PC tips n tricks

Tired of looking at same menu for very long? Try the [Personal Menu], a free Firefox Add-on that will let you hide existing menus in the Firefox tool bar and design your own menus with few settings to work with. There is a history and a bookmark button.

However, the tool bar items that you hide might still appear upon a restart of Firefox but that requires a change of setting to change the delay before hiding and you should be all set with it.

If some of the menu items are not replaced to their original location after you hide the menu, just take a back up of ‘menuedit.rdf’ in your profile’s folder and then delete it.

Did you know that you can create your own, private and secured network over the Internet? Your private network can have its own members, password, applications, you decide who joins it and not only that, it’s free.

We are talking about an application called Hamachi which is in fact a Virtual Private Networking application enabling you to create your own private network over the Internet.

Before we get to know how it works, let’s see its features:

• Ability to run almost any application in your private network on Internet that you run on your local network at home or office. Examples of such applications are VNC, File Sharing, Intranet Messenger, Web Servers or even Gaming.
• Industry standard encryption algorithms to secure over private network. Once a network is created, the communication remains private amongst the members of the network only.
• The private network can be created any time you need it.
• Very small in size, less than 1MB for Windows.

How does Hamachi work?

You will have to download Hamachi software that will run on your systems. This software, when run for the first time, will connect to Hamachi servers to obtain an identity and from next time onwards it registers itself on the Hamachi network. After which it becomes easy for anyone to find and join your network. Your friends can simply key in the password and join your private network.

[Website of Hamachi] » [Download Hamachi]

1.Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

 

2.Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.

 

3.Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).

4.Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM

 

5.Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.

 

6.Delete the temporary internet files regularly.

 

7.Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.

 

8.Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.

9.When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.

 

10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.

 

RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!

 

You can login with multiple id's on the same yahoo messenger without any download or patch .
Follow these steps :

You only had experience with Windows operated computers, so this is what we referring to you. Computer repair specialists were always hard to find, and many times we had to try to figure out a solution to fix a computer which stopped working, because no specialist would come home, and to take a PC to the service company was extremely troublesome.

Computer Repair Tip 1: Defragment Often

The information on the hard disk is written in chunks called sectors. One application can spread across many such sectors, and if they are not next to each other, the head which reads the information on the hard disk has to make additional movements, thus increasing the reaction time of the computer, resulting in sluggish, slow launch of the respective application. 

If you are tired of sitting and waiting for your anti-virus software to remove the new virus infection, the steps below are for you. No programming skills are required! Just a basic knowledge of command prompt syntax will do...for this demo, the virus is on the portable USB drive (e:\virus) named virus.vbs

1. Create a back-up. Safety comes above all else. Save your files on removable storage or on another partition aside from the Windows drive.

2. Run the Windows command prompt. You can run the Windows command prompt by either clicking on the Start Menu\All programs\Accessories\Command Prompt or by pressing Windows + R on the keyboard and typing "CMD."

3. Look for the directory or folder where the virus resides. Go to the folder where the virus is hiding. Its usually resides on the Windows temporary folder or on the Windows system folder. Check partitions and drives for viruses, e.g. type "cd e:\virus"

4. Show the hidden virus and remove its attributes. It will be easier if you can see the virus. Remove the virus attributes, which are read only, archive, system file, and hidden file. e.g. type "attrib -r -a -s -h virus.vbs"

5. Delete the virus. Say goodbye to the virus by deleting it, e.g. type "del virus.vbs"