How to Defragment Your Hard Disk Drive

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Defragmentation is one of the most important utility tool in windows for computer maintenance.
This tool optimises the fragmented parts on  hard disk .
Before getting into how to Defragment lets just now about Fragmentation

What is fragmentation? 

Fragmentaton is a phenomenon in which storage space is used inefficiently, reducing storage capacity and in most cases performance.
Fragmentation occurs naturally when you use the hard disk drive usually  through doing basic tasks like deleting, modifying, and creating files abruptly.

Defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of Fragmentation  in hard disk and eventually saving the space in hard disk.


How to  Defragment
Before starting disk fragmenter close all programs ,Remove temporary internet files for better results
Steps:  
*Click Start
 *Select  All Programs
*Click on Accessories
*Click on System Tools
* Run Disk Defragmenter
*select the drive which you want to defragment and start analyse
*Then start Defragmentation 

Defragmenting may take a while juts be patient till it comes


After the completion of process you will notice that some memory is been saved.

Increase Hard Disk R/w speed in Windows

Increase or optimize your Hard Disk  read/write speed without any Extra software or changing HardDisk , increasing RAM just following steps .After doing so you can witness the improvement in speed as never before.
Steps to increase Harddisk  R/W speed

*go to start and select Run command

*run SYSEDIT.EXE program from run

* you may notice a bunch of windows ,in that select SYSTEM.INI and expand it

*scroll down to find the line "386enh" in the file.

*Press Enter to make one get next  line, and in that line type
          Irq14=4096 Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

* Click on the File menu, then choose option Save.

* reboot your computer.

After Restarting windows you may notice improve in hard disk R/W speed as never before..

**note: Irq14 is case sensitive ...
           :this trick works better with IDE drives.

Create a Shutdown/Reboot/LogOff Icon

Create your own icon for shutting ,restarting windows.

Windows xp has a program called shutdown.exe which allows to create a icon for shutdown.
To create an icon just follow the following steps:

1)Right click on an open area of the desktop
2)Select New -> Shortcut
For shutdown:
* Enter in shutdown -s -t 00
For Restart 
*Enter shutdown -r -t 00 
For Logging off
*Enter shutdown -l -t 00
Here 00 indicates the time in sec. e.g. 10- will shutdown PC after 10 sec
3)Press the Next button
4) name the shortcut as u wish .
5) Click on the Finish button.

Here -s shutdowns the computer
-r restarts
-l log offs
-a it aborts the shutdown
-f forces to close all applications
-t xx sets the timer to shutdown in certain no of seconds...xx =seconds ,say 20

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are the some of the Firefox keyboard shortcuts that will help you in web browsing .
These shorcuts are simple but they are incredibley easier.

*open new tabs with CTRl + T


*Switch tabs using CTRL + n 
Here n is not a letter .In this it represents the number key from 1 to 9 .Hold control and 'n' to switch between tabs.

*go to the address bar with CTRL + L


*Use CTRL + K to get the Search bar


*Use CTRL + Tab to switch,toggle between the tabs.

*Use backspace to get back to previous page


* to search certain word in web page use CTRL + F


*To close current Tab CTRL + W or CTRL + F4



* To close windows alt  + F4


*to open new windows CTRL + N


* To get to address bar in new tab ALT + ENTER


*to open bookmarks CTRL + b


* to add bookmark CTRL + d



*to get to downloads ctrl + j


*To toggle private browsing ctrl + shift + p


* to clear browsing history ctrl + shift  + del

Windows 7 shortcuts

I already presented you some of windows xp shorcuts under keyboard shorcuts.
Here are the some of Keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7

Win + Tab :  to cycle between Windows

Win + E : Windows Explorer is launched.

Win + R : Run Command is launched.

Win + F : Search (which is there in previous Windows versions too)

Win+ X : Mobility Center

Win+ L : Lock Computer

Win + U : Launches Ease of Access

Win + P : Projector

Win + T : Cycle Super Taskbar Items

Win + S : OneNote Screen Clipping Tool [you need to install one note first to get this (ms office)]

Win + M : Minimize All Windows

Win + D : Show/Hide Desktop

Win + Up : Maximize Current Window

Win + Down : Restore Down / Minimize Current Windows

Win+ Left : Tile Current Window to the Left

Win + Right : Tile Current Windows to the Right

Win+ any number : Quickly Launch a new instance of the application in the Nth slot on the taskbar.
Example Win+1 launches first pinned app,Win+2 launches second, etc.

Win+ = : Launches the Magnifier

Win + Plus : to Zoom in

Win + Minus : Zooms out

Win + Space : to Peek at the desktop

Iphone video Conertors

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Here are the some of Iphone video convertors


These convertors easily convert videos, movies, and TV shows for your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, or iPhone 4
* Suport almost all video formats like WMV, AVI, MKV, FLV, etc.

* Capture video clips or merge several videos into one continuous video

Download here:

Iskysoft Iphone video convertor

http://www.iphonevideoconverter.com/software.html

Free video convertor

Xilisoft iPhone Video Converter

Windows IP Configuration Tool (ipconfig)

Ip config is a command to configure Ip connections.ipconfig is a commmand line utility available on all versions of Microsoft Windows xp,vista,windows 7,win 98.

Ip config is designed to run from command prompt.it gives the information about ip address of computer.

it is also used to control other active connections and configure them.Ip config is the newer version of winipcfg which works only on windows 98.

to use this command go to start-->run--> type cmd and click enter
and next type the command "ipconfig/all"(without quotes) then by hitting up enter youm get info of the ip .

There are many switches for ipconfig you can get them by typing ipconfig/?

you can reconfigure ip by using the above options.