Sunday 16 September 2012

3 Simple Ways To Speed Up Your Windows Computer


Remember the first time you got your Windows computer? It probably booted up pretty quick and everything loaded fast. After months of using it, things started to slow down. It takes much longer to reboot now and the desktop takes a couple of minutes before it completely loads. These are but some of the signs of a slow-running Windows PC and you can make it fast again just like when you first got it. We’re going to teach you how to speed up the Startup time, Start Menu, and Right Click Menu loading of your Windows computer with a few easy-to-do tweaks.

1. Speeding up your Windows PC startup time

You can optimize your computer’s startup speed by launching Run on your Windows computer and typing“msconfig” without the quotes. This will take you to the System Configuration Settings which has five tabs – General, Boot, Services, Startup, and Tools.
Under the General tab, you’ll find 3 startup selections: normal, diagnostic, and selective. During normal startup, all device drivers and services will be loaded by your computer. If this is ticked, it may be the reason why your computer is taking long. Choose either diagnostic or selective startup to speed up the starting time of your Windows computer. Diagnostic startup only loads basic devices and services whereas with selective startup, you can choose to load neither system services nor startup items. After making a selection select “Apply.”
Under the Boot tab, select Advanced options so you can choose the number of processors to facilitate boot speed. If you have a dual-core or quad-core processor, assigning more than one of them to help with the start-up process can significantly boost your computer’s speed. Unfortunately, this optimization tweak is not so efficient on power so if you’re using a laptop, expect some battery drain after startup.
Finally, there’s the Services and Startup tab where you can specifically choose which services and startup items are going to load.
2. Speeding up your Windows Start Menu
The Start Menu is another serious offender as it often takes time to load. Once again you need to open Run but this time, you will type “regedit.exe” to launch the Registry Editor. Go to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder and findControl Panel –> Desktop –> MenuShowDelay. Then, double click MenuShowDelay to edit its value. Type in the numbers on the blank and hit “OK.” Remember, the lower the value the faster the Start Menu will load.
Another trick for speeding up your Windows Start Menu would be to limit the number of shortcuts on your desktop. It could be that you just have too many icons on your desktop and that’s what is causing your computer to take long when loading the Start Menu.
3. Speeding up the Right Click Menu
Yet another disappointing slow-down that Windows users experience is the time it takes the Menu to show up when hitting the right click. Installing third-party programs that allow you to remove items from the context menu should speed it up.
Author biography: Judene Macariola is a tech geek and a Windows PC expert for 10 yearsShe works forBroadbandExpert.com which specializes in providing high speed internet advise.

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No EMS articles to South Sudan


Consequent on the bifurcation of Sudan namely Republic of Sudan (Capital Khartoum) and Republic of South Sudan (Capital Juba). India Post continuing EMS Service only to Republic of Sudan only not with Republic of South Sudan.

All POs  do not accept EMS articles to Republic of South Sudan.


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BSNL Offers 20% Discount to Central Government employees and Pensioners...

BSNL Offers 20% Discount to Central Government employees and Pensioners...
 
BSNL offers 20% special discount to Central and State Government employees and Pensioners on usage and rental charges on Wireless Broadband (WiMAX) Postpaid connections.
 
In order to increasing of broadband services with grace to all serving and retired Central Govt., State Govt. and PSU employees, visually impaired, BSNL staff, BSNL has announced a special discount scheme of 20% discount on usage and rental postpaid wireless broadband services.
BSNL already provided the scheme of 20% discount on usage and rental for WiMAX postpaid connections provided under WI 750 (Limited 4GB upto 2 Mbps) and HOWI 750 (Unlimited-512 Kbps) plans with effect from April 2012, in addition to the same, now BSNL has decided to offer the same 20% discount on usage of rental of WiMAX postpaid connections under plans WI 220, WI 350, HOWI 999, as a promotional measure for 90 days with effect from 1.10.2012.
 
The above said discount schemes should not be clubbed with any other special discount or concession schemes and the discount scheme is not applicable to prepaid plans.
 
The eligible subscribers of BSNL, serving employees must obtain approval from their Head of Department in the prescribed application form.

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Only retired judges may head RTI commissions, says Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday edged out "eminent people" from heading commissions under the Right to Information Act by ordering that only sitting or retired chief justices of high courts and SC judges would be appointed aschief information commissioners at both the Centre and the states. 

In addition, sitting or retired HC judges should be preferred in appointment of information commissioners, it said, faulting the vague criteria for such appointments provided under the RTI Act. 

The bench of Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar may have boosted post-retirement opportunities for HC and SC judges by ruling that the information commissions were "judicial tribunals" performing functions of "judicial" and "quasi-judicial" nature and had trappings of a court and should be headed by a judicial mind. 

The gain for retired judges would be at the cost of former officials. The Act prescribes appointment of information commissioners from among persons of eminence in public life and those with wide knowledge and experience in the fields specified under the legislation.
  
Source :http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com