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Services You Can Disable

There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.
This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.
They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services
and that you turn them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:

• Alerter
• Application Management
• Clipbook
• Fast UserSwitching
• Human Interface Devices
• Indexing Service
• Messenger
• Net Logon
• NetMeeting
• QOS RSVP
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
• Remote Registry
• Routing & Remote Access
• SSDP Discovery Service
• Universal Plug and Play Device Host
• Web Client

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Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs.
However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs. Continue reading “How To Make XP Go Faster” »

Since defragging the disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1. To decrease a system’s boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software — the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine — and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.
2. If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.
3. Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you’re not sure, here’s how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it’s important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives. Continue reading “23 Ways To Speed WinXP, Not only Defrag” »

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

1. Hardware conflict

The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.

For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.

If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash can happen. The way to check if your computer has a hardware conflict is through the following route:

* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager.

Often if a device has a problem a yellow ‘!’ appears next to its description in the Device Manager. Highlight Computer (in the Device Manager) and press Properties to see the IRQ numbers used by your computer. If the IRQ number appears twice, two devices may be using it.

Sometimes a device might share an IRQ with something described as ‘IRQ holder for PCI steering’. This can be ignored. The best way to fix this problem is to remove the problem device and reinstall it. Continue reading “10 Reasons Why PC's Crash U Must Know” »

Bagaimana memilih keywords yang tepat

Memilih keyword adalah pekerjaan yang difokuskan pada apa yang dicari orang bukan tentang apa produk, artikel atau konten anda.
Sebagai contoh orang akan lebih memilih “harga kamar hotel” daripada “Hotel Mutiara”, jadi menggunakan nama perusahaan kurang baik dari segi apa yang dicari orang, dari sudut search enggine tentu tidak ada masalah karena kedua kewyords akan di-index oleh google. Jadi sekali lagi, fokus kepada apa yang umumnya dicari orang.
Untuk menentukan keyword dan mengetahui apa yang sering dicari orang, anda mungkin tidak mendapat keyword yang tepat jika melakukannya dengan berpikir keras atau sambil minum kopi. Jadi lebih baik dan lebih cepat dan tepat jika anda menggunakan tool yang sudah ada, dibawah ada link keywords tool yang bisa anda gunakan :

inventory.overture.com
Dengan fasilitas overture anda dapat memasukan sebuah keyword anda akan diberikan jumlah pencarian keyword tersebut dalam bulan-bulan terakhir. Anda juga akan diberikan list alternatif keyword yang relevan dan jumlah pencarian untuk tiap alternatif tersebut.

Wordtracker.com
Tool ini memiliki kelebihan karena sudah memiliki thesaurus , jadi anda akan diberikan keyword yang biasa digunakan oleh orang dalam mencari hal yang berkaitan dengan keyword yang anda berikan. Dengan ini anda dapat memilih keyword yang lebih tepat dari keyword yang anda masukan.

adwords.google.com
Sebuah tool dari google yang sebenarnya dibuat untuk para pemasang iklan di adwords google. Tetapi toll ini sangat berguna untuk mendapatkan pilihan keyword yang terbaik, anda juga dapat mengintip bagaimana persaingan keyword yang digunakan para pemasang iklan. Disamping itu, tool yang berbasis ajax ini sangat mudah digunakan untuk memilih keyword dan anda dapat meng-export yang langsung ke dalam file excel. Continue reading “SEO Tips – Tips SEO” »

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker arrest and conviction.

REDMOND, Wash. – Feb. 12, 2009 - Today, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.

“As part of Microsoft’s ongoing security efforts, we constantly look for ways to use a diverse set of tools and develop methodologies to protect our customers,” said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft. “By combining our expertise with that of the broader community we can expand the boundaries of defense to better protect people worldwide.”

As cyberthreats have rapidly evolved, a greater level of industry coordination and new tactics for communication and threat mitigation are required. To optimize the multiple initiatives being employed across the security industry and within academia, Microsoft helped unify these broad efforts to implement a community-based defense to disrupt the spread of Conficker. Continue reading “Microsoft Collaborates With Industry to Disrupt Conficker Worm” »

The Conficker worm is back with a vengeance, infecting over one million systems in the past 24 hours. The refined version of this malware scans networks for weakly protected machines and actively attempts to spread itself via USB thumb drives. Neither feature was present in the original version, and so far, the attack is working.

It has been over a month since we heard much about Conficker, but the worm has reappeared with a vengeance over the past seven days. According to Finnish security company F-Secure, more than one million PCs have been infected with the worm (also known as Kido or Downadup) in the past 24 hours, with a total of 3.52 million machines infected worldwide. According to F-Secure, that 3.52 million is a conservative estimate.

The problem isn’t so much with the older version of Conficker (now known as Conficker.A) but with a new flavor, dubbed Conficker.B. Ars spoke with Roger Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa); he’s been monitoring (and writing) about the current spread of infections. The skyrocketing infection rate is actually being caused by several factors; Roger describes Conficker.B as a “beast,” and Microsoft has built the following diagram to demonstrate how the worm functions. Continue reading “Conficker worm spikes, infects 1.1 million PCs in” »