Speed up your computer by cleaning RAM using notepad

If your computer become slow, when you are working with many programs. It may be due to RAM because at that time RAM is full of remaining progress pieces which you are working with and you do not need them any more. So, if you can erase or delete those unnecessary pieces of information, your computer RAM will be cleaned and your computer will be speed up.



Cleaning RAM is very easy task here are steps for it, just follow them:

1). Open notepad.

2). Type FreeMem=Space(64000000).

3). Save file with name "CleanRAM.vbs".

4). Close it and run the file.

It will free memory in RAM, if you want to free more memory than you can write following command in notepad instead of what given in step 2.

FreeMem= (256000000) for 256 mb
FreeMem= (128000000) for 128 mb
FreeMem= (72000000) for 72 mb
FreeMem= (64000000) for 64 mb
FreeMem= (32000000) for 32 mb
FreeMem= (24000000) for 24 mb

Make sure that you don't select the memory that is larger than your memory capacity.

Scan and Replace window's corrupted System Files

If your computer running slowly or not working properly then there may be some problem in its System files. System files are group of program files that work together to run your computer. These files can be changed or corrupted with time, it may corrupts due to installation of softwares, some internal errors or due to viruses, which makes computer slower.

Scan your system files to check if they are working fine or having some errors. In case of damaged system files you can repair or replace them. It can be done by System file checker.


System File Checker is a utility in Microsoft Windows that allows users to scan for and restore corruptions in Windows system files. This utility is available on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.


Follow these steps to use System file Checker:

1). Go to Run.
2). Type SFC /SCANNOW and click on ok button.
3). It will start scanning proccess and this process takes longer time, it can be more than 30 mins.
4). In case window having some problems, It will display some steps to follow. just follow those steps.

Turn off all system Beeps - Cool Computer Tricks

wanna turn off all cpmputer beeps?? just follow these steps you need to do some changes in registry but its very simple. Follow these steps:

1). Open Run.

2). Type Regedit and press enter.

3). Now window ll ask for your perimission to continue just click on continue.

4). In registry editor window , browse to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound


5). Here double click on Beep.

6). Now change the value of beep to No.


7). Close the registry editor and reboot your computer.

Its done.
Changes will be reflected after you reboot your computer.

Tips to Optimize your Computer's Performance

Wanna improve your computer performance?? If yes then optimize your computer's performance.Here are some easy and simple tips to optimize computer's preformance.

1. Check registry files: Registry files control the software systems and programs on a computer. They can become damaged when you uninstall a program. Generally, uninstalling one program lead to a problem with another program that shared similar registry files. Therefore, use some good registry scanning software to determine if everything is working fine. There are lot of good registry scanners available in the market. Some of them are free wares.
   


2. Remove unwanted icons from desktop: The easiest ways to optimize the computer’s performance is to cleanup the things on the desktop. The icons which you never use slow down a computer. Deleting these icons will free up some memory and speed up the computer. If you mistakenly install any application / software on the desktop, then be very carefull.


3. Upgrade the computer's memory: Buying a memory may be costly, but it's very simple and easy way to speed up your computer. It will also fix memory errors if any. Before buying the memory or RAM for your computer, look for best shops, make a survey and find a best value deal.


4. Use Program uninstallers: Many times, when programs are removed, they leave behind some traces. So, use a program uninstaller to uninstall or remove installed software. Choose any good uninstaller software like Advanced Uninstaller PRO or Total Uninstall etc.


5. Delete every unwanted program from the task bar. They utilize memory and slowdown the computer. You can do this by following simple steps:

• Click on Start and then Run.
  
• Enter MsCONFIG. Press enter key.
• Click on Start UP. Here you will find a list of start up programs.
• Uncheck programs like real players, Office startup, Quicken Reminder, etc whih you want to remove.
  
• Do NOT uncheck systray, Explorer and Virus check or scheduler programs.

These are some easiest tips which every user should follow to maintain his computer's performance.

Disable useless repeating error notifications

Your computer may be at risk. Your virus protection status is unknown and many others.These are some notifications which windows gives to maintain computer security.

Security is a system of safeguards designed to protect a computer system and important data from damage or access by unauthorized persons. Different antivirus and firewall programs are used to manage the security of the computer. Some time this is build-in antivirus or firewall program in windows to maintain the computer security. But if your windows is not provided with any antivirus, firewall program and Automatic Updates, your windows security center will alerts you a message Your computer may be at risk. Your virus protection status is unknown with useless repeating reminder.



You can disable this message permanently by doing some changes in registry. Just follow these steps:

1). Go to run.

2). Type Regedit in Run option.

3). Now window will ask for your permission to continue, just click on continue.

4). Here locate the location to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center

5). Now in right side panel, double click on AntiVirusDisableNotify and set its value 1.

6). Close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Its done.

Use Pendrive as RAM in window VISTA - Useful Vista Trick

If you have Window vista installed in your computer and have less RAM, then you must be tierd of window vista's slow performance. But now here is 1 solution you can increase the RAM allowing the operating system more space of cache and fast access memory.

Vista provides a great feature called Ready boost. With this feature, you can utilize your pen drive or a memory card as RAM. With this feature, it increases the additional memory in your computer system to improve the performance of your personal computer.


you need to enable ready boost, Just follpw these steps:

1). When you plug the USB device in the USB port, it will show the message speed up my system using windows ready boost, Click on it.



2). Go to Pendrives Properties and click on Ready Boost tab.

3). Choose the option use this device and increase the limit of space to serve for your system speed option. The reservation of memory is depending on the capacity of pen drives.

4). Click OK.

Its done.

Increase Download speed of your LAN - Get Maximum LAN speed

If you are tired of slow downloading speed of your LAN, then try this may be this works for you. Just follow given steps to get maximum LAN speed:

1). Open Control Manager.

2). Double click on Device Manager.

3). Now window will asked for your permission to continue, just click on continue.

4). In device manager window locate network card & double click on it.

5). It will open new window, Here click on Advanced tab.

6). Now locate speed and duplex in property and then on right hand side select 100mbps half duplex.

7). Click OK.

Its Done.

Now your LAN download speed must be faster than before, Its the maximum LAN download speed.

A to Z Run Commands - Useful commands

Here are list of all Run commands ....




A
Accessibility Controls - access.cpl

Accessibility Wizard - accwiz

Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl

Administrative Tools - control admintools

Adobe Acrobat (if installed)- acrobat

Adobe Designer (if installed)- acrodist

Adobe Distiller (if installed)- acrodist

Adobe ImageReady (if installed)- imageready

Adobe Photoshop (if installed) - photoshop

Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl


B


Bluetooth Transfer Wizard - fsquirt


C


Calculator - calc

Certificate Manager - certmgr.msc

Character Map - charmap

Check Disk Utility - chkdsk

Clipboard Viewer - clipbrd

Command Prompt - cmd

Component Services - dcomcnfg

Computer Management - compmgmt.msc

Control Panel - control


D


Date and Time Properties - timedate.cpl

DDE Shares - ddeshare

Device Manager - devmgmt.msc

Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)* - directx.cpl

Direct X Troubleshooter - dxdiag

Disk Cleanup Utility - cleanmgr

Disk Defragment - dfrg.msc

Disk Management - diskmgmt.msc

Disk Partition Manager - diskpart

Display Properties - control desktop

Display Properties - desk.cpl

Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected) - control color

Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility - drwtsn32

Driver Verifier Utility - verifier


E


Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc


F


Files and Settings Transfer Tool - migwiz

File Signature Verification Tool - sigverif

Findfast - findfast.cpl

Firefox (if installed) - firefox

Folders Properties - control folders

Fonts - control fonts

Fonts Folder - fonts

Free Cell Card Game - freecell



G


Game Controllers - joy.cpl

Group Policy Editor (XP Prof) - gpedit.msc


H



Hearts Card Game - mshearts

Help and Support - helpctr

HyperTerminal - hypertrm



I


Iexpress Wizard - iexpress

Indexing Service - ciadv.msc

Internet Connection Wizard - icwconn1

Internet Explorer - iexplore

Internet Properties - inetcpl.cpl

Internet Setup Wizard - inetwiz

IP Configuration (Display Connection Configuration)- ipconfig /all

IP Configuration (Display DNS Cache Contents) - ipconfig /displaydns

IP Configuration (Delete DNS Cache Contents) - ipconfig /flushdns

IP Configuration (Release All Connections) - ipconfig /release

IP Configuration (Renew All Connections) - ipconfig /renew

IP Configuration (Refreshes DHCP & Re-Registers DNS) - ipconfig /registerdns

IP Configuration (Display DHCP Class ID) - ipconfig /showclassid

IP Configuration (Modifies DHCP Class ID)- ipconfig /setclassid


J


Java Control Panel (If Installed) - jpicpl32.cpl

Java Control Panel (If Installed) - javaws



K


Keyboard Properties - control keyboard


L


Local Security Settings - secpol.msc

Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc

Logs You Out Of Windows - logoff


M


Malicious Software Removal Tool - mrt

Microsoft Access (if installed) - access.cpl

Microsoft Chat - winchat

Microsoft Excel (if installed) - excel

Microsoft Frontpage (if installed) - frontpg

Microsoft Movie Maker - moviemk

Microsoft Paint - mspaint

Microsoft Powerpoint (if installed) - powerpnt

Microsoft Word (if installed) - winword

Microsoft Syncronization Tool - mobsync

Minesweeper Game - winmine

Mouse Properties - control mouse

Mouse Properties - main.cpl



N


Nero (if installed) - nero

Netmeeting - conf

Network Connections - control netconnections

Network Connections- ncpa.cpl

Network Setup Wizard - netsetup.cpl

Notepad - notepad

Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed) - nvtuicpl.cpl


O


Object Packager - packager

ODBC Data Source Administrator - odbccp32.cpl

On Screen Keyboard - osk

Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed)- ac3filter.cpl

Outlook Express - msimn



P


Paint - pbrush

Password Properties - password.cpl

Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc

Performance Monitor - perfmon

Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl

Phone Dialer - dialer

Pinball Game - pinball

Power Configuration - powercfg.cpl

Printers and Faxes - control printers

Printers Folder - printers

Private Character Editor - eudcedit


Q



Quicktime (If Installed) - QuickTime.cpl

Quicktime Player (if installed) - quicktimeplayer



R


Real Player (if installed) - realplay

Regional Settings - intl.cpl

Registry Editor - regedit

Registry Editor - regedit32

Remote Access Phonebook - rasphone

Remote Desktop - mstsc

Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc

Removable Storage Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc

Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof) - rsop.msc



S

Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl

Scheduled Tasks - control schedtasks

Security Center - wscui.cpl

Services - services.msc

Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc

Shuts Down Windows - shutdown

Sounds and Audio - mmsys.cpl

Spider Solitare Card Game - spider

SQL Client Configuration - cliconfg

System Configuration Editor - sysedit

System Configuration Utility - msconfig

System File Checker Utility (Scan Immediately) - sfc /scannow

System File Checker Utility (Scan Once At Next Boot)- sfc /scanonce

System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot)- sfc /scanboot

System File Checker Utility (Return to Default Setting) - sfc /revert

System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache) - sfc /purgecache

System File Checker Utility (Set Cache Size to size x) - sfc /cachesize=x

System Information - msinfo32

System Properties - sysdm.cpl


T


Task Manager - taskmgr

TCP Tester - tcptest

Telnet Client - telnet

Tweak UI (if installed) - tweakui


U


User Account Management - nusrmgr.cpl

Utility Manager - utilman


W


Windows Address Book - wab

Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig

Windows Backup Utility (if installed) - ntbackup

Windows Explorer - explorer

Windows Firewall - firewall.cpl

Windows Address Book - wab

Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig

Windows Backup Utility (if installed) - ntbackup

Windows Explorer - explorer

Windows Firewall - firewall.cpl

Windows Magnifier - magnify

Windows Management Infrastructure - wmimgmt.msc

Windows Media Player - wmplayer

Windows Messenger - msmsgs

Windows Picture Import Wizard (need camera connected) - wiaacmgr

Windows System Security Tool - syskey

Windows Update Launches - wupdmgr

Windows Version (to show which version of windows) - winver

Windows XP Tour Wizard - tourstart

Wordpad - write

Make Firefox faster - Lower the amount of memory it used

If you have old desktop PC of RAM less than 1 GB and have installed firefox. Then may be you noticed that your computer slow down after its installation. Here is trick to make it faster by decrease the amount of memory it used.


If your computer has ram of 1 gb or more than 1 gb, then you need not to do this.
Follow given steps:
1). Open firefox.

2). In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config.

3). Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true. If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true.

4). Now Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer.


5). Enter preference name as browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value window.


6). Click OK.

7). Now you have to enter a number in the Enter integer value, but that number depends on how much memory you have , how much you want to give Firefox. If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value. If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192.


8). Click OK.

Its done.

Restart firefox and seee then changes. It must be much faster now..

Enable or Disable Control Panel

If your friends, childrens or family members use your computer and you do not want them to change any system setting then best way for this is to disable Control Panel. To disable control panel you have to do some changes in Regisstry. Just follow these steps:

1). Go to Run and type regedit.

2). Now window will ask for your permission to continue Click on Continue

3). Now in registry editor window, Browse to given User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

4). Here create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called NoControlPanel set the value to equal 1 to enable the restriction.

5). Now again browse to following System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

6). Follow step no 4 to create NoControlPanel dword key.

7). Exit registry editor.

Its done.

you may need to restart for the changes to take effect. This setting allows you to restrict user access to the Control Panel options and settings.

Login automatically in window XP

If your Windows XP installation forces you to login every time you reboot, Sometimes this seems very annoying especially when you are installing a bunch of software or testing out configurations. Now you can automate the login process easily so that you won't have to login again.

For security reasons, you would usually want to have a password, but for a home computer you may not care.

Here are steps to automate the login process in window XP :

1). Go to the Start menu, click Run, and type control userpasswords2.

2). Uncheck this box user must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

3 ). Click the OK button.

Its Done.

A password dialog will open for the currently logged in user. Now when you reboot your system, you will automatically be logged in.

Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

Mostly Computer takes lots of time for restart. Sometimes we need to restart our computer, that time it becomes necessity like after installing some software but when we have limited time and we are busy then it is very annoying to wait for it to restart.
So here is solution for this problem. In that case you need not to restart your computer but you can restart your windows without restarting computer. It will take very less time.


To restart windows without restarting computer you just need to hold Shift key down while clicking on shutdown or restart button.

you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

Restart Windows without Restarting PC, this term is known as Hot Booting.

Use Your Camera Phone as Webcam!

Dont have web cam and want to do video chats? If yes then here is solution for you, now you dont need to buy webcam for videochat. You can use your mobile phone's camera as web cam and can do whatever you want. for this you need to download a software WWIGO(Webcam Wherever I Go).
WWIGO is a software which allows user to transform bluetooth enabled camera phone into a wireless webcam to be used along with PC/Laptop.
Wwigo currently supports Nokia Series 60 phones including both S60 v2.0 and S60 v3.0 devices. Supported Bluetooth stacks are IVT/Bluesoliel, Widcomm, Microsoft and Toshiba Bluetooth stack. Its freely available on internet, you can ven download from here.

Cliclk here to download WWIGO 1.5

Delete undeletable files in windows XP and Vista

Some files and folders are undeletable for example virus affected files and folders, when we try to delete them, it will show an error message like Cannot delete file: the file is in use by the other program or it can be like Disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use or any other such kind error message. Now here is trick to delete such kind of files
for this you simply need to download a freeware tool called Unlocker.
You can download this free. Follow these steps:



1). Download unlocker and then install it.

2). After installation, right click on file or folder that you want to delete.

3). Select the option Unlocker.

4). If your requested file or folder is used or locked by other application then a small window listing of lockers will appear.

5). Here simply click on Unlock All button.

6). Now you can easily delete this file by just pressing delete button of your keyboard.



Click here to download unlocker.

Move Taskbar to new Spot - Cool Computer Trick

By default, Microsoft's Windows taskbar, which shows buttons for each of your open windows, present at the bottom of your screen. If you do multitasking and open many windows, more than six or seven windows at a time, then taskbar become extremely crowded. To make more space for windows, move your taskbar to the right or left side of the screen, where it will be displayed vertically. Its very convirnt as well as it will give new look to your computer.

Follow these Steps to move your taskbar:

1). Right click on taskbar and if your taskbar is locked (check mark on lock the taskbar), then click on lock the taskbar to unlock it.

2). Move the taskbar by just dragging it on screen, You can move anywhere left, right, top and bottom by just dragging it.

3). You can also change the width of taskbar by clicking on edge of taskbar.

4). Now right click on taskbar and click lock the taskbar.

Its done.