Many defragmenting programs you have to defrag the whole drive, but with this one you have the power to defrag specific files or folders as well as the complete hard drive if you want to.
Being small and compact it will also run from a usb flash drive, no need to install it on each machine to run it.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Uninstall Programs Easily With RevoUninstaller
The Windows Add/Remove programs applet is slow and does not list all of the programs that you can uninstall. This neat little tool overcomes this and runs much faster than the Add/Remove applet.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Partition A New Hard Drive
As digital media becomes more and more popular, our computers are needing more and more hard drive space. With the price of, frankly, huge capacity hard drives continuously hitting new lows, it’s now not just computer enthusiasts who are adding new drives to their new computers.
While it is relatively simple, particularly with SATA hard drives, to add a new drive - it is not immediately obvious to everyone how to start using a new drive. You have the hard drive connected correctly, it is recognized in the system BIOS, but it is missing from ‘My Computer’.
That is because it has not been formatted.
The word ‘partition’ is usually associated with one physical drive being split into more than one logical drive - but actually, EVERY hard drive needs a partition - even if it is the full size of the disc.
Windows has its own tool for this job - called ‘Disk Management’. Unlike ‘My Computer’, it shows every drive connected to the system - formatted/partitioned or not.
Access it by Right clicking on ‘My Computer’, and selecting ‘Manage’. In the left-hand pane, select ‘Disk Management’ Now, in the right-hand pane, you will see your Hard Drives and Optical Drives - hopefully including the new drive which will show up as ‘unallocated space’.
New disks appear as Not Initialized. Microsoft state that if you start Disk Management after adding a disk, the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk. If for any reason it does not, you can initialize it manually. Just right-click on the new disks ‘label’ (the gray box to the right of the black bar that denotes the unallocated space), and select ‘Initialize’.When done, you can begin to format the drive.
Here are the instructions to create a single partition the full size of your new driveRight-click unallocated space on the basic disk you want to format, and then click New Partition.
In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, Select ‘Primary Partition’, click Next. DO NOT create a dynamic disk here unless you know what you are doing, and specifically want one. Once created, there’s no going back without wiping the drive.
Specify the full size of the disk in the ‘Partition size in MB’ box and then click Next. Assign a drive letter to the drive, click Next to format the partition, click ‘Format this partition with the following settings’, type a name for the drive in the ‘Volume Label’ box if you want to, and choose ‘NTFS’ in the ‘File System’ box. Do not change the ‘allocation size’, or enable compression in the options.
I would also suggest not performing a ‘quick format’ on a brand new drive. The full format checks the full surface of the disk.
Now go and grab something to eat/drink, as on a large drive this could take a while.
If you want to create more than one partition on the disc, the steps are similar, apart from the size of the partition you will be creating.
To create a second partition on the disc, select the remaining unallocated space and repeat the steps.
You might also want to look at Microsoft’s own Knowledge-base article on the subject http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
While it is relatively simple, particularly with SATA hard drives, to add a new drive - it is not immediately obvious to everyone how to start using a new drive. You have the hard drive connected correctly, it is recognized in the system BIOS, but it is missing from ‘My Computer’.
That is because it has not been formatted.
The word ‘partition’ is usually associated with one physical drive being split into more than one logical drive - but actually, EVERY hard drive needs a partition - even if it is the full size of the disc.
Windows has its own tool for this job - called ‘Disk Management’. Unlike ‘My Computer’, it shows every drive connected to the system - formatted/partitioned or not.
Access it by Right clicking on ‘My Computer’, and selecting ‘Manage’. In the left-hand pane, select ‘Disk Management’ Now, in the right-hand pane, you will see your Hard Drives and Optical Drives - hopefully including the new drive which will show up as ‘unallocated space’.
New disks appear as Not Initialized. Microsoft state that if you start Disk Management after adding a disk, the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk. If for any reason it does not, you can initialize it manually. Just right-click on the new disks ‘label’ (the gray box to the right of the black bar that denotes the unallocated space), and select ‘Initialize’.When done, you can begin to format the drive.
Here are the instructions to create a single partition the full size of your new driveRight-click unallocated space on the basic disk you want to format, and then click New Partition.
In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, Select ‘Primary Partition’, click Next. DO NOT create a dynamic disk here unless you know what you are doing, and specifically want one. Once created, there’s no going back without wiping the drive.
Specify the full size of the disk in the ‘Partition size in MB’ box and then click Next. Assign a drive letter to the drive, click Next to format the partition, click ‘Format this partition with the following settings’, type a name for the drive in the ‘Volume Label’ box if you want to, and choose ‘NTFS’ in the ‘File System’ box. Do not change the ‘allocation size’, or enable compression in the options.
I would also suggest not performing a ‘quick format’ on a brand new drive. The full format checks the full surface of the disk.
Now go and grab something to eat/drink, as on a large drive this could take a while.
If you want to create more than one partition on the disc, the steps are similar, apart from the size of the partition you will be creating.
To create a second partition on the disc, select the remaining unallocated space and repeat the steps.
You might also want to look at Microsoft’s own Knowledge-base article on the subject http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
Friday, November 09, 2007
Free PC Tune Up
Give your computer a full free tune-up at PC Pitstop.
Its basic aim is to fine-tune the performance of your PC, and this is done automatically for you over the internet. PC Pitstop runs a series of diagnostic checks on your PC to identify things that might help improve performance.
The process is fully automated, private and safe. After the diagnostics have done their job, you get a list of suggested improvement tips for your computer. As well as checking out your machine, PC Pitstop can also test your internet connection and can even check your computer to make sure you haven’t picked up any nasty viruses.
When you open the page, just click on New Members and you have the option of creating an account or running the tests anonymously.
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If you wish to run this anonymously just click the New Members key and you will be presented with the following:
After reading the page click on Let’s Go and you will see the following pop up on which you must click Yes to run the utility.
After the tests have run you will get a summary which will show a serious problem, a minor problem or a winner! Here you will see a minor problem I created by increasing my cache size.
Simply click on the flag and you are taken to a suggestion page where the Tip is in blue with a yellow dot preceding it:
Click on the blue text and you will be taken to a page with information regarding your settings and recommendations to follow:
So if you are tired of seeing your PC slow down like it’s an old beat up car, run the diagnostics and turn your PC into a high flying machine again.Take the PC Tune-Up, not only will it make your computer worker better and faster, but it’s also FREE!No personal information is recorded and this is a very safe utility to use.
Click here to test your PC.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Ad-Aware 2007 - Tutorial
This video will briefly show you how to use Lavasoft Ad-Aware.
It’s very simple and straightforward to use, but don’t rely solely upon one such program to keep the nasties out of your PC.
I regularly use CCleaner, SpybotS&D, MRU-Blaster and Advanced Windows Care.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Zone Alarm Setup - Video Tutorial
Through search engine results I have noticed that there are many of you looking for more assistance with setting up ZoneAlarm Free Firewall and whether it is safe to use.
I have been using ZoneAlarm for many years, it is simple to download and install and is used by millions worldwide, it is extremely safe.
It will set up the basic permissions for internet access and a balloon will open above the taskbar for other programs asking for permission to access the internet. The balloon also has a 'Remember this decision' tickbox, so once you have granted or denied a program permission it won't ask again.
If you are setting up a wireless network, simply open the main ZoneAlarm program from the taskbar, first go to the Firewall Tab on the left, under the main tab change the setting for Internet Zone to High and Trusted Zone to Medium.
Then click on the Program Control Tab on the left, under the Main tab, set Program Control to Medium. If this is your first or new installation, set it to Low (Learning Mode) for about 4 weeks.
Remember to add folders etc that you wish to share on your machine to the Shared Folders in My Computer.
The easiest way to set all of this up, especially if you are a novice, is to use Network Magic. This will set up ZoneAlarm permissions for sharing, add printers etc to your wireless network.
If you are going to use Network Magic, download and install it on each machine that you are going to connect to a wireless network. You will have the full version for 7 days to set everything up, before it reverts to a limited version.
I have been using ZoneAlarm for many years, it is simple to download and install and is used by millions worldwide, it is extremely safe.
It will set up the basic permissions for internet access and a balloon will open above the taskbar for other programs asking for permission to access the internet. The balloon also has a 'Remember this decision' tickbox, so once you have granted or denied a program permission it won't ask again.
If you are setting up a wireless network, simply open the main ZoneAlarm program from the taskbar, first go to the Firewall Tab on the left, under the main tab change the setting for Internet Zone to High and Trusted Zone to Medium.
Then click on the Program Control Tab on the left, under the Main tab, set Program Control to Medium. If this is your first or new installation, set it to Low (Learning Mode) for about 4 weeks.
Remember to add folders etc that you wish to share on your machine to the Shared Folders in My Computer.
The easiest way to set all of this up, especially if you are a novice, is to use Network Magic. This will set up ZoneAlarm permissions for sharing, add printers etc to your wireless network.
If you are going to use Network Magic, download and install it on each machine that you are going to connect to a wireless network. You will have the full version for 7 days to set everything up, before it reverts to a limited version.
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