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Yesterday I bought a 320 GB Transcend portable hard disk. Well the actual storage space was roughly 300 GB. It came with a pre-installed software for managing the drive and had only one drive. The next thing to do was to partition the drive. Preparatory Steps Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’. Click on ‘Classic View’ in the

I was trying to flush the dns cache on Windows Vista system, but I was getting an error. This is a very common error when you try to execute commands requiring administrator privileges. The simplest solution is to run command prompt in administrator mode. How to Run ‘command prompt’ in administrator mode? Right Click on

You can easily increase virtual memory by following the steps below. Your virtual memory is important but before you alter your settings it’s best to find out more about virtual memory. What is Virtual Memory? Virtual memory is simulated RAM. When you have used up all your RAM, your computer will shift data to an

You might be interested in determining the amount of uptime that has accumulated since the last reboot of your pc. Track uptime in GUI: Open up ‘Task Manager’ by right clicking the ‘Taskbar’ and selecting ‘Task Manager’ Click on Performance tab and you will see the amount of uptime listed under the System section. Duration

ReadyBoost helps your computer by giving it more high-speed memory. If your computer is running low on RAM then it has to kick a lot of applications out of high-speed physical memory to the paging file on your hard drive. This usually results in a big hit in performance and increased activity on your hard

There’s a quick way by which you can enable or disable ‘User Account Access’ window from the command line: Make sure you are running in administrator mode. Type ‘cmd’ in the start menu search box. Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Enter’. Windows Vista will prompt for your permission. Disable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD

Open ‘Control Panel’ (Make sure ‘Control Panel Home’ is selected and not ‘Classic View’). Type ‘UAC’ in the search box. Click on the  link ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’. Windows Vista will prompt for your permission. Select ‘Continue’. Uncheck ‘Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer’. Select ‘OK’ to