Friday, October 12, 2007

7 Great Computer User Tips - For Windows? Users Only

An Easy Performance Enhancement
If you?re using the NTFS filing protocol on your system, instead of FAT32, you can get a bit more speed by disabling Windows? Indexing. The downside to this is that searching your drive for a specific file might take a moment or two longer, but everything else should run faster.
To disable this feature open My Computer and then right click on the drive you wish to reset ? usually C-drive. Now click on Properties and then uncheck ?Allow Indexing Service.? It will take Windows? a few moments to accomplish this task, based on your processor speed. If you have other hard drives, perform the same process for them. After this is done, it?s a good idea to empty the Recycle Bin and then Defragment your hard drive(s).
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