Did you know that your PC is built to last for more than 10 years!? However, it will never make it that long unless regular maintenance and tuning is done; similar to a car. The biggest problem that computers have is their owners. Over 80% of computer problems are a result of computer neglect. Simple tasks such as emptying cache files and regularly updating software keep up maintenance and add longevity to your PC. One of the main results of lack of computer maintenance is that it’s performance has slowed. Fragmented data, corrupted registry, spyware and unnecessary programs can all wear on your PC’s speed and performance. Simply managing your programs and cleaning you registry could give a 30% gain in speed and performance!
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Meet Bing, Microsoft’s New Search Engine
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Before we delve into discussing Microsoft new Bing search engine and what it has to offer against the old time favorites Google and Yahoo, let us first define what are search engines and how does it work.
What are Search Engines?
Search engines are specialized websites designed to help people find the information they need quickly and easily on the internet.
How do Search Engines Work?
Search engines use automated software programs known as spiders or bots to survey the Web and build their databases. Web documents are retrieved by these programs and analyzed. Data collected from each web page are then added to the search engine index. When you enter a query at a search engine site, your input is checked against the search engine’s index of all the web pages it has analyzed. The best URLs are then returned to you as hits, ranked in order with the best results at the top.
Meet Bing, Microsoft’s New Search Engine
Microsoft has launched its own search engine, Bing — two days before the scheduled launch of June 3, 2009 in its aim to wage battle against Google and Yahoo. The search engine that has been previously known as “Kumo” is now known as “Bing”. It is said that the goal of Bing is to help us search better and faster, saving us precious time by presenting only relevant results. The results on Bing has been refined to present the best answer for you in the form of a search result called “Best Match” which will appear at the top of your results list. Results often let you get deep within a site to get what you need using the “Deep Links”. A Quick Preview feature will a hover-over window that explain more on the search result that will help you decide if the result is worth clicking through.
How Microsoft Can Best Google or Yahoo and Other Search Engines
Google is becoming the generic name when it comes to search engines. If you don’t believe, just ask members of your family, friends, neighbors and office mates who use internet and you will know the answer.
Microsoft should not try to claim that their new search engine is better, because that statement will always find contradiction. What Microsoft should do is present “Bing”, as the next generation search engine positioning Google or Yahoo as the old products. Microsoft has all the means and resources to pull off this strategy but the question is will the other search engines allow them to?
A Firm Commitment
Microsoft is committed to build better tools that will help people find a better way to search for information on the internet. Bing is an important first step toward this long-term vision which shows Microsoft strong commitment to move search technology forward.
How Important is it to Defrag my Computer’s Hard Drive
Monday, June 29th, 2009
It comes with our mind on “How Important is it to Defrag our computer’s had drive?”
If you have never defragged your computer then most likely your system is running slow or even freezing up. Everyone wants to know how to make their computers run longer and fast and that is the main reason we have this article to let you to know that just because you are experiencing computer problems, it does not necessarily mean that you have to run out and purchase a whole new system.
Most people never take the time to learn that they system needs certain maintenance and instead when it freezes up, they become upset at it. However this is just a sign that your system requires maintenance to get back in working order.
You can easily run a free PC scan on it on several sites including third party software’s that will help us to find out if your system is performing at its best.
So you may be wondering why is it so important to defrag my computer? Well the hard drive in our computer is composed of several disks or platters. When data gets written on the hard drive, it is written in a continuous fashion. As you continue to delete and add files bits and pieces are left on your hard drive. They remain on it until you run a defrag on your system.
Now you may be thinking well I do not know anything about computer defragmentation. Well you know more than most people about this now. Most people do not take the time to take care of their computers that way that they should be taken care of; and therefore they do not last long enough.
This is always what you want to do before you run out and purchase a new system because the one that you are working with is old. You should easily be able to get around 4-5 years with a PC. Of course it also depends on what type of system that it is.
I highly recommend that before we defrag our system we need to back up all your important files to make sure that you do not lose anything in the process. I personally did not back up my files and did not lose anything that I did not want to but it is better safe that sorry.
Computer fragmentation is very helpful especially in maximizing the disk resources that we have in our computer.
How to Defrag Your Computer?
Defragmenting your Windows XP hard drive
- 1. To defragment your hard drive in Windows XP, open My Computer and right-click on the C: drive. Select Properties, then click on the Tools tab and select Defragment Now…
- 2. The Windows Disk Defragmenter program will open and all drives are listed in the top window pane. Since the program is going to be arranging files on your hard drive, it is important that no files are being accessed during the process, or the program won’t be able to move them. Close all open programs.
- 3. The C: drive is where operating system files and programs are installed by default, so make sure that it is selected, then click Defragment. While the program is running, it is recommend that you not use your computer. The time is takes to run the defragmenting process is dependent on the size of your hard drive and amount of fragmentation.While the program is running you will see a graphical representation of the blocks of files on your hard drive being moved and the fragmented segments joined together. Usually the less gaps of free space between the contiguous segments the better, but as long as the fragmented files are put together into contiguous segments, it will help your computer’s performance.
- 4. Once the process is complete, the graphic should display most of the contiguous files on the left and the majority of the free space on the right. Close the Disk Defragmenter window and resume using your computer.
