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Win $300 Of Crucial Memory For Your PC!

Tony Williams — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:47:49 +0000

For 24 days in December we are running a daily Christmas Giveaway, together with our big brother site Windows 7 News, where everyday we giving away at least $300 of software and/or hardware. To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway auction site and start bidding in our reverse auction- all bids are free! To read more and how to play click here.

Today for our top prize we are giving away $300 of free computer memory of their choice from Crucial Technology to the lucky winner! If you’re looking to give your Windows 7 PC a performance boost then adding good quality fast memory will do the trick as upgrading memory is one of the best dollar for dollar upgrades you can do. If that wasn’t enough we are also giving away today:

Uniblue PowerSute Worth $100
WinX DVD Ripper Worth $29.99

Our friends at ghacks we are also giving away hundreds of dollars of software away everyday – click here to visit their Christmas Giveway.

Win $300 Of Free Crucial Memory

Win $300 of high quality PC memory courtesy of Crucial Memory. Winner gets to choose their own memory up to a value of $300. Get bidding now! The lowest bid wins!

Crucial is a key brand in the Lexar Media family of products. As Memory Experts Crucial are the only DRAM supplier that’s part of a major memory manufacturer.

Crucial are one of the leading suppliers of high-quality memory that has been qualified and approved by most major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). On their website you can find innovative tools that will make it easy to choose compatible memory and recommended upgrades.

Visit Crucial Memory now for your next memory upgrade.

Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista User Should Know

Tony Williams — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:16:22 +0000

Today’s tip was sent in by Al from VistaRewired. Al has put together a list of Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista user Should Know. Although some of these aren’t strictly ‘tips’ they do provide interesting information. For instance, I finally discovered why my memory utilization is always high even though I have 4GB of memory.

Below are the ten Vista Tips & Tricks:

1. Delay Vista activation for at least a year
2. What to do when Windows defragment tool hangs or takes forever
3. Get video wallpapers (Dreamscene Effect) without getting Vista Ultimate
4. Create icons without text
5. Disable useless services from a list of every Vista service that ever existed
6. How to build a powerful and cheap Vista PC (around $500)
7. How to triple boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu)
8. Resize your Windows partition for free
9. Perform a clean install with a Vista Upgrade disk
10. Convert web widgets, videos, and games into Sidebar gadgets

Use ClearMem To Freeup Windows XP Memory

Tony Williams — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:04:58 +0000

Although most modern computers have enough memory to run Windows XP properly, the longer you leave PC running without a reboot the more chance there is that old processes and programs you’ve been using are still ‘holding onto’ memory, making less available to other programs.

An easy way to fix this is to install ClearMem. THis great tool is made by Microsoft and what it does is automatically free up memory by reducing the size of running processes.

To run this tool, your paging file must be at least as big as physical memory. To see if your PC is setup correctly do the following:

Go into your control panel and click on ‘System’
Click the ‘Advanced’ and under the ‘Performance’ section click on ‘Settings’
Then click on the ‘Advanced’ Tab again
At the bottom there is a ‘Virtual Memory’ section and a value
Make sure that this value is at least as big as the amount of memory on your system. If it’s not then click on ‘Change’ and make the number bigger
Then click on ‘Set’ and follow the prompts to reboot your machine

More: Download ClearMem (part of the toolkit)