Enabling DMA mode on IDE channels will consume less processor cycles almost reduce consumption of processor cycles from 50% to 5%. Windows 2K/2000 and Windows XP fail to enable DMA on IDE devices automatically. Though enabling DMA will not boost writing speed on to the disk, it will consume less processor cycles which can be used for another purpose.
By default PIO (Programmed Input-Output) transfer mode is set on IDE drivers in windows XP and 2000. PIO transfer mode consume more processor cycles because the central processor transfers data word by word or byte by byte.
When DMA transfer mode is enabled, small processor called DMA controller takes the burden of transferring data between IDE devices. Once the central processor starts the data transfer and transfers the control to DMA controller, the DMA controller looks after the data transfer and after completing the total transfer the control is transferred from DMA controller to central processor thus the central processor gets less involved in the transfer and so CPU cycles are saved which can be used by another programme.
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We all know that Registry is heart and soul of Windows installation. Any Corrupted entry can result in crash or a huge registry file degrade the performance of Windows. Also Editing registry files manually can be dangerous, one small mistake and you will loose everything… That’s Why Programmer have created several tools for maintaining and cleaning registry files. Most of them are paid but there are few free ones also. One such Open Source and free tool is Little Registry Cleaner.
Little Registry Cleaner (LRC) is among one of the best registry cleaner and It’s Open Source as well, LRC is now also available as portable application. You can fix or clean your registry by 2-3 simple clicks if you using this simple and easy tool. Some of the task Registry cleaner can do are –
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Have you ever tried printing the content of a directory or file list you have stored in directory? It seems impossible as there is no inbuilt feature of doing that…
Next question is why you want to print directory listing ? Well you might be having lots of MP3 stored there and you want to upload the list to internet so that your friend can ask what they need. Or you might want to have a hard copy of your files stored in the directory and most commonly used reason is you want to create a CD label with list of files stored in it…
Ok So now there are 2-3 different method to do same, we will discuss all of them here..
Method -1 – Printing form DOS Command prompt-
To print using dos command prompt please follow these steps –
Start a command prompt (run -> CMD), change to directory for which you want to print the file listing and then type the following command.
dir > print.txt
This will creat a directory listing and store the output in a text file called print.txt Once you created the file you can open it any text editor and print the content or alternatively you can directly print from command prompt by using this command -
print print.txt
When your print is complete just remove the file.
Method -2 – Add a menu option in Explorer for printing Directory Listing -
If you frequently print listing of files you can add a menu option in context menu of Explorer for printing the file list stored in a folder, to do so by using following steps -
1. Create a batch file called Printdir.bat. To do so pen Notepad or another text editor and type (or cut and paste) following text:
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Thumbnails are used to show a preview of image without opening the image in any Image Viewer or Editor. To Show thumbnails of pictures in Windows XP you have to enable thumbnail View. Once you enable Thumbnail view windows create a Thumbnail Database file (thumbs.db) in same folder and cache the thumbnails of images into this file. This way windows will show you preview of images faster next time you browse through same set of pictures.
If you like the Thumbnail view of images but not satisfied with quality or size of the thumbnails you can change default setting of these by using following registry hack. (Always backup your registry before making any changes).
However Before changing these settings be sure that your computer have enough RAM and processing resources to handle these. As Thumbnail views can use a lot of system resources making your computer slow. If you increase the quality and size of thumbnail view, Browsing through files will require more time as building thumbnail is quite a slow process. Also if you have very large folders with thousands of images in it. Then it will be very time consuming and also your thumbnail cache can grow big.
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We have been giving several tips regarding hacking your registry, but playing with registry may be dangerous. You should always take backup of your registry file before making changes about which you are not sure, what would be the result of. If you take a backup before changing registry value you can easily restore it later.
Here in this tutorial we will tell you how to take backup of registry and later how to restore that backup in case you did something wrong with your registry.
How to Backup Registry
- Click on Start, and select Run.
- In the Run box, type regedit, and then click on OK Button.
- From the File menu, Select Export.
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