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How to make your Pc Work Faster

1. First, run a scandisk or checkdisk. Let Windows fix any errors.
2. Run a disk cleanup utility…this will flush your temporary internet folder, trash can, temp system files, etc.
3. Delete any garbage files or data…if possible, run a Duplicate File Finder program.
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. Run Defrag on all partitions (NOTE: run this after you have deleted all trash and excess files!)

5. Run a registry cleaner utility and delete or get rid of any orphaned entries in that registry.
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. Check your exisiting swap file for it’s size and location (*will explain location later in the post). If you have alot of ram (i.e. 1 gig and over) set this swap file to something small, like 250 mb. The reason is that this will force Windows to load more into memory, resulting in faster performance (note: some games and applications actually require a certain sized swap file so check your applications performance after making a size adjustment for any error messages.)

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. Under XP, you can tell Windows to use Classic Style on your desktop, – this will remove the neat single click and internet-style desktop but for lower end systems this will improve performance in other areas, such as gaming and multi-tasking.

8. Run msconfig and under startup and only keep the programs that are essential to load in the tray icon (and hence stay resident in memory). Uncheck anything else non-essential, like an ATI or Nvidia control panel, Quicktime utility, Real Audio, etc.
9. Upgrade drivers! Check for the latest BIOS, video, motherboard, sound, etc drivers from the manufacturers. Alot of my friends had chipsets on their motherboard that had advanced disk management capabilities or AGP port settings but the drivers weren’t loaded for them so they were never being used. A simple upgrade realized a noticeable difference. For instance, they didn’t have the latest driver for their AGP port so it was set to 1x, instead of being used at 4x!
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. (OK, so this won’t speed up your PC but it could save you alot of time and trouble later on!) After making all these improvements, make a working backup! I use Ghost, but for XP users you can also use System Restore..

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“Monitor your website ” because your site is down

I came across a site yesterday called InternetUptimeMonitor.com and found it really interesting. Why? Because they watch your web site from a network of servers all over the world. When your site goes down they email you. Pretty simple but effective. They also record how fast it takes your site to load and give you a nice chart showing you fast and slow times throughout the day.

If you have a site (or blog) of your own Iwould recommend at least signing up for their free account. Then you can have the piece of mind that comes with knowing if your site goes down you will get an email letting you know.

Their free account watches your site once per hour. This is perfectly fine for people with a site that is not earning them a lot of money or getting a lot of traffic. Their Business (gold) account has a 5-minute service level guarantee meaning they guarantee you will get a notification if your site is down within 5 minutes. There are a bunch of extras with these accounts like cell phone text-message alerts, monitoring more than one site, and more.

So when you should consider a business account? When you have a site that is earning you money of course! Think about it, if you have a site that is making you good money it is costing you money every minute its down. And no web hosting company or data center will offer you 100% uptime because it is not possible. So it is not a matter of IF you site goes down, it is only a matter of time of WHEN it goes down.

Even if you just want the free monitoring account use the link above so you can get your discount if you ever decide to upgrade.

Everybody is website goes down at one point or another. Why not be prepared ahead of time so you will at least know there is a problem.

They gave me a special link to pass on to my readers that will give you 65% off the retail price of their premier Business Monitoring Package. You can take advantage of it by clicking the link below:

Start Monitoring Your Website Now

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How to get more followers in Twitter

Join Tweeter Swarm, you must add everyone to be on. If you want even more followers faster, get a VIP spot. Login from your twitter account to see more details. Login from your twitter account to see more details. In order to join the train, you must login and follow all the VIP accounts and 20 randomly chosen regular accounts. You are then added to the train and have a chance in showing up as one of the 20 randomly chosen accounts. Everybody must follow all VIP accounts to join, which is why they get the most followers.

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Microsoft Office 2010- Technical Review

Microsoft Office 2010 Screenshot

Microsoft Office 2010 is the next version after Microsoft office after 2007, also called by the name Office 14. Office 2010. The final version of Microsoft office 2010 possibility will be available in the middle year of 2010, like mentioned in the Microsoft website.It-is a  rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work – whether you’re at work, home, or school – on a computer, Web browser, or Smartphone. Grab your audience’s attention and inspire them with your ideas using enhanced tools, customizable templates, and photo editing capabilities. Work with multiple people from different locations at the exact same time using new co-authoring capabilities. By offering more ways to access your files from virtually anywhere, Office 2010 puts you in control.

Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 are scheduled to enter technical preview in the third quarter of 2009,and release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.

Meanwhile Microsoft has posted some screenshots of the look and feel of Office 2010. There are many changes to the new version when compared to Office 2007.

Screenshot of Powerpoint

Screenshot of Ms Word
Screenshot of Ms Word
For more info log on to : Microsoft 2010 press review

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Wisestamp – a email signature software

Wisestamp is a cool addons plugin in Mozilla Firefox were we can add our signature while composing or replying mails named Wise Stamp.WiseStamp Firefox extension empowers your email signature on any webmail service (Gmail ,Yahoo Mail ,AOL, Hotmail, Google Apps…) Easily customize, Include IM & Social profiles, Automatically share your Blog posts, Quotes, News, Bookmarks and more. Enhance your personal and business email interactions easily. Its user friendly and easy to use. It supports Firefox 2.0 and above.

Features of Wise Stamp:

* Personally designed signatures
* Easy setup and configuration interface
* Use multiple email signatures (Business and Personal)
* Rename signatures new
* Signature Rich Text editor (WYSIWYG Editor-choose color and font)
* Add your personal feeds (rss) Get signature feed ideas new
* Add your logo or image to your signature
* Automatically insert your signature to your webmail services
* Supports to all web-mail functions- Compose Mail, Reply, and Forward
* Easily Include all your IM (Instant messaging) ID’s + Icons
* Easily link to all of your Social profiles & Services + Icons (see list below) new
* Manually add your signature at mouse cursor location
* preview while editing Signature
* Simple control- switch signature on/off
* Support for special characters
* Works with Gmail, Google App’s, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL and more…

Example :

Stamp

Click here to install wisestamp or log on to www.wisestamp.com

Click here to Download Mozilla Firefox

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Network Monitors by LG Just for Rs 11000

LG Electronics is the world’s second-biggest maker of televisions and third-biggest maker of mobile phones has launched its new range of monitors in India.This monitors allows 11 users to logn at a time also known as multi user monitor. These monitors are designed to offer low cost to users and companies. It redistribute 90 percent of a PC’s unused resources to other users. It is claimed that these monitors will less only 10 percent (one watt of power per user) of power and that can help in reducing the company’s expenditure on electricity by up to 60 percent.

It will also help the network on security, as it enables the use of one main PC to remove threats in all the 10 network monitors. Companies will only have to make an onetime automatic upgrade, which will cost from Rs.10,400-11,800 to set up these monitors.And the price as usual they announced Rs 11,000.

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Virtual Box

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Its feature rich,in high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

For more info : http://www.virtualbox.org/

Download : Virtual Box

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Main Reasons why your Computer gets crash

1 Hardware Conflict:

The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.

For example, a scanner usually connects internally on IRQ 6. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 5. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.  If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both the device at a time it has a possible to crash. This may also result to BSD (Blue screen death).

So go to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager.

Often if a device has a problem a yellow ‘!’ icon appears next to its description in the Device Manager. Highlight Computer (in the Device Manager) and press Properties to see the IRQ numbers used by your computer. If the IRQ number appears twice, two devices may be using it. Sometimes a device might share an IRQ with something described as ‘IRQ holder for PCI steering’. This can be ignored. The best way to fix this problem is to remove that faulty device and reinstall it.This is the best thing to prevent from conflict.

When working inside a computer you should switch it off, unplug the mains lead and touch an unpainted metal surface to discharge any static electricity. And main thing before opening have some hardware knowledge and beware of warranty seal. Means once the warranty seal is gone then you can’t claim the warranty of that product unless it expires.

2 Bad Ram

Ram (random-access memory) problems might bring on the blue screen of death with a message saying Fatal Exception Error. A fatal error indicates a serious hardware problem. Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and will need replacing.

But a fatal error caused by Ram might be caused by a mismatch of chips. For example if one slot contains 1GB ram with 667 MHZ and other 1 GB 386GHZ these type Ram gets conflict so please use same MHZ Ram which is supported by your motherboard. This will often crash the machine if the Ram is overworked.

3 BIOS settings

Every motherboard is supplied with a range of chipset settings that are decided in the factory. A common way to access these settings is to press the F2 or Del button during the first few seconds of a boot-up.

Once inside the BIOS, care should be taken. It is a good idea to write down on a piece of paper all the settings that appear on the screen. That way, if you change something and the computer becomes more unstable, which may also damage your motherboard.

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How to Disable Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows XP

By default, Windows XP opens all picture files (gif,jpg,…) with the included Windows Picture and Fax Viewer no matter what other picture viewers you have installed.Well the Picture and Fax Viewer, is one of these programs which can cause problems if removed incorrectly. It can be disabled safely as follows:

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Google Chrome (OS) Comming Soon by 2010

Google today gave a bomb show announcement that the launching of new Chrome OS (operating system) for desktops and notebooks throwing a direct challenge to Microsoft’s Windows operating system family. This Linux kernel based operating systems has its roots in Google’s Chrome browser and is different from Android totally change from Microsoft .Google will be launching the Chrome OS for notebooks in second half of 2010.

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