How to increase the speed of your hard disk in windows XP/2003?
Today, hard disk is most commonly used storage device in personal and laptop computers. The accessing speed of hard disk is also very high as compare to other storage devices.
In windows XP and windows 2003, you can increase the performance of hard disk. You can enable a special buffer in the computer memory to better deal with the hard disk interrupts. By default this special buffer is not configured in all window versions.
Perform the following steps to enable this feature in windows XP/2003:
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To active this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. -
First click on Start button and go to Run, type SYSEDIT.EXE then press OK button to execute this command.
The "System Configure Editor" will appear with four different windows (System.ini, Win.ini, Config.sys, and Autoexec.bat).
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Close the top three windows and expand the "System.ini" window. -
At the end of this file, you will find a line [386enh]. -
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Again at the end of this line, press enter to make one blank line and then type in that line.Irq14=4096(This line is case Sensitive.)
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Now go to "File" menu to save these setting. -
Close the "System Configure Editor" and reboot your computer after any changes to go into effect.
How to hide your important data from other users?
Normally when you need to secure your important data from other users, then your first choice is to burn it on CD or put it to removable drive instead of hard drive. But imagine if your data size is more than 100 GB then it is not easy to burn it on CD. No worry, you can save your full drive from other users access using this trick.Perform the given steps to hide your system data partition: -
To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. -
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First click on Start button to open "Run" and type "CMD" (without the quotes) then press Ok button to open Command Prompt.
Now type diskpart on the blinking cursor and wait for 5 seconds to appear diskpart> utility.
To show the list of volume, type list volume command after the diskpart> prompt, this command will show you all system drives detail.
Now first select the volume that you want to hide, for example,
if you need to hide F drive then first type select volume 2 (in this case) and press enter button.
After loading volume, type remove letter F (in this case) to hide F drive.
Now exit from command prompt and open My Computer to verify drives.
But next time, when you want to unhide the D drive, just run assign drive F command after loading volume 2.
