If Mozilla Firefox is your favorite web browser, read the following tips on how to speed it up.

There are a lot of advantages of using Firefox. Its supporters argue that it is the safer and most versatile from all browsers that are currently operating on the Internet. Of course, even if many people are fanatic of the “fox”, the truth is that sometimes it’s a  little slow especially if someone has 4 windows opened simultaneously with 20 tabs each. Yet there is a way to make your favorite browser really fast. To do so you would have to tweak a few values found in Firefox config.

Older and more experienced users are certainly familiar with the process, but even if you are a novice user, you need not worry as the instructions we will give below are simple and you can follow them without any problem. All you have to remember is to note the changes you have made (in case something goes wrong and you want to reset) and also to restart Firefox when finished.

Reduce the size of RAM used by Firefox for the cache.

1. Type “about: config” (without the quotation marks) in the address bar of the browser.
2. Find the value “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
3. Change the number to “0″ (zero)

Reduce significantly the time needed for the Firefox to “load” a page.

1. Type “about: config” (without quotation marks) in the address bar of the browser.
2. Find and change the following:

Find the “network.http.pipelining” and change it from “false” to “true”.
Find the “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change it from “false” to “true”
Find the “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change the number to 10.

In this way, Firefox will make 10 “load requests” at each site thus significantly reducing the time it takes for each page to open.

3. Finally, right-click anywhere in the “config” page and select New-> Integer. Name the value “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and put the value to “0″ (zero).

If you are using an ADSL connection, you will see how your pages ‘load’ a lot faster now.

Reduce the size of RAM used by Firefox at 10MB when it is minimized.

1. Type about: config in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Right Click anywhere on the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that appears enter “config.trim_on_minimize“. And press Enter.
4. Now select True and press Enter.
5. Now Restart Firefox.

When you rely on a computer for work or recreation, you have to learn to prepare for the worse. There will be a day when your hard drive may crash. It will give a faint warning by making weird grinding noises. After that happens, all of a sudden your screen will go black. Unfortunately, when this happens, people are not prepared for it. Most users, will go throughout their entire computing lives, without making a single back up of their data on the hard drive. Or they will back up data only once a year, and are surprised when this data is not updated, when they try to restore it. At the very least, you should have your system set up with system restore points every couple of days. Luckily, even in the event of a hard drive crash, there are ways to be able to save the data on a crashed disk.

Now you have to remember one thing as we list the methods that might help you save the data on your hard drive. None of these are full proof methods . It is at best a 50/50 chance that this information will save the data from your hard drive. There is still a good chance that your hard drive is too far gone to be saved by this point. If that is the case, then you must make sure that you dispose off the hard drive very carefully. Even though the data should be impossible to get, you still do not want to take the chance that some bad guys get your hard-disk and steal your personal information from it.

The first method that you should use in trying to save the data from your hard drive, is to use a specialized software solution that is specifically made for this task. There are many different programs that can help you accomplish this. The best all-in-one computer repair software to help you restore your data is Spotmau Powersuite. This software, in addition to restoring data from a crashed hard-disk, is a complete computer repair solution which can be used for many different computer problems as described in the official Spotmau website here. The Spotmau Powersuite program can help you solve your data recovery problems guaranteed.

The second method in recovering data on a crashed hard drive, is to hook the drive up to another computer. You have to make sure that the drive is hooked up as the secondary drive, or slave drive. This will allow you to see the hard drive contents without using that same hard drive to boot up. If there is anything to be found on the drive, you will be able to access from the Windows explorer menu of this new computer.

These are the two ways that you can recover data from a crashed hard drive. Neither technique is fullproof but have worked in the past for many users.

I understand your frustration when you have accidentally deleted some important files from your computer, such as documents, family pictures, movie files etc. This has happened to all of us. If this is the case, do not panic. There is a good chance to recover your deleted files.

Let me discuss first some theory behind file recovery. A computer hard disk or any other storage device (USB drives, external disks etc) store each file on a specific area on their surface and then the operating system creates an “indexing table” which specifies the exact disk area where each file is stored. This is used in order for the computer to locate and retrieve the file whenever necessary. Now, when you delete a specific file, you actually delete the “index pointer” for that file and NOT the actual file contents. The operating system thinks that the file is removed but actually the file is still on the disk. Ofcourse, the operating system marks that file area as “empty” so that it can write another file later on if needed. If the operating system did not write other data on top of the deleted file disk area, then you can recover that deleted file.

There are file recovery software on the market today that are capable to scan your computer drive and find any deleted files that can be recovered. I will suggest two of them, one which is completely free and one which you can try out for free and then you can purchase if you find it useful. The first free software is Recuva and the other file recovery software that I recommend is Paretologic Data Recovery program. The later is a commercial tool (very good tool by the way) which you can download and try it for free. First try out the completely free Recuva tool and if it does not find the files you want to recover, then download the Paretologic Data Recovery tool and give it a try (free scanning).

I hope you find the precious lost files that you are looking for. Good luck!!