Increase Hard disk speed In Windows

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O - read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks.

In any case, it won't harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!

Steps:

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file until you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!

The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.

Quick Windows Tricks

One of the things which are never too fast is the computer speed. Everybody complains, there are a lot of programs that promise us help, but in reality, they have a very small influence, if any.
Yet, there are two things you can do in order to get rid of have the sensation of the computer moving a bit faster (I am not sure it gains some speed, but I feel like saving time by not viewing those annoying messages all the time):

1. Deactivate the suggestions given by Windows in the shape of yellow balloons

You already know those messages. You have seen them a hundred times before. They tell you that “Your local area connection is now connected” or other useful, well-known bit of info. To get rid of them, just do the following:

- click on Start, then press R to enter the run command

- type regedit in the small popup window that opened

- press Enter to execute the command

- to disable the messages for all users on the computer: double click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

- to disable messages only for your user, double click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER

- double click successively on Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion, Explorer, Advanced

- right-click on an empty space in the lower part of the current window, then select New and DWORD value

- Type in: EnableBalloonTips and press Enter to confirm

Attention: make sure you use the upper and lower case exactly like that, otherwise it will not work
- Reboot your computer

2. Deactivate error reporting function
When you forcibly shut down an application, you get the message “Please tell Microsoft about this problem”, which you never do (at least, I never did it). If you don’t use it, you can deactivate the function like this:

- Press the keys “Windows” and Pause simultaneoulsy, in order to access System Properties.

- Click on Advanced, then on Send Error Report

- In the next window, check the option Disable error reporting, then uncheck But notify me when critical errors occur

- Click OK to close all open windows

You are ready. If you feel that your computer moves a bit faster, or if you know other useful tricks, please leave a comment here for all of us to improve our learning.

Know about any process in windows with process explorer

There are hell lot of process which keep on running in windows using system resources like RAM and CPU usage, some of these processes may or may not relevant to the user.

But a how does a windows user know? Which process are useful and which are not out of all the process running on your windows.

Process Explorer is another useful utility by sysinternals which shows you all the process running on your windows system.

Let’s see how can we use process explorer to get the information about a particular process running.

How to know about a process with process explorer?

1. Download Process Explorer from here and run it

2. Now, click on the process in process explorer and press ctrl + m

3. You can also right click on the process in process explorer and select Search Online

Note: Ctrl+m is the shortcut key to initiate your default browser to perform a search for the specific process on the web.