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CODING FOR GOOD. PhoneGap. Learn HTML5, CSS3, Javascript - video style tutorials. UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB. Unlocker 1.9.1 for 32 and 64 bit - 4/12/2011 - New feature: Made it possible to delete deep directory structures and too long path errors (Path too long, Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long.

UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

Specify a different file name, The filename or extension is too long, Path too deep, Destination Path Too Long, The file could not be accessed, The path you entered, is too long. Tips for CCleaner Users. (Guest Post by Ashutosh Mishra) System cleaning apps for Windows are a dime a dozen these days, but there is just one that has been holding the throne for a long long time – CCleaner.

Tips for CCleaner Users

With its small footprint, superfast cleaning, and attention to detail, CCleaner has remained insanely popular for years. CCleaner is plenty good as it is, but did you know that it can do quite a bit more than manual system cleaning? In this post, we shall see how you can utilize some of the lesser known features of CCleaner to make the most of this wonderful app. 1. While CCleaner can clean junk off a decent number of programs, there are many apps that it doesn’t support yet. 2.

Being the staple tech support guy of my family, I am a sucker for portable apps. Thankfully, Piriform provides an official portable build of CCleaner with all the bells and whistles of its installable counterpart. 3. You’ll find the Drive Wiper under the “Tools” side-tab. The OS Files - Your total operating systems portal. AnandTech Forums - Powered by vBulletin. Improve your computer's gaming performance.

This article contains information to help you improve the performance of a computer when you play any one of the games that is listed in the "Applies to" section.

Improve your computer's gaming performance

These are common symptoms of poor game performance: Intermittent playback of video clipsSlow video frame ratesChoppy game playChoppy or poor-quality video displayDistorted audio playback Method 1: Analyze the computer components Some games can determine the performance capability of your computer and adjust to that level as required. However, if you manually adjust the game settings to a level that your video card and your processor cannot handle, you will experience degraded performance of the game. How to Overclock Your Video Card and Boost Your Gaming Performance. What to do with your USB flash drive: Maintain Windows. What do you use your USB flash drive for?

What to do with your USB flash drive: Maintain Windows

How about maintaining a Windows computer? Parted Magic is a nifty partitioning tool that also includes a suite of other useful utilities. Using memory in your storage device to speed up your computer. 10 Ways to Improve Performance on a Windows PC. Alteredgamer. If your gaming experience is choppy and lagging while running some of the newest games, try making the adjustments below to get a better gameplay.

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This article provides ten tweaks on improving PC gaming performance. When trying to improve gaming performance, it’s important to optimize the graphics card settings, the overall system performance, and the in-game graphics settings. Before trying any of these tips, you should first check the system requirements for any game you’re trying to play. If your system doesn’t meet the processor, graphics card, or memory minimum requirements, then you have an issue that these tips won’t fix and you’ll need to look into upgrading your computer.INCREASE VIRTUAL MEMORYVirtual memory is hard drive space that is set aside for use when Windows runs out of physical memory.

By increasing the virtual memory, you can ensure that your games have access to all of the memory that it needs. Myth vs. Fact: How Much Can Free PC Tweaks Improve Gaming Performance? Well, like I said, I was only using SLI as an example.

Myth vs. Fact: How Much Can Free PC Tweaks Improve Gaming Performance?

In most cases, buying a new video card is much more cost-effective, but you make a good point: even when SLI seems "cheaper", it requires that your motherboard support it, so it might not actually be cheaper or even possible. I'll mention this in the post. Tech Support Management. Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts Third Edition - PC Troubleshooting and Repair. Eight of the troubleshooting flowcharts for PC hardware from my book "Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts Third Edition" are excerpted on this site and linked below.

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts Third Edition - PC Troubleshooting and Repair

The non-active links are for charts that are included in the book but not available online. The Third Edition is 170 pages and includes seventeen flowcharts for troubleshooting PCs plus explanatory text for every decision symbol on every flowchart. The troubleshooting process is the same for an expensive Sony or IBM, or a cheaper eMachines or Acer. Dell and HP (who purchased Compaq) manufacture desktop PC's in a wide range of price points, but you have to go through the same troubleshooting steps for the cheap ones as the expensive ones if you want to correctly identify and repair the failure. Boot Failure Troubleshooting Poster ( 30" x 30" printable PDF). The PC diagnostics apply to ATX computers, which displaced the old AT standard beginning in the mid-90's. Know Your Network, Lesson 4: Access Your Home Computers from Anywhere. LH is often about how to get things done quickly, not how to do it securely.

Know Your Network, Lesson 4: Access Your Home Computers from Anywhere

Sometimes there's a difference, but I agree, in this case running VNC outside any sort of tunnel is a BAD IDEA. Allowing unencrypted VNC access from the internet is a noob mistake. Gee Mom, look what I did! Unencrypted traffic, often trivial password for access to the entire machine, anyone who can see the traffic can watch all your keystrokes.

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