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Newbie W7 questions
I just installed windows 7, last night (literally). Even though I'm not using it right now (I am at school), I have a few questions to ask. I figure putting them all in one thread would be more more considerate instead of making 5 or 6 threads...
1. Is there a way to change the time the system waits on the OS selection menu? Currently it is set at 30 seconds, which is far too long for anything. I'd much rather it to be something small, say 2-5 seconds. After all, it is only used when you are at your computer..
2. Any way to disable the opacity that all the windows have, without selecting the windows 7 starter theme.
3. I have a 205gb internal hard drive. MY computer previously had two partitions on the disk. C and D. D was a recovery partition, 8.5gb I had to install windows 7 twice, because I didn't think to remove D before installing, so I had to do it so C would use the space D had.
But now, C is only listed as having a maximum capacity of 234 gb. Is something wrong, or is that normal. I recall buying a 500gb external and only having 460gb of space..
4. How many "ticks" of the mouse wheel to make the icons on the desktop to be roughly the same size as they were on XP? Also, what is the font of icon text from XP, so I can change them to make the icons the same size as XP in shape and font.
5. Any way to manually up the cpu fan speed? One night I noticed that my cpu fan was at max for a few hours (2500, still silent) and my cpu temp was down to 45, from its usual temp of 60-70 @900-1000 rpm..
Also posted here
6. Is there a way to change the contrast via software? I have a netbook (win7 starter, separate computer from what everything else is about), and it has horrible blacks/contrast, making watching videos impossible. Sent it to HP once, paid for shipping, the didn't do anything to it..
Thank you :)