Black Viper’s Top 8 tweaks for a faster (and less annoying) Windows 7 PC The following is what I do directly after a clean install of Windows 7. This does not mean that everything I do will work for you. Keeping that in mind, ensure you are fully aware of the risks of tweaking your system before doing so.

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Several of my performance tweaks 'reduce' the default functionality of Windows and removes some built in security features. If security is a top priority for you or you are a new user to W7, refrain from disabling any functionality noted as a security feature. Point to note: Ensure that you are logged in as an 'Administrator' or have Administrator rights before performing any of these steps.

Even though I perform these steps directly after a clean install, all of them can be done at any time. Quick Links: Number One: User Account Control User Account Control or UAC is a feature in Windows 7 that asks for permission to do system software tasks and also run programs. Unfortunately, this security feature can become annoying at times. Much less so then it was with Vista’s default configuration, but it can be difficult to deal with as well as confuse users with dialog popups that are requesting a 'password' to perform actions, but never actually ask for that password (if already logged in as an administrator).

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Icons: In 9x/2k/XP, if icons got corrupted, you could rebuild them with TweakUI. Microsoft hasn’t released TweakUI for Vista or Windows 7, so how do you trigger an icon rebuild? I found that if you delete the icon cache, then change the color mode, Windows Vista and Win7 will rebuild your icons. My provider recently forced me to remove a program to rebuild icons, as their malware scanners kept picking up the system changes as a trojan.:( To try to get around that, here’s a batch file you can make (should work on Vista and Windows 7). @echo off echo. Echo This will attempt to reset your icon cache and force Windows echo to rebuild icons fresh. Echo You will need to change your color depth or restart your echo computer after this is finished.

Echo Attempting to un-hide, delete, and reset icon cache. Attrib -a -r -h -s Download Game Lego Marvel Superheroes Ds Rom Coolrom. %LocalAppData% IconCache.db del /a%LocalAppData% IconCache.db type NUL >%LocalAppData% IconCache.db attrib +r +h%LocalAppData% IconCache.db echo Done! Echo Be sure to change your color depth (to 16-bit color and back) echo or restart your computer to cause icons to finish rebuilding. Pause These are the most important parts, as you can type them on a command line without putting them in a batch file: attrib -a -r -h -s%LocalAppData% IconCache.db del /a%LocalAppData% IconCache.db type NUL >%LocalAppData% IconCache.db attrib +r +h%LocalAppData% IconCache.db The commands do the following: – Unhides and makes the icon cache writable. – Deletes the icon cache. – Creates a new, blank icon cache. – Makes the icon cache read-only, preventing Windows from writing bad data to it again.

Manual fixes: Previous versions of Windows had a feature in “TweakUI” to rebuild the icon cache. Since Vista doesn’t have TweakUI, you need to find other ways to rebuild the icon cache. Make sure you have Command Prompt and Task Manager open. Go to your local settings folder, such as: C: Users YourName AppData Local>Type “attrib -h iconcache.db” (without quotes) Use Task Manager to kill Explorer.exe Delete the IconCache.db file. Type “explorer” to re-load Explorer.

Windows should re-build the icon cache. Fs Global Real Weather V1 72701. Another method: Delete the IconCache.db file as mentioned above, but instead of killing Explorer, instead switch to 16-bit color mode, and then back to 32-bit color mode.