[Tutorial] How To Improve Hard Drive SATA Performance By Enabling AHCI – Windows 7

Since the launch of the SATA interface in April 2003, controllers include a new optional mode called AHCI or Advanced Host Controller Interface. This mode allows exploiting the features introduced by SATA interface such as NCQ (Native Command Queuing) or Hot Plug. With NCQ, the drive may receive more than one query entry at a time and decide the best order to perform the operations. This reduces the amount of unnecessary searches of the read heads, and leads to improved performance. By enabling AHCI mode, transfer rate when loading applications or the Windows startup can grow 10 to 20%. In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable AHCI in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Windows Mobile Marketplace Will Shut Down On May 9

Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down the Windows Mobile Marketplace once and for all on May 9. This shut down will primarily affect Windows Mobile 6.x devices which will then no longer be able to access the marketplace or download any apps or games from it. However, the games that are already installed on these devices will continue working without any problems.

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[Tutorial] How To Create Bootable Windows Home Server 2011 USB Flash Drive

If you don’t have a DVD ROM on your home server and you want to install Windows Home Server there is a solution by using USB. Rather than wasting your money buying one and your time to install it you can simply create a bootable Windows Home Server on your USB drive and do the installation from him. In this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

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[Tutorial] How To Improve The Accuracy Of Mouse In Windows 7

Whether you working on image editing, creating web sites or just screen shots, it is not always easy to precisely move the mouse to select the desired pixels. Many settings in Windows will allow you to improve the accuracy of the mouse pointer by slowing its movement speed occasionally or systematically, or by activating the displacement at the keyboard. In this tutorial I will show you all adjustments you can do to improve your mouse accuracy in Windows 7.

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[Tutorial] How To Identify If Windows Application Is Running In 32 Or 64 Bits

Starting from Windows XP and now with latest Windows 8, Microsoft offers two types of Windows, one that works on 32 bits and another one that works on 64 bit version. In one of our TheTechJournal articles we did explained you how to find out if your PC is running the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Windows so please read that how to tutorial too. Same as Windows it is possible for the user to know which application is run in 32 bit or 64 bit mode. This procedure is nothing too complicated and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

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[Tutorial] How To Stop Applications From Updating Automatically In Windows

It is very important to download new Windows updates whenever they are available. Updates can occur for many reasons: security flows, fixing bugs, new features etc… However some these updates notifications can be quite irritating especial when you are playing a video game or if you are in middle of working something. To turn stop certain applications from updating automatically and in same time disable their notifications follow this tutorial.

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Microsoft And Zain Group Partner To Launch Windows Phone Devices In MENA Region

The Mobile World Congress this year served not only to unveil some of the coolest smartphones, tablets and other devices and technologies, it was also kind of an occasion to socially mix for tech companies. It seems that Microsoft and Zain Group really got on well during the event, so much so that both entered into an agreement that Zain Group would launch Windows Phone devices in Middle East and North Africa regions.

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AR.Drone Quadcopter Controlled By Windows Phone 7 Proof-Of-Concept App

Given the fact that Windows Phone debuted after Android and iOS devices had been long launched; and that the platform is still to gain traction, it is only obvious that Windows Phone 7 users get most of the app in the end. A developer preferably rolls out an iOS version on the earliest, then an Android version and in few cases, finally a Windows Phone version. Same is the case with Parrot’s AR.Drone quadcopter controlling app.

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