Firefox use SQLite database and it’s saved on your hard drive. Overtime the database becomes large and your slow hard drive will have a hard time trying to extract information from the SQLite database. If you remembered yesterday’s article on benchmarking 12 RAMDisk software, we can actually put the Firefox SQLite database into RamDisk so that it reads and writes 10 or 20 times faster than your hard drive. Yes, Firefox still takes up a huge amount of memory (currently 300MB and sometimes can go up to 400MB) but it is still fast.

Here’s an example on how I move my Firefox profile to RAMDisk created by Dataram because it has the best performance if compared to other free RAMDisk software and also support all versions of Windows both 32 and 64 bit.

This is what you need to do to get your free PC Tools File Recovery 7.5 license key:

1. You will need to use a UK proxy/vpn and then visit the link below.
http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/free/promo/PCADVISOR0110/

2. Fill up the form and make sure you entered a valid working email address because that is where the license key is going to be sent to.

3. If you got it right, you should see a page saying “Thank you for requesting your FREE license for File Recover v7.5. Your free license code will be e-mailed to you shortly”.

4. Now check your email and note down the name and license key.

However, some antivirus are made with multiple antivirus engines which will not conflict with each other. Most of the time the antivirus company will only say they use “multiple” engine but never say which antivirus engine. As far as I know, F-Secure, GData, eScan and TrustPort uses multiple engines. Using multiple antivirus engine can surely catch more virus but also reports higher false positives. Maybe using a multiple antivirus engine to protect your computer real time isn’t such a good idea but it’s a whole different story if you use a multi AV engine BootCD to scan a computer infected by virus.

If you have a computer that is infected by virus and it is causing Windows to run very slowly or even if Windows is unbootable, you can try using G Data BootCD to scan and clean the virus. Good thing about using G Data BootCD is it has two antivirus engines which is Avast and Bitdefender. Although they never say what engine, but I know when I checked the ISO image and there are avast and bdav folder in a dbase folder.

All keyboards has LED so you can easily tell you if you have Numlock, Capslock and ScrollLock enabled/disabled. I found a small tool called Network Lights which really doesn’t do much except giving you a nice little indication on your network traffic by blinking your keyboard LEDs whenever you have outgoing or incoming packets on network interface.

This utility is a standalone executable. Run the program, you’ll see a new system tray icon. Now you can monitor your network traffic using the ScrollLock and NumLock LEDs on your keyboard. You can use the system tray icon (click the mouse) to customize program settings. If you have an older motherboard and your keyboard LED doesn’t blink when there are network traffic, try going to Settings and enable “Force Keyboard Capture” option.

All PCGamesHardware provided was a ZIP file to download which contains a cfg.xml file. As far as I know, ESET products are activated based on username and password. Every subscriber has their own unique username and password that can be used to download the installers and also to obtain the latest ESET virus definition. So I opened the XML file with notepad, took a quick look and found the username in clear text but the password is encrypted. Normally NOD32 username would start with EAV- followed by 8 random numbers and Smart Security with ESS-.

Continue reading on how to license ESET NOD32 v4 with the cfg.xml file provided by PCGamesHardware.

At first I didn’t know what to do with the XML file but after a while I found out that ESET supports importing and exporting settings via XML file. Just follow the few simple steps on how to get your free 6 months ESET NOD32 license.