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When you buy a new Windows Vista PC or Laptop, you may be disappointed with the initial performance. Taking forever to boot, lots of disk access and memory usage during logins. After login, you are bombarded with “trialware” registrations, sales popups, and all kinds of reminders and desktop links to buy or install programs you don’t need or want. There are many things you can do to optimize the performance of Windows Vista. Here are some initial steps to clean up and optimize your new Vista System, in the order they should be performed. (more…)

The following steps optimize your Laptop Hard Drive for faster response times by enabling Advanced Performance Write Caching. Laptops have a Battery for backup, so this is only recommended for Desktop PC’s with Backup Power. Because your login session will be cached, power loss during the session “could” result in the loss of data.

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Quality of Service is a term used to describe the way bandwidth is prioritized and allocated from (Outbound) and to (Inbound) your network. Most, if not all Internet bandwidth fluctuates from load sharing and Infrastructure between you and the point to which you are connecting. When you enable QoS, your configuring the router to give guaranteed bandwidth to the device, application or service (on your network, behind the router) by priority regardless of the conditions on the Internet.

Unlike other Router Firmware with QoS, Tomato has two major advantages. The first is the ability to set the bandwidth Rate and Limit of a Class. The Second is a Graphical Interface which allows you to analyze, tune, and optimize QoS for VoIP devices, torrents, and other p2p apps that impact overall network performance.

The following section is a tutorial to be used as a basic starting point to configure and optimize Tomato QoS.

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Flash Drives are a convenient, cheap way to backup your data, provided you remember to do it. An application called SyncBack can automate the backups and perform a synchronization of your files and folders. SyncBack has many options including:

• Backup and Restore. You can drill down directories to include or exclude folders and files, and perform incremental backups by date. Backups can be run on a schedule, or manually.
• Synchronization of files and folders between devices and computers. You can also drill down directories to include or exclude folders and files.
• Password protect, FTP, ZIP and email with both options.
• Write to Flash, Disk, and CD/DVD Media

Flash and External Drives can be purchased at the Store.