How to increase your system performance?

Window Disk Cleanup is very useful tool to increase the performance of your system. You can increase also the free space on the hard disk, because Disk Cleanup utility searches many unnecessary programs and files on your hard drive that you can delete. This tool perform many useful tasks to cleanup your hard disk. For example 


Delete the temporary internet files
Delete the old windows programs that you are not using.
Delete all temp Downloaded Program files
Delete Office Setup files
Delete Old Chkdsk file
Delete the Recycle Bin items
Delete all Setup log files
Delete the windows temporary files
Delete the Web Client or Publisher Temporary files.
Delete all Catalog file for the content indexer
You can remove the optional windows components that you are not using.

  
To run the Disk cleanup utility follows the given steps:

Click on Start button, Programs, go to Accessories, and go to System Tools and then click on Disk Cleanup.

Now a window popup will appear to select the hard disk partition with option "Select the drive you want to clean up" for example C, D drive, but you can choose partition one by one for scanning.

 

Now Disk Cleanup will takes some time to access your system then open a window to show "You can use Disk Cleanup to free up to 112,151 of disk space on drive C" (in this case) available after deleting temporary files. On this window a button "View files" is used to check the detail of the files that you are going to delete.

 If you scroll down with in that window, you will get many options to choose, select the all options to clean your system in detail, and then click OK to continue.

On the same window another tab is available with the name "More Options".

 Under the more options tab, there are three clean up buttons to clean "Window Components, Installed Programs and System Restore" , select any one of them and press OK to run it.

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How to clear your sensitive information on system shutdown?

During data processing some operating systems use the hard disk as memory, called virtual memory. During processing, operating system transfers some data and programs from RAM to hard disk and reloads again when required. The data or programs are stored in hard disk in temporary file called the swap file. This technique of swapping data between memory and hard disk is called paging. Operating system spends a lot of time in paging process, instead of executing the application software. But the problem is that while working you use different software programs on computer and page file may contain your confidential information or stored in non encrypted format. To reduce this risk, you can set your computer to clear out page file automatically each time you shutdown your computer.

 

Perform the given steps to set your system clear page file automatically:

 

• To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
• First click on start button to open control panel and then click here on "Administrative Tools" option.  

 

Now "Local Security Settings" panel will appear, on lift side of this panel click on "Local Policies". 

Here click on "Security Options" then double click on "Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile" option

 

    Now small dialog box will appear with options, "Enabled or Disabled" the page file.

    Select the "Enabled" radio button to set clear page file each time you shutdown computer.

Press Apply button to save settings and then click on Ok button to finish.

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How to Delete a Virus From Regedit

The registry on a computer is the area that controls and stores all of the processing information for the hardware and software stored on the system. In order to manually access the registry, you need to type the code "Regedit" into the "Run" option of Windows. Like other areas of the computer, the registry can become infected with a virus. If this is the case, you need to remove the virus as quickly as possible before it damages other content on the system

1. Click on the "Start" button, followed by "Run." This opens a small menu window.
2. Type in "Regedit" and click "OK." This opens Microsoft Window's registry.
3. Open the "HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE" folder to look for any viruses in the registry. This is typically where the virus installs itself on the system.
4. Select the file once. To see the installation date of the file, right-click it and select "Preferences." If the file's installation date seems to match the date when you started experiencing trouble on the computer, it might be the virus you are looking for. Click "OK" to close the "Preferences" window.
5. Click the virus file once and press the "Delete" button. You are asked if you are sure you want to remove the file. Click "Yes," and the file is removed.

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Using command prompt "attrib" to check for Viruses or Malware

Microsoft Command Prompt "attrib" is a very useful tool to check if your hard drives even your flashdisks have been infected by a virus.
You will know if a Malware is inside your hard drive just by looking at the attributes of each files and the file that has the attributes of +s +h +r

The function of attrib is to set and remove file attributes (read-only, archive, system and hidden).

Launch attrib

To start attrib

1. Go to Start Menu > Run
2. Type cmd (cmd stands for command prompt)
3. Press Enter key

The Command Prompt will appear showing us where is our location in the directory.

 command prompt showing the current location in the directory

Using attrib

To use attrib

1. Go to the root directory first by typing cd\(because this is always the target of Malware / Virus)

2. Type attrib and press Enter key

after typing attrib, all the attributes of all the files (excluding folders) will be shown

In this example, I have two files that are considered as malware.
Note that there are two files which I outlined in red (SilentSoftech.exe and autorun.inf). Since you cannot see this file nor delete it (because the attributes that was set on these files are +s +h +r)

1. +s - meaning it is a system file (which also means that you cannot delete it just by using the delete command)
2. +h - means it is hidden (so you cannot delete it)
   
3. +r - means it is a read only file ( which also means that you cannot delete it just by using the delete command)
   

Now we need to set the attributes of autorun.inf to -s -h -r (so that we can manually delete it)

1. Type attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf ( be sure to include -s -h -r because you cannot change the attributes using only -s or -h or -r alone)
2. Type attrib again to check if your changes have been commited
3. If the autorun.inf file has no more attributes, you can now delete it by typing del autorun.inf
4. Since SilentSoftech.exe is a malware you can remove its attributes by doing step 1 and step 3(just change the filename) ex. attrib -s -h -r silentsoftech.exe

a) I typed the attrib command with the -s -h -r setting b) the result after I pressed enter - autorun.inf has no attributes left

There you have it!!!!
NOTE : when autorun.inf keeps coming back even if you already deleted it, be sure to check your Task Manager by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE ( a virus is still running as a process thats why you cannot delete it. KILL the process first by selecting it and clicking End Process.
NOTE: You can also apply the attrib -s -h -r command to all the partition of your computer, drive D: drive E: drive F: (all of your drives). For example. for drive D, just type "D:" (minus the double quote) then you can see that your current drive is D.. type there the command "attrib -s -h -r *.exe" for exe files and "attrib -s -h -r *.inf" and then delete the file by "del autorun.inf".

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How to Reinstall Windows Without Having to Reactivate

Every time you format and reinstall your PC, you have to activate Windows again, which can sometimes be a pain once you’ve done it too many times. Here’s how to backup and then restore the activation status.
Note: we aren’t going to cover how to reinstall Windows, since you should know how to do that already. This article just covers backing up and restoring your activation.

Introduction

Advanced Token Manager easily allows you to back up all the information that Windows uses to check the validity of you copy of Windows. Collectively called a Token, this information can be backed up to an external storage medium. Once you have formatted you can import the Token and your Windows will be genuine again.

Backing Up

Once you have grabbed your copy of Advanced Token Manager from here, you can extract the zip file and then run the executable file.

When the advanced token manager launches, you will see the BIG Backup Activation button. Click it to begin backing up your token. All the “BBB” characters are just masking the real product key, don’t worry that is not your real product key.

Once you click the Backup Activation button, we expect that 99% of you will be prompted with this message. Unless some of you are ultra geeky and using KMS at home, you will get this message. You can just click yes to continue.

Once activation is finished being backed up, you will see a folder called “Windows Activation Backup” in the same folder that you launched the token manager from, this contains the backup.

Now we have reloaded Windows on the same PC, as you can see it is not activated.

Now I can run the advanced token manager, this time it will say Restore instead of Backup.

Once you click Restore you will be prompted to make sure you want to do this, click the next button to start the restoration.

Once it has completed a success message will appear.

If you go check your validity in the System Settings, you should have the genuine badge back.

The advanced token manager can also support Office Activation and works on all versions of Windows 7.

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What is BIOS ? And When it should be updated and when should not!

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What is BIOS ?

BIOS is an abbreviation of the phrase (basic input output system) when you boot your computer The BIOS starts to engage what’s called “Post” where it starts examines each computer components and if it happens that BIOS found some it alerts you depending on the severity of this error like

• shutting the computer down
• or releasing the sounds of rings

Also Each Brand have it’s own signal meaning and to check it you can by the company’s official website .
For more Information about Bios and how it works : BIOS
Usually updating a program or operating is important and useful . But when it comes to BIOS it may not make your computer faster but Actually sometimes it can get you some new errors and bugs .
so we conclude that we should update BIOS only when needed .

When The BIOS should be updated and when should not !

When we should not update the BIOS

The BIOS is not some sort of a huge program that comes with his updates some new features or fix some Bugs . The Case of updating The BIOS comes only when you want to put some new some new device and your motherboard doesn’t support

Updating your BIOS is not easy as you thing because

• you’ll need to work in the Dos environment
• you’ll need a 100% exact match for your computer and his component
• you must make sure that you won’t have a Separation of electricity otherwise you’re computer will be ‘ bricked ‘ and you might need a new motherboard

Note: there is some Brands that have the ability to store a backup before you update BIOS

When You should do an update For BIOS

Despite the many dangers of updating BIOS, this update can be done in only two situations:

• In case you are experiencing errors in your system, the BIOS update may help you remove them by finding version compatible with the components of your computer.
• Most of the Old motherboards doesn’t support some of the news devices .for example you have a motherboard that produced in the year 2008 and you want to mount A processor Core I3 the motherboard won”t recognize it until you update BIOS

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How to convert videos on Android phones to any other extension without the need for a computer

when it comes to Convert videos on Androids phones to any other extension using Windows, Linux / Mac, That is normal and well known, but how about converting videos to any other extension using only Android phone?

This Application called Android Video Converter for Android devices, you will not find competitors for this one Google play It converts any video in your phone to several extensions avi, vob, 3gp also it can convert video clips to audio, as a convert any video, depending on the processor speed of your phone as well as the live memory (RAM) it contains.

To download the program Open the Google store Apps and search for Video Converter Android you can also click here to download the software or scan of the QR code at the bottom of this post.

After downloading and installing the software it may ask you to download the appropriate Codec for phone so don’t hesitate in accepting demand and downloading. After completion of the install process, go to application icon and open the program, then browse your folders and search for videos that you want well convert to the extension you want.
After selecting the file via selecting it , scroll down a little to the bottom and look for the word Convert, where after clicking it a window will pop up containing 5 characteristics:

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3 Software That Will help You Delete Big Files in The Hard Drive

When a friend tells you that hard drive space has become full, so perhaps his first advice will be to clean the hard drive through a program such as CCleaner or some similar programs, in addition to deleting some of the computer programs. But despite performing these steps it may not be effective by a large margin, because the programs Like ccleaner it does not inspect all your existing files on the hard drive, as much as it scans only for specific files on the disk and do clean it as temp file.



Thus, it became necessary to look for some hidden files in Windows and which we can’t identify its capacity manually, of course, the large number of files in the hard drive as well as they’re complexity, so in this thread I will give you some tools that work automatically on showing files that takes an important area in the hard drive, and help to determine which files then you should check it and cleaned.

 

TreeSize Free : Free and very easy to use

This Program is easy to use, it also works to arrange the files from largest to smallest capacity in the form of a tree.
The way of using the program is very simple, in the primary interface click on the Scan Select the hard drive you want to lose, after that Leave the program running to identify large files. Of course mostly Windows files are going to be the first files showing as the largest space followed by the file program files.

 Folder Size: just for the curious people!

This Program is easy to use, it also works to arrange the files from largest to smallest capacity in the form of a tree.
The way of using the program is very simple, in the primary interface click on the Scan Select the hard drive you want to lose, after that Leave the program running to identify large files. Of course mostly Windows files are going to be the first files showing as the largest space followed by the file program files.

SpaceSniffer: the most popular software

it’s easy-to-use software also, the interface of the program explain itself, but that characterize him from TreeSize Free program that it provides you with more accurate reports as he characterized official interface which it’s beautiful and professional. Like that program is available at two versions , free and paid, but he does not have a big difference between them except that in the paid version you can get reports more accurate about the files within the hard drive, as well as export and memorizing reports, as well as a survey of the Other Hard Drives within the network. This is something that I think will need for this free version is sufficient.
All you need to is download and install the software and then Select from the official interface the hard drive that you want to check, click on the triangle in the green to begin the screening process.

A Popular Program and perhaps that some people heard of him and there are a number of good fans of this program, it does not only work on checking the files size on the disk, but it shows them in the form of boxes / rectangles depending on the size of files, and of course the large files you will find their size having a largely on the program, which will help you to quickly identify files that takes a large area on the hard drive.
Only when you download and run the program (the program does not need to be installed ) you’ll see a small window select the file or disk that you want to inspect in the area, and leave the rest for the program he will work in a few seconds on showing map containing the space of each file separately in elegant way.

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