5 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your Computer

We all want our computers to be fast. And there are a lot of ways to speed
them up – you could upgrade your hardware (adding RAM is the easiest
solution), use lots of Registry edits, disable various services, etc.
But if you are looking for a fast and easy way to improve your computer
speed and performance, here are 5 tips that will not harm your computer
in any way and will make it run a lot faster.

1) Speed Up Windows Explorer

If you feel that Windows Explorer takes too much time to start, there
is a thing you can do to speed it up. The reason it is slow if because
Windows automatically looks for network files, shared folders, and
devices when you start Windows Explorer. You can disable this option by
doing the following:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Then click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab
5. Find Automatically search for network folders and printers check box and uncheck it
6. Click Apply, then OK
7. Reboot

2) Optimize Appearance Settings

If performance is the highest priority for you, I’d recommend
optimizing appearance setting, because all those visual effects that we
are so used waste system resources. Some people think that it’s only
the graphics card that has to deal with it all. Wrong – CPU and RAM are
affected as well. And Vista is even worse in this respect, because its
graphics are more advanced and slow down your PC a lot.

Luckily it’s very easy to configure XP for best performance by reducing unneeded visual effects:

1. Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel
2. In the Control Panel click System and go to Advanced tab
3. In the Performance Options window select Adjust for best performance
4. Click OK and close the window

By doing this you will turn off all visual effects, which is especially
good for less powerful PCs and laptops. But if you’d still like Windows
XP to look nicer, leave the following boxes ticked:

* Show shadows under menus
* Show shadows under mouse pointer
* Show translucent selection rectangle
* Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
* Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3) Uninstall Unused Device Drivers

There is absolutely no need to have device drivers left if the device
itself was uninstalled. You don’t want those drivers to waste system
resources, right? Because anyway you don’t need them anymore. This
happens because you install its drivers when installing a device, and
those drivers get called each time you boot up your PC. The bad thing
is that even when the device has been uninstalled, the drivers are
still there and your system continues to load them at boot up.

To get rid of them:

1. Press the Windows key + the Break key on your keyboard to open the System Properties box

2. Select the Advanced tab

3. Click Environmental Variables

4. Under System variables click New

5. In the variable box type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices

6. Type 1 in the variable value text box

7. Click Ok and return to the System Properties box

8. Click Ok again

9. Go to the Device Manager tab

10. Click View – Show hidden devices

Then you need to expand all branches and search washed out icons – they
show unused drivers that you can remove. To remove a driver, highlight
it, right-click on it, and select Remove. Be careful though, because
you don’t want to delete any used drivers! So make sure you delete ONLY
washed out icons.
4) Remove Software You Don’t Need

Most people like trying out new software. So, we download programs,
install them, and… sometimes never use them at all. Why keep them then?
Because having too many applications makes your computer slow on
starup. Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel – double-click
Add/Remove Programs.

Check which programs you don’t need and get rid of them.

When Uninstalling Software Fails

Sometimes removing software can cause problems. A very common one is
that some programs leave some data behind and your system gets
cluttered with junk files.

And sometimes the uninstaller doesn’t work at all. But not to worry –
you can always remove the software manually. What you will have to do
is find the folder where the program is installed. Usually it’s the
Program Files directory. Find the software folder and delete it. If
some files don’t want to be deleted, try restarting your computer. This
will help if the files were used by the system. If you still can’t
remove those files, try booting in Safe Mode (tap F8 during PC boot)
and then delete the files.

After that you need to get rid of invalid Registry entries. Microsoft
has a free Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to help you do that.
Install and open it and then select the program you want to uninstall
from the list. The utility will remove all registry entries related to
that application. I suggest backing up the Registry before you do this.
Just in case.

Another way to cleanup the Registry is to use a third party Registry
cleaner. Always be careful and use ONLY well-known and trusted software
that has received positive user reviews. There are lots of programs
that say they are great, but in reality they can do more harm than good.

A very simple way to uninstall programs without having to worry about
it at all is to use a software uninstaller. Those uninstallers find and
remove all entries related to the software you are uninstalling and get
rid of it all in one go.

A good program for that is Auslogics BoostSpeed, because it contains
both an uninstaller and a Registry cleaner, plus lots of other useful
utilities to optimize and protect your system.

5) Disable Indexing Services

Indexing can be useful, but can also make your computer slow and loud,
as it takes up RAM and makes the hard drive thrash. This service is
used to update the lists of all the files that are on your computer, so
that you can search for files faster. Disabling it will make your
search a bit slower, but your computer a lot faster. I recommend
disabling it.

* Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel
* Double-click Add/Remove Programs
* Click Add/Remove Windows Components
* Uncheck Indexing Services
* Click Next and then click Finish

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Top 10 Invertors Killed by their Own Inventions

Killer Inventions.

From the moment the great Archimedes leapt from his bath yelling “Eureka!”, slipped on the soapy floor and ruptured his spleen, inventors have been injuring themselves.
Scientists are meant to drive forward the wheel of technological progress, not be crushed under its inexorable tread, killed by their own creations.
Leonardo Da Vinci drew up plans for a helicopter in 1493. But he didn’t attempt to pilot it and so plummet to his death, did he? This lot should have learned from that. Take a look at the inventors killed by their own inventions.

1)World’s unluckiest man.

American chemist Thomas Midgley (1889-1944) invented both leaded petrol and CFCs. Not only were both harmful to the planet, the former gave Midgley lead poisoning.
In later life, Midgley contracted polio. Ever resourceful, the disabled and bed-bound scientist constructed an elaborate system of pulleys to lift himself from his repose. One day he duly strangled himself on one of the ropes. Sometimes, you just can’t win.

2)Dive, dive, dive!

Marine engineer Horace Lawson Hunley developed the first hand-powered submarine and named it, immodestly some might say, after himself.
In 1863, he took command of the HL Hunley during a routine exercise. Needless to say, it sank, killing all eight of the crew and the inventor himself.

3)Almost-flying car

American engineers Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake had a crazy dream. They wanted to build the first flying car, so they bolted the wings of a Cessna light aircraft to the roof of a Ford Pinto, fitted it with cabin controls and named it the Mizar.
The Mizar would transport owners to airports, where they would detach the wings and drive merrily away.
After two years of development, the inventors took the car on a test flight, with Blake piloting. Once aloft, the wings came off, leaving pilot and passenger hurtling towards the ground in a pimped-out Ford Pinto.

4)Speed Kills.

At Pendine Sands, Wales, racing driver and engineer John Godfrey Parry-Thomas attempted in 1927 to regain his world land-speed record from Sir Malcolm Campbell, who had broken it weeks earlier.
Parry-Thomas was suffering from a nasty bout of flu at the time but soldiered on. A bout of the sniffles soon proved to be the least of his worries. The exposed chains connecting the engine to the wheels of his car, named Babs, broke at 170mph, hit Parry-Thomas in the neck, and decapitated him.

5)Bloody Mess.

Russian physician Alexander Bogdanov pioneered blood transfusions in the 1920s, believing them to be the secret of eternal youth. In 1928 he received his 11th and final transfusion, from one of his students.
Sadly, said student was suffering from both malaria and tuberculosis and Bogdanov promptly dropped dead. Another partial success, then.

6)And still they try….

Otto Lilienthal, known as the German Glider King, set out in one of his own gliders on August 9 1896. Sadly his gliding reign came to an abrupt end when he fell 17 metres, breaking his spine in the process.
On his death bed one day later, Lilienthal uttered his final words: “Small sacrifices must be made.” What, for the greater good of gliding? Now that’s a true enthusiast. Eurekaaaargh!

7)Up, up and… down.

Since man could walk, he’s longed to reach for the skies. Nobody felt the desire to soar like a bird more than Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt, who designed a parachute-like overcoat that would float its wearer to the ground.
In 1912, Reichelt stood on the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, then the world’s tallest building, and showed off his fashionable flying invention.
In front of an expectant crowd and the press, he stepped off and softly wafted to the ground, landing safely. No, of course he didn’t; he plummeted to his demise. Want proof? There’s a video.
- YouTube – Franz Reichelt – Eiffel Tower

8)Stiff north-easterly.

English engineer Henry Winstanley began work on the first Eddystone Lighthouse, near Plymouth, in 1696. He completed the project three years later and had such unwavering faith in his building he voiced his wish to be inside the lighthouse during “the greatest storm there ever was”.
During what became known as The Great Storm of 1703, the under-repair tower was entirely destroyed, with Winstanley and five others still inside. We imagine the moral here is: be very careful what you wish for.

9)That sinking feeling.

Irish-born businessman and master shipbuilder Thomas Andrews Jr was managing director of Harland and Wolff in Belfast. He managed the construction of the RMS Titanic. We all know this story isn’t going to end well.
Andrews Jr’s design didn’t allow the bulkheads of the ship to be sealed off once it started leaking. That critical miscalculation, and a giant iceberg, led to the deaths of 1,517 passengers, including Andrews Jr.

10)Please drive carefully.

In 1903, 18 years after Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach built the first motorcycle, William Nelson, an employee of General Electric and amateur inventor, designed and built his own motorised bicycle at home.
He considered it to be one of the most powerful bikes of its day. Sadly, he was all too correct, as became apparent when it propelled him straight off a cliff when he took it for a spin one sunny afternoon. “Killed by his own invention,” said The New York Times.

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How To Change IP Address[TUT]

know your ip address click here!

Windows – Computer connected directly to the modem

1. Get to a command prompt. (START, run, cmd).
2. Type “ipconfig /release” (without the quotes, on the command line by itself).
3. Type “ipconfig /renew” (without the quotes, on the command line by itself).

Windows (second option) – Computer connected directly to the modem

1. Get to a command prompt. (START, run, cmd).
2. Type “ipconfig /release” (without the quotes).
3. Shut down computer.
4. Turn off computer.
5. Turn off all ethernet hubs/switches.
6. Turn off cable/DSL modem.
7. Leave off overnight.
8. Turn everything back on.

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Wildkittens Nails Historic Title

I just want to congratulate CIT HS, Varsity for winning their first ever title. I personally witness their victory. For the whole story read this…

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=518249&publicationSubCategoryId=110

Cellphone Transforms into a Robot

Check out this transforming cellphone concept found over at Parkoz Hardware. It turns into a little bi-pedal bot, complete with twin miniguns. Definitely reminiscent of scenes from Michael Bay’s Tranformers, with a little bit of Batteries Not Included, Short Circuit, and Robocop (ED-209, anyone?) Koreans get the coolest cellphones, so it figures their concepts are going to be kick-ass, too. Video of the miniguns chewing up a डेस्क।
[Source: Parkoz Hardware]