Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000

other o/s not tested.

Please give me feedback about your results

Encrypt Your USB Drive Data With Self-destruct Feature:

• I am writing how to guard/encrypt your USB drive data with a password. If you are paranoid about the trouble of stealing data from your USB drive, then you should use USB Safeguard to secure your data. Safeguard encrypt your data on drive with advances AES 256-bit encryption. You have to assign a password to selected folder or to the entire drive. And there is a settings that can erase the entire data of drive on enter a wrong passwords too many times.

USB Safeguard offers users yet extremely powerful security solution that fully protect valuable data stored on  USB pen drive.

 

Some features of USB Safeguard  :

1. Run with any USB drive.
2. No installation required.
3. AES 256-bits encryption.
4. Data secure after drive lost.
5. Data will erase after too many wrong password attacks.
6. If USB drive lost, it have you contact email or phone no. for return.
7. Portability.
8. You can’t paste/write any data in USB drive without password.[A message will come]

                                                     

Configure USB Safeguard to protect your data:

1. First Download USB safeguard from here.
2. Now copy and paste downloaded .exe file in your USB drive. [it doesn't works from other drive]

                                                          

    3.Run Safeguard and fill your password to lock it.

                                                             

    4.Click on help icon (?) in left side and select  “USB flash drive lost?“, and fill your email  or phone no.

                                                             

Hope this will quite helpful for you, if you have any other better software or tools then  drop it in comments.

Osama’s computer data is about size of ‘a small college library'

The Central Investigation Agency (CIA) believes the computer data recovered from Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan is about the size of 'a small college library', White House National Security Advisor Tom Donilon has said.


"This is the largest cache of intelligence derived from the scene of any single terrorist. It's about the size, the CIA tells us, of a small college library," the Dawn quoted Donilon, as saying.

"If we develop any information about planning or imminent threats, obviously, we will act on this," he added.

Terming bin Laden's killing as a 'victory', Donilon said that the United States had taken an important step in bringing down his terrorist organization.

Donilon also said it was absolutely critical for Americans "to remain vigilant as we continue to press this organization," but added that America is trying to find the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri, long considered Al-Qaeda's number two.

Meanwhile, 17 suspected terrorists have been killed as the US military chiefs ramped up their mission to destroy the al-Qaeda following bin Laden's death in Pakistan.

The drone attacks were launched in Pakistan and Yemen based on information gleaned by the CIA from computers found at bin Laden's compound.


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