Tips for Longer PC life

1. Keep your PC in a smoke-free environment. Tobacco smoke can damage delicate contacts and circuits. 

2. Leave your PC running. Powering up from a cold state is one of the most stressful things you can do to your system's components.
If you don't want to leave your PC running all the time, use Windows' Power Management settings to put your machine into hibernation rather than completely shutting down.

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25 ways to speed windows not only defragment

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 25 suggestions that will. 

Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

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Hard drive gone bad and slow - Trick/Answer is here

The most common problems originate from corruption of the master boot record, FAT, or directory. Those are soft problems which can usually be taken care of with a combination of tools like Fdisk /mbr to refresh the master boot record followed by a reboot and Norton disk doctor or Spinneret.

The most common hardware problems are a bad controller, a bad drive motor, or a bad head mechanism.

1. Can the BIOS see and identify the hard drive correctly? If it can't, then the hard drives onboard controller is bad. 

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Rename a Series of Files(once) in windows

When you connect your digi cam to your computer you see many files named in series like md101, md102 and so on.
You can do this thing by yourself on other files too.

To do this

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Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend.

To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer

go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) Now press F5 to refresh.

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Can u Delete Recycle Bin?

1 thing is 4 sure, delete option can be added 2 recycle bin.
the old registry thing will work out.
* launch the registry. [run regedit]
* open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

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Hacking windows SEND TO MENU

I know this is a very simple thing but the problem, as like many other issues, is the ignorance about it.

How often do you copy songs from a CD? Or some photos from a CD?

What do you do? You select the required files and do a CTRL –C. Open the destination folder and do a CTRL-V. Here is something you can benefit time from. Customize your SEND TO MENU. 

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Convert FAT,FAT32 files to NTFS:HOW TO tutorial

How To Convert File System? FAT - FAT32 to NTFS

open a dos prompt and give the command

convert d: /fs:ntfs

this command would convert your d: drive to NTFS.

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How to HACK PC from USB

Now days we use Hack in many ways not only in Online but as a Slang, so Hacking passwords or any information using USB (Pendrives).Here is the small tricks guys for stealing information or passwords of ur friends or enemies using pendrives...

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How to use face recognition software in windows 7

Now days technology is changing very rapidly and every day something new discovered. Now Login to windows 7 through Face Recognition using a web-cam is one of the enhancements; a lot of us experimenting. Not only this save our typing but also is a more secure way if very much conscious about the security issue

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How to Remove WINRAR Password

Winrar Password Remover makes use of its powerful brute force and dictionary attack to crack the passwords of Winrar archives.

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CONVERT FAT TO NTFS WITHOUT LOSING DATA

When you want to formate your drive, a window comes up with option “file system” i.e is FAT, FAT32 or NTFS. This is because your operating system is installed on one of them. NTFS (New Technology File System) is mostly recommanded because its more secure and most of windows xp features work on it. NTFS allows you to access  File and folder permission, compression, encryption and privacy options.

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BOOT YOUR COMPUTER FASTER

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start ).This is due to many reasons.

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system:

1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter.

Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.

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How to create Restore Points in windows 7 ?

Restore Points in Windows can be created a number of ways. Every time you install new software, Windows automatically creates a new Restore Point.

You can also manually create Restore Points in Windows.

To get started, do the following:

1. Click the Start button, type in Create a Restore Point, and then hit Enter.

2. This will load the System Properties System Protection tab as shown in image. This allows you to view your System Restore settings and create Restore Points.

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How to disable restrict USB/Flash Drive in Windows 7

Recently one of my friend asked me how a USB drive can be disabled on a particular computer. So it‟s a pretty much Registry Tweak.

To disable the access to USB port, in windows XP, Vista and Windows 7:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. Type regedit, and then click OK. (Or simply open registry)

3. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

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Retrieve Built Details & other Information of Windows Installed

Often Techies feel to have the Built number of OS they are using. Like I felt. Few OS versions have this info at the Desktop screen like Windows 7 Beta, RC had but few don‟t have .

To find out these details and much more info like product edition, build number and revision number for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,Windows 7 that is installed,

follow these steps:
 Open Registry Editor by typing Regedit in Start Search, then hit Enter.

 Go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

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Disable Wallpaper Change in Windows 7

Desktop wallpaper can be restricted and can be set against any change for wallpaper.

 Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc

 Navigate to Local Computer policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates >
Desktop in left hand side pane.

 Select Desktop Wallpaper setting from right side pane.

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how to Create Your own Virtual Drive in windows

> Go to start
> run
> Type cmd
> subst k: c:\FOLDERNAME

Check your my computer, new drive should be shown.
For removing, type

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Get a Power Efficiency Report in windows 7

Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it.

To use it:

> Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this,
type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd
icon appears, right-click it and choose
"Run as administrator."

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how to SpeedUP internet surfing

-Go 2 Run

-type gpedit.msc

->administrative Template

->Computer configuration

->enableoption

->change value to 0

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