talked about creating a Windows standard user account, and disabling certain services. In my last post I talked about more methods you can use to secure your Internet connection [...]

How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 3

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This is the third part in my series on securing your Windows 7 system. In part one I talked about securing your system using a hardware router and an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). In my last post I discussed creating a standard user account, disabling certain services, and a few other tasks you could perform [...]

How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 2

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In my last post titled How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 1, I talked about securing your wireless router and about how to protect your computer with a UPS. While the tips provided in that post can apply to more than just a Windows 7 system, I felt it was important to [...]

How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 1

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I recently purchased a new computer that had Windows 7 installed. With my new computer I figured it would be a new start with both the new operating system and security. Over the past month I have been busy reading, learning, and applying various security measures on my new computer. I have learned a bit [...]

Internet Connection Slow in Windows 7

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I like tinkering with my operating systems. I change many settings from their defaults, and sometimes the settings improve things, while other times it may break something. After I recently began exploring Windows 7, I began tinkering with some connection settings to see what they do. Unfortunately, I had changed several settings and then realized [...]

Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows Vista and Windows 7

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I recently purchased a new desktop computer to replace the 8 year old desktop I was previously using. The previous desktop had served me well for those 8 years, and had been running Windows XP without any problems. It had begun to show its age recently, however; so I bought myself a new one. My [...]

Windows Installer Error: System Cannot Open the Device of File Specified

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I had been having a problem when installing software that consisted of a single MSI file. Whenever I ran a MSI file I continuously received an error on the screen that prevented the application from being installed. I tried it on several installs, and they all produced the same error. Realizing it wasn’t the actual [...]