With the launch of windows 7 we have witnessed one of the fastest operating system by Microsoft.But still there are people who want more and more!.This is for all those people who want to increase the performance/speed of their windows 7 operating system. I am not providing here any softwares for this purpose i am just giving you tips and tricks to tweak your windows 7 according to your needs and you will certainly get your desired performance from your windows 7 operating system.Here is the step by step tutorial on how to increase your windows 7 speed.
1.Disable Startup Services Windows startup services can be found by clicking on start and the and typing “ msconfig ” and pressing enter.Now click on services tab.Now you can disable the unwanted services by checking them and clicking on disable.While this should be done according to your requirements.Services like “Offline Files,” “Tablet PC Input Services,” Terminal Services,” “Fax” and “Windows Search have a large impact on windows 7 speed/performance. 2.Utilize Readyboast Microsoft introduced readyboast service with the launch of windows vista and continued the service in windows 7.In ready boast service whenever you plugin your pendrive into your computer you will get an option to use your pendrive to speed up your windows 7 or windows vista.It will increase your windows memory.By using ready boast you can also specify how much memory of the pendrive should be used to speed up your windows 7. 3.Disable Windows transparency Disabling the windows 7 transparency option will certainty give a good speed to your windows 7 speed/performance.Disabling transparency is very easy in windows 7.Simply right-click on your desktop, select “Personalize,” choose the active theme and then navigate to “Windows Color.” Finally, uncheck the “Enable Transparency” option. 4.Remove Unwanted Programs from Startup Disabling unwanted programs such as messengers or other programs from startup will not only increase speed of your windows 7 it will also decrease the startup time of windows 7. 5.Disable Unwanted Features Of Windows 7 To disable unwanted features from windows 7 click on “ Start “ then on control panel.Now click on “ Programs “ then on “Turn Windows features on or off”.Now disable the features you think you dont want.We recommend you to disable the “ Indexing Service “ it will have a noticeable effect on the speed. 6.Defragment Your Windows Regularly Adding and deleting files from drives will make your drives fragmented and it will take longer to access files so defragmenting the drive will decrease file access time.To start defragmentation click on “ Start “ and type “ Disk Defragmenter “ And press enter.Now start the defragmentation.
TOR is a nice little network service application that lets you do things over the Internet more anonymously. I’ve always been fascinated by it but never really used it. I always assumed it was hard, but getting set up to use tor doesn’t have to be hard. If you want a virtual machine that is configured to browse anonymously, check out Vatlator.
Tor comes with most distributions these days, in Fedora and Ubuntu you can just install Vidalia. Once installed open Firefox (if thats what you use) and install TorButton from the Add-ons. Fire up Vidalia from Menu->Internet->Vidalia (Gnome), wait for a connection and then toggle the Tor Status in FireFox.
To verify you are connected to the Tor network, goto check.torproject.org
Every body these days knows what BitTorrent is. For those that don’t BitTorrent is a great way to download large files. Some times it is faster to download an ISO of a Linux distribution by torrent then by ftp or http. This is because bit torrent is Peer-to-Peer meaning that many people share the file rather than one bogged down server. If your interested in how BitTorrent works, check out WikiPedia’s BitTorrent Page
In order to download a .torrent file you need a client. Fortunately Linux users are in luck because there are a lot of Linux Torrent clients out there.
Every one has favorites, in this post I’m listing my favorite Linux Torrent Client, both graphical and command line based. If you know of a better client suited to download torrents please let me know!
My Favorite Linux Torrent Clients
My favorite graphical torrent client is actually a cross platform BitTorrent client. Many people will have already heard of this one as it is one of the most popular: Azureus
It has a really neat graphical interface that has a lot of features. The client can be skinned which means you can make it match your desktop if your into eye candy. For screenshots check the Azureus website and the google image search results for Azureus Linux screenshots.
Now don’t get me wrong I’m all about graphical interfaces. Computing as we know it today would not be the same if it was not for the user interface, but there are still great uses for shell applications. Primary development of a killer app doesn’t always start with a pretty interface. Which is why I bring up the next client that I really like. This is the Linux client by Bram Cohen. In Slackware the package can be installed with slackpkg or slapt-get. In Debian or Ubuntu with apt-get. The package has a couple of clients but the best one in my opinion is bittorrent-curses. Once installed all you have to do to start downloading is the following:
bittorrent-curses <TORRENTFILE.torrent>
Many advanced options for the client are available check them out:
Usage: bittorrent-curses [OPTIONS] [TORRENTFILE]
arguments are - –ip <arg> ip to report to the tracker (has no effect unless you are on the same local network as the tracker) (defaults to ”)
–forwarded_port <arg> world-visible port number if it’s different from the one the client listens on locally (defaults to 0)
–minport <arg> minimum port to listen on, counts up if unavailable (defaults to 6881)
–maxport <arg> maximum port to listen on (defaults to 6999)
–bind <arg> ip to bind to locally (defaults to ”)
–display_interval <arg> seconds between updates of displayed information (defaults to 0.5)
–rerequest_interval <arg> minutes to wait between requesting more peers (defaults to 300)
–min_peers <arg> minimum number of peers to not do rerequesting (defaults to 20)
–max_initiate <arg> number of peers at which to stop initiating new connections (defaults to 60)
–max_incomplete <arg> max number of outgoing incomplete connections (defaults to 100)
–max_allow_in <arg> maximum number of connections to allow, after this new incoming connections will be immediately closed (defaults to 80)
–check_hashes, –no_check_hashes whether to check hashes on disk (defaults to True)
–max_upload_rate <arg> maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit (defaults to 20)
–min_uploads <arg> the number of uploads to fill out to with extra optimistic unchokes (defaults to 2)
–max_files_open <arg> the maximum number of files in a multifile torrent to keep open at a time, 0 means no limit. Used to avoid running out of file descriptors. (defaults to 50)
–start_trackerless_client, –no_start_trackerless_client Initialize a trackerless client. This must be enabled in order to download trackerless torrents. (defaults to True)
–upnp, –no_upnp Enable automatic port mapping (UPnP) (defaults to True)
–save_as <arg> file name (for single-file torrents) or directory name (for batch torrents) to save the torrent as, overriding the default name in the torrent. See also –save_in (defaults to ”)
–max_uploads <arg> the maximum number of uploads to allow at once. -1 means a (hopefully) reasonable number based on –max_upload_rate. The automatic values are only sensible when running one torrent at a time. (defaults to -1)
–save_in <arg> local directory where the torrent contents will be saved. The file (single-file torrents) or directory (batch torrents) will be created under this directory using the default name specified in the .torrent file. See also –save_as. (defaults to ”)
–responsefile <arg> deprecated, do not use (defaults to ”)
–url <arg> deprecated, do not use (defaults to ”)
–ask_for_save <arg> whether or not to ask for a location to save downloaded files in (defaults to 0)
–spew, –no_spew whether to display diagnostic info to stdout (defaults to False)
–data_dir <arg> directory under which variable data such as fastresume information and GUI state is saved. Defaults to subdirectory ‘data’ of the bittorrent config directory. (defaults to ”)
–filesystem_encoding <arg> character encoding used on the local filesystem. If left empty, autodetected. Autodetection doesn’t work under python versions older than 2.3 (defaults to ”)
–language <arg> ISO Language code to use: af, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, es, es_MX, fr, he, hu, is, it, ja, ko, nb_NO, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, tr, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW (defaults to ”)
–keepalive_interval <arg> number of seconds to pause between sending keepalives (defaults to 120.0)
–download_slice_size <arg> how many bytes to query for per request. (defaults to 16384)
–max_message_length <arg> maximum length prefix encoding you’ll accept over the wire – larger values get the connection dropped. (defaults to 8388608)
–socket_timeout <arg> seconds to wait between closing sockets which nothing has been received on (defaults to 300.0)
–timeout_check_interval <arg> seconds to wait between checking if any connections have timed out (defaults to 60.0)
–max_slice_length <arg> maximum length slice to send to peers, close connection if a larger request is received (defaults to 16384)
–max_rate_period <arg> maximum time interval over which to estimate the current upload and download rates (defaults to 20.0)
–max_rate_period_seedtime <arg> maximum time interval over which to estimate the current seed rate (defaults to 100.0)
–max_announce_retry_interval <arg> maximum time to wait between retrying announces if they keep failing (defaults to 1800)
–snub_time <arg> seconds to wait for data to come in over a connection before assuming it’s semi-permanently choked (defaults to 30.0)
–rarest_first_cutoff <arg> number of downloads at which to switch from random to rarest first (defaults to 4)
–upload_unit_size <arg> how many bytes to write into network buffers at once. (defaults to 1380)
–retaliate_to_garbled_data, –no_retaliate_to_garbled_data refuse further connections from addresses with broken or intentionally hostile peers that send incorrect data (defaults to True)
–one_connection_per_ip, –no_one_connection_per_ip do not connect to several peers that have the same IP address (defaults to True)
–peer_socket_tos <arg> if nonzero, set the TOS option for peer connections to this value (defaults to 8)
–bad_libc_workaround, –no_bad_libc_workaround enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads very slow. (defaults to False)
–tracker_proxy <arg> address of HTTP proxy to use for tracker connections (defaults to ”)
–close_with_rst <arg> close connections with RST and avoid the TCP TIME_WAIT state (defaults to 0)
–twisted <arg> Use Twisted network libraries for network connections. 1 means use twisted, 0 means do not use twisted, -1 means autodetect, and prefer twisted (defaults to -1)
Linux is a very powerful OS, many people don’t know that. With all the mainstream programs that Microsoft creates, most people remain ignorant of the awesome programs out there for free that are being produced by Linux developers. Many of the apps out there can help you reach your traditional or online degree. Below is a list of 5 that will help you graduate college.
Task Juggler is a project management program. It allows you to keep all your tasks in order. All you have to do is enter in the assignment for class and when it is due as well as any other details that you may find pertinent to getting the project done. It’s especially helpful for online university students, who have less structured classes.
Every college course will have a syllabus and on the syllabus will be assignments that need to be accomplished. Task Juggler can organize this information and keep you on track with your assignments.
Star Office or Oracle Open Office or LibreOffice is a regular word program that offers spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database and formula programs. It is a mirror of Microsoft office but with an original drawing program.
What makes Star Office better than Microsoft Office is its ability to open multiple file types. It can open Microsoft office files as well as Corel WordPerfect files, TXT and HTM. This program may not have the same popularity of Microsoft, but it is free. When having to pay up to $150 on a college budget, Star Office really saves the day.
LyX is a document program that can make several different types of documents. With it, you can make word documents, math documents, science document and many others. This program specifically focuses on the structure of the documents and allows for any type of structure whether it is for a math assignment sheet or a block paragraph science paper.
Obviously you can utilize this program for any class and it beats having to go to the library and using a very specific program. Instead you can download LyX and get all your documents done in one program.
Free Mind is a program that helps you make notes. It is a digital version of the old spider web note taking that many students use for various subjects in school. The main idea rests in the center and then sub topics sprout off of that and then points link off of those.
Another nice point in Free Mind is its ability to fold these sub topics and point back into the main topic, giving Free Mind the ability to reduce clutter. The application allows students to flesh out their ideas for all the papers they will write for class.
Speed Crunch is a powerful desktop calculator that can calculate advanced equations. This isn’t your sissy desktop calculator. This calculator comes with a large screen where you can input long equations as well as define variables for the calculator to produce the correct answer.
For instance, y = x + 41. Enter x = 18 and the calculator does the rest. Speed Crunch has many other useful aspects including syntax highlighting and automatic completion, both will help in reducing errors.
These five Linux applications are great resources for college students or graduates. It’s unfortunate that many out there still don’t realize the abundant, free programs out there that can help them in their daily life, and even help them graduate and better their future.
How to connect to a wireless network using Network Manager.
Transcript:
I’m going to show you how to connect to a wireless network using Network Manager. Network Manager comes on most modern Linux distributions. I’m using Gnome on Fedora at the moment, so I’m going to get it started.
First of all if you don’t have it started at startup you just type:
sudo /sbin/service NetworkManager start
and its started.
Then its going to find networks, it always finds open ones first. It takes a second to initialize, so lets see what we come up with. Linksys first, that’s an open wireless network. We’ll give it a couple more seconds to initialize the rest of them. I know there is about six or so.
We can do a scan with iwlist:
iwlist wlan0 scanning
and see what we find. You can see there are a couple there, there’s Linksys it should have found them by now.
There we go. So to connect to it, its real easy you just click it and it will ask you for the password, if you haven’t connected to it before and if you have then it wont. It will say connection established, that’s how easy it is to connect with NetworkManager. It really takes some of the hassle out of configuring wireless and it saves your settings which is real handy. To edit it just right click Edit connections, go to wireless and there you have it, you can choose to connect automatically setup your security or DHCP settings. Really handy great too, takes a lot of the hassle out of using iwconfig by hand, so yea if you don’t want to configure it by hand the way to do it is by using NetworkManager.
