Standards created for hard drive encryption!

Six of the world's biggest hard drive manufacturers—Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital have announced their support for a broad set of standards aimed at creating common ground for full-drive encryption. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an industry body which promotes security measures including the use of unique master keys to secure the data on a computer.

Internal and external drives that adopt the standards set down by the TCG will require passwords when plugged into any computer, meaning data cannot be compromised by the physical theft of a laptop or storage device. Yet, these drives will remain interoperable with all standard computer hardware.Data security is becoming a legal requirement in many parts of the world for businesses and large enterprises.

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How to degragment the hard drives in a jiffy?

Today I tell you the easiest way of running your computer smoothly. You know as time proceeds and you fill the drives with lots of data, your cutie pie PC might be little slow or can be annoyingly slow at times. So what are you gonna do? Yeah I can suggest a hell lot of methods. I will be coming up with the best one in my upcoming articles. But for everyone - The below article will be of utmost help so that you can defragment your drives in a jiffy!

Bottomline - For the system to work smoothly,the hard disk must be defragmented
regularly. However, using the Start menu to open the Disk Manager each time becomes cumbersome. An easier way?
With an entry in the registry,you can expand the context menu for disk drives to include the command to defragment them directly :) How?

Do the following step by step -

• Select ‘Start | Run’, enter ‘regedit’ and press [Enter].
• In the Registry Editor, navigate to the key ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell’.
• There,create a sub-key ‘Defrag’ through ‘Edit | New | Key’.
• This is only the name of the entry in the context menu. Under that create the sub-key ‘Command’ for the actual program call.
• Now select the ‘Command’ key by clicking it and then double-click on the character string ‘Default’ in the right pane.
• In the following dialog box, enter the ‘Value data’ with Defrag.exe %1
• The variable ‘%1’ gives the selected diskdrive letter to the tool ‘defrag.exe’. Close the registry. The change is immediately effective without having to restart the computer.

Now as soon as you right-click on any drive in Windows Explorer, you can defragment it through the new context menu item you just created.

Note: To create a key in the registry and to use the new context command you must be logged on to the computer with administrator rights.

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