How to Lock a Drive to a Specific Letter

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This tutorial will show you how to lock a drive into a specific letter

Most external hard drives will switch to the earliest available letter. This can be a problem if you want to create a shortcut to a file on that drive and use it after disconnecting and reconnecting the drive.

METHOD

• Plug in your drive
• Open Disk Management
• Start > search "Computer Management" > Open Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management
• Right Click on the drive in question > Change drive letter and paths > Choose Drive Letter You Wish To Use > OK
• Unplug your drive
• Plug you drive back in, it should still be assigned to that letter.

Tip

It's best to use the first available drive letter, or first consecutive set of drive letters in the case of multiple partitions

This tutorial is for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

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How to Customize your Power Button on the CPU

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This tutorial will explain how to change the start button in your computer to another button of your choice.

This article will work on Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

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How to Change the Displayed Name of the Processor in Windows 7, XP, and Vista

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This short tutorial will teach you how to change your computer's processor's name. For example, before my computer's processor's name was displayed as Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.80 Ghz. After the simple hack, I changed the name to i7 @ 2.80GHZ. The processors new hacked name doesn't have to be a name of a real processor, you can name it something silly!

This tutorial will work on Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

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Acer ICONIA

Not so long ago mobile computing devices with touch screens were only found in science fiction. Now Acer presents ICONIA, a new concept device set to add a brand new tablet experience, combining the versatility of a conventional 14” form factor with a unique dual-screen layout and highly intuitive all-point multi-touch functionality, which means you, can use all the fingers of your hands to navigate ICONIA.

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How to Clean all Disk's with the Diskpart Command

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This will show you how to use the clean command on a selected disk to delete all of it's MBR or GPT partitions, volumes, and any hidden sector information on MBR disks is overwritten. The data on the HDD is not written over using the clean command. It is only marked as being deleted and can be written over when new data is written/saved to the HDD next.

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How to Check If your Processor is 32-bit or 64-bit in Windows?

So you have an old Windows XP or Vista computer and now how do you find if your processor is 64-bit capable?

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Difference Between Pentium Processor & Centrino

Difference Between Pentium Processor & Centrino

The Pentium Series

Intel's line of Pentium processors includes more than just laptops: Pentium "1," Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Pentium 4-M and the Pentium M.

Pentium M

The Pentium M processor was designed for laptops (the "M" stands for "mobile") and provided for better energy management.

Centrino

In order for a computer to bear the "Intel Centrino" name, it must be using a Pentium M processor and the Intel 855 Chipset. Including this chipset means that the laptop is also guaranteed to include Wi-Fi, the Intel 855 graphics chipset and memory controller.

Beyond Centrino "1"

Since the debut of Intel's Centrino technology, Intel has introduced the Intel Centrino 2 processor technology, which is similar to Centrino "1" in that it is a set of specifications as opposed to a processor alone, but it has been improved for more modern computing. In January 2010, the name identifying "Intel Centrino 2" will be changed simply to "Intel Centrino."

Misconception: -

Intel Centrino is not a processor in the way the Pentium M and other Pentium processors are. It is a marketing brand that says it includes several specific components, including the processor and chipset in this case. A computer labeled with Intel Centrino actually has a Pentium M processor inside, but also must include several other items.

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