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Bootup Faster from Windows Vista

Is your Vista getting slower and slower now that you have been using it for almost a year and have installed many programs and used up more space since you first installed the OS? If so here are a few tips to your PC to get that up back making it quicker.

First thing you should do is always get rid of your and any unused programs. Once you have done that then the tool to reorganize your . Defragmenting your files puts them back into one contiguous space on your drive optimizing your time.

To get Vista’s tool to give you some information about your , and to controlWindows Vista which or partition it defragments, you will need to use the line . It will still not give you any feedback while defragmenting, just as the GUI version of the defragmenter will not, but at least you can get information on the fragmentation level of your , control whether to even if the file fragments are larger than 64 MB, and control which partition or to .

To use the line tool in Vista, you have to the as an administrator. In Vista, this is not automatic even if you are logged in as the administrator. Click the button (previously the Start button in earlier versions of ), the All Programs menu item and the Accessories menu item. Right click the “ ” button and select “ as administrator”. A window will appear. Everything you in this Window will be with administrator rights.

To view a file fragmentation analysis of (say) your C: drive, type:

c: -a -v

The “-a” parameter tells the defragger to perform a fragmentation analysis. The “-v” option tells it to be verbose in its report. If you want a report on drive D: or some other drive, substitute that drive letter in place of c:.

To a particular drive, say C:, type:

1. c: -v -r

The “-r” option tells the to treat files that are fragmented with 64 MB fragments or larger as though they are not fragmented. This partial is the default for “”, and it’s the only way the GUI defragmenter in Vista works.

You can also force the defragmenter to everything. That is, even if the file fragments are larger than 64MB, the Vista defragmenter will still attempt to put the file into contiguous sectors. To do this, the defragger with the following options:

2. c: -v -w

As you have probably have guessed, “-w” tells the Vista tool to do a full . All file fragments will be consolidated where possible.

You will still not get any feedback as to the progress of the with the line tool, just as you did not with the GUI version. However, at the beginning and the end of the , “” with the “-v” option will give a report, much like the old XP GUI . Again, though, it will not report fragmented files with 64 MB fragments (or larger) as being fragmented.

Please NOTE: With the line method there is no progress bar so you just have to sit and wait for it to finish.

If defragging doesn’t really help your then you should at least see improvement in your load times when the operating is finally booted up.

Also there is one quick edit to the that can make Vista shut down quicker than you can say “shut down.” Those not comfortable with delving in to the had better not proceed because making a mistake here could (and usually does) mess up your bad.

At the Start Menu, type “” without the quotes in the search box and hit Enter. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE//CurrentControlSet/Control and go to the Control , right click the entry “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” and set the value to something lower, 1000 is usually good (the numbers represent milliseconds). The default value is a (too) generous 20000. However, the cost with this is that it won’t give running programs much time to save data so losing work using the is a definite possibility.

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Written by Jason on July 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to increase disk space in case of Low Disk space

Do you feel that the on your hard-disk is too little ? Does it seem that something fishy is going on which is eating your hard-disk space? If your answer is yes, read on till end to uncover the secrets of this type of behavior.

Some of the key reasons are:

* Temp files on C drive
* files
* created during
* data
* Duplicate copies of large files like movies, songs etc.
* Deleting files for updates.

There are some more reasons as well, but these are most common reasons which can be observed. Now the important question, how to fix it ? Lets read on for the solution.

1. :

Temp files are the files which are created for some purpose by many softwares. Go to Start > Run type “%temp” (without quotes) and press enter. This will open a Temp folder, at this folder,select and delete all files at this location. After this empty your recycle bin.

Note: You may not be able to delete certain files as they might be in use, but delete as many as you can.

2. Deleting files and :

There are several ways to do it, but we will tell you the most convenient way. Open My , right click on the disk drive , go to properties and click on as shown below:

disk-cleanup

This will open a window as seen below:

disk-cleanup-wizard

Select the files,recycle bin, log files, files, office files, and any other option which is not very important for you and Click OK. This will start the and will delete the un-necessary files thus increasing the disk space.

Note: Above two methods deals with removal of junk and files which can also be removed using a called which can be downloaded from here.

What is ?
removes unused and files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more HDD space.

3. Deleting old restoration data:

As a part of utility, creates some check-points and saves corresponding data on each disk having restore feature. These files also consume significant space. You can delete all of them except the most recent restore point data if you feel that your is running stable for a long time and you may not need very old restore points. To delete it, open window as mentioned in previous step and click on More Options as shown below:

advanced-cleanup

Click on up button as highlighted in red circle in image above. This will give a warning message, click yes to it. This will delete all old restoration points except the most recent one.

4 .Delete duplicate copies of large files:

Sometimes we have several copies of same documents, songs and even videos which consume lots of space un-necessarily. Finding them manually and deleting them is a real pain. But this work has been made very easy by double-killer. Its an intelligent utility which scans your drives for duplicate copies of files and gives you and option to delete them. You can download it from here for free.

5. Deleting files for updates:

You can also delete some folders whose name starts with “$NtUninstall.” in the directory (for example C:\ ) if C drive is the primary partition.

However, They are referring to prior hot fixes, so they should be safe to delete if your system is stable with the fixes applied after update, and you have no intention of uninstalling them.

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Written by Jason on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Speed up Firefox without reinstalling

You cannot imagine life without Firefox but over time, your favorite browser keeps getting slower and slower.

Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously.

You have uninstalled most of the extensions and toolbars, deleted all the cookies and internet temporary files, cleared up the file download queue and disabled the background check for software updates but none of this has helped you speed-up Firefox. (more…)

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Written by Jason on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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