Improve performance of android smartphone

We all face issue of slow performing android phone. Here are few options that can improve the performance. These are recommended settings it is upto you to follow either one or all the options -

Choose wisely
Don’t overburden your phone with apps which heavily depend on resource of phone. They would otherwise degrade your phone’s performance.

Keep Firmware up to date
With every new release of android version Google brings great improvements. Theses updates ensure stability, higher performance speed and connectivity along with other user-friendly new features.

Remove unwanted applications
Every app you install in your phone take some storage space and runs some background processes. The more storage space occupied or the more background processes running on your phone, the slower your phone’s performance.

If it is not possible to uninstall the app then disable it.

Avoid using live wallpapers
Yes I agree android’s live wallpapers look cool however badly made wallpaper will need more CPU cycles to run, thus draining the battery faster. Every time you activate the home screen, you run not only your apps but also your live wallpaper.

Clean up the internal cache
Every time we use an app it will build up a cache that can slowdown an Android smartphone. User can delete each used apps' cache regularly to speed up their devices.

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Steps to improve performance of computer

If you feel that your computer has gone slow as compared to earlier days here are few always recommended steps that will help in gaining some speed.

These steps are not limited to users with slow computers, they can be followed on computers giving satisfactory performance.

1. Run Disk Cleanup regularly on disk hosting operating system. It removes unnecessary and temporary files.

Location - Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup.

2. Run Disk Defragmenter regularly on disk hosting operating system. It moves scattered parts of data close to each other.

Location - Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup.

3. Uninstall unnecessary programs that are no longer required.

4. Run a full anti-virus and anti-spyware scan. This sounds a little confusing as full scanning itself slows the system down but there might be some spywares installed on your machine without your knowledge which are feasting on your computer resources.

5. Stop unnecessary services running in background.

   Location - Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Administrative Tools -> Services.

   Shortcut - Run -> services.msc

6. Stop auto-starting programs. 

Click Start -> Run and type "msconfig" at the prompt. 

Click the Startup tab and disable any application that you feel is not required to be started when you switch on the computer.

Note - For points 5,6, make sure you understand functioning of each running service/application before stopping it otherwise it may affect proper functioning of system.

7. Clean up the registry. This is high risk task and should be performed if you have good knowledge of registries.

8. Delete old network connections. Your computer may be trying to connect to shared hard drives that no longer exist. In Windows Explorer right-click on any network shares you don't actively use and click Delete.

If steps and very small tasks and can be performed anytime. However if the computer is still not performing good upgrade RAM. With an older PC, you will rarely have enough RAM to run today's memory-hogging operating systems and applications, and adding a high-capacity stick or two of quality RAM will give you a quick speed boost.

How to protect your password in internet cafes

Some time or the other, one has to go to cyber cafe or public computers to access internet or e-mail.

These public computer being used by large number of people are most prone to password hacking. 

Cafe owners can not put an eye on every one to stop them from installing hidden hacking softwares. 

One of such hacking softwares is a keylogger.

What Keylogger do is it will record every key pressed in some notepad file and store it at a location only visible to person installed it.

For example, if person goes to hotmail.com  to check e-mails and types ID as  abcd@hotmail.com and password as p@s5word. The keylogger software records every key pressed in its log file as

Microsoft Internet Explorer :

www.hotmail.comabcd@hotmail.comp@s5word

Don't panic, there is solution to it too. 

If you have noticed in statement recorded by keylogger that it does not know what is website address, what and how long is user id and when does password starts. It records as and when you type.

We are going to use this feature of it to fool it.

So, between successive keys of the password if you enter/press random keys anywhere on the screen or on new notepad file, the keylogger software won't ever come to know where you typed in what. The keys keylogger now records will contain the password, with random keys in between.

For Example -

1. Go to hotmail.com.

2. Type in your user ID.

3. Type in the few characters of the password.

4. Open new tab in Internet Explorer.

5. Again go to password field and type in the few more characters of the password.

6. Again go to the addressbar and type in a few more random character.

Keep on repeatin the process till you type in the full password in the password field.

Now Kelogger will something like this-

www.hotmail.comabcd@hotmail.compda@dasdasd5asdwaodajljkljk

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