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Also known as a CV or curriculum vitae, which is Latin for "the course of one's life," the resume is a document detailing a person's work history and job qualifications. Designed to both attract and inform potential employers, it can include information such as the applicant's education level, previous positions and notable skills as well as a list of awards and achievements. The term "resume" is derived from the French word for "summary," which implies clarity and conciseness. As such, resumes are typically brief. Their average length is between one and three pages.

There exist two types of resumes. The first, called the chronological resume, is the most commonly used. Its main section consists of an annotated list of previous employers, in which the candidate’s various job titles are briefly described, starting with the most recent. The purpose of this format is to demonstrate steady professional growth and career consistency. In contrast, the functional resume emphasizes job skills and achievements, dividing the candidate’s work history in different categories such as communication, management and administration. This format is recommended for career changers and job seekers with little experience.

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration estimates that today's workers will hold an average of 15 to 17 jobs in their lifetime, making the job-search process a recurring theme in every man's career. Coupled with the cover letter, the resume is always the first thing that recruiters check when screening candidates for hire. That's why, whenever you apply for a new position, it's crucial you submit a professional curriculum vitae showcasing your work experience, job skills and most impressive achievements. If your potential employers don't like your resume, you don’t stand a chance.

However, professionalism alone may not be enough to get you through the door. For every job posting, companies receive countless applications, and you want to make sure your resume stands out from the rest. AskMen.com has all the resources you need to leave the competition in the dust, including guides explaining how to write a killer resume and cover letter, tips on what to avoid as well as what recruiters are looking for and advice on maintaining your curriculum vitae between jobs. These articles will help you create the perfect resume to captivate any potential employer.

Resume Fact

Film and television star Stephen Furst got his big break by placing his resume inside a pizza box. Before he was discovered, Stephen Furst worked as a pizza delivery man in Hollywood. Soon after the actor started slipping his picture and resume into pizza boxes, producer Marty Simmons offered him a part in National Lampoon’s Animal House.

As a job seeker, your resume has to be your best sales pitch. As a whole, it should sufficiently hype up your achievements, carefully cover your job experience and skills, and provide a clear picture of who you are and how you can help the company you're applying to. The perfect resume does all of that in 60 seconds or less. Unfortunately, that's how long employers are willing to look at a resume, which means that every bold heading and bulleted word counts.

It's up to you to win the job, but here are some tips to help you create a perfect resume that can get you the interview.

create the perfect resume

Header and introduction

Name, contact info and opening statement

Employers want to see how you can summarize. Before you start your perfect resume, take notes about the job for which you're applying and consider how your skills, past work experience and education can fit in. This process is similar to the one you followed for your cover letter, except that resumes share more details in a noticeably different format.

Your header should start with your name centered at the top of the page and written in a font that's twice the size as your contact information. All phone numbers and professional (sounding and looking) e-mail addresses should be included for getting in touch with you. Don't include websites, unless they're necessary for the job. If your resume goes past one page (don't let it go past two), restrict your header to the first page and maintain a consistent footer. Try a centered footer like these:

Your name - Page 1 of 2

Critics are divided about whether to write a traditional job target or a positioning statement after your contact information. Here are some examples:

• Job target (10-20 words): A sentence that shares your ambitions and career goals. It can sour recruiters, however, who have no desire to read your aspirations and are only scanning for how you can help them.

Example: To maximize sales growth and overall revenue within a dynamic software developer in a senior marketing capacity.

• Positioning statement (10-20 words): A statement that offers a clear summation of skills, but leaves the potential employer with a blank when it comes to where you ultimately want to be.

Example: Marketing specialist with a five-year background in software promotions for a Fortune 500 company.

Your final choice depends on your preference and industry. Some journalist and mass communications jobs actually discourage any opening statements at all. Alternatively, a statement that combines skills and ambitions can be worthwhile. If you do use one, try to be attention-grabbing and descriptive. Keep in mind that an opening line sets the tone for your resume and sends implied messages about your abilities and salary expectations.

Listing your professional experience on your perfect resume…

Professional experience

Qualifications, career highlights and work history

The next section on your perfect resume will list your skills and achievements in three to five bulleted statements. Don't use any terminology that you might repeat later on and stick to quick and effective achievements and qualifications. Here's a sample list:

Qualifications and career highlights

• Increased ACME's annual revenue by 25% in five years.
• Directed company-wide promotions for over 50 ACME products.
• Certified in MoneySmart and QuickMax accounting software packages.

Now it's time for the nitty-gritty, the "Professional Experience" section. You might have a lot to cover here, but your goal is to emphasize, not to overwhelm. Typically, work history is listed from most recent to oldest and includes job titles, company names and the dates of employment for each entry. This format allows your work history to convey upward mobility. If you've worked primarily with one employer, formulate a list of the different positions you've held and how your responsibilities changed over time. Jobs that aren't relevant should still be listed to prevent resume gaps, but keep their details to a minimum.

Speaking of gaps, if you do have them, you can briefly detail what you were doing during the gap if it pertains to school or traveling. If you were unemployed for much of the same year, you can fix it by omitting months from your dates of employment and only including the years.

Here's the fun part: describing your jobs without modesty. Sell yourself by selling your strengths. Resumes are built on your success, not the actual jobs therein. You can take a statement or two to sum up the job with appropriate finesse, but choose accomplishments over responsibilities. With that in mind, use guided proofs to showcase success. These are single statements that begin with a problem (or an implied issue), describe your actions and share the positive result.

When you're detailing your job and writing guided proofs, keep these considerations in mind:

• Use action verbs and buzz words: Action verbs like "eliminated," “completed” and "implemented" let employers know that you're assertive and take care of business. Industry buzz words, from the job posting for instance, are also useful to show that your work is relevant to their immediate needs.
• Include names and numbers: Use important names if you have them, otherwise opt for job titles of those you've reported to. Numerical figures, financial information and percentages give credibility to your accomplishments.
• Address unadvertised qualities: Employers look for more than they've advertised, so showcase other qualities that are valuable. Communication skills, team leadership and honesty are good intangibles -- convey them wherever you can.

Here's what a job description with two sample guided proofs might looks like:

Senior Marketing Specialist, ACME Enterprises

2001 - 2003

Designed advertising campaigns to target potential software clients in over 20 countries while communicating with 500-plus local clients. Directed and supervised a hand-picked sales team to handle expanding departmental duties.

• Remapped existing company sales strategies with CFO Jack Henry and developed strategic sales plans that exceeded revenue targets by at least 25% annually.
• Completed Money Edge certification and administered intermediate one-on-one training to the entire 10-person sales team in two months.

How to format your education entries on your perfect resume…

Keep your descriptions and proofs short, with bullets and bolding for emphasis. Our example has two, but you'll want to use up to five. Don't use "I" in any of your statements and make note of accomplishments that you aren't including, so you can keep them handy for interviews.

Education

Degrees, certificates and relevant academic achievements

To potential employers, professional experience is more important than education. Your brief "Education" section should be follow the KISS format -- Keep It Simple Stupid -- with one exception; if you're low on work history and high on education, you might swap the order of these two sections and create a more detailed educational profile.

As with the "Professional Experience" section, list your education from most recent to oldest and include degrees attained, graduation years and schools. School GPAs are worth noting, if they're above a B average, as are academic awards. Courses that are relevant to the job can be highlighted, space-permitting. Here's an example:

B.A. Communications (2001)

Ricetown University, Los Angeles

Relevant Courses: Strategic Business Communications, Advanced Crisis Communications.

Technical skills and professional development

Special skills and volunteering

The last section is comprised of a list of your skills and volunteer experience.

The easiest way to display your skills is to create a table with categories like Spoken Languages, Multimedia Software, Web Development and anything else that is suitable. Include a list of your specific skills within each box. If your skills are mostly in a single area like software, then a box isn't necessary. A simple list will suffice:

Technical Skills

Advanced knowledge of Windows XP, MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Access).

You balk at the inclusion of volunteer experience, but even a brief summary says a lot about who you are. If you've volunteered within your industry, it's a must, and you likely have a few important names to include. Format this section as you did for the "Professional Experience" section, but condense it to a single line description or guided proof for each entry.

Don't include hobbies or references at the end of your resume. Unless a hobby fits in with the job, it likely won't fit with whoever's reading it, especially if it unintentionally offends them. For references, simply state that they are available upon request and bring a print out of them with you to the interview.

before you send it away

Your perfect resume might feel ready to go, but it isn't; not without some extensive proofreading. Send it to at least three people and come back to it after 24 hours, if possible. Since many employers will stop reading after one error, it's up to you to make your work flawless. Once you've sent it off, plan ahead for the interview and think about what accomplishments you can discuss. Now that you know how to create a perfect resume, you'll be ready when the time comes again.

Resources:
www.questcareer.com
http://jobsearch.about.com - Resume gaps
http://jobsearch.about.com - Tips
www.resume-resource.com
www.careerjournal.com

5 Rules Of Leaders

Some guys think that being a boss is all cracking skulls, smoking cigars, whacking deadbeats, and lounging with goomahs. Maybe it gives guys a sense of satisfaction to think that there's someone out there acting on his every whim, doing the things that normal guys want to do, but can't.

Unfortunately, what you see on TV is only about one percent of my life -- it's my leisure time, if you will. In between those moments, being a boss requires a lot of administrative tasks before I collect a dollar from my Capos, and the only reason I ever get to spend any minute with beautiful women is because I'm always out busting my frickin' marbles.

A boss never has a day off and he's on call 24 hours a day. Nobody gets to be boss by sitting in a strip club all day staring at the girls. Those Babbos rot in the lower ranks for their whole careers. I took risks to become a boss. When those guys come b*tching about their role in the game, I tell them this: "I wipe my rear with your feelings," because I had to work hard to get where I am.

1 - If you want respect, give respect

A rule of thumb in our organization -- or any organization in the business world -- is that lazy scumbags roll downhill. A few individuals, guys like Lucky Luciano, can overthrow the structure, but most people can't. Most people have to climb the ropes. Gaining power through the proper channels is more sustainable than slashing and burning your way to the top, primarily because the older bosses will respect and support you, and the younger cadre love to discuss the man in charge and how he got there.

Remember that showing respect does not mean being a doormat or a suck-up; it means being assertive and attentive to the needs of the organization. Smack skulls when you have to, but not every day. And most importantly, don't ever let your underlings mistake kindness for weakness.

Making a bad decision is better than being indecisive and more...

2 - A wrong decision is better than indecision

Attempting to seize power all at once can have polarized results. In some cases, a major decision in life brings recognition, possibly even glory. Caesar made his name by crossing the Rubicon and entering Rome. On the other hand, Brutus made his name by betraying Caesar. Clearly the difference between the two men is only one thing -- victory. If Brutus had ousted his enemies after the betrayal, he could have tweaked history to his liking, but his decision resulted in unending infamy.

If you are struggling with a decision, some impatient Cafone might try to make it for you. As a boss, you must keep enough fear in your subordinates so that they won't act to betray you. In the event that someone undercuts you, the organization must be purified by making an example of the man. Break him down a rank or hand him his walking papers. Using power and control doesn't have to be authoritarian, but it has to be crystal clear as to who signs off on decisions.

3 - Don’t smack bottlenecks unless you have to

An effective boss weeds out the progress chokers. Your path as a boss may be littered with condescending people and prima donnas trying to get in your way. Nothing cramps business like grudges and attitude. As a boss, you must keep the gears greased with whatever it takes. A cheap way to keep bottlenecks from forming is to treat everyone the same, from the CEO to the night janitor.

This does not mean you should put on a plastic face like some politician; it means be a likable bulldog. When someone is stalling, encourage him. If he still stalls, apply pressure. On the third stall, smack his face. Al Capone knew how to get things done and still kept up his appearance. For all the stories of his butchery behind closed doors, he still seemed like a generous and humble guy to the general public. He knew how to treat people, how to intimidate them and how to crush them with class.

4 - Take chances and call the shots

If you reach a position of power, this is where you will feel the squeeze. It's also where the squeamish jump overboard. There are crossroad moments when an individual takes a chance on a great idea or becomes a footnote to someone else's history. In fact, history is the compilation of crossroads between those who made the right choice and those who made the wrong choice. To have a name, you must be the one calling the shots.

For example, the Arch of Constantine was not built by Constantine, but to get his own massive rock monument outside of the Colosseum, you can bet he made a lot of major decisions. To be the boss, you must take chances, and therefore have regrets. Do you think I didn't make at least a few blunders along the way? Of course I did. It comes with the package.

If you want to be a leader you have to work harder than anybody else..

5 - Work harder than anybody else

Without hard work, you will never be boss. Unless you are a child movie star, getting recognition takes at least 20 years. If you are always willing to do more, always working toward a goal, then the hours you've invested create an opportunity for you -- and once you become boss, everybody wants to be you. They are all looking at you, so you better keep your head on straight and be working, because respect disappears quickly.

One mistake can define your career. Look at Caligula in Rome: He squared away his whole life until he had power, and then he lost his marbles. It happens. So even when you get the recognition as the leader, you have to keep working or you’ll lose it faster than my uncle Dino lost his life.

work on your personality

You can go from a 20-year struggler to an overnight success if you work for it, but you also need a personality. Strife is necessary to make your life memorable. Bosses live in an arena of risk: They go against the grain and take bold steps into a sea of opposition. One thing that will surely help give your reign as boss a lasting legacy is to do the things that other people are afraid to do. This type of courage comes with having a bold character.

Toughen up and call the shots, and soon, my friend, they’ll be writing history books about you.
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To use this program the VB6 run time and Windows Common Controls ActiveX 6 (MSCOMCTL.OCX) must be installed on your computer. Once installed, you can scan and find for all registry addresses planted by various protectors by clicking on “Protector” menu, and then go to “All” and select “Scan”. It’s recommended to backup all registry keys before you make any changes.

The software and its protectors that Trial-Reset (version 3.0 RC3) supports and able to strip or remove including ACProtect, ActiveMark, Armadillo, ASProtect, DBPE, EncryptPE, Enigma, ExeCryptor, ExeShield, eXPressor, ICE License, NoCopy, NTkrnl Protector, Obsidium, OneWay, Orien, PCGuard, ProActivate, ProtectionPlus, ProtectShareware, SafeSerial, SDProtector, Sheriff, SGLicense, ShareGuard, SoftLocx, SoftSentry, SoftWrap, STProtector, SVKP, Thinstall, VBOLock, VBox, VisualProtect, WinLicense, Xheo Licensing, XProtector, and ZipWorx.

99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast

Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista.

In this article, I hope to compile a complete list of all the different methods and tricks that I’ve used to get the last bit of juice out of a slow PC. Whether you are using an old PC or the latest and greatest in hardware, you can still use some of these to make your PC run faster.

Note that since I write two blogs, Help Desk Geek and Online Tech Tips, I have previously written about many performance tips already which I will link back to throughout. If I have not written about it, I’ve throw in a link to a relevant article from some of my other favorite sites. This list is in no particular order, just written in the order that I could think of them.

There are probably a lot of great tweaks and performance hacks that I’ve missed here, so feel free to chime in with comments! Enjoy!

1. Defragment your computer hard disk using free tools like SmartDefrag.

2. You should also defragment your Windows pagefile and registry.

3. Clean up hard drive disk space being taken up by temporary files, the recycle bin, hibernation and more. You can also use a tool like TreeSize to determine what is taking up space on your hard drive.

4. Load up Windows faster by using Startup Delayer, a free program that will speed up the boot time of Windows by delaying the startup of programs.

5. Speaking of startup programs, many of them are useless and can be turned off. Use the MSCONFIG utility to disable startup programs.

6. By default, the size of the paging file is controlled by Windows, which can cause defragmentation. Also, the paging file should be on a different hard drive or partition than the boot partition. Read here on the rules for best paging file performance.

7. In Windows XP and Vista, the Windows Search indexing service is turned on for all local hard drives. Turning off indexing is a simple way to increase performance.

8. If you don’t care about all the fancy visual effects in Windows, you can turn them off by going to Performance Options.

9. You can optimize the Windows boot time using a free program called Bootvis from Microsoft.

10. Clean your registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer references and more. Read about the 10 best and free registry cleaners.

11. One of the main reasons why PC’s are slow is because of spyware. There are many programs to remove spyware including Ad-Aware, Giant Antispyware, SUPERAntiSpyware, and more.

12. If you have a deeper spyware infection that is very hard to remove, you can use HijackThis to remove spyware.

13. Remove unwanted pre-installed software (aka junk software) from your new PC using PC Decrapifier.

14. Disable unnecessary Windows services, settings, and programs that slow down your computer.

15. Tweak Windows XP and tweak Windows Vista settings using free programs

16. Disable UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista

17. Tweak your mouse settings so that you can copy and paste faster, scroll faster, navigate quickly while browsing and more. Read here to learn how to tweak your mouse.

18. Delete temporary and unused files on your computer using a free program like CCleaner. It can also fix issues with your registry.

19. Delete your Internet browsing history, temporary Internet files, cookies to free up disk space.

20. Clean out the Windows prefetch folder to improve performance.

21. Disable the XP boot logo to speed up Windows boot time.

22. Reduce the number of fonts that your computer has to load up on startup.

23. Force Windows to unload DLLs from memory to free up RAM.

24. Run DOS programs in separate memory spaces for better performance.

25. Turn off system restore only if you regularly backup your Windows machine using third party software.

26. Move or change the location of your My Documents folder so that it is on a separate partition or hard drive.

27. Turn off default disk performance monitors on Windows XP to increase performance.

28. Speed up boot time by disabling unused ports on your Windows machine.

29. Use Process Lasso to speed up your computer by allowing it to make sure that no one process can completely overtake the CPU.

30. Make icons appear faster while browsing in My Computer by disabling search for network files and printers.

31. Speed up browsing of pictures and videos in Windows Vista by disabling the Vista thumbnails cache.

32. Edit the right-click context menu in Windows XP and Vista and remove unnecessary items to increase display speed.

33. Use the Windows Performance Toolkit and the trace logs to speed up Windows boot time.

34. Speed up your Internet browsing by using an external DNS server such as OpenDNS.

35. Improve Vista performance by using ReadyBoost, a new feature whereby Vista can use the free space on your USB drive as a caching mechanism.

36. If you have a slow Internet connection, you can browse web pages faster using a service called Finch, which converts it into simple text.

37. Use Vista Services Optimizer to disable unnecessary services in Vista safely.

38. Also, check out my list of web accelerators, which are programs that try to prefetch and cache the sites you are going to visit.

39. Speed up Mozilla Firefox by tweaking the configuration settings and by installing an add-on called FasterFox.

40. Learn how to build your own computer with the fastest parts and best hardware.

41. Use a program called TeraCopy to speed up file copying in Windows XP and Vista.

42. Disable automatic Last Access Timestamp to speed up Windows XP.

43. Speed up the Start Menu in Vista by hacking the MenuShowDelay key in the registry.

44. Increase the FileSystem memory cache in Vista to utilize a system with a large amount of RAM.

45. Install more RAM if you are running XP with less than 512 MB or Vista with less than 1 GB of RAM.

46. Shut down XP faster by reducing the wait time to kill hung applications.

47. Make sure that you have selected “Adjust for best performance” on the Performance tab in System Properties.

48. If you are reinstalling Windows, make sure that you partition your hard drives correctly to maximize performance.

49. Use Altiris software virtualization to install all of your programs into a virtual layer that does not affect the registry or system files.

50. Create and install virtual machines for free and install junk program, games, etc into the virtual machines instead of the host operating system. Check out Sun openxVM.

51. Do not clear your paging file during shutdown unless it is needed for security purposes. Clearing the paging file slows down shutdown.

52. If your XP or Vista computer is not using NFTS, make sure you convert your FAT disk to the NTFS file system.

53. Update all of your drivers in Windows, including chipset and motherboard drivers to their latest versions.

54. Every once in a while run the built-in Windows Disk Cleanup utility.

55. Enable DMA mode in Windows XP for IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers in Device Manager.

56. Remove unnecessary or old programs from the Add/Remove dialog of the Control Panel.

57. Use a program click memtest86 or Prime95 to check for bad memory on your PC.

58. Determine your BIOS version and check the manufactures website to see if you need to update your BIOS.

59. Every once in a while, clean your mouse, keyboard and computer fans of dust and other buildup.

60. Replace a slow hard drive with a faster 7200 RPM drive, SATA drive, or SAS drive.

61. Changing from Master/Slave to Cable Select on your hard drive configuration can significantly decrease your boot time.

62. Perform a virus scan on your computer regularly. If you don’t want to install virus protection, use some of the free online virus scanners.

63. Remove extra toolbars from your Windows taskbar and from your Internet browser.

64. Disable the Windows Vista Sidebar if you’re not really using it for anything important. All those gadgets take up memory and processing power.

65. If you have a SATA drive and you’re running Windows Vista, you can speed up your PC by enabling the advanced write caching features.

66. Learn how to use keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Microsoft Word, Outlook, or create your own keyboard shortcuts.

67. Turn off the Aero visual effects in Windows Vista to increase computer performance.

68. If you are technically savvy and don’t mind taking a few risks, you can try to overclock your processor.

69. Speed up the Send To menu in Explorer by typing “sendto” in the Run dialog box and deleting unnecessary items.

70. Make sure to download all the latest Windows Updates, Service Packs, and hot fixes as they “normally” help your computer work better.

71. Make sure that there are no bad sectors or other errors on your hard drive by using the ScanDisk orchkdsk utility.

72. If you are not using some of the hardware on your computer, i.e. floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, USB ports, IR ports, Firewire, etc, then go into your BIOS and disable them so that they do not use any power and do not have to be loaded during boot up.

73. If you have never used the Recent Documents feature in Windows, then disable it completely as a long list can affect PC performance.

74. One basic tweak that can help in performance is to disable error reporting in Windows XP

75. If you don’t care about a pretty interface, you should use the Windows Classic theme under Display Properties.

76. Disable short filenames if you are using NTFS by running the following command: fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1. It will speed up the file creation process.

77. If you have lots of files in a single folder, it can slow down Explorer. It’s best to create multiple folders and spread out the files between the folders.

78. If you have files that are generally large, you might want to consider increasing the cluster size on NTFS to 16K or even 32K instead of 4K. This will help speed up opening of files.

79. If you have more than one disk in your PC, you can increase performance by moving your paging file to the second drive and formatting the volume using FAT32 instead of NTFS.

80. Turn off unnecessary features in Vista by going to Control Panel, choosing Uninstall a program, and then clicking on Turn Windows features on and off. You can turn off Remote Differential Compression, Tablet PC components, DFS replication service, Windows Fax & Scan, Windows Meeting Space, and lots more.

81. Install a free or commercial anti-virus program to help protect against viruses, etc. Make sure to use an anti-virus program that does not hog up all of your computer resources.

82. Completely uninstall programs and applications using a program like Revo Uninstaller. It will get rid of remnants left behind by normal uninstalls.

83. If you know what you are doing, you can install several hard drives into your machine and set them up in RAID 0, RAID 5, or other RAID configurations.

84. If you are using USB 1.0 ports, upgrade to 2.0. If you have a Firewire port, try to use that instead of a USB port since Firewire is faster than USB right now.

85. Remove the drivers for all old devices that may be hidden in Device Manager that you no longer use.

86. A more extreme option is to choose a faster operating system. If you find Vista to be slow, go with Windows XP. Switching to Mac or Linux is also an option.

87. One of the easiest ways to speed up your PC is to simply reformat it. Of course, you want to backup your data, but it is the best way to get your computer back to peak performance.

88. Speed up Internet browsing in IE by increasing the number of max connections per server in the registry.

89. If you use uTorrent to download torrents, you can increase the download speeds by tweaking the settings.

90. If you have a desktop background, make sure it’s a small and simple bitmap image rather than a fancy picture off the Internet. The best is to find a really small texture and to tile it.

91. For the Virtual Memory setting in Windows (right-click on My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Performance Settings, Advanced, Virtual Memory), make sure the MIN and MAX are both the same number.

92. If you search on Google a lot or Wikipedia, you can do it much faster on Vista by adding them to the Vista Start Menu Instant Search box.

93. If you have a custom built computer or a PC that was previously used, make sure to check the BIOS for optimal settings such as enabled CPU caches, correctly set IDE/SATA data transfer modes, memory timings, etc. You can also enable Fast/Quick boot if you have that option.

94. If you have a SCSI drive, make sure the write cache is enabled. You can do so by opening the properties of the SCSI drive in Windows.

95. If you have a machine with an older network card, make sure to enable the onboard processor for the network card, which will offload tasks from the CPU.

96. If you are using Windows Vista, you can disable the Welcome Center splash screen that always pops up.

97. If you already have anti-spyware software installed, turn off Windows Defender protection.

98. If you are running a 32-bit version of Windows and have 4GB of RAM or more, you can force Windows to see and use all of the RAM by enabling PAE.

99. Buy a new computer!!! Pretty easy eh?

I’m sure I have missed out on lots of performance tweaks, tips, hacks, etc, so feel free to post comments to add to the list! Enjoy!

Interesting Facts - courtesy of MCN

The pneumatic tyre was invented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888 for use on push-bikes. Boyd also invented the word “pneumatic”.

Slick tyres offer more grip in the wet than treaded tyres up to the point at which they aquaplane.

Modern sports bike tyres don’t contain any natural rubber.

Front tyres disperse water at three times the rate of rear tyres.

When cornering, 75 per cent of a bikes grip comes from the front tyre.

The GS in GSX-R denotes four cylinders with overhead valves. The X means four valves per cylinder and the R is for race replica.

Vespa means wasp.

Cucciolo (the name of the first Ducati) means puppy.

Hayabusa is the name of a Japanese falcon that preys on blackbirds (you gotta larf!). It was also the name of a WW2 Kamikaze fighter plane.

Steve McQueen didn’t do the famous 65 ft motorcycle jump in The Great Escape. American Triumph dealer Bud Ekins did it – in one take.

The first Honda motorcycles were pushbikes with generator engines for army field telephones bolted on.

Kawasaki also makes spaceships.

Yamaha makes swimming pools and unmanned helicopters.

Ducati once made radios.

BMW is the only current major manufacturer to reject the use of telescopic forks on its big bikes. Yet BMW was the first to use and patent them, on the R12 in 1935.

Devil, Satan and Lucifer have all been names of motorcycle manufactures.

Suzuki went from GP also-rans to world champions in 1962 after works MZ rider Emst Degner defected to the firm with all the company’s technology.

Yamaha started making bikes in 1954 but didn’t produce a four-stroke motorcycle until 1970, when the firm built the XS2 650 twin.

Harley-Davidson built push-bikes between 1917 and 1923.

The Kawasaki motorcycle division was established in 1962 for no other reason than to publicise Kawasaki ’s heavy industries, which was huge but unknown to the general public.

Evel Knievel holds the world record for breaking the most number of bones and surviving. His real name is Robert Craig Knievil. The nickname Evel is said to have been given to him by police when he was jailed alongside William (Awful) Knofel. Knievel used a double in the film Viva Knievil. During his stunt career, Knievil spent a total of three years in hospital. When Knievil came to Britain to jump 13 buses at Wembley in 1975, he refused to drive his Cadillac on the left-hand-side of the road, insisting on driving on the right.

The Fonz (aka Henry Winkler) couldn’t actually ride a motorcycle.

In the 1970s cop show CHiPs, Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada, who played bike patrolmen Jon and Ponch, were so dissatisfied when their Kawasaki Z1000s were swapped for BMWs that they put the BMW fairings on the Kawasakis and continued to use them.

Contrary to popular opinion, the motorcycles used in Easy Rider have not both been lost or destroyed. One of them, which was wrecked during filming, has been restored by Dan Hagerty, who played Grizzly Adams in the TV show of the same name.

No one knows what became of the Triumph 6T ridden by Marlon Brando in The Wild One. its worth £500,000. Street Hawk only ran for 13 episodes.

Although BMW claims it has been making Boxer twins continually since 1923, production stopped for a few months in 1986 when the company decided its future lay in triples and fours. Customer outrage persuaded the Germans to restart the twin-cylinder engine production lines.

MZ invented two-stroke expansion chambers.

The current owners of Bimota-Lorenzo-Ducati is a direct descendant of the original founder of Ducati. Cagiva is a shortening of the words Castiglioni - the founder - and Varese - the town where the company is based.

Triumph also makes golf balls.

Magnesium wheels are porous, and allow tyres to deflate if the protective paint is scraped off. The same process occurs with alloy wheels, only much more slowly.

Dynos only measure torque and engine speed. Peak power is then calculated using a mathematical equation.

Titanium ore is abundant. The reason its known as an expensive material is because its strength and hardness makes working with it difficult and costly.

Early bike helmets were lined with cork

Before becoming famous for bike helmets, ARAI made helmets for building sites.

The founder of ARAI, Hirotake Arai was a stunt rider.

Princess Anne and George Harrison have both owned custom-painted ARAI helmets.

Barry Sheen’s King helmet was Bell Star helmet with a King sticker on it.

The term ‘motorcycle’ was first coined by British inventor Edward butler when he built a twin-cylinder tricycle prototype in 1885.

Some poly carbonate helmets are made from melted-down bottle crates.

Helmet manufacturer FM also make bottle crates.

British superbike rider Scott Smart is Barry Sheen’s nephew. Smart’s mum 42, Maggie, was the first ever MCN grid girl in 1971.

Mike Duff, the Canadian rider who won the Belgian 250cc GP in 1964 and the Dutch 125cc in 1965 is now Michelle Dufff, following a sex change.

Castrol Honda makes a special sticky tape that improves airflow over race bikes’ bodywork. Laid across the nose section, it allows the air to slip up and over the helmet and leathers of the rider more smoothly.

Under WSB rules, acid is used to check if a component that should be aluminium or steel, say it isn’t in fact titanium. A colour change indicates the presence of exotic lightweight material.

The first motorcycle ever was the SH Roper 1869 steam cycle.

The first production bike to advertise a top speed of over 100mph was the Brough Superior.

The first bike to ever top 200 mph was supercharged 499cc NSU in 1956. It achieved 211.4 mph

The first rider to ever go over 300mph was Don Vesco in 1975, on a 1496cc Yamaha-engined streamliner.

The first production motorcycle was the 1488cc, 2.5hp Hilberand & Wolfmuller Motorrad, made in Germany from 1894-97

Super-fit Troy Bayliss has a resting heart rate of 36 bpm, around half the normal rate. During a race, Bayliss’ heart rate rises to 186bpm.

Nobody in the 2004 GP, WSB or BSB series has the number one plate on his bike.

Honda only started racing to win the TT, in 1959 with the RC142.

Jean-Phillipe Ruggia was the first racer to regularly get his elbow down without crashing

When Valentino Rossi was five, his dad Graziano built him a go-cart to discourage him from getting into bikes.

Jim Moodie and Sean Emmett have both worn sanitary towels inside their helmets to stop sweat dripping in their eyes in hot conditions.

Joey Dunlop was once a passenger on a fishing boat that sank on the way to the Isle of Man TT.

Brands Hatch started life as a grass track circuit.

“See God. Then back off” Kevin Schwantz on his late braking technique.

“I did not come here to (make love to) spiders. Rob Phillis , when asked about his ambition of a podium finish.

“You can only piss with the cock you’ve got” Neil Hodgson.

“If anyone can go faster on that Aprillia, I’ll give them a blow job" Colin Edwards.

The con-rod of a sports bike engine at full chat is enduring alternate compression and tensile forces of 10 tons, 500 times a second.

The foot-operated sequential gear change was invented by Velocette’s Harold Willis in 1927.

Shoei helmets have been known to withstand bullets

The most technically complex production motorcycle ever was the Honda NR750 of 1992, with its oval pistons, eight valves per cylinder and two con rods per piston.

When torque in ft/lb. and power in bhp are plotted on the same scale, the curves always cross at 5252rpm.

In 10,000 miles, the average four-cylinder bike engine will have done 100,000,000 revs.

Hell’s angels’ founder Sonny Barger says in his autobiography that he prefers Japanese bikes to Harley Davidson!

Gatso speed cameras were invented by dutch rally driver Maurice Gatsonides.

The front page picture of the first ever MCN shows six tweed-suited gents drinking coffee together.

After he saw Honda NR750, Massimo Tamburini tore up his design for the Ducati 916 and copied all the Honda’s main styling cues.

Lawrence of Arabia was killed while riding his Brough Superior.

Under its own power, Triumph’s rocket III can accelerate 0-60mph at almost exactly the same rate as it would when dropped out of a plane.

Honda Super Blackbird riders crash, on average, once every 10 years.

One in five ungaraged bikes in inner cities gets stolen.

Insurance companies estimate that up to 25 per cent of bike theft claims are fraudulent.

An average of £50 from every bike insurance premium is spent on settling a relatively small number of very expensive personal injury claims.

On average, engineers are the most likely people to crash. Lecturers are the least likely.

The first monkey-style bike, the excelsior welbike, was designed to be dropped from planes with paratroopers during world war 2.

The highest altitude reached by a land motor vehicle under its own power is 20,065ft by two Chinese Jinlong motorcycles on Mount Everest in May 2002.

The world’s smallest motorcyclist, Hungarian circus performer Pityu Toth, is only 2ft 4in tall.

Goto the Motorcycle Riding Techniques Website

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