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Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista from a USB Drive

Many people are not aware of this, but it is quite possible to install Windows Vista, or Windows 7 from a flash drive. Even among those who are aware of this face, few like to do it themselves, since the procedure involves some command line voodoo. Many people are afraid that the smallest misstep will render their device useless. Well, gone are the days when such people would need to go to the neighbourhood geek to get their USB devices made bootable and ready to install Windows 7. Windows 7 USB / DVD Download Tool is a software focused on doing one thing, and one thing only. It takes a Windows 7 disc image file, and produces a bootable DVD or USB drive for the user. It is true that in DVD burning scenarios, there are plenty of other choice and better competitors, but few are capable of creating a bootable Windows 7 USB with its clean GUI, easy interface and impressive performance. What's more? It's completely free! Its operation is simple. Select the Windows 7 ISO imag...

SHORT CUT TO REMOVE PENDRIVE

Rather than clicking on the task bar and then safely removing the pendrive you can eaily do so creating a shortcut: The Steps are:- 1)Create shortcut on your desktop by right click and selecting new shortcut from the menu. 2)Type "RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" click next and then finish. shortcut is created and now you can assign a shortcut key to it. just right click on it and select properties-> Click on Shortcut Tab -> Assign a Shortcut key to it(it will take Ctrl+Alt by default)eg: if you press 1 shortcut will be Ctrl+Alt+1.

CONVERT YOUR PEN DRIVE FROM FAT TO NTFS

By default windows format pen drives with FAT file system, which has it's own limitations. FAT file system cannot store file larger than 4 GB. But nowadays we have transfer files more than 4 GB. The NTFS is more reliable & dosent have these limitations. To format in NTFS do the following:- Plug in your pen drive. Right click on the icon of your pendrive in my computer select Properties. Go to hardware tab. Select your pen drive & click properties button below. Select Policies tab. Select Optimize For Performance. (This trick is already given by me this will increase overall speed of ur pen drive.) Now again click ur pen drive icon in my computer. Select Format. Click on File System Box. & voila you see NTFS & format your pen drive. Another Method: You can also convert your pen drive as you convert hard disk partitions from fat to ntfs. Open command prompt. In command prompt window type: " convert drive_letter: /fs : ntfs" Without quot...

INCREASE THE SPEED OF USB DRIVE

To increase the speed of your USB Drive. Plug in your USB Drive. Open My Computer, right-click on your USB Drive and choose Properties. Under Hardware, select the USB Drive and choose Properties. In the dialog that Pops up, you'll see that " Optimize for quick removal" is selected by default. Change this to "Optimize for Performance". Remove USB and insert it again. Now try to copy some file into it you will notice a decrease in the time taken to copy.

OVER CLOCK YOUR MOUSE

Yes, you can overclock mice. Depending on the mouse, it'll either drastically improve performance, or not have any effect.Not pople with Razor mouse or Logitech MX518 do not need to do this as they are already using high quality mouse. This Hack will improve the mouse refresh rate of a normal mouse which is at 125 Hz to a wooping 1000 Hz. Here are Steps to do this Trick:- Step 1. First check the existing mouse rate using the software calles Mouse Rate Checker from ( www.tscherwitschke.de ). Step 2. Start Mouse Rate Checker & move the mouse around randomly within te window. The polling rate is shown. Step 3. Download a software called USB Mouserate Switcher from ( www.tinyurl.com/hyonv ). After running it, it will prompt you to switch polling rate to 250 Hz (If your previous rate was 125Hz). Step 4. Select Yes, then reboot your pc for settings to be applied. Step 5. Afer a restart again launch Mouse Rate Checker & repeat "Step 2" now you will see th...