The other day, I literally “doubled/tripled” my external USB hard drive’s transfer speeds from just around 30Mb/s to near 100Mb/s.
By default, write caching is turned off on external hard drives (for USB), if you turn it on, you will be able to take advantage of write cache that allows you to make faster writes.
Of course, don’t forget, you will need to use the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon when you remove your external hard drive.
2-3 times faster performance is definitely worth doing this.
For those of you who despise carrying a Windows 7 installation DVD with you everywhere or your laptop/netbook doesn’t have a DVD drive, you might want to learn how to install Windows 7 without an optical drive but with a USB flash drive.
1. Make sure you have Windows 7 discs. If you have an ISO version, you can use MagicISO (freeware that will let you attach your ISO as a virtual DVD drive). (Download MagicISO here)
2. Format your USB flash drive using diskpart. *Make sure you
The other day I was installing Windows 7 on two of my friend’s older laptops. I got Windows 7 installed fine but was having trouble finding the right display and audio drivers.
I found that manufacturers such as HP like to make their audio drivers almost impossible to find by re-naming their audio drivers to HP’s proprietary names. These can make it harder when HP’s support site only provide drivers for Windows XP.
Of course, don’t forget that most Windows Vista drivers will work with Windows 7 in my experience. So before following this g
For most of us who use USB flash drives, we probably don’t need auto-play nor pop-ups which Windows 7 brings along with other goodies. My friend Greg over at GetUSB.info has a great tutorial on that, please head over here for full instructions.
Windows 7 is much like XP in accessing the feature to turn off the USB auto play function. We don’t have a Window’s 7 machine, but I did find a great tutorial from DemoGeek. Here is the info you need to turn off USB Auto Play
This is sorta old news already but I guess Windows 7 activation was hacked within days of Windows 7 official release:
According to Windows enthusiast site Neowin, one of the first to report the crack, a Lenovo disk image of Windows 7 leaked to a Chinese Web site, then moved to English-language domains. Pirates proceeded to retrieve the master OEM key and the OEM activation certificate from the .iso file. Microsoft lets major computer makers like Lenovo,
