ReadyBoost: A way to speed up Windows 7
1 comments Wednesday, October 21, 2009Microsoft has included an enhanced version of ReadyBoost on Windows 7, a new feature that speeds up your computer even in a low memory situation by using flash memory, in its latest operating system Windows 7, scheduled to be launched on October 22.
ReadyBoost, which also comes with Vista, make use of a USB flash drive or card as memory and it works with most of the flash storage devices.
In Windows 7, it can handle more flash memory and even multiple devices up to eight, for a maximum 256GB of additional memory. When you plug a ReadyBoost-compatible storage device into your system, the AutoPlay dialog box offers you the option to speed up your computer using ReadyBoost. If you select this option, you can choose how much memory on the device to use for this purpose.
When you set up a device to work with ReadyBoost, Windows shows you the space recommended for an optimal performance. For ReadyBoost to effectively speed up your computer, the flash drive or memory card should have at least 1GB of available space. If enough space is not available for ReadyBoost, you’ll see a message asking you to free some space on the device if you want to use it to speed up your system. You can enable or disable ReadyBoost for a specific flash drive or other removable storage device.
Follow the given guidelines to enable this feature in Windows 7 :
STEP1: Connect a flash drive or flash memory card into your computer.
STEP2: Click Speed up my system, in the Autoplay dialog box, under General options.
STEP3: In the Properties dialog box, click the ReadyBoost tab, and then do one of the following:
To turn ReadyBoost off, click Do not use this device.
To use the maximum available space on the flash drive or memory card for ReadyBoost, click Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost. Windows will leave any files already stored on the device, but it will use the rest to boost your system speed.
To use less than the maximum available space on the device for ReadyBoost, click Use this device, and then move the slider to choose the amount of available space on the device you want to use.
STEP4: Click OK.
Windows 7 Boots Slower than Vista, Says Study
0 comments Monday, October 12, 2009Claims by iolo Technologies, a Los Angeles manufacturer of PC software, in violation of Microsoft boasts that Windows 7 starts faster than Vista.
According to the evidence iolo, Windows 7 starts, 42% slower than Vista - one minute and 34 seconds versus a minute, six seconds - in a new machine when the time trials are conducted, to the point where the machine is Use at least by the standards of Iolo.
Windows 7 seems to start faster than Vista, said iolo, with its time-to-the-desktop as few as 40 seconds. But starting iolo measured as the point where the team is "fully usable", with a low load on the processor.
Microsoft has said that it's dedicated significant resources to that Windows 7 boot, and standby and hibernation state, faster than Vista, which has been criticized since 2007 to start slowly.
Other tests, iolo, however, have echoed, and showed that in some cases, Windows 7 does not start slower than Vista. PC World, a sister publication Computerworld, for example, benchmark the new operating system as a starting point to 10% slower than when comparing Vista 32-bit versions of the two, but was 14% faster in 64 -bit.
iolo also said that evidence suggests that Windows 7 boot times, such as Vista, will degrade over time. After several "common use" applications have been installed in a new box of Windows 7, for example, your boot time - again, as measured by the company - slows to two minutes, 34 seconds, an increase of 64 %.
For a more extended period, is to get Windows 7 boot times slower than that: At the end of two years simulated Windows 7 boot times increased over 330%.
The boot times have become a hot topic. Last week, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo said its new ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops Windows 7 boot faster than 56% when loading XP or Vista with the operating system, drivers and power management settings did.
iolo said it will give more details and results of its Windows 7 boot time benchmarks on Monday.
How to make my pen drive read only?
0 comments Sunday, August 30, 2009way to make you flash drive read-only
Some flash drives such as the PNY attatche' Have a tiny physical switch that makes then read only- You flick it and you cant write to the drive.
I have only seen this function on the PNY attatche' flash drives though and there quite 'old' drives and may not be available in capacity's they you require.
There are 'newer' drives that some times come with security software on them but this is mainly to stop 'you' from seeing the data on the drive it dosent make them read only.
You can buy a hardware USB write blocker or the free way is to use a software write blocker that uses Windows XP's (with Service Pack 2) USB write blocking feature. All it does is change a value in a registry key. You can do this with group policy for your network.
Computer Repair: Get Fast and Easy PC Repair Online
2 comments Monday, August 24, 2009The organization I work with was a small company which had the strength of 18 people including management. Slowly we have grown up and today we have the strength of 175 people. Now we need bigger infrastructure like- more computers, a big place to accommodate all the workers etc. I was given the responsibility to take care for computers such as purchasing the computers, their maintenance and computer repair issues.
We decided to outsource the computer support job, so that a third party vendor can do computer repair and can provide computer help to our staff. So I started searching for vendors who can provide us computer support. So first I decided to search on Google website I tried the words like- computer support, computer help, online computer support, online computer help, computer repair, pc repair, online pc repair, online computer repair etc. As a result I got a long list of vendors who provide computer support.
I called them one by one and discussed about our requirements and about their methods and policy to provide computer support. Some of them followed a good policy to do the computer repair but they were charging too high which was exceeding my company’s budget. So again I started my search on websites like- Google, Alta Vista etc. I tried the keyword like- computer support, computer help, online computer support, online computer help, computer repair, pc repair, online pc repair, online computer repair etc. Again I made a long list of different computer support service providers and discussed our requirements.
Finally we came to know about a company called iYogi Technical Services who provides online computer help and also provide computer support through telephone. The best part is their phone support is a toll free number so we don’t need to bear the phone call cost. Their technicians were capable of taking remote sessions so that they can fix the software related issues. For hardware issues they will diagnose it and let us know if any hardware needs to be replaced. And the best part was their service charges are quite nominal in compare to other computer support service providers.
From: http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/computer-repair-get-fast-and-easy-pc-repair-online-825746.html
Microsoft releases Windows 7 to MSDN, TechNet today
0 comments Friday, August 7, 2009Microsoft is finally accomplished version of Windows 7 and out the door today for selected customers.
The operating system, which was appear to accomplishment endure month, is now accessible to TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
Additionally, some independent software and hardware vendors can as well expect to get their mitts on the goods from today.
On Friday Software Assurance subscribers - about accumulated with aggregate authorization deals for the Operating System - will be able to download the official RTM English version of Windows 7 from tomorrow via the Aggregate Licence Software Centre website.
Other large kind of businesses will get the completed version of Windows 7 from 1 September.
The small business and independent customer will have to wait until the official launch of the Windows 7 which is supposed to on 22 October.
Meanwhile, anyone wishing to fiddle with the Windows 7 Release Candidate version of the Windows 7 has until 20 August to download it.
Redmond will absolutely be crossing its fingers and hoping for a bland ride today, if its loyal army of MSDN and TechNet subscribers activate avaricious the accomplished code from the company's servers.
SUPER AntiSpyware 4.27.1000
0 comments Thursday, August 6, 2009This is awesome and works able-bodied if we are in the office. However, we often forget that we can be out of the office, added peoples use our computer or we simply accomplishment plan early, but when at the end of day afore the anti-spyware tools starts its automatic check. Result? Our arrangement is alone arrested randomly, which agency that the Trojan could accept acclimated that time to admission our arrangement and clue our online activity, again appear our claimed information.
SUPERAntiSpyware is addition antispyware tool, but the chargeless version requires you to manually analysis your system. It will attending for and ascertain the latest worms, Trojans and added ambiguous applications, but it will not block these on a?real-time' basis, nor can it schedule to analysis on an automatic basis. You will need to accomplish these tasks manually.
This is the? free’ version. The Professional copy will schedule, automatically analysis for Trojans and will amend definitions automatically.
Report Finds Fake Antivirus on the Rise
0 comments Wednesday, August 5, 2009PandaLabs begin 1,000 samples of fake windows antivirus software in the first division of 2008. In a year, that amount had developed to 111,000. And in the second division of 2009, it accomplished 374,000, Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs said in a recent interview.
"We have created a specific team to accord with this," he said, of the rogue antivirus software that issues false warnings of infections in adjustment to get person to pay for software they do not need. The programs as well about download a Trojan or added malware.
PandaLabs begin that 3 percent to 5 percent of all the humans who scanned their PCs with Panda antivirus software were infected. Using that and common computer stats from Forrester, PandaLabs estimates there could be as abounding as 35 actor computers adulterated per ages with rogue antivirus programs.
About 3 percent of the humans who see the affected warnings fall for it, bifurcation over $50 for an annual authorization or $80 for a lifetime license, according to Corrons.
Last September, a hacker was able to access rogue antivirus maker Baka Software and apparent that in one period an associate fabricated added than $80,000 in about a week, said Sean-Paul Correll, a PandaLabs threat researcher.
A Finjan address from March estimated that affected antivirus distributors can accomplish added than $10,000 a day.
"The general consumer doesn't understand" the threat, Correll said. "No legitimate antivirus vendor will start a scan automatically on your computer without your consent."
After all the activity about the Conficker threat, advisers seemed about adequate that it angry out to deliver affected antivirus software instead of something much worse.