All about Registry

Before showing the tweaks  you can make using windows registry.I would like to give a indepth tutorial on what is Registry ,how can we use it to suit our needs.
Definition:In simple terms "Registry is a hierarchial database where you can store information related to hardware ,System software(operating system),application software,system preferences and user preferences."
The hierarchial organisation of the database is divided into machine information,user information and software information.When the system starts it looks in the registry for the configuration settings of hardware and software installed.Its organisation depicts the directory-subdirectory concept in windows explorer. The registry is divided into six main divisions called HIVES  which are inturn divided into keys and subkeys which contain values where information about software,hardware and users is stored.
The values are divided into 3 types they are DWORD,BINARY,STRING based on the usage.
DWORD  is used for storing binary values where you can store list of values.Each value leads to different behaviour of OS,HARDWARE,APPLICATION SOFTWARE.String is used for human readable format.While BINARYis for storing raw data in hexadecimal format which contains hardware settings.

Read rest of entry

Disable hibernation in windows 7 to save hdd memory

This tip is meant for people who donot use Hibernate feature at all.To those who never heard of hibernation.
let me tell few words about this feature.Hibernation is a feature which stores all the contents of the ram into our harddisk before the system is shutdown so that the user can resume the work from where he stopped.To do this this feature takes good chunk of memory to store all the contents in the Ram .Windows users coin this feature as Hibernate while mac users coin it as Safesleep . This feature is also found in latest microsoft shipment i.e win7which takes hdd space in gb.Inorder to free that space we have to delete a file called Hiberfil.sys .Deletin g dis file is nothing but disabling hibernate feature .To do this type cmd in search box now right click on it and choose the option Run as administrator .
Now type the following command powercfg.exe -h off .Now type exit and restart ur computer.

Read rest of entry