Mind blowing things Windows 7 does that Vista doesn't

Mind blowing things Windows 7 does that Vista doesn't Shake them away Ever had 10 Notepad, two Powerpoint and 50 Outlook windows open? Want to minimize all of them except the most important one? In Windows 7, you can grab the top of the window and shake it about to scare away all of the other open windows. Simple. A step forward in previewing In Vista, hovering over a minimized window on the taskbar would provide a preview of the window. In Windows...

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Technology update- UEFI

The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) served as the OS-firmware interface for the original PC-XT and PC-AT computers. BIOS has however not been completely modernized even with the advancement of the PC market and technology. The Unified EFI (UEFI) specification (previously known as the EFI specification) defines a similar interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI is independent of the processor architecture and it defines a similar OS-firmware interface, known as "boot services" and "runtime services". As per Mark Doran, head of the UEFI Forum ,UEFI is expected to predominate in new PCs by 2011. UEFI is free from architectures limitation, as the technology...

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Process Explorer utility

Task manager is less elaborate in providing information and details on processes. However, there's a very good utility called as Process Explorer, that simplifies the process and provides you a tree based format viewing. This utility becomes useful in looking at the CPU usage, tracking the processes and malwares.  Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display...

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