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Windows Tips
Permanently
delete files
If you want to permanently delete files without moving them
to Recycle bin, hold down the Shift key while pressing delete.
If you don't want the recycle bin altogether, right-click the
Recycle Bin and click on Properties. On the Global Tab, select
Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. If you enable configure
drivers independently, you can set this up for the drivers you
want.
Windows System Configuration
A very useful tool included with Windows is the System Configuration
Utility. Select Start > Run and type 'msconfig' in the Open
box to launch the application. The system Configuration utility
makes fiddling with programs to launch at Startup or editing
autoexec.bat, config.sys etc. a lot easier. To system Configuration
Utility also allows you to crease a backup of your system files.
It would be a good idea to use this before you begin making
changed.
Preview Images
You can easily preview your Image files by enabling "Web View"
from the toolbar or from the Windows Explorer menu, select View
> As Web page. A better way to preview images is as thumbnails
instead of icons. To enable this view in Windows Explorer, right-click
the folder you want to preview and click on Properties. Check
the box against Enable thumbnail view and click OK to exit the
dialog box. Now, form the View menu, select Thumbnails.
Optimizing the Swap File
Windows uses a portion of the hard disk as RAM, constantly swapping
data between RAM and hard disk as required. The speed of your
hard disk is in the order of 1000 times slower than that of your
main memory. Inefficient use of the swap file could considerable
slow down your system to a very great extent. One of the best
ways to speed up the swap file usage is to create a permanent
swap file. In a permanent swap file, the file used for swapping
information has a fixed size and location on your hard disk. When
a temporary swap file is used, the location and size of the file
is determined by application being used and is not predictable.
Also, since a temporary swap file is constantly written to and
is not fixed in size, it would be highly fragmented across the
partition that holds it. A better option is to create the swap
file on a dedicated partition on your hard disk. By doing this,
the swap file will never be fragmented since that partition is
only being utilized by the swap file itself. You can configure
the swap file size and location from Control Panel > System
> Performance > Virtual Memory. The size of the swap file
should be around 2.5 times the amount of RAM on the system.
