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Cloning Hard-drives...
2007-08-17 14:44:00 Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going to go to.1. Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.2. Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.3. Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the "Full" button.4. After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says "Autofix Errors".5. In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:Click on the "Start" button, then click on the "Run..." button, then place the following into the Runbox:"XCOPY C:*.*D: /c/h/e/k/r" (minus the quotes, of course) then press the "Enter" ... More About: Hard , Hard drives , Cloning
Sony VAIO in limited Graphics Splash Edition
2007-08-09 14:06:00 Sony jazzed up its VAIO laptops with the limited Graphics Splash Edition. Not only you?ll grab some attention of onlookers but also a nice way to show how trendy you are. Only 1350 units will be sold which includes 13.3? C series and 15.4? FE series laptops both running on Core 2 Duo processors. Price for C series start from $1250 while $1000 for the FE series.br Gizmodo More About: Sony , Vaio , Sony Vaio
Xbox 360 price cut is official
2007-08-09 13:59:00 After a lot of denial Microsoft has finally announced the price cut of Xbox 360 in a bid to compete with the recent PS3 price cuts. The new price of the console for the premium edition would be $50 less to $350, Core at $280 which is $20 less and the Elite edition is priced at $450 which has got a $30 price cut.This price cut is limited to US only. More About: Xbox 360 , Price , Official
Lenovo gets Power Ranger Desktops for kids
2007-08-09 13:59:00 Simple is so boring these days. Companies churn out snazzy designed products to attract the attention of the customers. And the customer base now in question are the young lads which will be targeted by Lenovo to sell its desktop PCs. They have teamed up with Disney to sell Power Range rs Mystic Force limited edition 3000 H series desktops in India. The child won?t be looking into the specifications but as a worried parent you would want to know if you?re spending more than Rs. 41000 ($1000) that it will come with 17? LCD monitor, will be powered by a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB RAM, 250GB of HDD space, DVD writer and will run Vista Home Basic.The limited edition desktops will be available from the 6th of this month.Lenovo More About: Kids , Desktops
Protect your Data without using a folder lock !!
2007-07-28 15:14:00 Data protection: how to hide those nasty xxx pic?s!!!Right-click with your mouse and select ?new?Then you will see a list of files you can create, pick ?folder?For now, name it ?new folder?Copy the data you want to hide into that folderThen right-click on the folder and select ?rename?Give it one of the following names: (these are examples)?funny sound.{0003000D-0000-0000-C000-0000000000 46}??control panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B3030 9D}??aX0023sys.{ECD4FC4F-521C-11D0-B792-0 0A0C90312E1}??internet explorer.{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003 E56F8}??keys.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-080 00948F534}??Dial-Up networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD0 10CCC48}?All folder names are without the ? ?You can give the folder any name as long as you remember to put a. (point)between the folder name and the number!NOTE!: once you?ve protected a folder, also you can?t access itnormally! The only way to get access to the files is to move itto the garbage bin and cut and paste it into an unprotected fo... More About: Data , Lock , Prot , Fold , Folder
Windows Restart And Shutdown Timer !!
2007-07-28 15:10:00 This may be help to you if have the habit of listening to songs and sleeping or if you are planning to download some thing. open notepad and type?shutdown -s -t ?Save the file as ?.bat? and a batch file is createdfor shutting down?this works for me?i sleep with a wait for 10 mins during which songs play?after that pc shuts down automatically?no tension of shutdownto restart the pc command is?shutdown -r -t ?Type shutdown /help in cmd for more options on this shutdown commandYou can do this without batch file alsoGo to Start>run>Type cmdThen type shoutdown -s -tExample:shutdown -s -t 3600 (Shut down time will be set t0 1 hour) More About: Windows , Timer , Restart , Estar
Increase your NET speed !!
2007-07-28 15:05:00 Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etcTo get it back:Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:Local Computer Policy then Computer Configuration then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.... More About: Speed , Ease |



