Make Your PC Start Up Faster

When we want to start up our PC or laptop sometimes its need take a long time, and its wasting time, even when starting up my computer I can do something else while wait the windows opened, this is so annoying, I will share several tips to make your booting PC becomes faster. First you can cleaning the old file and need big space like movies, songs, image or anything that have big file size, you can delete it or you can move the file to your external hard disc or burn it into your CD, its can help your PC boot will faster, because when the PC booting the windows too hard to load this big file.

Other way is you must checking your Antivirus software, you can check is the program set automatically each time the windows is starting up? If yes you can stop this default, because some of antivirus using automatically scanning each time the windows are booted up, but not all antivirus does.

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How to Enable or Disable Hibernation in Windows Vista

With the following tips you can enable or disable hibernation in Windows Vista.

1. Click Start, All Programs.
2. Right click on Command Prompt.
3. Click on Run as administrator and then click Continue.
4. In the command prompt console, type “powercfg –h on” (or “off” without the quotes) and hit the Enter button.
5. Done.

Creating a Windows XP Recovery Kit

Finding your Windows XP operating system damaged can be a painful experience. We will not be able to do our daily activities with the computer anymore before finding the way to recover it. If you understand Windows XP, you can follow the detail to perform certain task that will allow recovering from any Windows XP failure no matter how bad it is.

There are two possibilities of the problem location in the Windows XP troubleshooting. It may be with Windows XP or may be with the hardware problem. The best way to recover from it is by having an XP Recovery Kit that will enable you to get your computer up and running in minutes rather than hours. This kit consists of the back up of your entire hard drive. You need disk imaging utility such as Drive Image by Powerquest and a backup medium such as a CD Rom writer, a DVD writer or a second hard drive to create your own Windows XP recovering Kit.

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Faster Your Windows Performance By Cleaning Windows Registry Regularly

If you need to clean your Windows registry regularly in order to get the greatest computer performance without any error during the used of your computer, you will need a registry that is useful for store the entire vital information related to the software and hardware configuration, setting, system, user accounts, network setting of information and many more. Whenever you created or accidentally created the change in the system through control panel, there will be an entry that is generated in the registry. It means that whenever you install or created uninstall program, there will be a changes to the hardware settings or user accounts then it will be created an entry of network configuration that are added to the available registry entry.

When you are created a change in your computer settings, the PC registry will becomes cluttered with many multiple entries. That huge amount of registry will make the system slower because it will need more time in order to access the data that required during the start up and also the run time. If the fragmented entries are left by unsuccessful or might be incomplete installation procedure of many different programs, the registry will be clogged up. If you are stuck with this certain condition, you should try to use the Windows registry cleaner that will makes you successfully clean your Windows registry from the unwanted entries that will makes you enjoy the faster and uninterrupted experiences in using computers.
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The Advancement of the Keylogger

A keylogger is a program that runs in your computer’s background secretly recording all your keystrokes. Once your keystrokes are logged, they are hidden away for later retrieval by the attacker. The attacker then carefully reviews the information in hopes of finding passwords or other information that would prove useful to them.  For example, a keylogger can easily obtain confidential emails and reveal them to any interested outside party willing to pay for the information.

Keyloggers can be either software or hardware based.  Software-based keyloggers are easy to distribute and infect, but at the same time are more easily detectable.  Hardware-based keyloggers are more complex and harder to detect.  For all that you know, your keyboard could have a keylogger chip attached and anything being typed is recorded into a flash memory sitting inside your keyboard. Keyloggers have become one of the most powerful applications used for gathering information in a world where encrypted traffic is becoming more and more common.

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Google Hacking

Here’s more Google Hacking. There are actually a lot of keywords and operators you can use to look for files that are supposedly hidden by people on their web servers.

Find MP3: Type the following line in your google search box.

“metallica” last modified mp3 “index of” -html -htm -php -asp

Find online camera:

inurl:”start.htm?scrw=1024″
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
“powered by webcamXP” “Pro|Broadcast”
inurl:”view.shtml” “axis”

Find chatting log:

“has quit” “has joined” filetype:txt

Find wordpress backup:

inurl:/wp-content/backup/

Find new (0 day) exploit:

intitle:”index of” (0day exploits| exploits| .c|.pl| .txt)

People Are Rethinking The Idea Of Installing Windows Vista

Many people who rushed into the download and installation of the new Windows Vista are having second thoughts. Like everything new, the bugs are not quite worked out. Microsoft has a great concept in Windows Vista, except it has some potential problems. Many businesses run Windows XP or Windows 2000 and have established great success with their current product and tend to be a little apprehensive about installing the new Windows. They may have good reason. The Window Systems they are using now have been around longer, are tested and have been proven to work for the businesses with IT technicians. Many businesses are waiting for the Service Pack 1 to become available before installing Windows Vista.

The biggest downfall to installing Windows Vista is that some applications are not as compatible as Microsoft had hoped for and this is a major concern. Many companies that have older computer systems are worried that when they install the operating system on their older computers, they are going to have additional cost in upgrading computers and other applications and software that they currently use now. This concern is not only been proven by businesses but also by personal computer users.

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Securing Your Computer System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.  As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers.  While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.  Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure.

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Disable Windows XP Boot Logo

You can speed up the boot process with disable Windows XP splash screen. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start - Run.
2. Type msconfig & click OK
3. Click boot.ini.
4. Place a check mark in the /noguiboot checkbox.
5. Click OK

After these steps, when you reboot your PC, you’ll see the Windows XP logo has disappeared.

Data Recovery Tips

Anytime your hard drive crashes or you lose your data, you’ll need to turn to data recovery to properly restore your information.  Data recovery is something most computer users are familiar with, as a majority of us have had to turn to data recovery at some point in time.  Even though hard drives are becoming better and better, they are still mechanical and will always encounter problems. The first thing to do, before any problems happen, is to always back up your data.  If you create backups of your information, you’ll be well prepared in the event of a disaster.  This way, even if your hard drive cannot be repaired and the data is lost forever, you’ll have the back ups to continue going as normal.  If you didn’t make back ups, you’ll find the situation very traumatic when you discover that your data cannot be recovered.

Most hard drives will last for years before they start to encounter any type of malfunction or hardware problems.  You can help prevent data loss by turning off your computer when it isn’t in use, or shutting it down when you hear the hard drive making an odd noise.  If the hard drive starts to malfunction, letting it continue to run will only do more damage.  If you shut it off immediately and take it to a specialist, you’ll have a much better chance of getting it repaired.

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