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Tips to speed up your PC

9/29/2013

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Find and remove  duplicates
 
You may advertently end up copying the same
files  to different locations on the computer. This leads to clogging of
precious hard  drive space. Both Windows and MAC users can use the free Easy Duplicate Finder  (easyduplicatefinder.com) — a lightweight and feature-rich program that does the  job fast. 

It lets you search various drives (including external storage  such as flash drives and portable HDD) and
generates reports of each scan. For  photographers who want to find and remove duplicate photographs, a free program  called Duplicate Photo Cleaner
(duplicatephotocleaner.com) finds duplicates even  if they were resized or
edited.

Remove  Temporary  files

 Temporary files usually refer to browser files or  those that get leftover when you install new applications. Ideally, hey should  be removed automatically by the respective program, but it doesn't always  happen. 

As more and more temporary files clog up your  computer, they eat  up hard drive space and slow it down. Get the free CCleaner (piriform.com/ccleaner) which is available for both Windows and Mac. It makes short work of cleaning up your system's temporary files. Mac users can also use OnyX (titanium.free.fr) which offers advanced cleaning
options. 

Make it boot faster

 As you install more programs, you might notice  that your PC takes longer to boot up. This happens because many applications and  services automatically initialise during the boot process.
Soluto (soluto.com)  is a free Windows utility that analyses your PC's boot up
time and removes  unnecessary startup programs. 

It even lets you individually select the  programs you want to remove from startup. MAC users can do the same by going to  System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and removing applications that  you do not want to open automatically when you log in. 

Sort out the  registry

 Unknown to many, but one of the main causes of a  slow Windows PC is a corrupted registry. The Windows registry configures and  handles every hardware and software operation on your computer and tends to get  corrupted by obsolete/invalid entries. Get the free Registry Repair from glarysoft .com/registry-repair. 

It scans your system registry for a  number of common issues and fixes them instantly. It also makes a backup of any  registry change so that if your system becomes unstable, it can be restored back  to its original state.

 
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Secure your Desktop Icons and Settings

2/28/2009

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You can save your desktop settings and secure it from your nerdy friend by playing with the registry. Simply launchthe Registry Editor go to: 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer 

In the right pane create a new DWORD Value named NoSaveSettings and modify it's value to 1.


Refresh and restart for the settings to get saved. 

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Pop a banner each time Windows Boots

2/28/2009

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To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to

display just before a user is going to log on, go to the key: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinLogon 

Now create a new string Value in the right pane named LegalNoticeCaption and enter the value that you want to see in the Menu Bar. Now create yet another new string value and name it: LegalNoticeText. Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots. This can be effectively used to display the company's private policy each time the user logs on to his NT box. It's .reg file would be: 

REGEDIT4 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] 

"LegalNoticeCaption"="Caption here." 


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