WinRAR product descriptions

winrarWinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of the RAR archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 30 percent better than ZIP files. WinRAR’s main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, processing of non-RAR archives, long filename support, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), damaged archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Lanjutkan membaca WinRAR product descriptions

Correcting System Hang at Startup

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can’t access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn’t work for me. Here’s what you do: Lanjutkan membaca Correcting System Hang at Startup

Swap File Tweak

For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows- and Game-Performance.
What it does: It tells Windows not to use any Swap File until there is really no more free RAM left.

Open the System Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the RUN command. There in your System.ini you have to add “ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1” under the Lanjutkan membaca Swap File Tweak

Boot XP faster

  1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:\
  2. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “gpedit.msc”.
  3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
  4. In the new window, click “add”, “Browse”, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file & click “Open”.
  5. Click “OK”, “Apply” & “OK” once again to exit.
  6. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “devmgmt.msc”.
  7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers”
  8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “Properties”.
  9. Select the “Advanced Settings” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect’ & click “OK”.
  10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel”, select “Properties” and repeat step 9.
  11. Reboot your computer.