Showing posts with label Computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer. Show all posts

Monday, 26 April 2010

Speed up your computer with MSConfig.

computer speed is a great problem for some people who do not have a highly configured computer. But you can speed up your computer in various ways. But to day we will just show you how to speed up your computer by customizing the "Windows System Configuration (msconfig)" utility. This utility allows you to configure your computer.

You know if you run too much program in your computer at a time your computer will be slower. You also know that your computer needs some program to be run. Buy you may not know that all of this program is not necessary for all and always. Microsoft allows you to choose or customize these programs according to your needs. You can turn off that unnecessary program and surely your system's performance will grow up.

You see some icon in the right bottom of your computer. Windows loads some program when it starts. This is called startup program. It takes time to load when the computer starts. As many program you will keep there as much time it will take to load. Its better to uncheck all of them. You can run the program from the program list, it will just increase your systems load. There are also an option named service. You will see too many option is checked there. This also increase your system load. If you customize these two option your system will speed up defenately.

To do this go your start icon and then click on run. Type "msconfig" and click ok. The msconfig utulity will run.


A box will appear titled "system configuration utility" like this.



Go to the startup button. you will see some program will be checked that installed in your computer like this.


Its better to uncheck them all but before that go start button of your computer and then All program. Go to the startup. Some program will appear if it is installed in your computer.

Just drag it to keep with all other program. If you do not do this before unckeck all, this program will be uninstalled. If you do not want to encheck all, no need to do this. In that case you will have to choose according to your necessity. Just keep on apply to save this selection. then go to service to do more. It will be like this.


Now you need to think which one is necessary for you and which one is not. But if you have no idea then click on hide all Microsoft service. Then you will see some un necessary service. uncheck them. But you need to remember that all Microsoft service is not necessary. So you can choose service from there to deselect and not all non-Microsoft service are unnecessary. There may be some service that are important for you. So select them according to your needs.

Apply after finishing and restart your computer. A new box will appear. check it and click on Ok if you want to keep your changes. You will feel the difference of your systems performance.

Saturday, 17 April 2010

What Children are doing in the Internet?


To day I was talking with one of my neighbor. She was too much worried about her two child who are using too much time in Internet. They are facebook addicted. They pass most of their time in facebook. The woman was worried about their child being addicted in pornography. Because facebook is a place to spread the nudity. there are so many groups who are working for spreading the nudity.

She was worried not only about facebook. She was also worried about what their children are doing in the Internet. How are they passing their times. Even are they passing any personal information with others?

What do you think about it. Are you thinking about your children? Are they safe?


She wants some suggestion from me to keep their child safe and away from pornography. There are so many ways to block porn sites in your computer. But in the term of facebook you can not do anything. I suggest her some tips to follow.
talk about the dangerous side of sharing personal information with unknown people. Warn them there are too many criminals and hacker are surfing the net to collect personal information to take advantages. Teach them about privacy in the Internet.

Place the computer in a place that it can be seen what they are doing in that. Make sure the screen is easy to see from all place.

Try to see who is in your child's friend list. what type of text or message is he exchanging.

Its all about carefulness. Do it if you need.

Friday, 9 April 2010

Use Gmail as Hard drive.





Nowadays, Google is offering 7GB space in gmail. How much are you using? 5, 1 or 20 percent? Oh! its very difficult for you to use 20 percent. Ok, what ever may be. Do you know you can use your extra gmail space as your hard drive?
Some times, it may happen that you do not enough space in your hard disk but you need to store some data in it. At that time you generally delete some files that are unnecessary or less necessary. But at that time you can use your extra gmail space as your hard disk space.
If you want to do this, Download Gmail drive at first. Then extract the file and click on setup.

After finishing it, Go to your my Computer. You will see an extra drive icon named "gmail drive".
Double click on it and you will see a box will appear to log in.
Use your gmail account to enjoy the gmail drive. you will to upload and download your files in this drive. If your Internet connection is well, why hesitate to use?

Thursday, 8 April 2010

safety tips to use a public computer.

We need to use public computer for various reasons. Sometimes we need to use the public computers in cyber cafe or we use it in our campus. But do we know those computers are safe enough to use our personal information in it? Perhaps no. We are not aware of it. But it may causes to lose our account information, password or credit card number. So we need to follow some simple rules to prevent our personal information being hacked.

  • Don't forget to log out.
Don't forget to log out when you finish browsing any site. Don't just close the window or type another address in the address bar with out logging out. Generally social networking sites or web mail like yahoo or gmail keeps the log in records that will save your logged in condition. Then it is very easy for the man who came next to use the site with your account. So just log out at the time of leaving the pc.

  • Don't save password.
When you type your user name and password in any site some browser will ask you to save your password in the browser. Never do it in a public computer. When you sign in, you will see a tick box that says "remember me" or "keep me sign in". Always keep it unchecked before log in.

  • Clear your History.
After finishing your work delete the history and the temporary Internet files to protect your privacy.

  • Don't use super sensitive information in a public pc.
Hi, if you really want to safe, don't type the Credit card number and password or any other financial information in a public computer. It is possible for a hacker to use any program to record the key stroke in any computer. It is also possible to keep the records of your user name and password, even you logged out and deleted all of your activities in that computer.

So, don't do this if you rally want to be safe.

These are all for this time. But not for all time. Enjoy!


Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Let's make single click restart buttton in the desktop.

A tutorial for making a single click restart button in your desktop which will save your time and help you to restart your computer easily.
To do this, go to your desktop and click on right button of your mouse. Go to "new" and then "shortcut. "

Then a box will come named "create shortcut". type "SHUTDOWN -r -t 30" there like the picture below. Here 30 comes from 30 seconds. That means your system will restart in 30 seconds. You can choose any time as you like. If you want your system will reboot without any countdown then type 00 there. Then type next and type the name of your shortcut "restart".


Then click finish to close it. Finally you will get a desktop icon to restart your computer. When you will double click on it, it will restart.