Thursday, October 15, 2009

Speed up Windows 7 & Vista without updating RAM


Does your computer run Windows 7 or Windows Vista? Does it run like snail? The people who are dealing with a slow PC know how irritating it is. Especially when you have to meet any deadline at your office, it just gets intolerable. Most of all experts may advise you to upgrade the RAM to speed up computer. But there is an effective solution other than upgrading the RAM. ReadyBoost can help you to optimize the PC speed. With the help of it you can use pen drive or other flash drives like cache memory additionally with the RAM available with your computer. You can activate the features of ReadyBoost by executing the following steps:

1. Connect a flash drive to the USB port of the CPU of your computer.
2. Select Start > Computer in Windows start program menu. The window of the computer will appear.
3. Right click on the drive and choose the ‘Properties’ option. The Properties dialogue will appear.
4. Now you need to choose the ReadyBoost tab to get the two radio buttons mentioned below.
• Use this device radio button
• Do not use this device
5. You have to choose the first option. Now you have to preserve the drive space that will be used as cache memory. You cannot use the space that is used as cache memory to store items in the attached drive.
6. You can move the slider on right or left side to indicate the space which you want to preserve as cache memory in the drive.
7. Click the Apply button.
8. Click the OK button.

If you want to avoid using pen drive as cache memory you have to activate the ‘Do not use this device radio button’ before you remove the pen drive. It will save your money that you need to spend to upgrade the RAM of your PC.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

How To Speed Up Windows 7

Does your computer run Windows 7? Does it run like a snail? If you are dealing with slow Windows 7 then you should now try to speed it up. While speeding up Windows 7 you may follow the steps mentioned below.

Proper configuration – While installing Windows 7 you should fulfill certain requirements and update your computer accordingly.

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
If the computer does not meet the requirements it may get slow.
While starting up Windows 7 you may find lots of programs which start automatically. These startup programs slow down the speed of your PC. To speed up Windows 7 you may remove these programs. To do this you have to click ‘Start’, ‘Run’ and type ‘ msconfig’. Then you need to click ‘Enter’. Now you will find the list of the startup programs. You need to select the programs that you do not want while starting up the computer.
Cleaning the registry of the computer may help you to sped up computer that runs Windows 7.
Downloading and installing the Process Express is probably the best way of speeding up Windows 7. Process Express is a tool and is a part of the SysInternals package of Microsoft. It will help to identify and describe the program running on your computer. You can easily make a list of the programs that you want to remove. To remove the programs you have to right click on the programs and then select ‘Kill’.
If you can execute these steps successfully I hope it will speed up the Windows 7.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Easiest Solutions For Printer Problems

Printer is almost an inseparable part of a computer that produces the hard copies of text documents, images etc. Most of all computer users have printers which are portable and have the best printing capability.

Most of people who uses computer has to face a very common problem i.e. while printing the printer may get blocked and cannot produce the hard copy. Following the methods mentioned you can fix the problem:
1. Click Start, click My Computer, and then click Manage.
2. Expand Services and Applications and then click Services.
3. Under Service status, click the Print Spooler service, and then click Start.
Apart from this technical solution you have to take care of the device to avoid such problems. You have to keep the printer clean and repair it whenever it is necessary. To improve the print quality you have to clean the print head. If you follow the tips you can enjoy a trouble free and smooth printing.