Use your Hard drive as RAM.

Actually this feature was given in fedora 10(my recent OS). During installation itself it will ask for the size of hard disk space to use as RAM. Just by entering a value which is double the size of your physical RAM does the job.So if you already have a 512 Mb RAM, Now your Linux OS will be running with 1GB RAM.This technique seem to have great effect on my sluggish computer.I even heard that it is possible to use Pen drive as RAM in vista or something.Not a bad one though!!

Wash your Hard drive Properly.

Cleaning those redundant files and uninstalling unwanted applications is a real head ache. We realize the importance of space only when there is a need to save some important files from a CD or DVD.
As usual you have a lot of choices for this purpose, but rather than user friendly it is best to go with system friendly.
If you find something is wrong with one of your drives, then give a error check, with both the options selected.
When there is urgent need of few MB space just try deleting the temporary data in the system drive.
Like going green, just go system.

Design your OS at your wish.

The fancy for configuring some of the features in the Windows OS like the logon screen or the boot screen is obvious for almost everyone of us. While I was trying to customize these settings for my own desktop,I came across a useful tool to do them. It is called the tuneup utilities, a product comprising of lot of tools that we need, it includes file recovery software, memory optimizer,and also a styler.This styler enable us to change even the boot screen and replace with any image of considerably small size.
Though this tool provides a simple login change tool, it is not possible to customize or develop your own login screen.This paved way to try another software called login studio. This small utility fills even that small blank space left by tuneup login manager utility. It possible to customize the login screens for our own wish or to create a new login screen.

What is new in using fedora 10

Fedora 10 is one of the latest Operating systems released under Linux.Basically no Linux OS have the risk of being attacked by virus apart from that fedora 10 also have the features like
1. Desktop cube
2. 3D windows
3. Of course comes with a huge collection of open source softwares.
4. uses hard disk as RAM.

The only thing that should be done to start moving from windows into Linux is to delete one of the partitions and then create some ext32 partitions while the setup process take place.

Windows in linux.

Well, if there are someone out there trying to load an application in Linux or other such OS, which says that it was built in compatibility with Windows. Then you are now viewing the most needed. There are several alternatives, one is emulators. Wine (Windows emulator) allows you to run Windows based applications in Linux platform. To accomplish this just continue with this small procedure. Mount your Windows partition and specify the path of windows system directory. Then you can start most Windows based applications. Colors and settings are picked up by Wine itself to have almost the same look generated by the emulator.
If going for a second option, this requires more CPU power and RAM along with some money to pay. VMWare is such software allows to boot another OS from a standalone OS. Lastly, Linux through Windows. Win Linux, is a Linux distribution running through Windows. WinLinux installs on the Windows partition and can be run through itself.

Reset admin password

In windows XP OS, the admin will be given the at most permissions next to that of system. So if you want to reset your admin password from an limited user account, then try to get system level access either by scheduling the command prompt "cmd.exe" or just by cracking the "SAM" file in your system.
To schedule the command prompt
open Run -> enter cd.. (goto root)
C:>AT 7:10 interactive "cmd.exe"

at the given time a new command prompt with system level of access permission will be opened from there it is possible to change the password of any of the available user.

The second option is not recommended for no voice users, kindly format your system and reinstall all necessary applications, this will be my professional advice.

Virtual PC

Virtual PC concept was defined to enable the usage different Operating Systems in a single system. Using Virtual PC, multiple OS including windows and OS/2, can be run on a single computer. In this technology one OS will be installed as the host, while others are installed as the guests. This was released by Microsoft based on a technology from Connectix. It also embeds some of the features from the virtual machines of Connectix Corporation.

Group policy editor in XP

With the new Windows XP in home PC, lot of us will be puzzled about its capabilities while most of them will be using it up to the level they have done in the predecessors. For those belonging to the former type there is a hidden utility which most were unaware of( especially myself).It’s the Group Policy Editor, it can accessed by typing gpedit.msc in the run window. This utility provides various options to configure the functioning of the OS. For example there are options for controlling the startup programs, disabling the Autorun option for each drive, disabling the windows update, removing unnecessary options from task manager and lot more to say.

Lindows

For those who thrive to be a non windows user. The Lindows comes to rescue, it is a Linux-based OS that supports both Linux and Windows applications. It seems Windows had sued in various parts of the world claiming the violation of the name resembling W’L’indows. What ever happens at the judicial side the popularity of this new kind of OS purely depends on its versatility and efficacy. Either it do have a long way to go in order to survive in this arena of expertise.

Shifting the delete.

Each of us with either a desktop or a laptop always assume that our system is safe and there is no possibility of any kind of intrusion either physically or through network hacking. Factually speaking the rate at which this assumption becomes true depends on the level of knowledge one possess with respect to the system configuration and security mechanisms provided or applied in the system.
To be precise consider a simple operation being performed often or even every time using a system. We use the Shift + Del to delete a file permanently. Things happening behind this operation is, Windows removes only the file name from the File Allocation Table. The real data remains on the hard disk till some other data is written on it. Thus with proper tools and knowledge one could easily have that data back. So, in order to delete a file completely out of your hard disk use either a file shredder or some eraser tool.