Nowadays most of us use external hard drives; it’s mainly because they are portable and light. Today I’m going to share a tutorial with you which will help you to speed up your external hard drive speed in vista. It’s concerned with turning write caching on and activating advanced performance. This tip is not encouraged if you have frequent power cuts. It’s because enabling write caching will result in data loss if there’s power failure or maybe if the drive is plugged out too quickly. Ok, so if you don’t have a problem of power cuts and if you handle the drive safely then here’s a tutorial to speed up your external USB hard drive speed.
Sometimes when we create multiple folders it consumes a lot of time as Windows doesn’t provide any shortcut key to create a new folder quickly. But don’t worry people, I’m going to explain two ways through which you can create multiple folders easily and quickly. The first one is by creating a quick launch icon to create a new folder; the second one is by using a software.
Here’s an awesome trick to get Windows Vista or Xp on your PSP. Now you might be wondering how’s that possible. Well, it’s just a flash program known as PSPWXP that is made to run on your PSP and not the real Windows Vista or XP which you install on your pc.
Sometimes when you try to open certain folders like Document and Settings, Application Data, etc in Windows Vista you get an error message saying “Access Denied”. This problem generally occurs when particular user’s rights in the NTFS partition are altered by someone or some program. Here’s a workaround for this problem, follow the below instructions carefully:
Here’s a short useful tutorial which will help you to add a defragment option to the right click menu. It’s pretty useful as whenever you feel like defragmenting a particular drive you can do it instantly by right clicking on it and selecting defragment instead of starting defragmenter and selecting the drive to defragment. Here’s how you get it done:
There are a few files in both windows XP and Vista which are super hidden. Such files cannot be viewed by changing the hide folder option to view all hidden files. I had previously written an article on viewing super hidden files over here. You can check it if you want to view super hidden files. Well, if we can view them can we make any file/ folder super hidden? Well, yes.
Creating keyboard shortcuts to various programs in windows is pretty easy. To do so, we right click on the shortcut, go to properties and change the shortcut key. But doing this for every application is a bit time consuming and difficult to manage. If you have many apps with shortcuts you might end up forgetting the shortcut keys.
I came across awesome software- Keyboard Shortcuts which not only allows you to create keyboard shortcuts to applications but also allows you to manage them with ease. The program is hardly 500KB in size and is freely available.
We usually lock folders using softwares but have you ever wondered that you can lock a folder without actually using a software? Well, if you haven’t it is possible and pretty easy too. The idea behind it is simple, here’s how you do it:
1. Firstly open Notepad and paste the following code:
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