Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Laptop Tips: Increase Your Laptop Batteries Life

Now I have a interesting tip to increase your Laptop's battery life. There is no matter, laptop manufacturers gives you the guarantee about the battery that how long it works. The battery of laptop always stops working very early at some stage in essential research, just like when you are watching a DVD movie. 

Follow the few steps to increase the laptop battery's life: 

Lower the backlighting on your screen.

Xp Tips: How To Search Lost Files Faster

This Xp tip will help you to enjoy the quick and easy way to find lost files on your computer. Try to search a file with its file extensions (for example for word files, type *.doc, Excel *.xls, Acrobat *.pdf, *.ppt and *.exe for executable files. If you don't know the name of the file, got to folder options in tools, then go to the view tab, then scroll down to the hidden files area. unmark "Hide Protected Operating System Files" A pop-up menu will come out asking your permission, select "yes". you will notice that the files in your computer will have a string attached to it. example: .doc,.pdf,.ppt, etc.. Then try to search for files containing specific text, type the text you want to find from any file or folder. This is time taking process but give's a very precise result. In Look in, click the drive, folder, or network you want to search. To save time, always select the specified drive or location instead of whole computer.

Computer tips: General PC Cleaning

You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the computer components. Your computer components could damage, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis, because dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure.

  • Never place your computer on the ground, always use computer table or shelf for this purpose.
  • To clean computer case first unplug your system power from the electrical outlet. Remove all cables and connectors from the back side of your computer.
  • Now blow the air around all the hardware components and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components. You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.
  • At the end using lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids on the computer case and use paper towel to dry it.
  • Never clean inside computer components or other circuit board with damp or wet cloth.
  • Always be careful to eat or drink around the computer.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Xp Tricks: How to delete recycle bin from your desktop

Remove the Recycle Bin from the Desktop

If you don't use the Recycle Bin to store deleted files , you can get rid of its desktop icon all together.

Go to run

then input:regedit

Run Regedit and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/Desktop/NameSpace


Click on the "Recycle Bin" string in the right hand pane. Hit Del, click OK.

you will notice that your recycle bin disappeared from your desktop..

make sure you will do this when your using rocketdock

 

Friday, October 24, 2008

Xp Tips: How to make your computer fast!!!

f your Windows XP or Vista is getting slow, a wise thing to do is to defragment your hard drives!

There are many programs but one of the best is Auslogics Disk Defragmenter. Just download the defragmenter, install it and run defragment. It should take approximately 1 hour and it says how much faster your computer went (for example 30%).

When the program has completed defragmenting you should immediately feel the difference (if the percent was over 30). Your computer should now be much faster than it used to be. Programs start up in a glance!

Yes, I know Windows XP also has a built-in defragmenting tool, but it sucks.