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ThinkPad and ThinkCentre will boot up to 56% faster on Window 7

by Ben on 01/10/2009 · Comments

in Window Vista, Window XP, Windows, Windows 7

Lenovo claims that Window 7 will boot up to 56% faster compared to XP and vista when installed in their own ThinkPad and ThinkCentre products. At the same time the IdeaPad and the IdeaCentre series will experience a speed improvement of around 33% faster during boot up and 50% faster during shut down.

According to the Computerworld interview with Howard Locker, Locker stated that “"we went from a one-minute boot-up to 30 seconds, and took shutdown from 20 seconds down to 10."

The dramatic speed improvement is contributed from:

  • Fixing driver of hardware components that were causing huge latencies and resource intensive.
  • Tweaking to the BIOS to hide some device during boot up.
  • Tweaking Window 7 to delay the start-up some nonessential services.

Very excited to see the news as I am a Lenovo Thinkpad user myself. Hopefully the tweaks and the new drivers will be available for download on the Lenovo website for older models.

Source [Lenovo vows 'unbelievably' fast Windows 7 boots]

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Microsoft Security Essentials Going Mainstream Later Today

by Ben on 30/09/2009 · Comments

in Anti-Virus, Software, Window Vista, Window XP, Windows, Windows 7

It looks like I have being wrong in my last post about Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) about when the final version is going to get released. Apparently Microsoft is going to release the final version of Security Essentials later today. YES!! 29th  of September 09.

Like I said in my other post

Microsoft Security Essential received many positive wraps and rightly so with the simple UI, low memory/CPU usage and much better detection rate.

You should try it out if you haven’t, Microsoft got it right this time round.

I will post again when MSE does get released later today but most likely it will be from its homepage (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials).

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Speed up your file copying operations with Teracopy

by Ben on 29/09/2009 · Comments

in Utility Software, Window Vista, Window XP, Windows, Windows 7

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Ever wanted to copy a number of large files from a folder to another folder or flash drive? Ever got really frustrated when the copy operation stops half way and you would have to start again? Well your not alone, I experience these sort of problems at least twice a week before I came across TeraCopy.

TeraCopy is a free program that is aimed to provide a better copy/move file handler to the inbuilt Window tool. Windows inbuilt copy handler is no where near where it should be. The inbuilt UI doesn’t provide us with enough feedback on what is being copied or how fast is copying at.

TeraCopy speeds up the file transfer rate significantly by using a dynamic adjusted buffer to reduce seek time. TeraCopy is support on all Windows platforms (XP/Vista/7) and it completely replaces Window’s inbuilt transfer tool without destroying your standard workflow. TeraCopy also allows you to view all the files your are transferring now and if one of the files fails, the transfer operation doesn’t stop entirely (It just stops for that file).

TeraCopy is a must have program for anyone who is does a lot of file transfer on their Window machine.

Link [TeraCopy Homepage]

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USB Safely Remove 4.1 Free License Giveaway

27 September 2009

USB Safely Remove (XP/Vista) is a powerful USB device manager with a interesting autorun capability. It has many useful features that saves users time and extends a user’s ability by providing more control over their USB device.
Some features include:

Displays what process is preventing a device from being stopped
Removing devices via key binding
Autorun programs [...]

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CCleaner: Free Up your Disk Space.

28 August 2009

CCleaner is a very useful system utility software. It is a freeware that removes unused temporary file from your system, remove cookies, internet history and cleans various footprint other software (browsers, office and other third party software) might leave on your system.
CCleaner currently cleans the following:

Recycle Bin
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Google Chrome
Temporary files
Log files

Additionally CCleaner has an inbuilt [...]

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NetDrive: Mount FTP Severs as a Local Drive

26 August 2009

I have always wondered how to mount a FTP server as a local drive so I could easily access it via the “My Computer”. After several failed attempts at trying to map a network drive using the windows mapping tool. I decided look around for a solution. My search finally ended when I came across [...]

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Add Tabs to Microsoft Office Applications with OfficeTab

23 August 2009

OfficeTab is a nifty freeware made by a Chinese software developer which allows you to add tabs to Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the Microsoft Office suite.
Update: Follow-Up post answer some questions arise when using OfficeTab

To see how I achieve this click the “Read More” link below.

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