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The Fact about Defragmentation

July 22nd, 2009

As long as there have been hard disks, there has been disk fragmentation. If you’re troubled about your systems at all, you should be defragging them on a regular basis. This most likely reminds you of that flossing conversation your dentist has with you every year—you know the one. Well, defragmentation is just as important. Unless your computer is sitting in the corner for all time turned off, it’s getting more and more fragmented. In a moment, I’ll show you how this happens, but first let’s go over a little defragmentation history. NTFS was built with optimization in mind, and it did not suffer from fragmentation as dramatically as a comparable FAT volume might have. But over time, even NTFS performance can suffer due to less-than-optimal file placement. This gave birth to a thriving market of third-party defragmentation tools. One of the most popular products among IT pros was the Executive Software (now Diskeeper Corporation) Diskeeper product. The Windo... Read More

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Personalizing System Properties Dialog Box in Windows XP

January 17th, 2008

NOTE: Here I’ll describe how to change the first tab “General” in System Properties dialog box. Following is a screenshot of the dialog box which will you get after following this trick: 1.) I’m uploading some images, which will be required to be added in dialog box. Just download them on your computer and Save them as BMP (Coz the site automatically converted them in JPG after uploading): Save it as 1.BMP 1.jpg Save it as 4.BMP 4.jpg Save it as 5.BMP. 5.jpg Save it as 6.BMP 6.jpg 2.) Open %windir%\System32\sysdm.cpl file in Resource hacker. 3.) Now we have to replace existing 1.BMP file with the downloaded one. To do this: a.) Goto Bitmap -> 1 -> 1033. b.) Click on Action -> Replace Bitmap …. c.) Click on Open file with new bitmap… button. d.) Select the new downloaded 1.BMP file and click on Open button. e.) finally click on Replace button. 4.) Now we have to add remaining downloaded BMPs in the file. To do this: a.) Click on Action -> Add a new Resource ….... Read More

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