Well who doesn’t need a performance boost to their computer? Well may be someone who have a ‘Dell Studio’ with 4 GB ram and 1GB graphics card will laugh about performance boost…  Anyway there are people like me who need  little tweaks to speed up their system. Heres some simple steps to make your windows work faster..

There are a few unwanted “features” windows offer that eats up your CPU, they are good tools though but if performance comes above visual effects in your priority list then this trick is for you..

On Windows :

1. Right Click on ‘My Computer’ select ‘Properties’
   (Short-cut: Win Key + Pause/Break)
2. If you are using Windows Vista, Click on the ‘Advanced system settings’ on the left panel
3. Now you are in ‘System Properties’ window, click on the ‘Advanced’ tab
4. Saw the ‘Performance’ section? click ‘Settings’ next to it
   
5. In the ‘Visual Effects’ tab you can see various options to enable or disable
6. You can Disable all the effects to get the maximum performance or you could just disable the most unwanted effects
7. Heres a list of effects that wont be much of use to you :
   • Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
   • Fade or slide menus into view
   • Fade or slide tooltips into view
   • Fadeout menu items after clicking
   • Show shadows under menus
   • Slide open combo boxes
   • Slide taskbar buttons
8. The second optional list to disable that really change the style of your Windows :
   • Use a background image for each folder type
   • Use common tasks in folders
   • Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop
   • Use visual styles on windows and buttons
9. You could simple select ‘Adjust for best performance’ option to disable all effects and styles

Now considering how you choose the options the system performance really changes!

Ever thought of downloading Windows Updates from their site without using ‘Automatic Updates’? If you are a ‘techie’ you must have thought of it at least once. Here is a simple way to do this :

1. Go to the Windows Update Web Site. Make sure you open it in Internet Explorer, for some reason this site wont open in any other browsers!
2. In the left panel, under Other Options, select “Personalize Windows Update”.
3. Under “Set Options for Windows Update”, select the checkbox for “Display the Link to Windows Update Catalog under ‘See Also’”, then click “Save Settings”.
4. Go back to the Windows Update web site.
5. In the left pane, under “See Also”, select “Windows Update Catalog”.
6. Select “Find Updates for Microsoft Operating Systems”.
7. Select the operating system and language of your choice.
8. Select “Critical Updates and Service Packs”.
9. Select all of the patches you’d like to download.
10. Then click on “Go to download basket” to download them..

Thats it!

Bill Gates’ Speech at a High School about 10 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good & politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. This is one of the reason why America is ranked lower in educational qualifications.

Rules :

1. Life is not fair – get used to it!
2. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
4. If you think yourtecher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so font whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
8. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few emmployers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
9. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
10. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Here are some tricks.. Try them yourself..

Test 1 :

Open any file location in your computer

Create a folder and name it “con” (without the quotes)

What? it says the name is wrong?? How? Why?

Test 2 : (Windows upto XP, Vista)

Open Notepad

Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)

Save it as whatever you like to be

Close it and reopen it..

BOOOO!!
is it just a really weird bug??

Test 3 :

Open Microsoft Word

Type “=rand (200, 10)” (without the quotes)

Press enter key..

Document is flooded!!

More soon…

Now another search engine comes to compete with others. This time its from the software giants – Microsoft. It is named as BING. You can view it at www.bing.com. As you can see its damn fast comparing to Google search! , you wont believe it until you try yourself! 

Actually Microsoft first tried its fortune in search engine market by introducing live.com Even though it made some attractions it was not upto people’s expectations. Then they started searching for things people need today from a search engine. So they came to a new term – search decision engines. BING actually makes decisions by reading the user’s minds.    Well it works some how.  So here we are now we have to accept Microsoft’s awesome work.

Anyway its gonna make it tough for Google and Yahoo. Their dominance in the search engine field will drop a considerable percentage. Well what ever happens Google will lead the market with its simplicity in their stuff, am not saying this because of the fact that am a big fan of Google

Some videos about BING for you:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0rUzRAXGE

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpXYvSic0vc