Hello again, this is Kyle with www.Extreme-Days.com and today I have a cool little tip for everyone. If you’re not a geek, then this probably won’t mean a whole lot to you, but it can provide you with some very useful information.

If you have ever pressed: “ctrl+alt+delete” and chosen “task manager” then you know that you can monitor your cpu usage and all of the programs and applications currently running on your computer. Most people only use this when their computer freezes up and they don’t know what else to do to unfreeze it. Sometimes it is very useful to have a shortcut to this, either on you’re desktop or in you’re quick launch bar, but this can be difficult to accomplish if you aren’t very computer savvy. Now this is the part where I come in and teach you how to do this little task in a matter of 20 seconds. That being said, lets get started with this!

Below is a screen recording video of myself demonstrating this process of creating the desktop shortcut to the task manager. There is also text below the video that states what is happening in the video, if for some reason you would rather read through this instead of watch it.

First off, you are going to need to go to your desktop. I do this by using the keyboard shortcut, “windows key+D”. If you don’t know what the windows key is, it is in the bottom left of your keyboard right between ctrl and alt. Just hold that key down and press the D key on your keyboard at the same time, and you’re computer will minimize everything and show your desktop.

Now you need to right click on a blank spot and go to the tab that says, new, and then click on the tab that says, shortcut. This will pop a box on your screen that says, “This wizard helps you to create shortcuts, to local or network programs, files, folders, computers, or Internet addresses. Type the location of the item.” Below that there will be a box where you can submit text into. Click in the box and type, “taskmgr.exe” and then press next. Now there will be another box asking you to state the name of the shortcut. You can put whatever you choose in this box. In my case I’m going to put, Task Manager. Then just click finish and you will see a new icon on your desktop.

At this point you’re almost complete, there is only one more step if you would like to customize it a little more for your liking. To do this you need to double click on the shortcut you just created and you should see a familiar screen. In the top click, options, and in the dropdown list there should be a few things already ticked. If not, don’t worry they don’t need to be ticked. In that list there will be an option that says, Hide When Minimized. Just click that and you’re all set! Now when you minimize that window, it won’t show up in your taskbar, but if you look to the right, in your system tray, you will see a new icon there that shows the cpu usage on you’re computer.

Now whenever you want to see how much cpu you’re computer is using, you just need to look in the system tray and you will get an estimate of how much cpu is being used.

I do need to site one source for this. I found this information at Technet’s computer help site and I thought it was useful so I decided to pass it on to all of you!

If you think you have a tip or trick that is useful, then contact me and let me know! If I think its good enough, I might even make a video out of it!

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If you’re doing research for school or work and you are tired of clicking through tons of Google pages to find what you’re looking for, then you’re at the right place. The video and post below will show you how to change this so that you won’t have to click to another Google page again!

First of all, you need to go to Google and wait for it to fully load. When it has finished loading look to the right of the Google search bar and you should see Advanced Search and Search Preferences. You need to click on the link called “Search Preferences” and you will come to a screen that has a lot of options on it.

Down towards the bottom of this page you will see sections called SafeSearch Filtering, Number of Results, and Results Window. If you haven’t guessed by now, you need to look under the section entitled Number of Results. Once there, you should see these two sentences: “Google’s default (10 results) provides the fastest results. Display “blank” results per page.” Where the word blank is there should be a drop down box that has options for 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 search results per page. Remember though, the larger number of Google search results you pull per page, the longer it will take for the Google results to load. That being said, chose the number of results that suites you best and click the save preferences button in the bottom right hand corner of the page. When you have done this a box should pop up that says, your preferences have been saved, so just click the OK button and you will be returned to Google.com.

There is another way to display a given number of Google search results per page by typing in a bit of text after the search in the address bar. I couldn’t find what that bit of text is so I can’t tell you how to just make one search display a given number of results without changing your Google preferences. If any of you know how this is done, please send me a message or e-mail and I will be glad to add it in!

If you have any questions about anything on the computer, send me an e-mail and I’ll do my best to help you and I might even make a video post about it! Thanks again, and I hope this helped you shorten your research time by showing more search results per page.

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This post is going to be about a video made by VvComphelpvV on YouTube. His channel can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/VvCompHelpvV I would really recommend subscribing to him because he is constantly coming out with new videos that teach me new stuff all the time! I may be featuring him on another post if I find another one of his videos super useful. If you would like to check out his website, it can be found at: http://www.VvCompHelpvV.Co.Nr where you can support him by purchasing some of his merchandise. You can also follow what he is going to come out with next and what he has previously come out with.

Below is a video showing you what the text below it
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Today I’m going to show you how to get rid of a whole lot of nonsense on your computer, in other words, temporary files. Now this is good to save some hard drive space and it could possibly make your computer run faster.The most space I’ve heard that someone saved is 37 gigabytes! That is a lot of space to have tied up in temporary files that you don’t need. So if you have never done this and you have had your computer for a while, then you will probably save a whole lot of space from this.

So lets get started with the how-to part of this post. First you need to go to start>run and a box should pop up that says, “Type the name of a program, folder, document, or internet resource, and Windows will open it for you”. Down below that there should be a box that you can type in. click in there and type this exactly: %temp% then press OK. Now a window should come up that has lots of files in it. All those files are just files that your computer saves automatically in the background. All of these files are not needed for your computer. If you look through a little bit you will probably see a folder called cookies and history. I wouldn’t recommend deleting those folders because then you wont have those in your internet browser anymore.

Now before you delete all those pesky files, press ctrl+a and right click on a file in there and go down to properties. When the window comes up look at the size of them. Sometimes this will take a minute to add it all up and you will see the size increasing. Once you see it stop remember that number or write it down so that when you’re done you can leave a comment telling me how much space you saved from doing this.

Now you want to select a bunch of the files and delete them. Sometimes you will come across a file that can’t be deleted because you have programs running in the background so just leave those there. You may also have a message pop up asking you if you want to delete the read only file. Just click yes or OK. Another message that might come up is one that says this file is a program file, are you sure you want to delete it? For these files I recommend clicking no or cancel unless you really know what you’re doing. When you’re all done deleting everything that you could, press ctrl+a again and right click on a file and click properties down at the bottom. Now check and see what the size is of the files left. Normally its only a few kilobytes or maybe up to a megabyte or two. Don’t worry about it if it is a little bigger, you just saved a whole ton more space anyway so it doesn’t really matter.

Another thing is that you should do this once every month or two to keep that space saved and not hogged up again by the temporary files. Also remember to leave a comment telling me how much space this saved you. I will be sending this list to VvCompHelpvV to let him know as well.

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