Saturday, December 19, 2009

HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE IN NTFS SYSTEM

JUST 4 STEPS TO FORMAT YOUR USB DRIVE
1.connect usb to your computer.goto desktop and right click on my computer and click on MANAGE

2.click on device manager and expand the disk drives in the left side pane.u will see your USB drive as shown in the figure

3.now right click on your USB drive under the DISK DRIVES and goto properties and then click on policies tab as shown in the figure
By default it set to "optimize for quick removal "
change it to "optimize for performance"


4.Thats it u have done now goto "My computer" and right click on your USB drive and click on FORMAT u will see NTFS file system in the drop down box

HOW TO INSTALL XP FROM USB



REQUIREMENTS:
1) 1 gb usb thumb drive
2) usb_prep8
3) bootsect

4) a pc or laptop with windows xp or vista installed and one with cd-rom(so you have now two computers -one with xp/vista installed and one with no cd-rom)

5) a genuine copy of windows xp/vista


PROCEDURE (COPYING XP TO USB AND CONFIGURING)(INSERT PED DRIVE TO DO THIS PROCESS)
1. extract usb_prep8 zip and bootsect zip
2.After extracting usb_prep folder open or double click on usb_prep8.cmd.a command promp will open
3.press any key to continue.A peTousb window will open
4.don't change anything in peTousb window wil open.just click on "start" button.Formatting of your USB will start
5.Do not close that two windows (petousb and usb_prep8).now open a new command prompt by typing cmd in run box[start>run].in this new command prompt go to the directory where bootsect.exe is saved.Now type " bootsect.exe/nt52 R" change "R" with the letter drive directory of your usb drive.
NOTE:when running the boot.exe command u cannot have any windows open displaying the content of your usb drive.if it is done successfully u will see "bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes." .now close this command prompt (do not close usb_prep8).
6.now close peTousb window.you must see the usb_prep8 command like this

7.now u need to enter the correct info for numbers 1-3
press 1 and then enter.A folder browse window will open to browse to the location of your xp setup files(insert xp cd in cd rom)
press 2 and enter a letter NOT currently assigned to a drive on your pc, say T
press 3 and enter the drive letter of your usb stick
press 4 to start the process
8.The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T. this is just a temp drive the program creates to catche windows installation files.press Y then enter
9. once its done formatting,press enter to continue again,u will now see the program copying windows xp files from your CD to the temp drive it created.it takes 3-5 min.press enter to continue after copying files
10. Next u will see a box pop up asking u to copy the files from temp drive to USB drive.
press yes
11.once the program has completed copy files a popup window asking if u would like to USB DRIVE to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this window
12.u are done with this part.select YES to unmount the virtual drive

PROCEDURE 2 (INSTALLING XP INTO YOUR PC WITHOUT CD-ROM USING USB )
1.insert your usb and start your pc,then goto the BIOS set-up.set usb as your primary boot device or first boot device
2.on the start up menu u have 2 options, select option number for text mode setup.
3.from this point on,it is just like any other windows xp installation.when prompt delete all the partion,including the one with labeled "BIOS" for EEE-PC.RECREATE the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it using NTFS.
4.Once the text mode partition of setup is complete,the computer will reboot.this time, boot into the GUI mode
5. once the GUI setup is complete u have to boot into GUI mode to complete the xp installation
untill end up at your XP desktop.it is very important that u DO NOT REMOVE THE USB DRIVE before this point.once u can see your start menu it is safe to remove the USB drive and reboot your pc to make sure everything worked.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

HOW TO INCREASE INTERNET SPEED

how to increase net speed


The trick is on How to increase your internet speed,I will show you few ways to increase your net and browser speed

Goto Start>>Run and then type in “gpedit.msc” without the quotes (“)

Computer Configuration
-> Administrative Templates
-> Network
-> QoS Packet Scheduler.
after that, you should see something like “Limit Reservable Bandwidth”. Modify that and set it to “Disabled”, or you can put it to “Enabled” and change the value to 0.

Now this will increase your internet speed by 20%

AND ANOTHER METHOD TO INCREASE YOUR INTERNET SPEED
DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE NAMED

Description:
The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used. The tool uses advanced algorithms, and the bandwidth*delay product to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed. It provides for easy tuning of all related TCP/IP parameters, such as MTU, RWIN, and even advanced ones like QoS and ToS/Diffserv prioritization. The program works with all current versions of Windows, and includes additional tools, such as testing average latency over multiple hosts, and finding the largest possible packet size (MTU).

The TCP Optimizer is targeted towards broadband internet connections, however it can be helpful with tuning any internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+ :)
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