Tag Windows 7

Do Not Defrag SSDs

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Some people might not know that defragging an SSD can be very bad.  Actually, a specific SSD can be worn out faster than usual if someone has defragged it too often.  Anyhow, in the video right after the break, I’ll touch on why it is so!  For the bonus I show you how to turn off the Windows 7′s automatic defragmentation schedule for all hard drives, and then I also show you how to manually defrag the traditional hard drives.

Using Fixit To Completely Remove Programs On Windows 7

I had a program which went rouge on me on Windows 7, and I could not remove it!  Luckily, I found out that Microsoft has a program known as Fixit which could repair my problem.  Before I post a link to Microsoft’s legitimate online location of Fixit so you would be able to download, let me describe my problem in detail so you would know if you might need Fixit or not. Of course, I must remind you not to download fake Fixit or any Fixit program which isn’t belonging to Microsoft unless you know the purpose of such program.  Why?  Some programs might mask themselves as a legitimate program to help solve your problems, but in fact those programs might be malware and infect your computer with malicious directives.

Anyhow, my problem was I had removed a program manually, but for some strange reasons I could not remove this program from Add or Remove Programs list (i.e., from Control Panel >> Programs >> Uninstall a program).  I went into Registry and removed all the entries that belonged to this specific program, and it refused to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  I downloaded CCleaner and used it to fix Windows Registry, but the program would relentlessly refuse to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  Well, as you already know what I had told you earlier, Fixit did it!  Yep, with Fixit, I was able to remove this specific program from my Add or Remove Programs list.  The link to Fixit is:

Start Button On Windows 7 Stops Working, How To Fix Without Restarting The Machine?

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Sometimes, odd things might happen on Windows 7.  One of those odd things I had encountered recently was the Start button refused to open up and stopped working for some strange reasons.  I could always reboot the machine and had the problem fixed, but I was in the midst of doing something important.  Fixing this problem without needing to reboot my machine was easy enough.  I had to:

  1. Open up task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc)
  2. Highlight explorer.exe
  3. End process of Explorer.exe (i.e., kill the Explorer.exe process)
  4. On the top menu, click on File >> New Task (Run…)
  5. Type in Explorer.exe for new task and click OK.

After doing the steps above, I was able to use the Start button again!  The steps above could also work for some other problems too, because often killing an old process of a task or a program and renew such a process would actually help to get rid of the problem!

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