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Whenever we buy a new computer (PC or laptop) we find the speed of the computer to be good. Over a period of time, the computer slows down. There are various reasons for this slowing down. The major factors are 1)    Disk fragmentation 2)    Spyware and malware 3)    Registry errors 4)    Start up errors The major reason though is the disk fragmentation. The hard drive is the place where all your files will be stored, and programs installed. Assume a case that you have saved a word document in “My Documents” folder. The file will not be saved in a single location; rather it would be saved as smaller parts in various sectors in the hard drive. When you intend to open it, you will double click on the document in the folder, what happens is a series of calls goes to various sectors and all the smaller parts will be assembled together and the file will be opened. The process of file being split and saved at various locations is called as fragmentation (... details >>>

While researching Indus Valley Civilisation, I stumbled upon some articles regarding Nuclear Warfare in Ancient India.. I have posted it from various sources with some editing.. Julius Robert Oppenheimer is remembered as "The Father of the Atomic Bomb". During a college lecture,  a student asked "'Was the atomic test at Alamagordo the first nuclear blast?" (The student meant: Was there a U.S. program before Alamagordo?) Oppenheimer answered: 'Yes, in modern times.' (The creator of the A-Bomb meant: Our atomic program was the first, not counting the ancient nuclear wars of the distant past. Oppenheimer was a student of the old books of India; such as the Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita.) [A little bit about Oppenheimer: In his first year as an undergraduate at Harvard, Oppenheimer was admitted to graduate standing in physics on the basis of independent study. As an undergraduate he never took a class in physics. In 1933 he learned... details >>>

Chrome is good, safari is fast and internet explorer sucks, but if you need the best of all worlds, then don’t think beyond firefox. I lately felt that firefox too is becoming a bit buggy and consumes lot of system memory and is slowing me down. Later I learned how to tweak firefox and literally fire it up. The major reason for firefox slowing down is the amount of plugins add ons and toolbars that we use followed by the extensions and plugins. The major reason for the success of firefox is, it is 100% open source and we can keep improving it. We can download many plugins developed by individual developers to meet our specific requirements. There are thousands of such plugins, but if you keep many plugins, then it can slow firefox down. In this post let us see the major reasons for slowing down of firefox, high memory usage, firefox crashing frequently and firefox not responding (lot of issues with vista OS). 1) The first step is look out for installed toolbars, and if you... details >>>

In my previous posts, I ve posted how to get genuine licenses of Norton, kaspersky, Iobit, spyware doctor and so on. In this post we will see how to get the best portable antivirus in the market. Trustport has been unanimously rated as the number one portable antivirus for USBs and portable storage devices. The major reason these days for the computer getting infected is through removable storage devices.  You cannot prevent yourself from using your pen drive in other computers, the purpose of pen drive is to aid in quick transfer of files between computers, and you cannot have a pen drive just to use in your computer. You can keep your computer secure, but cannot expect the same from other computers with which you will share your files. Here is where this software comes in handy. This is very powerful and the best part is it is light, so will not slow down your portable devices. It will also remove the virus from the computer in which you are inserting your pen drive... details >>>

I happened to come across an article recently about the worst possible passwords of all time. The article was so interesting (and enlightening :-) ) that I am posting it in my blog. Another thing about passwords are girls are generally better, and they have more secure passwords than boys (read as men). Jokes apart, this is a serious issue, ever since passwords are introduced to keep your accounts safe, there has been continuous growth of hackers, the encryption evolves so does the hackers. I don't want to copy paste the article here, that would be sort of doing injustice to the original article. I will just give you the link for that post. Visit the page here Unless our account gets hacked we will never know what kind of damage that can do to us, so Please always keep a secure password and a password beyond guesswork. Use special characters and numbers whenever possible, that will make your password more hack resistant.... details >>>

I have been giving tips for keeping you computer clean and fast in my past few posts. Always I insist on buying the original version or getting a free genuine license for all you software. Eset Nod and Kaspersky are the anti virus that is the best among paid antivirus (and about free antivirus, I have given my rating in another post). Now coming back to the topic. Internet security is what people don't understand completely, just an antivirus cannot keep your computer 100% secure. Anti virus, generally can detect many malware, trojans and virus, which can be installed in your system from your input devices like, pen drive (previously floppy disk), CDs and external hard drive and sometime your system can be attacked by virus from internet, while you browse certain sites, or when you download something, a virus can install itself silently. In addition to this, there is a great deal of phishing going on lately. If you check the figures of online credit card fraud and only... details >>>

Pen drive is a familiar, portable computer gadget which gained popularity for its data storage and recovery functionality. Identical to various other products and gadgets, it also has its downside that cannot be ignored, as it poses the threat of virus transmission, sometimes making it difficult to be detected by anti-virus software. Also, this handy device may be responsible for data theft, as restricting its usage in corporate environments is difficult. The advantage of being small in size helps in carrying it stealthily and this is topped with the benefit of acquiring it for a low price. These days, pen drives get through metal detectors very safely and hence the threat towards information security becomes a tough task. The greater the number of tech-savvies running for improved technology, the higher is the threat and dangers exposed in association to the new technology, and pen drive is no exception. Owing to these hazards, taking some challenging measures helps in dealing... details >>>

This post is only meant for people who use wordpress or those who are interested in starting wordpress based website or a blog. Wordpress is an amazing and highly user friendly platform, creating and developing a website is nothing more than creating and formatting a word document. After the stable release of 2.7 series in wordpress the new version of 2.8 came out. Though the admin panel of this version is really good and easy to use than the older versions, there was a very serious security lapse.  Anyone can reset the admin password and start to play around with your site, the bigger your site is, more vulnerable it is. Now few may have the experience of losing their password and recovering from the “Forgot password” option in wordpress. Here the problem is if a hacker is resetting the password, then you cannot recover it that way. How a hacker can do this? Anyone can reset the password by the following url in the browser URL (http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php... details >>>

Lately among the circle of computer geeks only thing has assumed importance, the windows 7 launch party and the great number of freebies coming along with it. Two of the most prominent free offers (regarding anti-virus is the panda internet security 2010, and Kaspersky internet security 2010), but like always these companies will put in lot of terms and conditions which will eventually lead very few people to use it effectively. What has gone unnoticed though is the offer made by the best anti-malware software around. Yes, as per all leading rating of anti-malware products a-squared antimalware product is the best. You can now download your free 1-year license of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5. Like always, I never promote cracked version. You will only spoil your computer and compromise on your security with such software. Never use them, follow these steps to get your genuine A-Squared anti-malware 4.5 for free. Don’t miss any of the following steps. 1. Go to Emisoft... details >>>

We all know, what spyware can do to our systems. The best anti spyware around is Spyware Doctor with antivirus, this detects even the virus and spyware missed out by eset nod and kaspersky. If you have spyware related problems, or if you are download junkie, or if you browse a lot of different sites, then this software is a must have for you. The best part a about spyware doctor's latest version, is you never realize that a program is running or scanning your pc. PC Tools GUI is the best around and consumes negligible system resources. Download this powerful software for free and above all genuine license This offer may not last long, or the links might be moved, get your copy soon here... details >>>