Windows Vista reads from a cache on your hard drive and writes directly to the hard drive, bypassing the cache. Reading and writing from your hard drive’s cache is much faster. When you enable advanced performance on your hard drive it reads and writes from your hard drive’s cache making some operations faster.
This tutorial will show how to speed up your hard drive by turning advanced performance.
Warning: It’s only recommended to enable advanced performance on laptops or computers with redundant power supplies or battery backups. If your computer suddenly looses power you could corrupt or lose data.
In this article we will discuss free utilities you can use to monitor your CPU temperature in Windows. Under normal circumstances you don't need to monitor CPU temperature. However if you enjoy overclocking your PC beyond the standard specifications, monitoring the CPU temperature can be crucial. There are several free utilities available that can help you monitor the temperature.
This tutorial will provide instructions on finding your local computer's IP address in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. If you are asked for the WAN (Wide Area Network) IP Address you will need to log into your router. Or you can use our "
Windows 7 and Windows Vista allows you to create individual accounts for each user. This allows each individual user to have their own profile on the computer to store personal documents, pictures, videos, saved games, and other personal data. Multiple accounts allows the owner of the computer to assign certain priveledges to perform administrative tasks such as installing software, while limiting other user's from making changes to the computer.
In this tutorial we will show you how to disable or enable the Windows firewall in Vista. We do not recommend disabling the firewall. However in some cases you may need to disable the firewall to troubleshoot connection issues.