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Ultimate Boot CD – Another great Diagnotic tool

Ultimate Boot CD ( UBCD) is a bootable CD Several System diagnostic tools which can be used when your computer go kaput or not responding or for any reason it’s not working. It contains several tools which can run several diagnostic utility including few free to use Anti virus and Anti Malware tools.  You can use it to diagnose hard disk problem, network problem, perform low level operation on Hard disk and many other things.

Ultimate Boot CD can be used to run floppy based program from a Cd and can run on better speed than floppy drive. Also these days most system does not comes with floppy drive, but they come with Cd ROM and Netbook are coming only with USB port. Ultimate Boot Cd can be used on a USB drive by using a script available on this CD itself. So if you have access to another computer and you need to run these diagnostic on your netbook you can prepare your USB drive loaded with these utilities and then run the diagnostics.

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Install Windows on Your Netbook

Netbooks are getting popular these days. Netbooks are another form of Laptop which were originally designed to Access Internet and other small utility software, which does not require A lot of computing power and RAM. They are very Portable as size of netbooks vary from 5″ to 12″ and they weight about 1-3 Pounds (~1KG).

The basic idea behind developing netbook was carrying a computer which is light in weight and handy to use anywhere you want. They also Consumes less power and most of the netbook gives you a battery backup of > 3-4 hours. Netbooks typically run Windows XP and don’t use Vista as Vista is supposed to have a very memory consuming OS. But with the release of Windows you must be thinking of upgrading your netbook to Windows. But there comes the problem as Netbooks don;t have CD drive (to save space and make them compact) how to install Windows. There are 2 options – 1. You purchase a USB CD drive which can be plugged externally and used with your Netbook, 2. You hire some professional who own the necessary hardware to Upgrade the OS.

But we have a better solution for you. Here we giving you a easy tutorial, using which you can make your Pen Drive bootable and use that Pen Drive to Boot and install Windows…. All you need is a Pen Drive of 4Gb or more capacity and Windows installation files.

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Enable Verbose – Show Detailed Information While Windows Start

At times windows take hell lot of time to start or to shutdown. You are getting frustrated why it is happening but have no idea how to know about the reason. Well here is a registry hack which will tell you what windows was doing that took so long to start or shutdown…

By this registry hack you can get detailed information of what windows is doing during startup, Shutdown, Login or logoff. Activating this will slow down the windows further but as this shows detailed information about what it doing it will be good for troubleshooting purpose. It can also be handy for tuning so if you see any application or file takinga lot of time to load during startup you can remove that from startup. If it is a service you can set it to start in delayed mode (vista only).

I would recommend don’t use this setting turned on always, set it only when you want to troubleshoot as it further slow downs windows. Step to do it are explained below –

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Is My Window Infected Even Before I Started Using it

Well you are a new Windows User or old but you must have heard of Trojans, Viruses, and malwares. Those little nasty programs which resides in your system and send your private information to all hackers around the world, and compromises your security. So you installed anti Virus and Anti spyware to stay away from these. But what if they exist in your system even before you installed Antivirus, or they came with windows itself. In that case your antivirus can’t do anything because malwares exist in system before they came and can infect those programs itself.

How and From where Malware Came

Now Question is how the hell my windows got infected before I installed Antivirus? I freshly downloaded an ISO file containing Windows setup and installed it and then first thing I did was installing antivirus… But yes still your window is infected… How??

AntiVirus can prevent you from Virus, Trojan or Malwares only if your copy of windows is clean of those infections before installing antivirus. This is because of fact that These nasty programs are designed in such a way that if they successfully load themselves in a clean machine they prevent antivirus functioning. More important if they exist before installation of anti virus, they will embed with antivirus in such a way that antivirus will not be able to recognize them.

Well this is possible if you downloaded your Windows setup from a source which is not trusted like Torrents, LimeWire, Kazaa or any other peer-to-peer file sharing applications. Now as we know from where we get infection but how and Why??

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