Hard Drives

Trying to keep the hard drive crown, Seagate has now begun to provide the Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option for its enterprise line-up which includes the Savvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 HDDs.

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Speefan

Speedfan is a useful tool for monitoring temperatures and voltages.

However many users don’t realise this this tool is exceptionally handy for monitoring and logging these readings in the background, since temperatures are likely to be greater and voltages may drop when a PC is busy, for example, when gaming.

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Post Screen

Even though variations exist between manufacturers as to what their BIOS does during its boot sequence, the basic steps are the same, providing a good troubleshooting background.

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Phishing

Phishing is something that is becoming more and more of a problem over the years.

Phishing is where a sites are made to look like another, for example myspace or facebook, or even sites such as on-line banking.  The purpose of these sites are to steal your account details.

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nLite

An unattended install (or silent install) is, as the name suggests a way to install without having to answer any questions during setup.  With nLite, you can also “slipstream” Service Packs, hotfixes, patches, drivers as well as applications.  This tutorial will take you through the basic steps on how to perform a slipstreamed unattended install using nLite.

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Safe

Keep in mind: If your computer hasn’t crashed yet, it will in the future!  So instead of waiting for fate to strike, take some precautions now!  Here’s how..

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Compressed Folders

Windows users that have their file systems formatted in NTFS can take advantage of some additional features such as compression.  NTFS is a file system supported by Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.  To see if your file system is running NTFS, right click on your disk, and go to Properties. At the very top, you’ll see “File System”, which will either be FAT32 or NTFS.

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