27. January 2010 by admin.

We always have less time. Ninite.com helps us for free to pick out the software to be installed and with just one click we can install up to 70 applications. Just choose the ones you really need and you are done in a few minutes.

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27. January 2010 by admin.

Buyers of Windows 7 professionals can save extra money if they will use the backup utility that is already included in Windows 7. In fact, before that your computer crashes it will be helpful to create a system recovery disc. Just pop in your device a recordable DVD or CD, and with the help of a burner you will be able to have in few minutes a copy of your system that will save you time and money when you need to resume your normal operations after a crash.

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25. December 2009 by admin.

Before that the computer crashes it’s a good habit to do a recovery image quite often. Macrium Reflect Free imaging software comes into play when it’s time to back up your computer. In fact, taking an image of your drive now, you can use this as a starting point for any future reinstalls.

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25. December 2009 by admin.

There is no need to find and use Vista and 7 tweakers: pc decrapifier does a good job by removing the unused programs. It has a very easy interface, and it boosts the speed of your pc since it removes old  programs that clog and slow down your machine.

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24. December 2009 by admin.

Several are the factors involved in the speed potential of your hard drive, but the most important is the rotational speed of its platters. Today the standard speed is 7200 rpm but there are also more expensive 10,000 rpm that can make your hard drive faster. In addition, if you need a faster server’s hard drive you need a 15,000 rpm hard drive.The hard drive memory plays an important role in determining its performance and 16MB hard drives are faster that 2MB ones.

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17. September 2009 by admin.

No problem. Belarc advisor does an excellent jobs in retrieving the softwares  we have installed and the hardwares running in our machine. Gathered info includes motherboard type and revision, CPU and GPU info, drive space, Microsoft hotfixes, operating system revision, and Web browser vulnerabilities, as well as third-party software installs.

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21. August 2009 by admin.

The Bios is the main kernel of the computer system, and all of us should know how it works. The Bios, besides telling us what our computer has inside, it can help our pc  boot faster. If we enter the Bios in the advanced Bios features, there is the boot priority that should have the following order:

-1) Hard disk

-2) Cd Rom

- 3) Quick power on self test: make sure it’s enabled

- 4 ) Boot up Floppy seek: disable it.

Once done in the Bios ,choose Save and Exit. Reboot your computer and you will acquire a significant speed during the booting time, that can be estimated in around 3 seconds.

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19. August 2009 by admin.

There are many reasons why you may use applications on a flash drive: for fun,  or because your pc is crashing or because you want to work on somebody else’s computer.

There are a huge number of portable programs available, many of them free. There are portable browsers, graphic editors, media players, and programming tools such as utilities. I keep a flash drive with assorted portable diagnostic tools that come in handy when someone asks me to help them out with their computer. I have chosen portableapps.com that has Firefox as a default browser and Clamwin as antivirus.

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4. August 2009 by admin.

If you want a clean anti-virus software that does just one thing–protect against viruses–you’ll want Clamwin. It has a small footprint, and doesn’t take up much system resources. It will scan your entire hard disk at once for viruses and spyware, or can scan individual files and folders. Download it here.

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1. August 2009 by admin.

After having turned on the personal firewall in our computer, it’s good to know that there are further measures to take to secure our inbound and outbound traffic and to avoid unauthorized connections to our machines.

If you run Vista type in the search box of the start menu “Windows Firewall”. A new dialog box appears with advanced security settings. Click on the green arrow “Windows firewall properties” and block the inbound and outbound connections on the domain profile and the private profile.In all these two, select” Block”.

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