Software by tag 'speed'

BootTimer – Know your Windows startup times

Posted by Dickey on May 18th, 08 | Filed under Application, How To, Operating system | View Comments

BootTimer is a free application which can measures Windows startup times.

BootTimer will not calculate the time taken to go through BIOS, and will start immediately when your PC starts loading Windows. Currently, BootTimer works on Windows NT, Windows XP and Windows XP 64 bit Edition, and yet to support Windows Vista.

To use BootTimer, launch the application and a messagebox will appear and ask you to reboot your Windows. After you click “Yes”, your computer will restarts. After your computer restarts, you will get another messagebox that show you the total time taken to start Windows.

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Increase your PC files copy speed with Fastcopy

Posted by Dickey on Feb 4th, 08 | Filed under Application | View Comments

Fastcopy is an application which can copy or move files rapidly from one location to another location. It is a free application which you can bring it along with your USB flash drive.

There are lots of application which claims that they can increase the files copy speed, such as Killcopy, Teracopy, and Fastcopy. I haven’t try Killcopy and Teracopy (you can get the introduction of teracopy through makeuseof.com). I had decided to continue with Fastcopy once i read the introduction of this application from their main page.

Fastcopy

Increase your “My Computer” loading speed

Posted by Dickey on Nov 4th, 07 | Filed under Operating system, Tutorial | View Comments

This article teach you how to increase your PC’s speed when opening “My Computer”. Spend 5 minutes and your PC will get faster loading speed when open “My Computer”!

Sometimes, our PC will “hang” for few seconds when we open “My Computer”. It is because Windows XP will automatically search for network computers and printers. It is really frustrating when you are searching an important document and need it urgent. How-To Geek suggest that we can actually turn off this feature to increase the “My Computer” loading speed. Spend 5 minutes to tweak your Windows XP and you wont get frustrated anymore!