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Defragmenting your hard drive can speed up the reading and writing of data on your hard disk. Defragging your hard drives frequently can keep the disks working at their best, but this can be a chore to remember.

For those with Windows Vista, there is a utility to enable automatic defragging. However, most people are still wise enough to delay updating until the bugs with drivers and system are ironed out. XP users can still automate the defrag process: you can let Windows' Scheduled Tasks take care of defragmenting your hard drive for you.

Devices such as mobile phones, the PSP, or 5th Generation iPod have video playback. However, you need to have your videos in .mp4 or .3gp format to view them.

 

Most people will store their videos in .wmv or .avi (XviD or DivX) format, so they will need to be converted in order to view them on the device. There are lots of software solutions around to do this but I have found that 3GP Converter is adequate, with no install and very little configuration or set up.

 

This must be one of the best ways to recycle glass bottles. Janos Marton installed a fully functional PC into a 1.5L whisky bottle. It even runs Windows XP.

The full article can be found here.

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Microsoft Windows comes with a lot of services you probably won't need. Running today's high end games is demanding enough without the games having to compete with Windows components. You can shut down some services permanently but there may be some that are required some of the time.

For example, do you really need that nice Luna theme hogging resources when you're playing a game? If the game is offline only, do you need all your networking services up and running? I will explain how to automate the starting and stopping of services.

 

I joined the broadband revolution with Freeserve, who had a few name changes and are now called Orange. I never had any problems before this year, which seems quite lucky as it meant I didn't have to face their abysmal customer support.