Tag Archives: Win7

Win7 – Faster Thumbnail Previews

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The taskbar shows thumbnail previews of opened windows when you hover the mouse over the program icon. By default, it takes a little time for the preview to appear. Make the previews appear faster with this registry tweak:

Use Windows Key  +R to get a run box
Enter regedit and hit your ENTER KEY
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse.

On the right, open the MouseHoverTime key and changes its value from the default 400 to around 150. Decreasing it further may cause problems.

Win7 – Boost performance with ReadyBoost

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ReadyBoost improves your system performance by using faster USB Flash Drives instead of slower hard disks for system operations. It works best using flash drives with at least 1 GB of storage.

Simply insert your flash drive, and if it meets certain performance benchmarks, Windows 7 will ask you if you want to use it for ReadyBoost and recommend the size to reserve.