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Increase SATA Disk Drive Performance
2007-11-02 21:29:00
You can squeeze a more performance out of your SATA hard disk driveby enabling write caching.The price though, is an increased risk for data loss/corruption shouldyou experienced a power loss - this risk is less in a laptop becauseof its battery:1. Click on the Start Button, enter Device Manager and hit Enter.2. Expand Disk Drive s.3. Right-click on your hard disk drive and select Properties.4. On the Policies tab, check Enable Advanced Perform ance .5. Click OK and close Device Manager.Source: www.vistaultimate.com
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Speed up Vista in minutes
2007-10-12 18:05:00
i found this great articles in this blog: http://www.mobile-pedia.comIt has been quite some time since the Windows Vista , the long awaited operating system from Microsoft, was released. Vista offers a rich, secure and user friendly environment. Despite of all these bells and whistles, Vista tends to slow down you system, even if you meet the recommended system requirements. If you were thinking of upgrading your hardware before switching to Windows Vista, think again. This guide will help you tweak Vista to run super fast on your existing hardware.Why is Vista too slow? Vista slows down even systems that are way above the recommended requirements. Such problems are noticeable when you run graphic intensive applications like games etc. There are two main reasons for this. One is lots of services loaded in your RAM. If you have 1GM RAM it gets limited to 512 MB due to all the services loaded in the rest 512 MB. Gamers get a low FPS as Vista consumes 32MB of graphics memory itself.One ...
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15 vista tips from PC magazine
2007-10-04 16:20:00
1. If you hate the look of Aero, click Start/Control Panel/Themes and you can choose a non-Aero theme, such as Windows Classic.2. Windows Vista 's installer can detect serial-ATA (SATA) drives without the need to provide a driver diskette. Don't bother creating a diskette for your SATA drives before you install Vista.3. If, for some reason, the Vista installation gets interrupted due to an unintentional shutdown or reboot, start the computer without booting the Vista DVD. Windows Vista's installer should pick up where it left off. If it does-n't, then restart the installation over from scratch.4. When you perform a search with Vista's new, instant search feature, you can save the search in a special folder. This powerful feature allows you to create a virtual folder which, by default, is saved in your \Searches folder. Every time you open such a folder, the search results are updated.5. In Windows Vista, you can add additional clocks to the system tray. Click the clock, and th...
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Windows Vista recommended system requirements
2007-09-23 21:34:00
Home Premium / Business / Ultimate- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor- 1 GB of system memory- 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space- Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:- WDDM Driver- 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)-Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware-32 bits per pixel- DVD-ROM drive- Audio Output- Internet access (fees may apply)Additional Requirements:Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and edition of Windows Vista will run on your computer.While all editions of Windows Vista can support multiple core CPUs, only Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise can support dual processors.Home Premium / UltimateTV tuner card required for TV functionality (compatible remote control optional).Home Premium / Business / UltimateWindows Tablet and Touch Technology requires a Tablet PC or a touch screen.UltimateWindows BitLocker Drive Encryp...
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Vista: Recover a previous version of a document:
2007-09-23 21:25:00
Windows Vista introduces a new feature: Previous Version s. This allows you to "roll back" the clock to an earlier version of a file that you may have accidentally saved over or edited. In the Document s Explorer, open a document, edit it, save it, and then close it. While selecting the document, choose the Previous Versions option on the command bar, which will bring up a list of previously saved versions of the individual file. Choose a previous version and Windows Vista will restore your file to that version. Careful: all edits since that version will be lost.Source: Microsoft

Vista: Speed up your PC?s performance:
2007-09-23 21:24:00
Windows Vista introduces a new concept for adding additional performance to a running system. Windows ReadyBoost? lets people use flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD Card, Compact Flash, or other memory form factor to provide additional memory cache?memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive. Insert a USB 2.0 memory drive with at least 512 MB capacity. When prompted, click use this device to speed up my computer.Source: Microsoft
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vista: Create an XPS Document:
2007-09-23 21:23:00
XPS documents are a new archiving format perfect for preserving content and for securely sharing information in an application independent way. To create an XPS document, open any document in virtually any application, and select the print option. In the printer selection menu, choose Microsoft XPS Document Writer, and save the file. Double click on the file, which should open it in the XPS Viewer, which is hosted by Internet Explorer 7. The XPS document is a pixel-perfect rendition of the original source material.Source: Microsoft
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vista: Share a folder or file directly from your PC:
2007-09-23 21:22:00
Windows Vista improves on the Windows network folder sharing experience first introduced with Windows XP by giving you more flexibility in what you can share with other people and improving the setup process. With Windows Vista you can now share folders and individual files with any other user on the same corporate network. From any explorer, select a file or folder and on the command bar choose the option to Share . Enter the name of another user on the same network, and give them appropriate rights of access?reader, co-owner, etc. To help close the loop, Windows Vista can even automatically compose an e-mail to the individuals with which you have shared the content. The auto-generated e-mail contains a hyperlink to the shared content, enabling the recipient to instantly be taken to the shared content.Source: Microsoft
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Vista: Collaborate with a co-worker:
2007-09-23 21:21:00
Want an easy way to share files and applications with a colleague or customer?even when you may not be part of the same network? Windows Meeting Space is a new experience in Windows Vista that enables you to start an impromptu collaboration session with other Windows Vista users. Simply open Windows Meeting Space and start a session. Windows Vista will automatically detect other Windows Vista users that are on the same sub-net infrastructure or close enough for you to create anad hoc (direct PC-to-PC connection) wireless connection. Once you have invited them and they have accepted,you can share documents by simply dragging a document to the Handouts area on the bottom right which instantly replicates that file across the other meeting participants? machines. Dragging the file to the presentation area on the left side starts application sharing, enabling the other participants to watch as you present that file. If someone has a good edit for your file, you can make that edit in real...
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Vista: Print picture perfect Web content:
2007-09-23 21:20:00
Most Web sites are simply not formatted to fit cleanly on a standard piece of paper. With the new shrink to fit printing feature found in Internet Explorer 7 Web sites will no longer get cut off when sent to the printer.Source: Microsoft
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Vista: Browse multiple Web sites:
2007-09-23 21:17:00
Tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer® 7 enables a single Internet Explorer window to run with the convenience of multiple pages. Open a new page by clicking the empty tab on the toolbar or by right-clicking any hyperlink and choosing New Tab. Tabs can also be right-clicked to refresh individual pages or refresh pages as a group. You can close either individual tabs or an entire group, and you can save tabs as one favorite group. With the Quick Tabs feature, the icon just to the right of the Favorites icon, thumbnail images of all open tabs can be seen in a single view helping you manage multiple open tabs.Source: Microsoft
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Vista: Experience the enhanced user interface:
2007-09-23 21:16:00
If your PC supports the Windows® Aero? user experience, open multiple files and see how easy it is to locate the right open window using the breakthrough Windows Flip (simply ALT+TAB) or Flip 3D (Windows key+TAB).Source: Microsoft
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Vista: Discover the new search explorer:
2007-09-23 21:15:00
Try filtering by type using the search pane and selecting Documents. Next choose to see your files in another way, via the new stack view. Select the author column header control drop down menu, and choose the option to Stack by author. Explore all the documents by a particular author by double clicking on an author?s stack. Now, save that search as a new search folder. Choose the option Save Search found on the top command bar and name and save your search folder. In the future, tore-run it, simply select the Searches folder link on the left side navigation pane, and double click on your search folder.Source: Microsoft
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Explore the new Windows Vista start menu:
2007-09-23 21:13:00
Looking for specific applications, Web sites, and e-mails is faster than ever with the streamlined Windows Vista start menu. To find a specific application or file, click the Windows key on the keyboard (or open the start menu) and enter the file name in the Instant Search field. As you type, Windows Vista dynamically searches filenames, metadata, and the full text of all files and displays the choices by file type. For example, type "out" to find Microsoft® Outlook®.Source: Microsoft
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control your startup programs
2007-09-21 18:17:00
Most quality software give you the option to allow or prevent the program to run at the startup, but if you can't find the option there:click Start---> Run ---->type: MSCONFIG. Go to the Startup tab, and uncheck the unwanted programs. some times if the program's own option is activated, the program will re-create the autorun entry. or you can use an external software, there are some free wares:http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/s ystem/fwstartup.html
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Fix DNS Problems
2007-09-19 23:35:00
Sometimes when you can't connect to a web site, the cause is a DNS problem. There are things you can do to solve these problems, though. If you're having trouble connecting, to find out if DNS is a potential culprit first ping the site to which you can't connect, by issuing the ping command like this at the command prompt or Run box, like this:ping www.zdnet.comIf the site is live, you'll get an answer like this:Pinging www.zdnet.com [206.16.6.252] with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 206.16.6.252: bytes=32 time=119ms TTL=242Reply from 206.16.6.252: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=242Reply from 206.16.6.252: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=242Reply from 206.16.6.252: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=242Ping statistics for 206.16.6.252:Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:Minimum = 79ms, Maximum = 119ms, Average = 94msIf it's not, you'll get a response like this:Ping request could not find host. Please check the name and try again.If you ping a sit...
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Adjust XP's DNS Cache Settings Part 2
2007-09-19 23:34:00
That command will flush your DNS cache?all the entries, both positive and negative, will be flushed, and it will be empty until you start visiting web sites. Negative entries, however, will not be added to the cache if you've given the DWORD a value of 0.You can also use the Registry to control the amount of time that positive entries are kept in the DNS cache. By default, they are kept for 24 hours. To change the default, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet ServicesDnscacheParametersagain and create a DWORD value called MaxCache EntryTtlLimit. (If it's already present, just edit the value.) For the value, enter the amount of time you want the entry to remain, in seconds, making sure to use Decimal as the base.Source: O'Reilly
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Adjust XP's DNS Cache Settings
2007-09-19 23:32:00
As a way of speeding up DNS, when you visit a site, XP puts the DNS information into a local DNS cache on your PC. So, when you want to go to a site, XP first looks in its local DNS cache, called the resolve cache, to see whether the DNS information is contained there. That way, if it finds the information locally, it doesn't have to query a remote DNS server to find IP information. The cache is made up of recently queried names and entries taken from your HOSTS file.The cache contains both negative and positive entries. Positive entries are those in which the DNS lookup succeeded, and you were able to connect to the web site. When XP looks in the cache, if it finds a positive entry, it immediately uses that DNS information and sends you to the requested web site.Negative entries are those in which no match was found, and you end up getting a "Cannot find server or DNS Error" in your browser. Similarly, when XP looks in the cache and finds a negative entry, it gives you the error m...
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Speed Up Web Access with a HOSTS File
2007-09-19 23:30:00
It takes time to send your request to a DNS server, have the server look up the proper IP address to resolve the name, and then send the IP address back to your PC. You can eliminate that delay by creating or editing a local HOSTS file on your own PC that contains hostnames and their corresponding IP addresses. When you create one, XP will first look into the HOSTS file to see if there's an entry for the hostname, and, if it finds it, it will resolve the address itself. That way, you won't have to go out to a DNS server and wait for the response before visiting a web site. The HOSTS file is a plain text file you can create or edit with a text editor like Notepad.You'll find an existing HOSTS file in C:System32DriversEtcHOSTS. The file has no extension; it is named only HOSTS. Open it in Notepad and enter the IP addresses and hostnames of your commonly visited web sites, like this:208.201.239.37 oreilly.com216.92131.107 simtel.netEach entry in the file should be on one line. T...
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Tweak DNS Settings for Faster Internet Access
2007-09-19 23:29:00
A handful of DNS hacks for speeding up access to web sites.You use the Web by typing in hostnames such as www.oreilly.com, but web servers and Internet routers can't understand plain English words, so they need those letters translated into numeric IP addresses. Whenever you type in a hostname, such as www.oreilly.com, it needs to be resolved to its IP address, such as 208.201.239.37. DNS servers provide that name resolution automatically and behind the scenes as you surf the Web.There are several ways you can hack your DNS settings so that you can get faster web access.
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Unload Unnecessary DLLS
2007-09-17 22:16:00
When you close a program, any associated DLL it has been using will also be terminated- but in some cases windows doesn't close all running dlls.To make sure that DLLs are always unloaded from memory open regedit (registry editor)Find: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]SOFTWAREMicrosoftWind owsCurrentVersionExplorerin the registry and create a new DWORD value and name it (AlwaysUnloadDLL) .and give it a value of 1.
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Repair your XP installation
2007-09-17 22:09:00
When your Windows XP became slow and generate random crashes, it isn't necessary to reinstall your windows. You can solve all your problems by doing a repair installation.To do this, you need to restart your computer with the Windows XP installation CD (bootable), press F8 to accept the license agreement and then press R. The windows xp setup will continue in the normal way, and any of your files that have become corrupt will be automatically replaced.
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Configure your virtual memory settings manually
2007-09-17 21:45:00
You can configure virtual memory settings manually: right-click My Computer, select Properties and go to the Advanced tab. Click Settings.- Go to the Advanced tab and click Change.- Select the Custom Size option and set the Initial Size and Maximum Size to twice the amount of RAM you have installed. Click Set, then OK.
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Make your xp windows transparent
2007-09-16 02:16:00
One of the great features of XP is the ability to use transparent windows, But you need to consider that very few programs take advantage of transparency, and you need a program to do that. there are a lot of programs but i choose Glass2K because it's free and simple to use.download here. By just running Glass2K executable file (55 ko) ,you can make any window transparent. When it's running, go to the window you want to make transparent, and press Ctrl-Shift and a number from 0 to 9. 9 makes the window the least transparent, 1 makes it the most transparent, and 0 sets it so that it's solid, with no transparency. You can also right-click on a window, and select the degree of transparency from the program's pop-up menu. The window will keep that degree of transparency as long as you run the program and keep the transparency setting. screenshot:
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Easily find the mouse pointer
2007-09-11 22:03:00
There is a feature in windows xp that can help you to easily find the mouse pointer.To nable it :- Go to the Control Panel and click the mouse icon.- Then just follow the picture.- And Now you can easily find your mouse pointer just by clicking Ctrl Key.
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