• Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’.
• Click on ‘Classic View’ in the left pan.
• Open ‘Administrative Tools’ from the right pan
  
• Open ‘Computer Management’ from the right pan.
  
• Double click on ‘Storage’ and then on ‘Disk Management  (Local)’
  
  
• You will be taken to ‘Computer Management’ screen. You can see the snapshot of your drives.

Delete Existing Partition

• Right click on the drive and select ‘Delete Volume..’
  
• You will be prompted for confirmation, click ‘Yes’
  
• You will find the entire drive as Unallocated

Create Extended Partition from Unallocated Space

• Right click on ‘Unallocated’ and select ‘New Partition’.
  
• You will be taken to ‘New Partition Wizard’ window.
  
• Since it is an external drive, select ‘Extended Partition’ and click next to continue
  
• Make sure the maximum size of the disk and size of new partition is same. Click next to continue.
  
• Extended drive has been created. Now you have to create logical drives.

Create Logical Drives

• Right click on the drive and select ‘New Logical Drive’.
  
• You will be taken to the new partition wizard. Click next to continue.
  
• Click again to continue.
  
• You can enter the size of the new drive as per your choice.
  
• You can choose to select a drive letter for the newly created drive
  
• Select the following options and click next to continue.
  ‘Format this volume with the following settings:’
  File system as ‘NTFS’
  Check ‘Perform a quick format’ 
  
• Click finish to complete the process.
• Repeat the process to create more logical drives.

Creating a shortcut to switch the active user is as easy as creating a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\tsdiscon.exe

1.Right click where you want the shortcut to be created and select New and then Shortcut.

2.Copy and paste “c:\windows\system32\tsdiscon.exe” into the location box and hit Next.

3.Give it a name and hit Finish.

What is Virtual Memory?

Virtual memory is simulated RAM. When you have used up all your RAM, your computer will shift data to an empty space on the hard drive. The computer swaps data to the hard disk and back to your RAM as needed. When you increase your virtual memory you are increasing the empty space that is reserved for your RAM overflow.
Also having enough available space is absolutely necessary for your virtual memory and RAM to function properly. You can increase Virtual Memory performance automatically by freeing up resources in your registry. You may want to use a Registry Cleaner.

How to increase Virtual Memory?

In Windows XP

• Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
• Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
• On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
• On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
• Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
• Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
• Click Set
• When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

Note: To stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file, set the initial and maximum size to the same value. For example, 500 and 500. The value should be at least 1.5 times more than your physical RAM. If your computer has 512MB of RAM increase the virtual memory paging file to 1.5*512= 768

In Vista

• Click Start button Picture of the Start button
• Click Control Panel
• Choose System and Maintenance and then click System.
• In the left pane, click Advanced system settings.
• On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
• Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, choose Change.
• Click Custom to change the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size.Same Note for Vista has to be followed.

Remember to choose the drive you would like to use to increase the virtual memory. In most cases it usually your C: Drive. You can set the initial size and maximum size after clicking the Custom size check box.Remember its better to keep the Virtual memory values the same.

Also having enough available space is absolutely necessary for your virtual memory and RAM to function properly.

There are 2 solutions to this.(Will tell you the hard one first).anyways before deciding to migrate to Windows XP, better have a backup of all your data and also download all the necessary drivers for Windows XP from Dell’s support page

• While downloading all the necessary drivers, dont forget to get the SATA driver for the hard disk, embed the SATA driver alone with a bootable XP disc and then burn it. You can use nLite to embed a data to the Bootable disc s data and then make a bootable disc.

I know this would confuse everyone.So let’s go with an easy one

• People though can play around with the BIOS can do this, press F2 while booting which takes you yo the BIOS screen and you can find an option SATA in the menu.Change the SATA mode to ATA(previously it will be AHCI).Save the settings and there you go .
• You can use an ordinary bootable Windows XP cd for installing XP in your machine
• After installing Windows, install all the drivers and keep in mind to install the blue tooth driver at last.
• Some machines might not accept the blue tooth driver if installed first or in-between.

Please get back if you have any queries. savio(at)techwhiz(dot)in

Solution:

• Open ‘My Computer’ (wait patiently).
• Open ‘Folder Options’ from ‘Tools’ menu.
  
• Click on ‘View’ tab in ‘Folder Options’ window.
• Uncheck the box for "Automatically search for network folders and printers".
  
• Click ‘OK’ to save and close the ‘Folder Options’ window.
• The problem should be gone by now.

For any query please send email to saurabh(at)techwhiz(dot)in