Articles for Windows 7

How to test to see if an smtp mail server is available using telnet

Kill all chromes

Turn off Windows updates - or set to Manual

How to edit your hosts file easily

Gmail tips

Windows 10 + VS 2015 + ReSharper First Impressions

First impressions on Windows 10 & Visual Studio 2015 & ReSharper 9.1

How to get rid of friendly messages in IE10

Alt tab useless feature

Everyone hates how the windows hide when you press alt-tab surely. fix it here http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5473/make-aero-peek-display-instantly-or-disable-it-in-windows-7/ If you want to disable Aero Peek on everything, including the taskbar thumbnails, you’ll need to head into System Prope...

Windows 7 Networking

Using XP, you may want to map to a drive on a Windows 7 machine, here's a couple of things you should do: 1. Definitely make sure both machines are in the same Workgroup (Win+Break will take you to there to check) 2. Go to Start>Type gpedit.msc (it is located at C:\Windows\System32\gpedit....