Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part4)

Posted on the December 3rd, 2009 under Hardware by admin

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part 3)

Posted on the December 1st, 2009 under Hardware by admin

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Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part 1)

Posted on the November 24th, 2009 under Hardware, Tutorial by admin

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 great add-ons for Internet Explorer(part 1)

Posted on the November 22nd, 2009 under Software by admin

Bring fantastic new features to Internet Explorer with add-ons- programs that extend your browser’s capabilities. We scoured the internet for the best.

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Money-savings gadgets

Posted on the November 15th, 2009 under Software, Tutorial by admin

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Seven gadgets for your Windows Sidebar that will help keep your bank manager happy…

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Faster start-up

Posted on the November 5th, 2009 under Tutorial by admin

Rid your machine of superfluous extras and cut vital seconds from your start-up time

  1. CONTROL PANEL TWEAKS Deleting applications you don’t need can help accelerate boot times – especially those that load into memory when you log in. go to the Control Panel and choose Uninstall a Program.
  2. DELETING PROGRAMS To delete a program select it from the list and click Uninstall. Some may prompt you to restart. Wait until you’ve removed all programs you want to delete before rebooting your PC.
  3. BE FRUGAL WITH FONTS When Windows Vista starts up, it loads all your fonts into memory. The memory you have, the longer this takes. It’s likely that you’ll only use a fraction of them – so you can safely remove those you don’t like.
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Titan Backup 1.5

Posted on the October 17th, 2009 under Software by admin

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Set up automated backups

We all know how important it is to back up data, but generally only remember when it’s too late. Let Titan Backup 1.5 save your skin before you make an expensive mistake

Once you’ve got Titan Backup set up, you can leave it to automatically save copies of your files to a safe place at regular intervals, while you just get on with using your PC.

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Privacy Guardian

Posted on the October 13th, 2009 under Software by admin

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Erase online tracks and program activity

Ensure complete computer privacy with Privacy Guardian

Privacy Guardian guarantees your PC privacy by ensuring that all traces of your online and offline activities are permanently erased and, importantly, unrecoverable from your computer.

Normally, information from every web site you visit is stored on your computer and recorded in hidden Windows locations, including temporary files, cookies, the Registry and the index.dat file. Web browsers only provide partial privacy protection by allowing you to delete some temporary internet files and cookies, but they do not delete these things securely, and neither do they clean the data out of all your computer’s hidden files.

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Tips 7 Vista/XP

Posted on the October 6th, 2009 under Tutorial by admin

MINIMIZE MENU LOADING DELAY TIME THROUGH A REGISTRY HACK

By default,both XP and Vista wait 400 milliseconds before presenting expansion menus [those menu items with right-facing triangles on them]. You can eliminate the wait completely for instantaneous menu expansion [though be warned, you may not actually like it]. Note that this will not make, say, you’re your primary File or Edit menu show up faster-those menus automatically load as fast as possible.

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Tips 6 Vista/XP

Posted on the October 2nd, 2009 under Tutorial by admin

YOU CAN TWEAK VIRTUAL MEMORY SETTINGS FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

In the Windows 95/98 era, conventional wisdom held that you should manually set your virtual memory [i.e., pagefile] size to at least 1.5 times the amount of RAM in order to optimize performance. [By default, Windows will manage pagefile on its own: You will likely find the initial pagefile size set to 0.5x or 1x the amount of RAM you have]. We were skeptical about this tip, but our benchmarks surprised us: Some systems showed no change at all, but some(particularly older machines) showed substantial improvement beyond the usual random noise we see in benchmark results. We got at least a 10 percent jump after we upped the initial pagefile size to 2x amount or RAM on two separate machines. It won’t work for all computers, so the jury’s still out on this one, but because it’s so easy to do and there are no negative consequences, it’s worth a shot just to see if it has any effect.

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