Archive for January, 2009

How to make Windows Vista run faster

Saturday, January 31, 2009 22:42 2 Comments

So you are using Windows Vista and feel that its slower than WIndows XP? Then you have come to the right place.

Following tutorial will help you in tweaking your Windows Vista to the max and you’ll feel a significant improvement in your system performance. So without wasting any time lets start:

1. Following is a registry file containing a few registry modifications, which are completely safe and can increase the performance of Windows Vista. Just download the attached ZIP file, extract it and then run the file:

This was posted under category: How-To, Windows Vista

How to boot and install Windows 7 from USB flash drive

Friday, January 30, 2009 20:37 1 Comment

The Windows 7 beta has been released for quite a while now. If you want to follow the crowd and test it in your system, but do not want to burn into a DVD, here is how you can create a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 on your system.

Format USB flash drive to NTFS format

(For Win XP only. Vista users can directly format the USB drive to NTFS format) In your Windows, go to Control panel -> system -> hardware -> Device manager.

This was posted under category: How-To, Windows 7

How to monitors and safely freezes Windows processes with Yawffer

Friday, January 30, 2009 14:33 No Comments

Yawffer is a utility for Windows that monitors the time and your computers CPU, memory, and disk usage. You can set it to show some or all of this information in the corner of your computer display, and you can easily adjust the font, size, and color of the text.

Data is displayed as strings of text above all windows, takes very small amount of screen space and can be located in any place on the screen. For each showing you can define font and color.

This was posted under category: How-To

How to make your Windows XP super fast

Thursday, January 29, 2009 21:00 No Comments

This tutorial is meant for increasing the performance of Windows XP, either it can be a fresh installation or an older windows.

1.) Following is a registry containing a few registry modifications, which are completely safe and can increase the performance of Windows. Just download the attached ZIP file, extract it and then run the file:

Tweak Windows XP

Restore Default Settings (Use this file if you want to restore default Windows settings)

This was posted under category: How-To, Windows XP

Easy to download video from Youtube with Save2PC

Sunday, January 25, 2009 13:02 3 Comments

Free Download - Portable Version

save2pc Light is a free tool that downloads videos from Youtube or Google Video and saves it as Avi or Mpeg or Flv file to your local computer. Download High Quality videos and High Definition videos from YouTube.

save2pc allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video. The user interface of save2pc is very simple, so you don’t need any technical knowledge to use it. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run save2pc and start downloading!

This was posted under category: How-To

Test your Internet Connection Speed for free

Sunday, January 25, 2009 0:40 No Comments

If your Internet connection seems slow, the first step is to benchmark it using an Internet speed test site. An Internet speed test can give you an accurate indication of how much bandwidth is available to you at the current time.

Whether you have high speed broadband or a dial-up Internet connection, an Internet speed test can help determine if you’re speeding along the Information Superhighway as fast as you should be.

Check out the Top 3 Internet Speed Test Sites listed below:

This was posted under category: Internet Tips