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Use Windows Easy Transfer to Import User Accounts, Files and Settings from other Windows operating systems into Windows 7. Windows 7 comes with a utility called Easy Transfer that lets you transfer useful files like your favorite websites, documents and file folders from an older computer into Windows 7. It's an easy way to save yourself the headache of having to configure a new Windows 7 computer with all of your old settings. Best of all, Easy Transfer can be run from a USB cross cable, a USB flash drive or even from an existing hard drive, so it's easy to move data from one Windows installation to another. To access Easy Transfer: Open the 'Start' menu in Windows 7 and type 'Easy Transfer' into the search bar. Follow the on-screen instructions that will prompt you to create the Easy Transfer utility on both your old and new PC and get it ready for transferring your data. Once you're ready it's easy to take files off of your old Windows install, and ad...

This registry tweak will reduce the amount of time Windows 7 spends waiting for services to shut themselves down before presenting you the option of shutting them down manually and restarting or turning off the computer. This wait can be particularly annoying when a program has crashed into an infinite loop and will never be able to shut itself down. As with any registry tweak, make sure to back up your system files and registry settings before you give this one a try! To kill services more quickly, use the following registry tweak: In the 'Start' menu, type "Regedit" into the search bar and hit 'Enter'. The Registry Editor window will pop up. You need to navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control'. On the right hand side of the screen you'll see an entry called 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'. Right click on it and hit modify. Change the value from 12000 (milliseconds, or 12 seconds) to a more realisitic 5000 (5 seconds). ...