Clean Your RAM using Notepad

Are you fed up of your computer working slow? Or you are tired of restarting your computer again and again due to its slowness?

This problem might occur due to RAM because at the time RAM might be full of remaining progress pieces which you are working with and you do not need them anymore. So, if you deleted or erase all those unnecessary piece of information, your RAM will be clean and your computer would work faster.

For doing so you can download or get software that can keep your RAM free, if anyone doesn’t have any software, then you can follow the tutorial that I am going to mention.

Steps to clean your RAM using Notepad

• Open your Notepad.
• Type FreeMem=Space(128000000)
• And save the file in any location that you like, named “CleanRAM.vbs”
• Now run the file.
• It will free memory in your RAM

If you want more memory to be free in your RAM, then you can use following codes instead of that mentioned in point2.

• FreeMem=Space(24000000), for 24 MB
• FreeMem=Space(32000000), for 32 MB
• FreeMem=Space(64000000), for 64 MB
• FreeMem=Space(72000000), for 72 MB
• FreeMem=Space(128000000), for 128 MB
• FreeMem=Space(256000000), for 256 MB

NOTE: Do not select the code that exceeds the memory than your RAM’s capacity

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Create New Folder using Keyboard

How to create “New Folder” using keyboard shortcut

Generally we create a “New Folder” using mouse. By right clicking and then going to new and clicking Folder.

But can we create a “New Folder” using keyboard shortcuts? The answer to it would be YES!

 

ALSO SEE: Create AN Invisible folder in windows

To create a “New Folder” by keyboard shortcut- Hold down Alt key + F. Then, let go of Alt key, press W and then press F.

The above keyboard shortcut would work for Windows Xp and Windows Vista.

Windows 7 is much user friendly, so you can simply press Ctrl + Shift + N. This will instantly create a “New Folder” in Window 7.

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Create an invisible folder in windows

Have you ever had a folder on your desktop that you wanted nobody to see or want it to be hidden from each and every person except you?


Now you can make your folder truly invisible but then you have to remember where you placed it. This is a very funny trick and works greatly in Window 7.

With the steps mentioned below you can create a folder which nobody would be able to see:

• Using your mouse, click right button of it and create a new folder.
• Click on rename option. Delete the name of the folder so that nothing is written there.
• Now hold down “Alt” key and type 0160 using number pad and then release the Alt key.
• Now just click anywhere outside the folder. The folder will be created with an invisible name.
• Now you are required to change the icon to make the folder hidden. Right click on the folder and then to properties followed by Customize, then select a blank icon to make the folder invisible. Then click on apply and then OK.

And, you have a folder which is invisible.

See Video

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Download Wikipedia Articles for Offline Reading

Would you like to download the entire Wikipedia on your computer or mobile phone for offline reading? Well, here are some good options to consider.

Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, provides database dumps of all their wikis that one can download for free and thus access the entire Wikipedia content on computers that are not connected to the Internet.

The database dumps are frequently updated and include every single article that’s available on the main Wikipedia website. The dumps are available as .xml.bz2 files that you can easily open on your computer using the free and portable WikiTaxi software.

WikiTaxi ships with an importer that will first un-compress the Wikipedia database files (.bz2) and then converts them into a .taxi file format. Now you open these .taxi files inside WikiTaxi just like the way you open .doc files inside Microsoft Word. If you are running low on space, the original Wikipedia dumps can be safely discarded.

A good alternative to WikiTaxi is Kiwix - this is also free software and available for Mac, Windows and Linux systems. You need to install the Kiwix software on your computer and then download one of the Wikipedia editions - the articles are packaged as .zim files that will open directly inside Kiwix without requiring any conversion.

The latest .zim package for various editions of Wikipedia can be downloaded from kiwix.org using any download manager or you can use this .torrent file to download using any BitTorrent client. This is 9.7 GB file and includes all the text of Wikipedia pages but no images.

Kiwix is definitely easier to use than WikiTaxi and the packaged .zim files can read across all popular platforms but the downside is that, unlike the database dumps used by WikiTaxi, the .zim files aren’t very frequently updated. Also, the zim package for English Wikipedia doesn’t include every article though the packages for other languages are complete*.

If you have an iOS device - like the iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch - you may grab the excellent Wiki Offline app and carry all the Wikipedia articles in your pocket. The app renders Wikipedia articles in a beautiful interface and supports tabbed browsing so you can open multiple articles side by side. Wiki Offline is also available in the Mac App Store for your Mac OS X.

The other option for using Wikipedia offline is WikiReader - this is a 3.5” monochrome device with a capacitive touch screen and contains over 3 million Wikipedia articles. The  updates to Wikipedia articles are released every quarter - you can update the device by connecting it to your computer - or you opt to receive updates on SD cards.

The WikiReader device costs  $99 and though I haven’t tried it myself, it did get a huge thumbs-up from Ars Technica. You definitely don’t need this if you carry a smart phone that is always connected to the Internet but could be a good reference tool for the rest of us with an impressive battery life - much like the Kindle.

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