Automatically defrag drives

2009-10-02T01:31:00.000-07:00

I found an article on the web the other day about automatically defragmenting drives and thought that I might just as well post a tutorial about it here. Basically, this allows you to defrag any drive by right-clicking on it and choosing “defrag.”

To enable this, open notepad and paste the following code:

; context_defrag.INF

; Adds Defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP

[version]
signature=”$CHICAGO$”

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=AddMe

[AddMe]

HKCR,”Drive\Shell\Defrag\command”,,,”DEFRAG.EXE %1″

Next save it as context_defrag.inf onto your desktop or basically anywhere… (Note: be sure to save it as All Files and not Text Documents!)

Right-click on it, choose Install and you’re ready to start defragmenting!

I believe the original article by Paul Thurrott is here.

My monitor is blinking; how can I solve it?

2009-09-26T07:28:00.000-07:00

Monitor screen blinking is the common problem for the Desktop users. Sometimes it is seen in the Laptop too. So, how to solve the monitor blinking problem? Here, I tried to give a solution. Hope, it will give you the exact solution.

There can have many reasons to causes the monitor to be blinking. But most of the time this problem is occurred due to incorrect resolution settings. The color quality, screen resolution, and refresh rate of your Monitor should be matched each other. Suppose, you have chosen the color quality at 32 bit, but refresh rate is 60 Hertz. Both settings are not well-inter-matched. So your PC’s monitor may still be blinking. Remember; try to set your monitor configuration as high as possible according to your graphics card. But normally who have 128 or 256 AGP, he/she can set his/her monitor screen resolution at 1024*768 , Refresh Rate- 85 Hertz, Color Quality- 32 Bit. If your monitor is blinking, just open the Graphics properties from your desktop by right click in the empty place and go to Monitor Display Settings (If graphics card is enabled in your PC). It also can be found in the Control Panel. Check all of the settings I mentioned above, and apply it. It will take 15 seconds to be reconfigured. Hope this article will assist you to solve your monitor blinking problem. Further if you have any trouble, let me know this. I will try my best to help you.

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Automatically defrag drives

My monitor is blinking; how can I solve it?