NTFS or Fat32: Which should Be Chosen?

A common questions when installing Windows XP on your computer is whether or not you should format your hard drives or Fat32. This is indeed a critical question to ponder over.

The specifications for both systems are as follows:






Fat32

• Use it if your hard drives is 32GB or less.
• Is slightly faster than NTFS, but not by much.
• Can be used by other Operating System If you plan on having multiple operating systems on your machine, you want FAT32.
  

NTFS

• Should be used if your hard drive is greater than 32GB
• Has better compression allowing you to store more data.
• Has file security.

In generaly, with drive sizes being by default greater than 32GB, you should use NTFS. NTFS also gives you greater security on your hard drive to eliminate possible unauthorized access of your data.

On the other hand, if you are using Windows 95,98, or ME, NTFS is not an option so you must use FAT32. You will also want to use FAT32 when you have multiple operating systems on one computer.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion.

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Backup Tool For Windows 7

Backing up your computer’s main hard drive is the most important task every user needs to do on a regular basis. Still, I hear end-users say they have nothing of value on their computers, so they really don’t need to do backups. This is not true. I hope this article will help you understand why backups are important to do.

To setup a backup in windows 7 follow the steps given below:

1. Right click on system drive (Normally C:\)
2. Go to tools tab and choose the option backup
3. In backup and restore window choose setup backup
4. Now Windows 7 will give you list of drives which can be used to store the backup file , you can choose network location also.
5. In the next step you can let windows to make automatic backup or custome choose the files which you want to backup by choosing option "Let me choose" , but if you'll let windows to choose then it won't backup Program Files,and anything formatted with FAT file system and files stored in recycle bin and any temp files that are 1GB or more.
6. After selecting the files you can select option to create an image of your local drive.
7. Save the backup settings and run the backup. Here you done wth backup.
8. Now if you want to restore it back simply double click on the backup file.

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Youtube URL Tricks

Instead of just searching and playing on youtbe, here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about :

View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

Hide the search box

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

Embed only a part of Video

Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

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Burn a Disc Image from a ISO or IMF file in Windows 7

This will show you how to use the built-in Windows Disc Image Burning Tool to burn a CD or DVD disc image from a ISO or IMG file in Windows 7.

1. Place a blank unformatted CD or DVD into your CD/DVD drive.
2. Click on the ISO or IMG file you want to burn a disc image with, then click on Burn disc image.
3. Next to Disc burner, click on the drop down arrow and select the CD/DVD drive with the blank CD/DVD in it.
4. Check the Verify disc after burning box if you want Windows 7 to verify the disc image afterwards, otherwise leave it unchecked.
5. Verifying the disc will take a little bit longer for the disc image to be finished.
6. you checked the Verify disc after burning box in step 4, then you will see this next.
7. NOTE: You will not see this if you did not check the box. Instead you will see step 7.
8. it is finished burning the disc image, click on the Close button.
9. Remove your new CD/DVD image from the CD/DVD drive.

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