The news about Windows 7 in the corporate space has been confusing in recent months, with 50% of businesses saying they were making the switch or already had. New research by Forrester today and reported by Ed Bott, shows a very different picture though.
The chart above (click the image to view it full size) shows that only 1 in 10 business PCs are running Microsoft’s new OS. The survey took place between June and August this year and surveyed more than 2,300 IT execs in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France. They found that Windows XP was still powering a massive 75% of all business computers.
As I have already mentioned, it’s been widely reported that Windows 7 has so far been doing much better in the business space and these figures will be a blow to anyone who was hoping that Windows 7 was firmly muscling XP out of the way.
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Remove unused fonts in Windows 7 for better performance.
Fonts use quite a bit of system resources, for optimal performance you should remove any unused fonts that you do not use on a daily basis. This tip shows you how.
* Open Control Panel
* Open the Fonts folder
* Make a backup of your fonts before removing any.
* After backing up your fonts, remove any unused fonts from the folder to speed up the Windows 7 performance.
Get a faster toolbar in windows 7
Taskbar thumbnail previews are one of the more cool features in Windows 7. To decrease the time taken to display thumbnails in Windows 7 make these tweaks.
* Click on Start and type in regedit and hit Enter
* Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
* Right-click on Advanced, select ‘New DWORD‘ and enter the following value: “ThumbnailLivePreviewHoverTime”
* Then right-click on ‘ThumbnailLivePreviewHoverTime’ and select ‘Modify’.
* Choose Decimal Base and enter in your new number in milliseconds. Use 200 for 0.2 seconds or a speed that suits you.
* Click Ok and restart PC
Now your windows 7 toolbar will be faster 
Enable Internet search from the Start Menu using your default browser. Run GPEDIT.MSC from the Start Menu search box to start the Group Policy Editor. In the left pane, go to User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Start Menu and Taskbar. In the right pane, right-click to Edit and Enable Add Search Internet link to Start Menu.
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Like the command prompt? Miss the ‘Open Command Window Here’ Windows XP power toy?
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