Xdrive

June 27th, 2008

Xdrive ®

The Xdrive service is your personal hard drive on the Internet. A place to store, back-up, organize, access, and share your permissible files and folders with a selection of easy-to-use applications.
Whether you’re looking for a place to save your digital pictures, automatically back-up your files and folders, share
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Tweak IV

June 23rd, 2008

The original TweakVI offers what you need to customize and optimize Windows Vista:
Unlike other tweaking utilities,
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Using ReadyBoost

June 23rd, 2008

ReadyBoost is a Vista feature that uses a compatible USB flash device to enhance performance. Note that the oft-misunderstood feature isn’t a replacement for a memory upgrade, and it doesn’t affect game performance—you won’t see higher frame rates by adding a keychain drive to your system.
ReadyBoost caches disk reads on
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One of the best ways to speed up Windows Vista that we’ll cover is simple.
Simply use it!
Vista’s Superfetch feature, its prefetching powerhouse, is incredibly powerful on its own—don’t mess with it.
Vista monitors your computing habits and caches the stuff you use the most. It also moves things on the hard
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Defrag Once in a While

June 3rd, 2008

If you’ve somehow gotten the impression that Windows Vista doesn’t need to be defragged, think again. Vista comes with a defrag program (Microsoft’s worst yet, in terms of usability) and it even comes preconfigured to defrag the hard drive once each week.
Unless you keep your computer on 24 hours a
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