Tag: defragmenting

8 ways to save time with Windows Vista

August 21, 2008 by Jason

Vista comes with loads of features that can help save you time, especially with tasks that you perform regularly. Try out these tips and see how much time you can save.

1. Send an email straight from your desktop

If there’s someone you often send mail to, you can add a shortcut to your desktop to create a new email. Make a new shortcut and type in : followed by your recipient’s , for example :example@pctipsbox.com. Click Next, give the shortcut a meaningful name and then click Finish. The new shortcut will appear on your desktop, and double-clicking it will open up a blank email in your default email editor with the recipient’s address already filled in.

2. Quickly check your status from your desktop

You can create a shortcut to quickly check the status of your internet , saving you the effort of clicking through a number of and folders. Go to Start > Control Panel > and Internet > and Sharing Center > Manage . Right-click on the you want to check the status of and select Create Shortcut. This will place a shortcut on your desktop, and when you double-click it you will be taken directly to the status page of your . Read More»

Speed Up Windows By Optimizing Your Page File

August 19, 2008 by Jason

The page file is a dedicated spot reserved on your that the refers back to when it needs extra for programs and applications. Page file, or virtual is the slowest component of the process, because your has to call to the to access the page file. By your page file you can up ’ responsiveness and .

The Page File

your is recommended by everyone, but what about your page file? Your page file too, like the , can get cluttered and fragmented so it’s important to make sure your page file is defragmented for optimum for .

There are two main methods for your page file: Installing a page file , or disabling the page file then running the Disk . Read More»

Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon

July 06, 2008 by Jason

I used to rely on ’s Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and to my HDD. is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that hard disk drives on a regular basis keeps PCs operating at peak . But that idea is behind the times.

served its purpose back when folks chugged along on 486DX4 PCs powered by 5400rpm drives. Now those where slooooow drives and extra spindle movements arising from truly hobbled the system. But that’s no longer the case. Today, 7200-RPM hard-disk drives with monster seek and latency times are the bare minimum; most brag a 16-MB cache buffer. Couple that with XP’s high NTFS and you’ll quickly discover that no longer makes much improvement, if any, to system . I say this after thorough experimentation on my QuadCore running on a 10,000RPM Western Digital Raptor. Read More»

Defragment 10X faster

May 06, 2007 by Jason

The never-ending two-step process of Vista can soon become a thing of the past. With certain tools, we were able to cut time of 25 GBs of files with Vista Ultimate from 82 minutes to 6 minutes!!! That is 10X than the built-in Vista ! The tutorial also works with 2000 and XP.

Right now, many things are probably whirling around in your head:

- Is this true? Yes, it is.
- Does it work? Yes. We will show you charts on before and after .
- This has got to cost money. Absolutely free.

These “certain tools” we will be using are called contig.exe and PowerDefragmenter.
When we used these two programs, the results were as follows: Read More»