Tweak processor and memory to enhance performance.

Actually you could not notice your PC’s performance until you are supposed to run multiple programs at the same time. At that time, processor and memory of your system are as busy as bee especially when resourse-intensive programs are running. The bottom line is that different programs need different amounts of processor and memory resources. So, by tweaking settings of CPU and memory helps enhance the performance.

Before tweaking, you need to understand how your PC allocates the system’s resources to the programs. Keep in mind that there are not only foreground programs ( which are running and appearing on the task bar ) but also background programs or services ( which are running on the background, auto-update program for example ). You get also physical memory ( which is called RAM inside your system ) and virtual memory ( which is temporary space on the hard disk and is used when physical RAM is under heavy burden ). Windows also loads frequently-used programs into the momory for faster retrieval. Keeping those facts in mind, you can now tweak your system. Right-click My Computer icon on desktop, choose properties then choose Advanced tab, click Settings under Performance and choose Advanced tab on Performance Options window. Get yourself familiar with different settings by clicking on question mark icon on the right corner and hovering ‘question mark’ on different setting. You will get a brief explanation of the setting you choose.

Net gridlock on the horizon.

We could suffer from net congestion by 2010 according to the news. No doubt, we will be stuck one day coz people are getting online more and more. Besides, those people online are likely to spend the time by using bandwidth-intensive applications such as watching and downloading movies. I think we need the demand of action to deal with ever-increasing bandwidth demand otherwise we will get back to the era of dial-up.

Do we have ‘virtual second life’?

We are inadvertently entering the virtual world filled with virtual things. As with the real world we are now living in, there are virtual society, virtual cash, virtual house and so on. But the virtual world could not exist without the real world – they are not mutually exclusive. In the real world, you are who you are. If you are football player, you can’t be gangster. The virtual world is , in my view, juz a complement to the real world. In the virtual world, you could be who you can’t be.
In fact, when you are playing FIFA football manager, you are acting as if you are real manager. Since the technology helped us take part in muliplayer-online-role games, the life of ‘virtual life’ is beginning to take shape. Your virtual life juz represents your another ‘self’. Nowadays, you are both ‘who you are’ and ‘who you are not’.

Read news about virtual world:
Making money from virtually nothing
Virtual theft leads to arrest

Speed up PC by stopping services in Windows.

Windows users from time to time feel their PCs are getting slower than ever before. There are a lot of reasons for being slow – downloading and installing non-trusted software, unnecessary start-up programs are piling up, viruses and so on. But sometimes even if there are no problems with your system, you feel the system becomes slow when you play games or editing photos or videos. Stopping services in Windows sometimes helps slove the problem. Services are basically programs running in the background. Some of them are necessary but some of them not depending on what you need. For example, if your PC runs on its own and doesn’t connect to others, you can stop network-related services such as Messenger, Remote Registry, Telnet and so forth. I suggest you try to get familiar yourself with Windows’ services by typing in ‘services.msc’ in Run box and then learn which services are good for you.
You can double-click the services and then start, restart or stop them manually. The safest way is to create a batch file. Firstly open notepad. Secondly, write in the notepad like this: NET STOP “the service you want to stop” line by line for each service you like to stop. Then name the file and save the file as with .bat extention. Double-click the batch file to stop the services of your choice. It could take some time. Restart you PC and you can enjoy the speed. If something goes wrong and you want to restart the services, replace NET STOP with NET START.