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How to change the Icon of Hard Drive in windows 7

By Jovel Sam on 06:56 in Codes, Hard Disk, Hard Drive, Notepad, Windows 7

Its really boring to see an hard drive always in its old look, why don't we just try to change it.... ?

Step 1: Open Notepad, Paste this code in it.

[autorun]
icon=\CustomIcon.ico

Step 2: Save this as autorun.inf , to any hard drive you want to change the drive icon without creating any folders.

Step 3: We have mentioned icon=\CustomIcon.ico in this code, paste a desired image with in the same place. any image you choose, but it must have .ico extension.
if you want hard drive icons, click here.

if you're downloading it from any other sites, then Just rename it to CustomIcon, don't forget to select ICO.

or you could change icon=\CustomIcon.ico to any name you want.

Use your Hard Disk as RAM.

By Jovel Sam on 01:16 in Hard Disk, Memory, RAM, Windows 7

Some may face problems on low RAM, this post is to increase your RAM from your HDD.

Step 1: Right Click Computer icon and select Properties.

Step 2: Now on the left pane, under Control Panel Home, click on Advanced system settings

Step 3: Click on Advanced tab, under Performance tab, click on Settings.

Step 4: on Performance Options window, click on Advanced tab.

Step 5: Under Virtual memory, you get to change the paging file size for all drives. Click on Change... button (step 3-5 are shown below)

Step 6: Here you can uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives and set values as per your requirements

Click OK. Now restart your Computer and Bingo.

How to create Partitions in Ubuntu

By Jovel Sam on 03:24 in Disk Utility, Hard Disk, Partition, Ubuntu

Take Disk Utility in Ubuntu(System>Administration>Disk Utility).

Click on the Hard Disk from top left of the Disk Utility.

Click on a Free space.

Then click Create Partition

A new window will appear.

Change the memory (in Gigabites) if you want.

Change the type to FAT(works with windows) and if you want it only for ubuntu, the select ext4. ext2, 3 are older versions. for security, Select NTFS.

I'll will posting about filesystems later.

Change the name if you want.

Click create button.

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