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Tweak TIP Public dns servers

Speedup your internet by using public dns servers. It is more secure and speedup your web experience.

When you type in a domain name such as charliesources.net in your browser
the computer must resolve the friendly name into an IP address of the server to download the web page and supporting files.

Windows uses a DNS (domain name system) server to lookup this information. 
By default, Windows uses your ISP’s DNS server. 
Depending on your provider, the performance of their DNS resolving server varies. 
Some large national providers are known to provide unreliable and slow DNS servers

Visit OpenDNS.com to learn more about some of the advanced features of OpenDNS on top of the speed benefits or the other DNS providers, the ones shown here...

http://www.opendns.com/

OpenDNS is one that can do a lot more that speedup the connection, it has a cool free dashboard.

One thing it can not use is a intranet.

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 208.67.222.222  and 208.67.220.220 as your DNS servers

http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/speed/public-dns/

Second is Google DNS:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers

http://nortondns.com/

And Norton DNS:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 198.153.192.1 and 198.153.194.1 as your DNS servers

Configure your network settings:

Important: Before you start
Before you change your DNS settings to use any dns server ip address, be sure to write down the current server addresses or settings on a piece of paper. It is very important that you keep these numbers for backup purposes, in case you need to revert to them at any time.

Configuring your computer to use OpenDNS servers instead of your ISP’s is a simple change that works in all windows versions.

First right click the network icon in the windows tray.

• Open network and sharing center
• Open your network connection
• On the Networking / General tab, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (version 4  and hit Properties.
• On the properties screen, select Use the following DNS server addresses and then type  in the alternate boxes.

The screen shot used, is configured for OpenDNS.

On the moment I use Google.

Many people don't understand internet anymore, This tip is around for years. make use of it.

Charlie

Building Windows 8 Video

Microsoft’s demo of Windows 8 new UI. The new UI sits on top of the regular Windows and the user can seamlessly switch back and froth between both the worlds, I mean touch based and mouse based.

The video below introduces a few of the basic elements of the new user interface. Although we have much more to reveal at our developer event, BUILD (Sept. 13 – 16 in Anaheim, Calif.), we’re excited to share our progress with you.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2089758708/Demo.mp4

Video: Mark Russinovich's Windows Troubleshooting

Mark Russinovich, the master of Windows troubleshooting, walks you step-by-step through how he has solved seemingly unsolvable system and application problems on Windows,

including how to apply the Microsoft Debugging Tools and his own Sysinternals tools to solve system crashes, process hangs, security vulnerabilities, DLL conflicts, permissions problems, registry misconfiguration, network hangs, and file system issues.

VIDEO downloadlink
https://rapidshare.com/files/46480020/WCL304.wmv

Sysinternals Suite
By Mark Russinovich

Updated: May 18, 2011

 Download Sysinternals Suite

Sysinternals Learning Resources  jump to the site

Tweaking windows 7 tip

If you ask me tweaking is fun to do, even if it look scary.Today I did some tweaking on my harddrives.

Here we go:

How to enable AHCI in Windows 7 after installation.

I can't believe what's happening here after I change one thing in the registry editor.

Mine WD raptor is spinnen 10.000rpm and the setting under the BIOS where set for sata enable AHCI.

But under the registry settings I found out that the most important setting whas not set.

Now I have a increase of speed I can't believe...

Follow up here how to do this.

Every hard drive in a modern computer is connected to the system through a storage controller. This controller typically can communicate with the hard drive via a number of different interface protocols. For maximum compatibility many computers are configured in the BIOS to use the older IDE interface protocol to communicate with modern SATA hard drives.

 This setting is acceptable for the average computer user but IDE lacks support for new technologies such as native command queuing (NCQ) and hot-plugging hard drives (add or remove drives without restarting the computers).
 
Intel invented a new storage controller interface known as AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) that supports these new technologies with modern SATA hard drives. If you have a hard drive that supports NCQ, it is worth a try to see if your disk performance improves with your workload.
 
The main problem preventing users from changing the storage interface protocol from IDE to AHCI in the past has been blue screens that could only be cured by undoing the BIOS change or reinstalling Windows.

The cause of the problem is the mass storage driver installed when Windows was first setup. Since IDE was enabled at install only the IDE storage driver was configured in Windows. With the AHCI driver missing, Windows cannot read from the hard drive and throws a BSOD with error code 0x0000005B.

 Now there is an easy solution that will allow you to switch between IDE and AHCI in the bios and Windows will boot without any problems. The key is to enable the AHCI driver in Windows before you make the setting change in the BIOS.

Don't be a ass with this if yeah don't know what to do here.

1.Open Registry Editor and navigate to

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\m sahci.

2.Right click on the Start registry DWORD and select Modify

3. Set the value to 0 and click OK.

4. Now the Start setting should be set to 0

1. Reboot and enable the AHCI setting in your BIOS.
2. BUT Before all this, make a restore point or  a Image
3. Read before you execute this
4. don't use this on old hardware

If you are using a RAID adapter or other interface try the following:

Open up Registry Editor and naviage to

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\i aStorV OR

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor.

Repeat the steps above.

Not all users will see a major performance improvement with AHCI and a SATA hard drive but NCQ can be very helpful under the right workload. Post your experience and setup in the comments below.

What is RAID

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)is a technology that employs the simultaneous use of more than 2HDD to achieve greater levels of performance, reliability, and/or larger data volume sizes. Presented by Onnto (www.onnto.com), this video introduce you to RAID in plain English!

Love the presentation on YouTube