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How to increase browsing speed of your PC

February 01, 2013 Add Comment

How to increase browsing speed of your PC





This article will show you how to increase your productivity when your connection is slow. Many of these steps are also good tips for how to increase the speed of browsing.




Google Chrome

Enhance Google Chrome speed by clicking on the ‘wrench’ located to the extreme right of the toolbar, selecting ‘Settings’. Then click below on the link ‘show advanced settings’. Under Privacy uncheck ‘Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar ‘, ‘Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors’, ‘Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google’ and ‘Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic’.

Selecting ‘Extensions’ then uncheck ‘Enabled’ from the extensions which are not in use from long time. Restart Google Chrome to finish updating.


Mozilla Firefox

Go to ‘Firefox’ button under dropdown menu and go to ‘options’ > ‘options’. Under ‘Advanced’ Tab > go to ‘Network’ tab and set ‘Limit Cache to’ value to 80 MB of ‘disk space’.

Go to ‘Firefox’ button again under dropdown menu and go to ‘Add-ons’ > ‘Extensions’. Disable extensions using ‘Disable’ button in front of extensions for extensions which are not currently in use from long time. Restart Mozilla Firefox to confirm changes.


Internet Explorer

Start increasing your Internet Explorer by using the built in settings. By default, Internet Explorer Performance is installed with the operating system. Close all the programs you are running on your computer. Click ‘Start’, and then select ‘Control Panel’. Choose ‘Find’ and ‘Fix Problems’ located below ‘System and Security’. Click on ‘View All’ on the task panel located on the left. Select ‘Internet Explorer Performance’ and ‘Next’ in the dialogue box. Allow the program to run and fix any issues to optimize your Internet Explorer, and click ‘Close’ when done.

Remove all add-ons not in use at present. Find add-ons by clicking on ‘Tools’ from the toolbar tab scroll down and select ‘Manage Add-ons’. Choose any add-ons that are not in use presently, and remove or disable them as allowable. Each Internet Explorer add-on varies in how you can handle it. ‘Disable’ allow you to continue the add-on in the browser for later reactivation, but not everyone will allow you to do that. In that case, remove the unused program.

Decrease the total of hard drive space the browser use for caching websites. Click on ‘Tools’, then ‘Internet Options’; then, under ‘Browser History’, select ‘Settings’, and lower the disk space to use to 80.

Maintenance Tips for your Computer

November 04, 2012 Add Comment

Maintenance Tips for your Computer


The computer is one of the most important inventions to have taken place in the 20th century, which has grown over several decades contributing to the growth and changes in human learning and behavior. Today the computer is an essential part of human life without which they cannot do their day-to-day tasks. 

This amazing machine has made life easier for most people and contributed to their overall growth. Today almost all household have at least one computer but the most important question that arises here is, if the owner is concerned about the proper maintenance of the machine or not. 

Most people either fail or forget to properly maintain their computer from both internal and external threats that can seriously jeopardize the functioning of the machine. However, with just a few important tips you can effectively maintain your computer and can keep its functioning as good as ever. 

Here are a few essential maintenance tips to keep your computer stable and in a perfect condition: 

1. Perform a disk clean up for maintaining the speed of your computer. Running regular disk clean up can clean your system of unnecessary data. This step can be done manually or by running the disk cleanup utility in Windows. 

2. Running a registry cleaning software can relieve your system from obsolete and corrupt entries in the registry file. A clogged registry can severely hamper the performance of your system and can even cause it to crash. So, it is important to clean your Windows registry at regular intervals. 

3. By using an Anti-Spyware program you can clean your system from malicious programs that intend to steal your data and cause your system to clog. 

4. Viruses are one of the most common and serious threat to computers and using a good updated Anti-virus program will help your computer to rid itself from harmful viruses. 

5. Lastly, you need to clear all un-important software installed on your computer as they cause a lot of trouble during the Windows start up process and make the process a rather clumsy one. 

By following these simple steps you can effectively shield your computer from all internal and external threats.

Active X Controls - Help to graphics

March 10, 2008 Add Comment

Active X Controls - Help to graphics



ActiveX is a technology that was developed by Microsoft to enhance the display of images, video and animation in their browsers. ActiveX components are a set of rules that guide the browser to display hi-resolution images and streaming video properly.

It should suffice to say that ActiveX is a technology that was developed to bring the power of Object Linking and Embedding or OLE as it is popularly known, to empower web browsers and particularly Internet Explorer, to display such objects. When web pages with embedded ActiveX components are downloaded, the corresponding controls are also downloaded and automatically launched by the operating system of the computer. This can, over some time, clutter up the registry with unwanted data and controls, thus slowing down the system drastically. This will mean having to clean up the registry with a registry cleaner periodically. ActiveX controls are actually used by windows to display very rich interfacing activity such as animation, video images, virtual reality that used 3D technology, high resolution images and the like.

ActiveX Prompts For Registry Cleaners

When downloaded into your computer, an ActiveX control is actually packaged as an .OCX file. There are cases when more .OCX files are downloaded and needed for a web page. The .OCX files like ActiveX controls need to be registered on your system before they can be used. Registering means that a program capable of doing this, queries the ActiveX control and saves specific information about it into Windows Registry, so that the operating system can find it and therefore be able to use the ActiveX control. However, one must keep in mind the importance or cleaning up the registry periodically. The Internet has the best registry cleaners available free. So, make use of them to keep your system running smoothly.

Pro's and Con's Of ActiveX Controls

It is important to understand that with all the 'pros' of ActiveX technology also come a few 'cons' as well. ActiveX is a very powerful tool and is sometimes used by individuals, with a flair for the technology, to create ActiveX controls with malicious intentions. These 'corrupt' ActiveX controls can wreck havoc on your system and leave you helpless for no fault of yours. After all, you know that ActiveX is supposed to help your system run some programs, right. So why not download an ActiveX control when you are prompted to do so? It is for this reason that Microsoft has developed the ActiveX security system.

In Windows XP operating system, this security system is embedded in the Internet Explorer. The registry of the system automatically blocks the download and installation of any ActiveX component in the Registry of the computer. Apart from this is an ActiveX component has to be installed the computer will prompt the user to check for the signature of the component. If the ActiveX component is registered with Microsoft the ActiveX is verified as authorized and is allowed to be installed in the registry of the computer. If the ActiveX component is not verified the systems offers the user a choice of not installing the ActiveX control.

Some Advise For Internet Explorer Users


If you are using Internet Explorer you should ensure that you are using a security level set to Medium or above in Internet Explorer. You can do this by going to tools in IE and select 'internet options' then click on 'security' and slide the level to medium or higher. Now, after reading about the entire automatic downloads of controls and stuff, it makes sense to download a free window registry cleaner and use it periodically to clean the registry of your system. There are enhanced registry XP cleaners to clean the complex registry of Windows XP as well.

How Does Shortcut work on Windows

February 04, 2008 Add Comment

How Does Shortcut work on Windows



A shortcut may be a link that you have created somewhere, usually on the desktop, or may be a combination of keys to launch a program. Shortcuts will all be registered in the registry and clutter it up as and when you keep on adding the shortcuts to the computer. The registry thus needs to be cleaned up regularly with a registry cleaner.

There are two types of shortcuts in windows operating system environment. On shortcut is a link created and placed anywhere. This is mainly placed where one can see it such as on the desktop. Right clicking on the desktop and selecting -New - Shortcut can create a shortcut link on the desktop. Then browsing through the next window to get to the file or program that you want to create a shortcut link on the desktop to.

Once you have selected the object for the shortcut you click finish and a link is created on the desktop. Clicking on this link will open the file. Another way is to navigate or browse to the file or program on the PC and right click and select 'create shortcut'. The system will warn you that the short cut will be placed on the desktop for the particular object. Clicking 'ok' will accomplish the task. Now that you know what a shortcut is and how it works, you should also know the impact it may have on the registry of the system and why the registry has to be cleaned with a registry cleaner from time to time.

Some shortcuts can be created with the help of the windows keyboard. Presetting a set of control Alt (Key) will start up a program without you having to navigate to where the program is stored to get it up and running. However these shortcuts will all be registered in the registry and clutter it up as and when you keep on adding the shortcuts to the computer.

The registry is a central database of all the activity on the system and needs to be cleaned up regularly with a registry cleaner because as the registry grows older and is used more often it slows. When a shortcut key is pressed the shortcut keys refer to the registry for information on where to locate the program or file to launch. The registry in turn goes through its entire database in the section to locate the data being queried. So, if the registry is large with useless shortcuts, it will take a very long time to locate the shortcut that is being sought. This is the reason that the registry must be cleaned with a windows registry cleaner on a regular basis.

There are many free windows registry cleaners on the Internet. So go on and make your choice. It can only be of help to speeding up the system and making the operating system run error free and more efficiently with as few headaches as possible.
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