Partition Wizard|Manage and Fix Your Hard Drive
We are familiar with windows partition; basically Hard Disk partition is created while installing Windows operating system.
There are several partition manager tools are in market. One of the popular tools is EASEUS Partition Manager. I already wrote an article about EASEUS Partition Manager.
Now I found another Free Partition making tool i.e. Partition Wizard
Partition Wizard is a typical partition tool, and it closely resemblance EASEUS Partition Master, but EASEUS free version doesn’t supports 64-bit operating system. Where as Partition Wizard supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating system.
Some unique Features of Partition Master.
- Partition Master offers basic features like create/label/resize/delete partition operations along with Master Boot Record Repair, surface tests, partition recovery.
- It supports dynamic disks as usual as Raid systems.
- You can Resize partition without loosing data
- It supports large partition size, and large disk
- There are four types of Partition Wizard versions, in which two are free (Both Home and Professional) and other two are paid versions exclusively for windows server.
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How To Speedup Defrag Operation In Windows XP
A well known way to speed up a defrag operation in Windows XP is restart the system before you launch the Defrag application. After restarting windows operating system it clears out the paging file and to reset it to the default. This lets defrag is only applied on the necessary data on the hard disk, without having to manage a huge swap data.
Apart from this traditional method, another method to speeding up a defrag operation with simple registry edit, so that defrag operation occur immediately upon startup.
Note: Before go for editing registry, backup your windows registry so that we can minimize the risk.
- Go to Start menu Click on Run type regedit.exe hit enter to launch registry editor
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
- Click on RunOnce subkey and select New | String Value.
- Then name the new value #1 to Defrag and Hit [Enter] twice.
- Type Defrag.exe c: /f in the Value Data text box and click OK.
- Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.
The defrag operation will begin during system startup. (Keep in mind that values added to the RunOnce key is to be removed immediately after the command has been run.)
Related : Portable Hard Drive Quick Defragmenter Tools For USB Drive
Categories: XP Tricks Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Software
Virtual Machine Tweaker For Windows-Control Your VMware Machines
VMWare or Virtual Machine Tweaker is a very useful application utility mainly designed for advanced users. It facilitates greater aspects of VMWare virtual machines; this utility allows manipulation of normally restricted part of a VM. It includes BIOS tweaks for the virtual machine, time and date sync between host and virtual machine, and various others.
The Utility requires a user to load the target .vmx file before the tweaks can be applied.
It offers different sets of tweaks, namely
A) Time Clock,
b) Sound Video,
c) Network
d) Bios Tweaks and Misc.
User can set the VGA memory for their virtual machine, up to a maximum of 256MB, and also user can change the properties of sound driver. Another feature is this tool allows loading of custom BIOS files, and also hardware compatibility switch (between ESX and Hosted options).
Note: This app is intended for advanced users, so if you are beginner proceed at your own risk.
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Categories: XP Tricks Tags: Tweaker, Virtual Machine, VMTweaker, VMware
How to Access Dual Explorer in Single Window-DuoExplorer
We can Access two explorers in a single window using a small portable application i.e.DuoExplorer
Advantages
1) This tool has the advantage that we can access two explorers in one windows and it quickly remembers the last used paths. and this dual explorer offers quick access to folders without navigation.
2) By using Duo Explorer We can easily copy files or directories from one location to another location.
3) Another cool feature is it offers about 10 bookmarks to quickly access folders and directories
4) Hidden files can be either shown or suppressed.
5) This tool is portable so it does not require any installation.
6) This tool is for windows only
Categories: Tips And Tricks, XP Tricks Tags: DuoExplorer, Explorer, Portable Application
Taskbar Thumbnail Preview mechanism for Windows XP
Windows 7 has thumbnail preview feature. Taskbar Thumbnail Preview displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Many users have started loving taskbar thumbnail preview of windows 7.
We can access this feature in Windows XP but with the Alt+Tab combination. There is a small application available from Microsoft for this. This PowerToy enhances the existing Alt + Tab application switching mechanism of Windows XP. It provides a thumbnail preview of windows in the task list and is compliant with the new Windows XP visual style. You use this just as you do the existing Alt + Tab mechanism. Press and hold the Alt key and then press the Tab key to cycle through the running applications. When the desired application is highlighted release the Alt key. You can move backwards through the task list by pressing and holding the Shift and Alt key and then pressing the Tab key.
