Impove Performance of Computer : Folder Setting

In my last post "Visual Setting : Way to Increase  performance of Your Computer" I had explained changing visual setting, you can increase speed of your computer. Now, I am explaining "File and folder setting " speed up your computer. In windwos xp and windwos vista and windows 7 too, there are too many optional setting about files and folder apperence and view. Although, some of them are very useful, most of them we do not use or rarely use. So, by disabling such cumbersome setting you can speed Up your computer. Here is the procedure in easy steps :

1) open 'computer' and select 'Organize'



2) Select 'Folder and Search Option'

3) A pop up Winnow appear. Select 'view' from tab bar.

4) Now, from advanced setting disable following options :

a) Display file size information in folder tips.
b) Display simple folder view in Navigation pane.
c) Hide extensions for known file types.
d) Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.
e) Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items.

You can change other setting as per your requirement.

Now, performance of your computer increased.

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Visual Setting : Increase Performance of Computer

In my post- 'Virtual Memory : Way to Speedup Your Computer', I explained paging file mechanism to speed up my computer. In this post, I will explain how to increase computer performance by enabling and disabling some windows inbuilt options.
          Windows Performance can be increased by

• 1) Changing Visual Setting
• 2) Changing File and Folder Setting
• 3) Changing Startup items

In this post, I will explain Visual setting and some upcoming posts, i will explain other two points.
Mostly,  changing this options does not affect your computer or your needs but increase performance of your computer tremendously.

1) Changing Visual Setting :

In Windows xp and especially vista and windows 7, there are so many visual elements e.g. Glass effect, aero experiencce etc. etc. .which slows down your computer. You can change all or some of them as your requirement. You have to follow just following easy steps to do this :
1) Right click on 'computer' icon and select 'properties'. 2) From Right Panel, select 'advanced system settings'

3) From 'advanced' tab select performance and then press 'setting' 3) Now Slect 'visual setting'  tab. 4) You can choose 'adjust for best performance'. It will give you best performance but will least appearence. If you want some visual effect then you can choose 'custom'. 5) Now, as shown in image, You can selecting or rejecting (removing tick) an option, you can keep just those settings that you want as well as some increase in performance also. 6) After all setting completed, select 'apply' button and then 'OK'. That's all guys!!! For more tricks and tips please visit  

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Windows 7 like Taskbar Icon (Iconised Taskbar) In Windows xp,vista

Except Windows 7, all other versions of windows including windows 2000, windows xp and windows vista shows taskbar icon with text. But, windows 7 uses taskbar shows only icon of application. It saves space on taskbar and you save space on your taskbar too. You can easily get windows 7 like taskbar icon on previous versions of windows. Here are simple steps to do this :

IF you are Novice or don't have to read full article then just Download registry file Here and then double click on it after extracing and 'log off' and 'log on' your pc. That's it guys!!!!  Or Follow Following Steps :::

1) Type 'regedit' into 'run' dialog box and press 'OK'. This will open registry editor if you have administrative privilage.

2) Choose 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER' FROM left panel of registry editor.

3) choose subkey 'Control Panel/Desktop/Windows Metrices'.

4) Now, from right side panel, Right click and then select 'new' and then 'String Value'.

5) Rename this value to 'MinWidth'. Right click on 'MinWidth' and select 'modify'. Set value to -255.

6) Now, close the registry editor and log off or restart your computer.

7) You will find out that your taskbar has windows 7 like icons.

In windows 7, height of taskbar is large than earlier windows. If you want this effect, then just right click on your taskbar and deselect 'lock taskbar'. Now, Increase the taskbar size by pressing and dragging your mouse at upper end of taskbar. Now, Again right click on taskbar and add new toolbar 'quick launch'. Now, right click in 'quick luanch pane' and select 'view' and then select 'large icons'.
Now you have windows 7 like taskbar in earlier windows.

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Phishing : An Introduction

In this post, I will explain what is phishing and what are it's symptoms. In next few posts, I will explain phishing in deep.

In simple words, phishing refers to steal of some one's personal information like e mail id and password, credit card details, security index etc. First 'phishing' technique is explained in 1987 and first phishing crime is recorded in 1995, January 2.

Definition of Phishing :
“Phishing” is a form of Internet fraud that aims to steal valuable information such as credit cards, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. "

Earlier, phishing crimes are mostly related to AOL which are related with 'Warez' community. This community is mostly connected with distribution of pirated softaware. In later days phishing crimes are diverts to financial institutes and credit card fraud are becoming phishers favourites.
But today 'social networking sites are' favourite target of phishers which results in the 'identity theft'. Some download sites like Rapidshare are soft target phishers in which premium account password and id are hacked.

How does Phishing took Place :

Phishing does not require that a phisher is a expert but an intelligent (evil brain) with little knowledge about emails, HTML and websites can easily 'Phish' the people. Today, Phishing is mostly by two ways :

1) Phishing by e fake mails :
2) phishing by fake web sites :

In most of the cases, both e mail and web site phishing are used altogether.

1) Some Scenarios :
1) Sometimes, when you open your inbox, you find out that there is a e mail from a reputed company or organisation or bank. e mail describe that respective organisation is chose you as winner of their contest or something else and you will won a plasma TV or something like that. For that purpose, they asked you to call you on a phone line. When you call they asked you to submit your credit card detail to further processing. You are excited and submit it. And and After some days,your account has zero balance and that organisation did not arrange any such contest.
2) In another way, A e mail in your inbox claiming that it is from a financial institute in which you have account. e mail asked you to submit your account id and password because that organisation facing some problems like data loss. The e mail further said that if you does not submit your details, your account will be destroyed. You got frustrated and immediately submitted your details and became victim of phishing.
3)Some, e mail sent you a link which claims that it is official site of a reputed organisation. But, that web site is owned by phishers and has same look and feel like official web site and little spelling difference in official URL. For example Fake Microsoft website may have URLs like :
www.mircosoft.com;
www.helpatmicrosoft.com;
www.micosoft.com
You entered your personal details on fake web site and it is immediately available to phishers.
In next few posts, I will explain phishing and their remedies in detail.

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Registry Cleaner : Ban or Boon

In my last post, i explained the windows registry in brief. As I told to you, now I will discuss a utility program 'Registry Cleaner'.
What is 'Registry Cleaner' ? :

As I told in my earlier post, registry is windows database that contains two elements : keys and values. Registry Cleaners are utility programs for windows that checks behaviour of registry items and remove unwanted registry elements.

How Registry Cleaners Works ? :

Mostly, Registry cleaner remove that entries from registry that are not used for long time or which are unwanted ones. Sometimes, you uninstall some program from your machine but it's some registry entries still remain in the registry. These entries are of no use and just garbage which slows down your machine. Sometimes, a malware program use registry entries, In this case registry cleaner remove these entries.
Basically, a registry cleaner scans your computer registry entries throughout and attempts to modify or delete unwanted entries.

Do Registry Cleaners Speed Up My System ? :

Most of the people thoughts that once they have installed a registry cleaner (which they bought for a good amount), computer performance will increase and their is speed up in their computer. But, unfortunately this is not true in all cases. Registry cleaners definitely increase computer performance in some earlier Operating Systems like Windows 9x. But, Today's operating Systems like Windows xp, Windows Vista and Windows 7 improves their memory management and indexing and that's why registry cleaner does not perform any significant job in increasing speed of your machine by deleting a few kilobytes of registry entries.

Do a PC Really Need a Registry Cleaners ? :

There are a lot controversies on this issues in experts. Some experts are thought that there is no 100 % guarantied mechanism to identified which registry entries are unwanted and hence, some useful entries may be lost by a registry cleaner. Sometimes, Registry cleaner can not identified elements of registry which are used by operating system but not by any other application and hence deleting such entries will result in bugs in your OS.

Then What to do ? :

If you are beginner and don't know much about registry,then you should use a trusted Registry Cleaner.
Here are some free registry Cleaners :

1) CCleaner : A very popular tool, mostly used to clean useless hard drive space also has a registry cleaner.
Download here

2) Eusing Registry Cleaner : I have not used this one but listen some good things about it. It can also cleans cleans missing shared dlls, invalid ActiveX, invalid paths, invalid installer references.
Download here

3) RegSeeker : A very god registry cleaner with some useful functions like search registry and much more.
Download here

If you are a computer expert, I suggests that you should manually edit registry entries. It is very easy. You have to just type 'regedit' in 'run' dialog box and then click 'OK' to run 'registry editor'. For this purpose, you must have an administrative privilege. I strongly recommands that before editing or removing any registry element, you should back up it. So that, you can restore it if it is necessary.

Backup Registry :

1) open Registry Editor as i told above.
2) select registry key you want to open.
3) click 'file' menu and then 'export' menu item.
4) specify path and name of registry file.

Restore Registry :

1) Right click on restored registry file and then choose 'merge'.
Click here to know more about windows registry

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