Since Microsoft first came up with a utility to magnify the screen, it’s been promoted as an “Ease of Access” utility to help people with vision problems see the screen better, but now that they’ve enhanced it, almost anyone can get some benefit from this nifty little utility; but those that use laptops perhaps might find it most useful of all.

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Use All the Features of Windows 7 Magnifier Program

Synthesia is a free software program that lets you learn how to play the piano on a MIDI keyboard. If you can connect your computer to your MIDI keyboard with a MIDI or USB cable, chances are you can use this software. Synthesia is a very lightweight program, only requiring a 1 GHz processor and 20 MB of memory to run

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Learn to Play Piano for Free with Synthesia

In our continuing quest to find ways to make Windows 7 more comfortable to a Mac user switching over, we went searching for an equivalent to OS X’s Activity Monitor.

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Track Activity with the Windows 7 Resource Monitor

Sometimes it seems that Microsoft assigns a team of software engineers to take a look at every single aspect of their Windows operating team between versions, and then tells them to make suggestions as to what might make their part cooler; how else to explain the update to the simple clock in Windows 7? In its normal default status, the clock is pretty simple, it’s just what we’ve all come to expect with the clock on our computer; in Windows 7, it looks like this: Then, when you click on it, you get this: But clicking on Change date and time settings… brings up this popup menu: Under the Date and Time tab, are buttons for allowing you to change your date and time, as well as your time zone; nothing new here.

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Use Windows 7 Advanced Clock Features

You see a lot of products out there purporting to help you get back that speed that your computer has lost over time as you’ve cruised the Internet picking up cookies, installed programs and maybe sometimes unplugged your computer before remembering to shut it off. Microsoft apparently understands that computers running their operating system need some tweaking and/or maintenance from time to time, so that’s why they’ve included some tools to help users get back some, it not all, of the speed they’ve lost.

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Use Microsoft’s Optimizing Tools to Keep your Windows 7 Computer Running Fast