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Friday, August 1, 2008

PC Maintainance Tips

Maintaining a system is nothing but keeping your System Healthy, Fully Working with Fast.To keep your system Healthy follow the below given tips.....

1.Disk Defragmenter:This weekly once to run system faster.By this the system will easily identify the daily using files and also the system will arrange files in an order for this go to start menu All Programs->Accessories->System tools->Defragmentor. In this select different drives and Defrag each drive it will some time depending on your System.

2.Disk Cleanup:It is use full to how much disk space is used by unnecessary files that are in temp folder, temporary internet folder, recycle bin. And you can delete them for this go to start menu All Programs->Accessories->System tools-> Disk Cleanup
In this select different drives and cleanup each drive it will some time depending on your System.

3.Scan Disk:It takes average 2 min to complete do this at least once a month and better to do often.

4.Reg Clean:It is done with the help of a Software offered by Microsoft's web site and Other. It takes about a min to check the registry. Then it asks whether you want to clean out redundant or orphan file. This usually helps your system to get rid of files that have been left behind by uninstalled programs.

5. Windows updates:Through this your system will get all the latest fixes, patches and updates. It is better to do who are using only the Original versions of Operating Systems.

These are some of the tips to maintain your System

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Use Your Computer As An Alarm

Now this is specially for the ones who are too lazy to get up even when the trust cellphone dies screeching its lungs out. Its pretty simple Creating the playlist create a playlist of your favourite songs in Winamp, WMP or any other player. Export the playlist as a M3U playlist. M3U is generally accepted by almost every player. Triggering the alarm point to start> programs >accessories > system tools >scheduled tasks Create a new task and choose program as windows media player or winamp (May work with others too but I haven't tried anything else) Choose "daily", Enter the time and choose "every day" at next screen. It would now ask for password (leave blank in case you don't have one) Right click on the newly created task and check the "run only if logged in" check box. In the properties. Append the path to the playlist you created in the "run" text box. It should now look like Code:
Code:
"D:\windows mediaplayer\wmplayer.exe"K:\Playlists\smoothies.m3uthe text inside quotes is my WMP's path. It may vary for you. The text after WMP's path is the one to the playlist. Click OK and you're done.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Create A Shortcut To Lock Your Computer

Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off?
You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver. To create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer: Right-click the desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like. Click Finish.
You can also change the shortcut's icon (my personal favorite is the padlock icon in shell32.dll). To change the icon: Right click the shortcut and then select Properties. Click the Shortcut tab, and then click the Change Icon button. In the Look for icons in this file text box, type: Shell32.dll. Click OK. Select one of the icons from the list and then click OK You could also give it a shortcut keystroke such CTRL+ALT+L. This would save you only one keystroke from the normal command, but it could be more convenient.

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