Thursday 4 February 2010, 7:57 AM
Increase Performance of Windows Vista and Windows 7 Without Upgrading RAM
Yes, it is possible to Speed Up Your Slow Windows 7 and Windows Vista without upgrading Random Access Memory (RAM). In Windows Vista and Windows 7 it has become possible with the help of ReadyBoost feature. The ReadyBoost helps you use a pen drive or any other flash drive as cache memory in addition with the available RAM in your computer system. The ReadyBoost feature saves your cost to upgrade RAM. It only utilizes the space available in a flash drive to use that as the RAM; therefore, you also do not need to remove available content from your flash drive. The ReadyBoost feature increases your computer's speed by utilizing the space available in your flash drive. Let's now perform the following steps to enable the ReadyBoost feature:
1. Attach a flash drive in the USB port of your CPU.
2. Select Start -> Computer in Windows start program menu. The Computer window appears.
3. Right-click the drive and select the Properties option. The Properties dialog box appears.
4. Now, select the ReadyBoost tab. It displays the following two radio buttons:
• Do not use this device: This radio button is selected by default. Enabling this radio button means you cannot use a drive to add additional memory in your computer.
• Use this device: This radio button allows you to use a flash drive as additional memory.
5. Select the Use this device radio button. Now, you need to reserve the drive space to be used as the cache memory. The space you reserve to use as the cache memory cannot be used to store items in the attached drive.
6. Move the slider on left or right side to specify the drive space that you want to reserve as cache memory.
7. Click the Apply button.
8. Click the Ok button.
A ReadyBoost Cache file will be created in your pen drive that Windows Vista uses as the additional cache memory. This file does not harm any other files on your computer. When you remove the pen drive from your computer and again attach, Windows Vista automatically uses it as additional cache memory. If you do not want to use the pen drive as cache memory for more, enable the Do not use this device radio button before removing the pen drive.
Tuesday 2 February 2010, 12:35 PM
Tips To Upgrade From Windows Vista To Windows 7
Until now, you were happy with your Windows Vista but great reviews of Windows 7 have tempted you to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows Operating System. But, you do not want to buy a brand new version of Windows 7 and looking for a cost-effective substitute (How to Buy Windows 7 on a Discounted Price). You may consider an Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7.
To check whether Windows 7 is compatible with your system or not, you can use Windows 7 upgrade advisor.
Once you are done with finalizing the system requirements, follow the steps below–
1. Insert your Windows 7 DVD in optical drive and now click on install option. After clicking on now install, you would find a screen. If you have disabled ‘autorun’ then open the root of the DVD drive and now run setup.exe file. (This can also be done using USB stick. To choose for this ‘option’, you may have to refer to Install Windows 7 from USB guide.
2. After running the setup, you would be finding two options mentioned here –
“Online compatibility check” And “Install Now” (Since, system compatibility is already verified using Windows 7 advisor; you can now safely install it using ‘Install Now’ button.)
3. Next step will include selection of ‘latest updates for installation.’ Those who have the latest version of installation they are not required to follow this step.
4. Fourth step includes acceptance of license agreement. Now click on ‘Next’ to continue the complete procedure.
5. Fifth step talks about selection of ‘Upgrade’ or ‘Custom’. Since, you are upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7, you should select ‘Upgrade.’
6. Again, windows will check for compatibility. If any error occurs, it will display the problem to screen and save it on ‘desktop’. If no incompatibility is found, windows 7 will complete futher procedures.
Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is not a complex procedure. Anyone with simple knowledge of tech-support tid bits can do it without hassle. If still facing issues, you can contact online tech support provider.
Tuesday 2 February 2010, 7:44 AM
Top o' the World Ma! (Google Earth)
Google Earth is both truly amazing and even a bit majestic.
I have used flight simulator, in the past and it has made my day. And I hear free GPS is coming to Google Earth for iPhone/OS X and Android sometime in the next two years. Google Earth is one of the Wonders of the Internet, Like Google, eBay, YouTube, Wiki, Yahoo Mail*, but a Driving Simulator is missing, a 3D environment is missing ala~GTA*, is more always better? no. but in this case Virtual Holidays would while away hours of potential boredom/malaise.
I'll tell you a story, So I was planning a trip to Oslo in Summer for Autumn last year and I hadn't been away for years, So I thought I would check out the local area on Google Earth, I used Street View and ended up in some train station facing some flats. fast forward two months and I and my friend are lost on Oslo, and we end up Lillistrom train station, it was late at night, the pubs were coming out, I heard some dude in modded Subaru was blasting out Cliff Richard, and I look up and there are those flats! just as pictured, but at night :) WOW
I am NOT saying V-Holidays could replace real Holidays*, but expand on your experience. Also if you are broke, as many of us are these days* a nice wee break around the world would be nice. a train Journey would be nice too :) Orient Express style... without the murder.
peace
Dava
*(for me Yahoo Mail, in the sense that 1. they will not ditch you with inactivity 2. they LISTEN to your feedback and 3. they will improve your services without charge eg see the new mail WOW)
*I would sit in a taxi for hours watching the world go by... yes I don't get out enough!
*eg have you seen fuel bills? WOW even though the source was cut to a third we are still paying FULL price.. that's not right!
*I wouldn't of missed that dude in the Subaru for £1000, it was priceless.
Monday 18 January 2010, 9:02 AM
If You Do Not love Me, Let Me Go! (Licensing)
This idea has been kicking around in my head for ages:
*why not release people from old tech licenses, and make use for old tech. like making Win 95, 98se, ME an open source resource. Some people out there could use these OS's and the free programs that ARE out there.
So.. I have been living with my PowerMac MDD 1.25ghz Single for a few weeks now and..I get it. I 'get' the Apple experience.
They underclock to match the OS not the other way round and it makes soo much more sense. I'm embarrassed to say this little comp can keep up with, in some respects (surfing and music) my back up comp, built only a year and a half ago, with only a quarter of the power.*
But here I come to a problem,.. I am ditched, jilted, who will help me upgrade now with my PPC (and I know I blasted PPC in an earlier article, but would I really have gotten this so cheaply if Apple weren't ditching this architecture?) Why does Apple not let me go? if they released the propriety on no longer supported models, I could go elsewhere, like a new non specially flashed Graphics card, Audio card, etc,
it's similar with Windows OS tech, especially there mobile OS's, if Stevie B. ever is in his office thinking, 'hey 7 is doing well, but we're getting our ass kicked by every mobile OS!?!?' I'll tell him why, OSX & Linux, are rolling platforms, they update there OS.
Smart-phones are like mini PC's now, you (MS) can't just walk away anymore,.. if you as a consumer get stuck with a Windows OS, and in two years you are ditched, why buy a Windows Mobile? and why do MS give it a number? If Win Mobile was a rolling platform (especially) like Linux with kernel and version updates, they would reap the financial rewards.
Linux is both smart and clever on the Power to Weight ratio, Windows is dumb, and OS X is finely tuned Ducati. I'm noticing I'm blasting MS a lot, but I feel they are innovative and a bit like having a bed in a bulldozer, comfortable and supportive to the Tech community, could we build without them? maybe these days. But back 7 or 8 years ago, you would of been on your own with a Linux manual in a dark room.
I regress, OS X is the needle balancing on the needle of Power (Hardware) to Weight (Operating System) ratios, Linux *could* do this,
and MS got a fright with Vista the heaviest OS on the planet. why is XP not in Phones? well it's ditched as an OLD OS. Why is my power mac cheap but I can sell the hardware for more than I paid for it? because companies are wasteful of Technology, sure we all throw things out* but if it does not benefit someone, we are insulting those who have nothing.
peace
Dava
*I suggested having the Recovery Partition to repair Windows 7 and so no need for discs, but I said to use Win2000 with only repair tools and not as an OS, like on laptop restores. I don't know if they used Win2000 but it looks a little like it.
*4200 X2 @2.5ghz, X1200 Int, 2gb 800mhz For my box £150, vs £1200 at release in 2003, but I got a bargain on an ebay auction £65 at Christmas 2009.
*Here's the shimmy on me, I cut my teeth in 2001 with my first comp, before that it was consoles but when I was at a friend-at-the-time's house I discovered dun dun dun! The 'Net! in 1999/2000. A year later
I bought my comp after seeing an ad in a paper for a complete system for £150, I was lucky enough, thank God, to get one with an OS, Microsoft (who?) Windows 98se, the comp was an Dell Gn+ MMX, slow doesn't even
(loading, please wait...)
c o v e r.. i....t ..was .. l i k e t h e e n d o f w i n t
(loading, please wait...) and waiting for spring.
but man was it reliable, I used to delete things that I had no idea what they did, and it would still boot up every time.
sadly, or happily, depending how you look at it, I threw it out only last year.. still working! I asked around if anyone wanted a free comp but got no biters.
please pray for the Haitians.
Saturday 9 January 2010, 6:37 PM
Linux is Terminally ill
Are you a programmer? do you use Linux often and find it fun?.. is the rest of you family and friends all programmers? your Pizza delivery guy?
or that lassie at your local supermarket chain who can't work the till properly? she probably likes listening to music and going on Bebo. but how can she sync her iPhone? Does she have wine and an older version of iTunes... oh! and the 'correct permissions'? does she know about repositories or how to install Linux apps from other distros?
Terminal must Die.
Call the mortuary, tell them; there should be one on the way.
.Deb 's are brilliant. more please.
but when I was on Linux a lot, when I had my Mini 9, I did not have two successive days without using Terminal, with only a 50% pass rate and it was 3 days work at a time.
a week to get Cairo-Dock working..GUH!!!!
Can't we assign .rpms and .tgz's to the servers? and reserve .deb for the desktops? that way if you go looking for trouble you'll find it.
What I mean is, if you are untechnical looking for server programs you'd better have some serious IT friends.
Whilst Desktop users would be free as a daisy on hill side in the spring breeze to enjoy desktop apps painlessly installed in a standard installer. preconfigured default with an options menu after installation.
Bliss!
I am hoping Android syncs with Ubuntu 10.04, on say, Amarok or what ever Ubuntu will use ( I know they switched media players recently, but I always liked Amarok) .. while I'm on the subject, I hope Ubuntu clones OS X, Apple OWE a LOT the the Linux community, and from what I hear they haven't paid it back.*
An Android, Ubuntu combo would give Apple a good fight for second place in the desktop market. Dell were the first major OEM to support Ubuntu... do you see where I'm going?
Dell hardware
Ubuntu OS 10
Android phone
(you can pick up Sciphone n19 for £100 on eBay uk, and a uk seller has an online shop..google it!)
I have a bit of a cheek writing this on my new eBay bought PowerMac MDD*, but it's the money and licenses policies of Apple. 3 times the price for the same HW ? they don't even convert US $ to £ they keep the same numbers..!?!?!!
but the fight falls flat, face first in the goooey mud without a standardized installer*. Leaving Linux to go home and tell his geeky friend how he nearly had him.
peace
Dava
*Wiki the 'OpenDarwin project' comments on Apples involvement
*needed a little rest from Windows, and for iTunes and my iPhone.. and in honesty I've never own an Apple and was curious what people where talking about.
*leaving resources/personnel to focus on their project, not different distros, saving time, encouraging more developers to a project and help improve the project through extra error checking.
I'm saying Linux Server and Linux Desktop should be very clearly divided for the consumer market.
Friday 18 December 2009, 10:44 AM
How to Upgrade From Windows Vista to Windows 7
Did you get the news? Microsoft has unzipped its kitty and kept its latest, supposedly the best, offering on display. This is the brand new version of Microsoft operating system, named Windows 7.
Windows 7 is pulsating and it integrates almost every feature which you need. What is left now?
Upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7. How? Procedures are mentioned below -
If you are a Vista User, there is a good news for you, as Microsoft has allowed several upgrade paths to all the Windows Vista users. As example, if you are using
* Windows Vista Home Premium, it can be easily upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium
* Windows Vista Business, it can be easily upgraded to Windows 7 Professional
* Windows Vista Ultimate, it can be easily upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate
Tit bits that will help you best in performing upgrade installation of your Windows Vista operating system-
If a windows Vista user is upgrading installation of his/her operating system, the base language must be in the coherence with the targeted Windows 7 language.
* You must have 9 GB of free space in your PC for installation.
* Another must for this upgrade is "a tab on operating system partition", as it should be supported by Windows Vista as well as Windows 7
* If you are heading for clean installation, you must have 16GB in your PC for installation process.
* In a case when you are upgrading from 32-bit version to 64-bit version, you must perform a clean installation.
* If you want to be upgraded to a more premium version of Windows 7, you must buy a upgrade key. This w ill aid you in unlocking numbers of additional feature, which can be proved very important for you, as some of these special features are considered USP of Windows 7.
* Though every edition of Windows 7 is a super set of its last versions, probability is less you would be missing any feature of your last operating system.
* While upgrading your Windows Vista operating system into Windows 7 operating system, you must take a note of terms and conditions and privacy policy implemented by Microsoft.
* Microsoft has offered a free version of Windows 7 for those who have bought a Windows Vista enabled computer between a certain time period, from 1st of July 09 to 31st of January 2010.
Enjoy the latest from Microsoft.
Thursday 10 December 2009, 5:01 AM
Tinsel on the TARDIS
There were shepherds on the hill, and the Doctor popped his head out of the TARDIS and said "you might want to see this" and they were astounded.
WHY do we pay for a TV license? to honor the Doctor.
with quotes like "I am a God" is this a character I want on My Lord's day to emphasize my religious beliefs?..oh no 'it's just a holiday' OR holyday.
Here's the shimmy,...TV licenses are a good idea if WE, the OWNERS, control the media.
E.G I own four Dr. Who Box-sets BUT I had to pay for them twice. once for the license and again for the DVD's..wait a minute, if I stayed in the USA I could buy it, only paying once.
Also, why must I face a their secular attitude when I pay their wages?..please do not be mistaken, this is not Christians poking fun at themselves, these are atheists teaching children to revere fictional celebrity.
if we all have to watch this and be sensitive to others why is it Christians get the short straw?. The BBC wouldn't DARE do that to any other religion. try telling Muslims there religion is a myth.
But I regress, the media of the BBC is ours forever, British in both public and domain. I guess, we just forgot to tell OUR government. oh well. letters aren't as powerful as money and the idea of taxation.
How do I feel? I used Dr.Who as an example for a larger problem, and while the UK is tax altruistic, (BBC World Service, foreign aid and rightly such), we do not control our INVESTMENT in the simple things that are rightfully ours. The 'home' products farmed for money we neither see the benefit from or the return.
Maybe we're too busy shadow-boxing oil barons in Afghanistan or Iraq or why don't we have a pop at America, oh no wait, there the 'good guys'. Obama has nothing on me, I'm Scottish, Braveheart style, I have lots of oil thanks. Bit broke 'cos you n' Gordon Brown keep spending all the money on 'cough -oil-' war. that could pay off everyone in the UK's debit in one day.
Iraq stopped being an excuse, 'lets try Afghanistan..see if they buy that.'
Million Man March*...still at war,
unelected PM..still at war
Banking crisis, chancellor who caused it* NOW PM!
wow I've GOT to get into politics if you can be that stupid and get a promotion.
We have a civil responsibility to control media, guns, OUR banks, OUR society, pick up a pen and write to your MP and tell him/her ..
'dear sir or madam, we have had to let you go as you did not fulfil the requirements of your job.. feeding the homeless instead of yourself, providing jobs for less the fortunate instead of giving yourself a pay rise, sending soldiers to shoot people I have no quarrel with* instead of tackling innercity crime and violence, and you did not listen when I YOUR BOSS not Obama/Bush told you what to do.
vote with your feet.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called 'sons of God'
bless you and your household at this holy time of year. =)
David
this was my Christmas special
* Feb 2003 2 million people protest in London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest#United_Kingdom
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_3806000/3806313.stm
which lead to heavy borrowing..etc etc
*remember Bush Sr. started the war in 1990
Friday 4 December 2009, 9:44 AM
Can I have fries with that? (Consumer rights)
Licence policies of Tech company's have been for a long time both complicated and 'Dick Turpin-esque', people just click 'I agree' without reading the Agreement. I do the same, but with the provision in my heart for both God and Country.
So why are Governments letting these companies get away with, what could be interpreted as robbing us of our civil rights?...it's easy to forget our ancestors DIED for these rights, whether in America or the UK, (or even RoW) fighting fascism.
Take for example oooh i dunno, MS, not the worst or best, but okay.
on the left hand, (look 'left' up in Latin lol), over complication
of their Licence policies*...and of course spying and people manipulation.
*(OEMAct, OEM, Retail, Server it's a bit like in the Simpsons where the IRS takes over KrustyBurger and Homer needs his tax receipts to get a meal).
on the right hand, their Customer support is excellent, Building is easy with them even though, in building, they don't have much competition (maybe Novell or Red Hat, but I've never tried them as they are businesses oriented), they also might, just might, loose the $ sign in M$, with less money grubbing tactics ~ visa vi ~ the retail bargain on win 7, MS connect being a bit like tech-net but without the subscription cost of $350 ( although they need to offer IMHO more software and less white papers) AND, get this, MS One Care is now FREE.. WOW! It's called Security Essentials, and I'm using it right now.
of course, without Google kicking them in the backside every so often they do nothing.
Also take Apple, Hardware AND Software Vendors, ....okayyy, Did you know that Darwin, a OS X transition platform, is Linux based. It's the same with Windows NT is Linux based...wait a minute ..you mean these companies used FREE open source for there products??
Do these companies have the right to limit us? even though they used free open source software?
okay, so cocoa and carbon are very much Apple's own. but doesn't OS X look a lot like Gnome?..Apple failed last time because of entropy, a closed system will fail. you limit your idea base, whilst the rest of the world moves on leaving you with your PPC or ZX spectrum or whatever.
I have an iPhone, it is a great wee doodaa,...but do I like how Apple treats me..no. Do I put up with? yeah, to use the iPhone.
...and therein lays the problem.
we accept reduced rights to play with these toys...are we just Children of the Apple? I hope in God we are not.
Monday 16 November 2009, 5:59 PM
This Crap Site
How utterly stupid - I am ranked #40 in the top 100 - as a member of this site.....
I mean HOW utterly stupid.... I have done sweet FA, I have only rejoined this site after a 3 or 4 year absence.....
And I have only posted about 3 comments so far - and if that is what it takes to become so highly ranked; it really is pathetic.
Monday 16 November 2009, 3:45 PM
Microsoft Security Update: November Patch Tuesday
Apologies for this late update to our core Patch Tuesday update. Here is a summary of the update ....
The November Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft follows the largest patch and security update in Microsoft’s history. This month there are six updates to Office, Active Directory and Microsoft’s Office application suite.
These six updates have a low impact, bar one patch to Excel which may cause compatibility issues for some applications. The main cause for concern here is that Excel is a primary if not essential element to many environments. For example most banking, trading floor and insurance platforms. Therefore any change must be tested rigorously.
Whilst there are few applications in our sample that are affected, the ChangeBASE AOK team recommends that the Excel update (MS09-067) requires particular attention in any environments where there is a significant dependency on this,
We have included a brief snap-shot of some of the results from our AOK Software that demonstrates some of the potential impacts on Microsoft Office deployments with the following picture.
Testing Summary
MS09-063 : : Marginal impact and negligible testing profile
MS09-064 : : Marginal impact and negligible testing profile
MS09-065 : : Marginal impact and negligible testing profile
MS09-066 : : Marginal impact and negligible testing profile
MS09-067 : : Moderate impact and negligible testing profile
MS09-068 : : Marginal impact and negligible testing profile
The full posting of these results can be found on;
http://www.changebase.com/News/NewsPage.aspx?page=20091110-01_PatchTuesday.xml&style=~/Style/PatchTuesday.xsl
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