February 16, 2007 by
Jason
Do you have a SATA disk drive in your computer? If so, you can squeeze a little more performance out of your hard disk. This speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enhancing write caching. However, if your computer is not connected to a battery backup and you loose power you have a increased risk for data loss or corruption. If you have a laptop your chances are data loss or corruption are dramatically less since your laptop battery will kick on if your power source is lost. Let’s get started: Read More»
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February 13, 2007 by
Jason Windows Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from hardcore gamers…
Windows Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from a key segment of potential early adopters: hardcore gamers.
A small but significant number of games written for Windows XP either crash or creep along slowly on Vista, according to numerous complaints by game enthusiasts in online forums.
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February 06, 2007 by
Jason Running out of room on your hard disk? Need some extra space to install a new program? Don’t worry, Windows XP comes to the rescue. Both Windows XP Professional and Home Edition now include a zip compression utility that you can use to compress files and folders on your hard disk.
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February 03, 2007 by
Jason My daughter is using an old Laptop with a very small (by today’s standards) hard disk. She has filled it up with music to load onto her iPod, and it keeps complaining that it’s running out of space.
She has done Disk Cleanup -
Open My Computer
Right click on the C:/ drive
Left click Properties
Select the General tab
Left click Disk Cleanup
but after the first time it doesn’t help much. Read More»
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February 01, 2007 by
Jason
li>Primary Partitions, Extended Partitions and Logical Partitions: A hard disk can have a maximum of only 4 partitions, which are called PRIMARY PARTITIONS. In the early days of the PC, this four-partition limit was deemed sufficient. To go beyond this limit, a special kind of primary partition called EXTENDED PARTITION was invented. A hard disk could have ONLY ONE extended partition but this particular partition could have any number of smaller partitions called LOGICAL PARTITIONS housed inside it. Read More»
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January 28, 2007 by
Jason 
Although Vista is designed to run only on reasonably fast PC’s, anything that can make it go even quicker has to be welcome. A feature called Windows ReadyBoost makes use USB 2.0 memory cards, pen drives and so on as a secondary cache. A cache is memory used to temporarily store data and normally Windows uses a chunk of hard disc space, but this is relatively slow, compared with solid-state memory, hence the small but useful boost in performance when using the memory card as a cache. To use it all you have to do is plug in the card or drive (512Mb or more) and on the AutoPlay dialogue box that appears select ‘Speed Up My System’ and follow the prompts
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