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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Is a 1 GB RAM Computer faster than a 512 MB RAM one?

This article was published in some PC Magazine sometime ago. I thought this would be helpful for many. Hence I am providing the info As-Is. Read On -

There are many factors that influence how fast a computer operates, and RAM is one of them.But there are other components to consider: The processor, graphics card, and hard drive are three main components that affect a computer’s performance. A computer with a 3GHz processor will most likely be faster than one with a 2.1GHz processor, for example. A high-end graphics card will outperform a budget card, leading to better performance. A hard drive that spins at 4,500rpm will be slower than one rated at 10,000rpm.You must also consider the level of maintenance performed on one computer vs. another; the better-maintained computer may be quicker. Further, different operating systems have different requirements; for example, Microsoft suggests 128MB of RAM is sufficient to run Windows XP but recommends at least 1GB for Windows Vista.

Hence RAM is not the only criteria. But yes a 1GB RAM always > 512 MB RAM performance wise to some extent.