Sunday, February 22, 2009

Speed up Booting time with Windows

Hey there Windows Users!
I bet you'll all want to improve your booting time, moving from a fast computer to a super-fast computer. Here is how I do it:
  1. Ccleaner: a simple free program that allows you to (a) Clean useless Megabytes off your HDD and (b) enable and disable programs you won't need for startup (oh, and it also fixed registry issues)
  2. Multicore?: surprisingly enough, Windows uses only one processor to boot up, even if you have dual core or quad core. here is how to use 'em all: (1) press start and type "run" (2) in Run, type "msconfig" (3) go to the boot tab (4) advanced options (5) numer of processors. Not this trick only applied if you, obvously have more than 1 processor
  3. Disble some services from msconfig: only advanced users, if you think you can handle it, start kicking out some services out of the services tab in msconfig, it will improve booting time slighly
Enjoy!

Jou's back! (kinda)

So yeah, as the title says, Luis Jou, the author of Luis@Keio came back to Europe for a few days
from Japan (its holidays there). I knew already he was to come anytime soon, but didn't know the exact dates, which made it even more awesome the fact that he knocked on my door and when I opened... SURPRISE!
We Spend a few hours talking about his life in Japan and more info that is not in his website (which again I strongly recommend reading) until I had to go to class for some Microeconomics quiz
Anyways Luis, take good care when you're back in Japan and hope next time I'm the one visiting!