November 4, 2009
A collection of downloadable utilities to enhance your desktop. Object dock – a zooming menu (like mac) and fences (if you have lots of desktop icons)
http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Operating_System:_Desktop_utilities
October 10, 2009
A useful utility on the cover disk of Australian PC authority ( http://www.pcauthority.com.au/ ) is Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager (9.5 SE)
I am often confronted with students who have trashed their Hard Drives (or the drive have magically trashed themselves). This utility allows you to create a complete backup of the drive. Additionally if you want to upgrade your HDD to a bigger one it has a wizard to do this.
Also included is Magix Music Maker Silver for those of you who want to create your own “original ” music.
March 27, 2009
Microsoft (2006). Crash Analysis. Retrieved March 27, 2009 from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
The Windows Memory Diagnostic tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors
March 12, 2009
From a post by Paradigm PCs (http://www.pp.co.nz)
Adding system memory is often the best way to improve a PC’s performance. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some systems have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.
Windows Vista provides a way to add memory to your system using a USB Flash drive which is called ReadyBoost to improve performance without having to add additional memory to your system.
The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache, which means that your computer can access the necessary data much quicker than it can access data on the hard drive. This is how you Speed Up Vista with Vista ReadyBoost.
Its best to use a USB flash drive that you can spare and then plug it in an empty USB slot, preferably at the backside of your system so that you won’t have it in sight.
Now you should see a pop-up with the option “Speed up my system, using Windows Ready Boost”.
If you are not prompted, just follow these steps.
The minimum requirement for the USB flash drive is at least 256mb.
