How To Turn On Telnet Windows 7

Need to use Telnet ? Its under Windows features disabled by default.

Open Control Panel and Turn on or turn off Windows features

Select Telnet Client and OK.

Now its business as usual. Open your CMD prompt and type telnet.

Duplicate IP adresses

If your windows computer complains that two or multiple computers in the same network has same IP address you can use ipconfig to release and renew the address.

Open your CMD window

Release your current IP
ipconfig /release
Get new IP
ipconfig /renew

You can also set the IP manually from network options: Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections 
(if you have problems in local area network for example during lan party or something.)
Select Local Area Connection or Wireless depending which one you want to set up. Then in most cases select Ipv4 and change to "use the following IP" You can look your router settings from CMD window with

ipconfig /all

This shows information about your network.

WAMP - Windows Apache MySQL PHP

Want to host your own websites ? Or just want to develope your websites with Windows ? WAMP is the answer for it. WAMP, Windows, Apache MySQL, PHP. All these tools you may need for web-developing comes in a single package.

Go to http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and download either 32bit or 64bit version depending on your system.

Install it like any other windows executable. When installation is completed open WAMP from shortcut. Now it's on. Click the small arrow from the bottom of your screen and you will see WAMP icon.

Left click it and it will open the WAMP menu.

Click Start All Services and it should be running. If you would like to host your pages online you could click Put Online but you should also open some ports from your router and in this blog we are not going to look how that is done. 

Now open your web-browser and type "localhost" it should show you the WAMP index page!

If you see this, it means you are ready to host pages or use databases. 

To acces phpmyadmin simply type into your browser http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Click "www directory" from WAMP menu, this is the folder where you put your pages. For example create new folder "test" and index.html inside it 

Then point your browser to http://localhost/test/index.html and your page should show. If you want to start developing php, just change the .html to .php and look how your page looks from browser. 

Windows 7 How To Shrink Volume. Split your hard drive with windows tools.

If you want to split your hard drive, for example if you want to install multiple operating systems, like Windows and Linux, or Windows 7 and Windows 8 you can split your hard drive before installing the operating system. Of course you could split the hard drive during operating system installation but this is useful to know anyway.

1. Right click computer from start menu and select manage

 

2. Then select disk managementand you will see all the drives / partitions installed in your computer.

3. For example if your main drive is C: right click it and select shrink volume.

4. Select how much you want to shrink it.

5. Then you see new unallocated space. This is not used by the computer unless you format it. Right click unallocated space and select format. Pick a name and letter for the drive. That's it.

How to speed up Windows 7

Even if I have fast hardware I like to speed up my Windows, this is how I do it.

1. Disable visual effects. Go to Control Panel -> system -> advanced system settings -> visual settings and apply like this:

The last ones are also selected. Now your windows still looks fine and peek option is allowed. 

2. Disable transparency from personalization menu. You can also remove play windows start sound from the sound options to speed up things a little bit

3. Disable unwanted services. Type services.msc into start menu, if you dont use windows search very often look for windows search and disable it

4. Select High performance power plan.

These are the things I like to do. You can also use faster internet browser like Chrome, use lighter antivirus software like Avast and remove password from your account to save up few seconds if no one else use the computer. Also upgrading hardware is the biggest thing. Double your RAM memory, change to SSD hard drive etc.

How To Bring Back Missing Hibernate Option In Windows 7

I noticed my computer is missing the good old hibernate function where current session is saved to hard disk instead of ram and then powered off. So here is how to bring it back!

1. Press start menu and write cmd
2. Right click and run as administrator

3. In command prompt type: powercfg /hibernate on

4. This should enable hibernate function in shutdown menu

5. If it doesn't appear you need to turn off hybrid sleep from power options. Go to Control Panel -> Power options  -> change plan settings (choose current plan) -> change advanced power settings -> and there under sleep turn off hybrid sleep and hibernate option should be visible!

How To Make User Automatically Logon To Windows 7

If you need to set some user login automatically to the computer or just want to save some time, open advanced user accounts settings by pressing start menu and typing netplwiz

Select the user you want to automatically login in the Users tab, then uncheck the box next to Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

Click on the Apply button at the bottom of the User. 

Leave password blank and press OK.

Now this account automatically logs in on the next reboot.

Image from google. Not mine.