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Trick to Inspect Your Computer Antivirus Working or Not

There are plenty of antivirus software’s are in the market. However, it is difficult to identify, which is the best antivirus. Every antivirus has its own algorithm for detecting a virus, but every antivirus is not capable of detecting malicious scripts and threats. So here is a simple trick to check your antivirus well working or not.

How to Install Multiple Programs at Once-AllMyApps

Installing one application after another is a very tedious process. AllMyApps is a web service that lets you to install multiple applications at once with no or minimal human interference.

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.)

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 26, 2010 at 5:34 am

Categories: XP Tricks Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Software

How to Remove Windows Unnecessary Startup Task With Autoruns

Generally in Windows lifecycle some factors that affects the integrity of operating system, basically drivers, application programs, which runs from windows startup, apart from this in larger extent some spywares& malwares which can run at startup and become very difficult to remove.

Fortunately, Microsoft adopted one utility and named as Sysinternal Autoruns.This tool has most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations windows startup so it allows you to visually see what is running at boot and where it is being controlled,Once this program installed in your system it monitors startup folder of windows along with other registry keys.

You can configure Autoruns so that it can show other location like explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser objects, win-logon notifications, services etc… This Autoruns application goes way beyond the MSCONFIG utility of Windows. Autoruns’ Hide official Microsoft entries from startup and helps you to zoom in on third-party auto starting applications.