Run Defrag On Your Hard Drive

Click Start,then run,and type cmd Hit Enter The Command line dialog box will open. Type defrag -f where volume is the letter of the drive, for instance to do a defrag on C, type defrag C: -f. You can also run defrag from My Computer. Right-click on the drive and click Properties. Go to the Tools tab and Click Defragment Now Click on the Drive you want to defrag and Click Defrag

Install Windows XP on a SATA Drive

If you've ever tried to install Windows XP on a SATA drive, I'm sure you are familiar with the screen below. The error message indicates that Windows XP cannot find a hard disk for the installation. This is because Windows XP setup doesn't have SATA drivers and therefore cannot recognize the drive. To solve this you can change the SATA mode to IDE in your BIOS as below. However,not all BIOS have this option. The most popular way of dealing with this is to use a floppy drive with a diskette(has SATA drivers) to install the drivers. You will have to press ...

Add Drivers to Your Windows XP Installation CD

Adding drivers for your computer to the Windows CD makes the process of reinstalling your operating system easier by installing the drivers automatically during Windows XP setup. You will need: Windows Installation CD Drivers for your computer.You can either obtain this by downloading them from the website of your computer manufacturer or you can backup the current drivers on your computer. Follow this tutorial to learn how to backup drivers for your computer. Any driver that is an executable(.exe) has to be extracted since Windows XP setup needs the driver files only. Extract them by running the setup and copying the files ...

Disable Windows Automatic Restart After System Failure

Most Windows computers have Automatic Restart enabled, that means Windows automatically restarts when there is a system error such as STOP(BSOD) errors.This prevents you from reading the error code that is generated.To better troubleshoot blue screen(BSOD) errors, its advisable to disable Windows automatic restart and note the error code generated. You can then look up that error code to resolve the issue with your system. To Disable Windows Automatic Restart After System Failure: Click Start,then Control Panel Click System Click Advanced and Click Settings under Startup and Recovery Uncheck the box for Automatically Restart and Click OK

How to Convert VHS to DVD

VHS(Video Home System) is a format that has remained with us for some years but with the invent of DVD and later Blu-Ray, this technology has become obsolete. To preserve the home made movies and memories you have on VHS tapes, its better to convert them to a digital format such as DVD. To convert VHS to DVD, you will need: VCR(VHS) player Video Capture Device-This can be a TV Tuner card or any device that can take a signal from a VCR and output it to your computer.We will be using the Pinnacle 510-USB. Video Capture Software-This software captures the signal from ...

Convert Youtube Video To MP3

Is there a really cool video on Youtube you wished you could convert to MP3? Guess you answered yes,you can convert a Youtube video to MP3 so you get can listen to its audio or soundtrack. Here is how: Navigate to the video you want to convert to MP3 on Youtube Copy the URL of the video Go to http://listentoyoutube.com and paste the URL into the box titled "Enter YouTube URL" and click GO The site extracts audio from the video and makes it downloadable as an MP3 file

How to install XP

This tutorial will guide you through doing a clean install of XP. To install XP you will need the XP installation disc.Note:This process will delete all your files.You must make a back up of all your files else they will be lost.This tutorial assumes you are a bit computer savvy. Start the computer from your CD. To do this you must set your BIOS to boot from CD. The disc will start to load needed files and drivers.Press Enter to install XP when this screen below appears. Read and accept the EULA(End User License Agreement) by pressing F8. Choose the partition you ...

How to burn a CD/DVD Image

CD/DVD images is a file that contains the contents of a CD or DVD.Image files usually have the .iso file extension.To burn an image to disc,download ImgBurn from the following link.Install Imgburn and following the directions below to burn the image. Open ImgBurn and choose the option write image file to disc. Click the Browse for file button to browse for the image you want to burn. Navigate to the file and click Open Click on Write to burn the image to CD/DVD. ImgBurn does the rest of the work for you and burns the image to disc.