A Digital HDMI cable will carry video and audio, unlike analogue, VGA-cables video only. But things aren’t simple as that nowadays when pairing computers and consumer electronics. You may think that digital is always better but VGA and HDMI connections from two laptops yielded about the same visual quality on a 40in. And you could have issues getting the computer’s desktop to fill the TV’s screen in either setup.
Spring Clean for Better Performance
Start the big clean by removing the old drivers and unnecessary software. Replace unnecessarily bloated programs with sleeker alternatives.
1. Uninstall Old and Unneeded Programs and Softwares
The greed for software can be overwhelming at times: ‘Quickly download this tool; i might need it sometime or other’. The next thing you know, the hard disk is soon filled with programs that you have used only once or will never use. Read the rest of this entry »
Optimized hard disk the standard Windows way.
Windows has the suitable tools on board - right click the icon of your hard disk that you want to check and select ‘Properties’ from the menu.
In the ‘Tools’ tab, click the ‘Check Now’ button under the ‘Error Checking’ area (For XP user, you must log on with administrator rights for the purposes, Vista verifies this with its User Account Control prompts).
Activate the ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ and ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ options in the subsequent dialog box. Then click ‘Start’.
Windows will check the disks only if they are not being used. If this requirement is not fulfilled, Windows offers to start the check on booting the system the next time. Accept the ‘Schedule the disk check’ option in this case.
There is this one law school student whose thesis is about money laundering so oftentimes she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of doing so, she was confronted with problems like being directed to a weird page totally not related to money laundering every time she types the same words.
At first she thought it was just a glitch in the internet system and then she rationalized that no it maybe a glitch in the search engine she is using but the persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us but people we can fend of. What this law student is confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend off. In the first place she is not a technology savvy person and in the second place she never uses her laptop for any other things than academic research and actual writing of her papers.
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Clean: Washing out junk data quickly
Put Windows in the bath tub now and throw in a couple of highly effective cleaning agents
1. Thoroughly Cleaning old Windows versions
If Windows has been used for a long time, there are sure to be dozens of useless files stored on the hard disk, which slow down the system. You can get rid of them with CCleaner
Click “Analyze” after installing and starting the tool. After a few seconds you will see how much disk space the tool clears up and which files will be deleted. Clean the disk with “Start CCleaner”.
2. Purging the Registry correctly
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