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A FASTER WAY TO ENCRYPT YOUR FILES If your drives are formatted with NTFS, you have the option of using encryption. Windows XP uses the Encrypting File System (EFS) which lets you encrypt your folders and files for increased security. Normally to encrypt a folder or file, you would have to do so from the folder or file’s properties window and access the advanced attributes. Wouldn’t it be great though if you could just encrypt or decrypt a file or folder using the shortcut menu? Well here’s a nifty little tip that does just that… it adds the encrypt and decrypt options to the shortcut menu for a folder or file. Of course, a word of caution: the following steps do require you to modify the registry, so proceed carefully: Click Start, point to run, and type regedit. Within the Registry Editor, navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft \Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Click the Edit menu, point to New, and select Dword value. Type in Encr...

Physical Memory Limits for different windows version: Physical Memory Limits: Windows 8 Version Limit on X86 Limit on X64 Windows 8 Enterprise 4 GB 512 GB Windows 8 Professional 4 GB 512 GB Windows 8 4 GB 128 GB   Physical Memory Limits: Windows Server 2012 Version Limit on X64 Windows Server 2012 Datacenter 4 TB Windows Server 2012 Standard 4 TB Windows Server 2012 Essentials 64 GB Windows Server 2012 Foundation 32 GB Windows Storage Server 2012 Workgroup 32 GB Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard 4 TB Hyper-V Server 2012 4 TB Physical Memory Limits: Windows 7 Version Limit on X86 Limit on X64 Windows 7 Ultimate 4 GB 192 GB Windows 7 Enterprise 4 GB 192 GB Windows...

4 WAYS TO GET FASTER BOOT UP TIMES: Step 1: Hard Disk Check Up Over time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally. It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load times. To check your drive health: 1. Click Start 2. Choose Computer 3. Right Click your Hard Drive 4. Choose Properties 5. Click Check Drives Health. After the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health. 6. Restart to get a faster boot up. Step 2: Eliminate Startup Delay To get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for faster boot up times. 1. Open your Start menu. 2. Click Run 3. In the command screen, type msconfig 4. In the system configuration utility, click either BOOT tab. 5. In the boot menu, change the d...