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If you are like me you have a laptop or a desktop that you can’t seem to install drivers on. I’ve been itching to use Nvidia’s CUDA. CUDA is using the GPU (graphics processing unit) to do calculations instead of the CPU. GPU’s have many more cores than a CPU to handle all of the video processing that needs to be done, Nvidia wanted to take advantage of that to do calculations such as Folding proteins using Folding@home. So a while back I downloaded the CUDA drivers and toolkit but when I went to install the drivers I got the error message “The Nvidia Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.” I knew I had the right hardware, Quadro FX 570m, to run CUDA so I gave up until recently. More after the jump.

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Panda Cloud Antivirus does exactly what it sounds like. It uses cloud computing to keep your computer virus free. Cloud computing is relatively old but more applications are coming out that use this technology. Cloud computing uses the power of other computers to solve a problem. One of the most well known uses of cloud computing is Folding@Home. More about how Panda keeps your computer healthy after the jump.

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Hello all, I’ve got finals week coming up so I will be putting writing articles on hold. See you guys soon!

What is svchost!? Chances are you have asked yourself this question before. If not, open up task manager and take a look. Right click on the taskbar and click on task manger, or if you’re like me and like keyboard shortcuts hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc. This will open up task manager. Click on the processes tab and click on Image Name to sort alphabetically. Then scroll down to the S’s. You will most likely see many instances of svchost.exe. Don’t worry thing is completely nomal. More on what this means after the jump.

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There has always been a war between opensource freeware and paid software. One area that I feel freeware wins out is in the anti-virus market. For one, the big anti-virus companies have made it so that you have to buy their software every year, like a subscription. Imagine you have been paying for anti-virus for the past 5 years. You have spent over $250!! That’s a new iPod! I will be comparing Symantec (recently bought Norton) and AVG. More after the jump

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When you run Defraggler, it can’t move files that are in use, mainly your page file and your registry. Page file is used when your computer runs out of memory. It is reserved space on the hard drive for “slow” memory. In comparison, your memory is much much faster to read and write to than your page file is. One thing that helps the page file be as fast as it can is to keep it sequential. The same goes for the registry. Read more after the jump

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When you get a lot of useless programs on your computer, it takes a toll on your boot times and could take up precious disk space. To remedy this its time to return to CCleaner. It has two very useful tools that I didn’t go over before. The first is an uninstall utility that trumps Window’s built in utility. The other is a very nice start up configuration utility that lets you stop unimportant programs from starting when you turn on your computer. More after the jump.

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Dust is one of the biggest reasons a computer can’t preform at its best. A computer generates a lot of heat, especially the processor. When the processor reaches a certain temperature, the computer will shut itself down. I’ve seen computers that can’t stay on for more than 30 seconds before the heat is too much. The culprit is all of the dust built up inside the computer. Dust’s number one enemy? Compressed Air. More after the jump.

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Defragmenting. What exactly is it? Well whenever you download a new file, move files around, or make a copies with your files, they will not get written sequentially. They will be fragmented into pieces and written to the disk wherever there is room. After a while, this makes looking for files slower because it has to search through the entire hard drive for the pieces of the file. Defragging the hard drive will try to put all the files into a sequential order and make read speeds up to 20% faster! More after the jump.

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