Posted by crazeann on May - 20 - 2010
This is quite frustrating situation when you come across error message, boot failure and other quirky behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system while using your computer normally. Most of the Windows users do not understand the root of such problem and thus they do not have any idea of how [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Mar - 22 - 2010
Most of the computer operating systems allow you to divide your hard drive into several partitions, in effect to split one physical disk into many logical drives. Your may need to split hard disk into several partitions for organizing your data more effectively.On Microsoft Windows computer, this is very common [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Mar - 10 - 2010
In Microsoft Windows, the registry is a hierarchal database, which stores the configuration options and settings. It holds settings for low-level OS components and applications running on platform: device drivers, kernel, SAM (Security Accounts Manager), services, user interface and the third-party programs use registry. It also offers means of accessing [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Feb - 5 - 2010
n Microsoft Windows operating system, a hard drive volume that has basic disk signature, a shutdown event is send to SCSI miniport. It allows the SCSI miniport to initialize the shutdown process. But in case of a volume with dynamic signature, the shutdown event can not take place. This behavior [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Feb - 1 - 2010
Microsoft Windows XP operating system supports two hard drive file systems: NTFS (New Technology File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). NTFS is more advanced than FAT and thus provides high performance. To avail benefits of high performance, several users convert a FAT hard drive into NTFS hard drive.In some [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Jan - 26 - 2010
In Microsoft Windows operating system, Program Files is a folder in which all of the applications that aren't part of operating system are installed. Every application is installed in its own sub folder where all the related binary and other system files are stored. Windows operating system's other critical files [ Read More ]
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Posted by crazeann on Jan - 23 - 2010
The hard drive partition, which is used by the system using Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is known as the EFI system partition. These Windows partitions are formatted using the FAT variant (such as FAT32 and VFAT). The store critical information such as boot loader, system tools and device driver files, [ Read More ]
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