Use A Flash Drive As RAM Memory

Do you have a slow or old Computer? Also, do you have a USB Flash Drive? Then now you are able to extend its memory by Increasing the RAM of your Computer using the memory available on the USB Flash Drive. This stuff is a trick that Windows provided as a solution to boost a little of your RAM memory and evade those little lags that Windows produces when it runs out of RAM resource. Increasing the PC's RAM using USB Flash Drive will help also enhance games performance and decrease the time of execution of some tasks made by software.
Follow me to Use a Flash Drive as RAM Memory:
Windows XP

• Insert the Flash Drive then Right Click on My Computer > Properties
• Navigate to Advanced tab then click Settings under Performance section.
• Click Advanced tab again, and click Change under Virtual Memory section.
• Select the USB Flash Drive letter from the list, click Custom Size .
• Set the minimum and maximum size to use in the Flash Drive (better choose same size of flash drive)
• Press OK and Apply all settings, Restart your Computer for changes to take effect.

Windows Vista / 7

• Insert USB Flash Drive into your computer.
• Right Click on the USB Flash Drive > Properties
• Navigate to ReadyBoost tab.
• Select Use this Device and allocate the amount of memory to use (better choose around 80% of USB Flash Drive's size)
• Click OK to apply all settings, then Restart the computer for changes to take effect

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4 Ways To Boost Your Booting Time

Slow booting is a major problem for majority of us.we have to wait for a long time to start our computer, but not worry friends because in this article i will provide you ways to boost you booting time. faster boot up seems to be an elusive goal for most of the people. we ourself can decrease the time it takes to start up our computer in windows with just few tweaks..lets see how it can be done.
Step 1: Hard Disk Check Up
Over time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally. It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load times. To check your drive health:

• Click Start
• Choose Computer
• Right Click your Hard Drive
• Choose Properties
• Click Check Drives Health. After, the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health.
• Restart to get a faster boot up.

Step 2: Eliminate Startup Delay
To get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for faster boot up times.

• Open your Start menu.
• Click Run
• In the command screen, type msconfig
• In the system configuration utility, click either BOOT tab.
• In the boot menu, change the default setting for the Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds.

Step 3: Organize your Hard Drive
If you are looking for something in a messy room, naturally, it’s going to take you longer to find something. This is a good metaphor for a hard drive. Over time, filing system gets disorganized. Periodically, you need to reorganize this filing system on your hard drive. Luckily, Windows has a good utility called Defrag that will put your system in order.

• Open the Start Menu
• Click on My Computer
• Right Click your C: drive or your hard drive image.
• Scroll down to the Click Properties
• In the Properties Menus, Open the “Tools” menu.
• Choose Defragment.
• In the Disk Deframenter menu. Click on Defragment

Step 4: Remove Excess Startup Programs
Most programs you add to your computer will opt to load when you startup your computer. Eventually you will rack up a load of programs that kill faster boot times. You need to reduce the startup programs. You can easily disable unnecessary startup programs. Here is how:

• Open your Start menu.
• Click Run
• Type msconfig, click Enter
• In the system configuration utility,click either services or startup tab.
• Uncheck all programs that your are no longer want to run in the background.
• Click OK

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How To Get Rid Computer Slowdowns And Hangs

There are many reasons for slowdowns and hangs of your computer. For this you have to try out several solutions and the actual cause to it. There are some basic steps that you should perform in case of slowdowns and hangs. Moreover you don't require any external software.
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Free up memory on your hard drive if your computer is performing slower than usual. A hard drive that is near capacity can cause the computer to significantly slow down. Delete any files you no longer use. You also can use the "Disk Cleanup" utility built into your computer. To launch this utility

• Click  Start
• All Programs
• Accessories
• System Tools
• Disk Cleanup
• A list of files is presented in a dialog box.
• Click the check box next the files you want to delete and then click the "OK" button at the bottom of the dialog box to activate the utility.

Application Observe your computer and pinpoint a program or combination of programs that are running when it freezes. There might be a specific program responsible for freezing or crashing your computer. Try terminating that specific program and seeing if that fixes the problem. To terminate a program, press (CTRL+ALT+DEL) on your keyboard. This shortcut opens a window listing the currently running programs on your computer. Choose a program and click the "End Process" button to terminate the program.
Defragment your computer's files. Fragmented files occur when parts of a single file are stored in multiple places on the hard drive. This causes a computer to perform slowly because the computer must search in multiple places when accessing a fragmented file.

• To defragment your computer click Start
• All Programs
• Accessories
• System Tools
• Disk Defragmenter.

Scan your computer for malicious files. Viruses or spyware often cause your computer to slow down or freeze. Use the virus scanner that is installed on your computer. If you don't have a virus scanner installed on your computer, there are online virus scanners available. After you have completed a virus scan, your results are displayed. The most desirable option is to delete any viruses or spyware that was found on your computer. Follow the virus scanner's prompts to delete the virus. However, not all viruses can simply be deleted. In this case, choose the "Quarantine" option in the virus scanner. This places the file in a separate folder or location on the drive where it can't affect other files
Repair any disk errors. Disk errors can cause your computer to slow down and freeze. You can use a utility on your computer to detect and fix disk errors. To do this, first open "My Computer." Right-click on the hard drive you want to repair and click "Properties." Click the "Tools" tab and then click the "Check Now" button. Select the check box next to "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors." Then click the "Start" button and the utility detects and repairs bad sectors.
Reboot your computer if your computer freezes. Hold down the "Power" button on the computer for at least five seconds. Wait for the computer to shut down and restart the computer. This is usually a temporary fix, but will at least unfreeze your computer

Additional Precautions :
Back up the data on your computer if your computer is slow or freezing often. To back up data, plug in an external hard drive or insert a CD or DVD and copy important files onto the storage device. You can simply drag the files from your computer into the storage device's folder. You also can use the Windows backup and restore utility. Open the backup and restore utility in Windows from the "Control Panel" and follow the prompts to create an entire clone of your hard drive.
Try not to reboot your computer by holding down the "Power" button too often as this can destabilize the operating system

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How to Speed Up Windows XP in Seconds

Maintenance and cleaning up of your PC should be part of a regular routine to ensure that you don’t have any long-term problems with the computer. Unfortunately most basic computer users may not understand the mechanics of a computer or may feel intimidated with the maintenance. Just follow the step by step to make your windows Faster as never before..
Speed Up Browsing
When you connect to a web site your computer sends information
back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the
site name to an IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with,
not words. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not
need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site.Although Windows XP and Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size.You can do this with the registry entries below:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM
CurrentControlSetServicesDnscacheParameters]
“CacheHashTableBucketSize”=dword:00000001
“CacheHashTableSize”=dword:00000180
“MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000fa00
“MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000012d


Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. Then copy and
paste the above into it and save it. Merge it into the registry.


Disable Indexing Services:

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Double-click Add/Remove Programs
• Click the Add/Remove Window Components
• Uncheck the Indexing services
• Click Next

Optimise Display Settings:

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources.

To optimize:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Click System
• Click Advanced tab
• In the Performance tab click SettingsLeave only the following 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

Speed Up Folder Browsing:

You may have noticed that every time you open my computer to

browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer.

To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

• Open My Computer
• Click on Tools menu
• Click on Folder Options
• Click on the View tab.
• Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
• printers check box
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
• Reboot your computer

Remove The Desktop Picture:

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory

and can slow the loading time of your system.Removing 

 it will improve performance.

• Right click on Desktop and select Properties
• Select the Desktop tab
• In theBackground windowselect None
• Click Ok

Disable Unnecessary Services:

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many

services running that take up system resources that you will never

need.Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most

machines:

Alerter

Clipbook

Computer Browser

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Fast User Switching

Help and Support – (If you use Windows Help and Support leave

this enabled)

Human Interface Access Devices

Indexing Service

IPSEC Services

Messenger

Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)

Portable Media Serial Number

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)

Remote Procedure Call Locator

Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)

Remote Registry Service

Secondary Logon

Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)

Server

SSDP Discovery Service – (Unplug n’ Pray will disable this)

Telnet

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Upload Manager

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Windows Time

Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)

Workstation

To disable these services:

• Go to Start and then Run and type “services.msc”
• Double click on the service you want to
• change Change the startup type to ‘Disable”

Remove Annoying Delete Confirmation Messages

Although not strictly a performance tweak I love this fix as it

makes my machine ‘feel’ faster. I hate the annoying

‘are you sure?’ messages that XP displays, especially

if I have to use a laptop touchpad to close them.

To remove these messages:

• Right-click on the ‘Recycle Bin’ on the desktop and then
• click ‘Properties’
• Clear the ‘Display Delete Confirmation Dialog’ check
• box and click ‘Ok’!!

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