Backup Drivers

You can easily create the backup of your computer installed drivers (just the particular or all drivers) and use it to troubleshoot any driver problems. This backup will be very useful when you will format your computer window due to any reason. There is no need to search the drivers from internet or drivers CD, just import the driver backup and within five minute, you will complete the driver installation process. You can move this backup from one computer to other computer for installation.

To do this, we will use a simple tool called DriverMax free download. Using this tool, we can easily export the backup of any specific or all drivers and then import it for reinstallation later or elsewhere. You can free download (with free registration code) this tool for windows XP and Vista also. Download it and run the easy setup.

After Installation launch DriverMax, the first screen you will get with title "DriverMax - Version" and options "Export drivers, Import drivers and Installed drivers report". Just Do this

- Export Driver option to start backup process.
- it will show you the whole driver list on your system.
- select your useful driver or click select all option to selest all.
- then export them to your desired location (folder) or make a zip file of drivers.

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Online Virus check through multiple Anti-virus engines

This trick requires internet connection to be on. Through this process you can check for any file on your system for virus, malwares, trojan infections, through multiple antivirus engines and with the latest pathches.

Visit this site Virus Total

- Here in the search box, browse for any file on your system to check for the virus, malware of trojan infections.

This is surely not a substitute of the system antivirus, but for the internet downloads this can be a good tool with the latest patches and multiple antivirus engines.
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Enable the Advance performance setting in windows vista

If the speed of your system (Vista) is very slow then try this very useful tip. There is some default setting in vista which is used to manage the write caching on disk. By default windows enabled the write caching on disk but the advanced performance setting is disabled.

Follow the guidelines:

To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

First right click on My Computer icon then select the option Manage.


Here small windows will appear with title Computer Management, now select the Device Manager option, then locate the SATA Disk under the Disk Drives.

Here select the enable advanced performance sittings on the SATA disk.

Now click on Ok button to apply the setting and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
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Ways to access a Banned website

Follow the given points to access the banned website:


Technique 1: Search the banned website in Google and yahoo search engine then open the cached copy of that page to access the website. You can get also cache link of that website, if you search in Google with keyword cache:URL name and get cache link to access the website.

Technique 2: Another method to access the banned website using its IP address, because you can open the website with IP address instead of actual URL name. This technique bypasses the URL based restrictions. For example if www.myspace.com is banned in your school, you can open it using IP address 216.178.32.51. You can search online IP conversion tools to get IP address of any website.

Technique 3: There are some mini web browsers can help you to open the banned websites, for example Opera Mini Browser, install it and try to open any banned website. Another Real Player browser can successfully help you to access the banned website. This Real Player browser bypasses the many restrictions of website banned tools.

Technique 4: There any many websites Anonymizer tools are available to fetch the banned website. These anonymous surfing tools that protect your identity on the internet and give the access to banned sites. As far as the service provider is concerned you are viewing a page from Anonymizer and not the blocked site. Read more .....

Change Special Folder Assigned by Windows

To change the locations of special folder assigned by windows, these things could be done:

Like these folders My Documents Favorites My Pictures Personal

1) Go to > Start Regedit

2) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Double click on any locations you want to change and alter the path

Logoff or restart for the changes to go into effect
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Increase Browsing and Downloading speed in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista Internet Speed is slow. Browsing and Downloading speed is very slow as compare to previous OS versions of windows. In XP same site will open fastly.

Do these steps to optimize the Vista browsing speed:

1) go to Tools > internet options > Advance tab in Internet Explorer and turn off the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption option. Here to fix problem with some secure pages turn on the SSL 2.0 (Secure Sockets Layer) feature and click Ok button to close it.

- Follow the major fix for this problem:

In windows Vista, the TCP autotuning feature is enabled by default. Some web servers do not respond properly to this feature, so it appears that some sites open with very slow speed.

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

1) Start > run > type CMD > Enter.

At Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter.

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel = disabled

This command will disable the TCP autotuning feature. Now close the command Prompt and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

You can easily restore these setting by typing the following command at Command Prompt.

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= normal

Now close the command Prompt and again restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
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Registry tweak : Set Recycle bin to Delete always

Recycle Bin is a folder in windows on the hard disk to store deleted files and folders. After deletion of files and folders, they can be stored back from recycle bin. Now if you want the deletion of the files to happen automatically and permanently, change the registry settings likewise this.

Follow the given steps to edit computer registry for Recycle Bin:


Go to Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\BitBucket

Here in right side panel, double click on NukeOnDelete and set its value 1.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
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