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FOUR WAYS TO BOOT YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM, FASTER A faster boot up seems to be an elusive goal more than a reality. However, you can decrease the time it takes to start up your computer in Windows by minutes in some cases. With just a few tweaks, you can get your boot up time down to 30 seconds and not 20 minutes. This article will give some quick and easy tips for faster boot up times. Step 1: Hard Disk Check Up Over time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally. It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load times. To check your drive health: 1. Click Start 2. Choose Computer 3. Right Click your Hard Drive 4. Choose Properties 5. Click Check Drives Health. After, the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health. 6. Restart to get a faster boot up. Step 2: Eliminate Startup Delay To get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for faster boot up times. 1. Open your Start menu. 2. Click Run 3. In the command screen, type msconfig 4. In the system configuration utility, click either BOOT tab. 5. In the boot menu, change the default setting for the Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds. Step 3: Organize your Hard Drive If you are looking for something in a messy room, naturally, it’s going to take you longer to find something. This is a good metaphor for a hard drive. Over time, filing system gets disorganized. Periodically, you need to reorganize this filing system on your hard drive. Luckily, Windows has a good utility called Defrag that will put your system in order. 1.Open the Start Menu 2. Click on My Computer 3. Right Click your C: drive or your hard drive image. 4. Scroll down to the Click Properties 5. In the Properties Menus, Open the “Tools” menu. 6. Choose Defragment. 7. In the Disk Deframenter menu. Click on Defragment Step 4: Remove Excess Startup Programs Most programs you add to your computer will opt to load when you startup your computer. Eventually you will rack up a load of programs that kill faster boot times. You need to reduce the startup programs. You can easily disable unnecessary startup programs. Here is how: 1. Open your Start menu. 2. Click Run 3. Type msconfig, click Enter 4. In the system configuration utility,click either services or startup tab. 5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer want to run in the background. 6. Click OK Twitter lies amongst the top position in the list of the most admired and heavily used social networking site. A Twitter user always want his/her tweet to reach the the eyes of as many people as possible. This tricky technique can do the work for them: get twitter followers 1). http://twittercounter.com/pages/100 is the URL where you will find the record of most followed twitters. 2). Target at least 10 such Twitters. 3). Open each of the profile in a separate tab and follow them one at a time. 4). Here comes the Tricky part, on following an individual your name will come at the top position in the catalog of followers. As a result, the person who follows that individual will also follow you as going after their followers will compel then to follow you. 5). Even if you quit to follow that individual after 5 minutes yet you succeeded in increasing your followers list within that 5 minutes span. For the beginners, just by following these simple steps, you can surely make a good mark. Advertising today is solely a game in the industry, which results in the formula, the more the ads, the better sales you get. By increasing the twitter followers one may let other people read the updates that one has posted. Former Yahoo boss, Carol Bartz

US web portal Yahoo has named Scott Thompson, the president of online payments firm Paypal, as its new head.

He will fill the vacancy left by Carol Bartz, who was dismissed as chief executive in September after failing to turn around the company's fortunes.

Mr Thompson has headed Paypal, the payments division of eBay, since 2008, during which time its userbase doubled.

Yahoo is currently undergoing a strategic review as it has failed to keep up with rivals such as Google.

The US firm's key products, beside its search engine, include photo sharing site Flickr and its webmail platform.

However, its domination of webmail - and the ancillary services it offers its email account holders - is under threat as younger users migrate to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

'Dark knight'

"Scott brings to Yahoo a proven record of building on a solid foundation of existing assets and resources to reignite innovation and drive growth, precisely the formula we need," said Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock.

He said that Mr Thompson would focus on Yahoo's core businesses, but would also work closely with the board on its strategic review of what new investments to make and existing business lines to dispose of.

"He's a dark knight," said Stuart Miles of retail technology blogsite Pocket-lint. "He's a nuts-and-bolts guy rather than a captain of industry."

The company faces two choices, according to Mr Miles - either to focus on product innovation like Google has done, or else to focus on media by promoting itself as a content hub.

"Yahoo.com has a killer amount of news and information," he said. "A lot of people see Yahoo as a media company.

"But he's a tech guy rather than a media guy. It's not clear whether he will focus on innovating products (which Yahoo has tried and failed to do) or focus on content creation."

Markets gave the news a cool reception. Shares in Yahoo were down 3.1% at the close of trading in New York.

Shares in Paypal's parent, eBay, closed down 3.77%. The broader Nasdaq tech index closed up 0.33%.

Yahoo's share price has stagnated at about $15 ever since late 2008, refusing to go above $20, after it rejected an offer from Microsoft to buy up the company at $33 a share.

Revenues at the firm have stagnated, particularly compared with leading search engine Google, and Yahoo has had to lay off workers four times over the past three years.

The poor performance prompted Yahoo's board to ignominiously turf out Carol Bartz in September last year.

Tim Morse, who had been standing in as chief executive, will return to the role of chief financial officer when Mr Thompson takes over on 9 January.