Filed under: November 2007

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Microsoft decided to make Windows XP and Vista to take 20% of your internet bandwidth for itself. Why is this? I really do not know but according to Microsoft it takes this for reservation of all programs running on the system.

To take back this 20% you have to this the following:

1. Execute gpedit.msc (WIN + R)

2. Go to Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / QOS Packet
Scheduler / Limit Reservable Bandwidth

3. Right Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and choose Properties. Enable it and put limit to 0%. (read the explain tab and you can see that by default windows takes this 20%).

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Just see this video and you can understand how powerful could be Photoshop when you know how to use it.

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Some times is useful to know how your harddisk is organized so you can see which program use more disk space. Well there is a free program that do just this. WinDirStat is a free software published under the GNU General Public License.

WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

You can download this program here.

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Part One.

If you have in mind to create a blog but you do not have an idea how to start, well here you have a list of some ideas and tools that maybe could help you.

You have to start having in mind what are you going to write on your blog. (for example: personal, gadgets, video games, your city, etc.)

Choose a name for your site.

A good idea is to have your own domain name, you can get one on GoDaddy.

Once you know about what you are going to write, now you have to determine if you want a free or pay site for your blog. For free

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