Guide : How to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista?

How to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista?

This tutorial will help you in creating a bootable USB drive of Windows Vista which you can use to install Vista in any system. It might become very useful when you don't have access to DVD drive.

1. First format your USB drive in NTFS file system. You can do it by attaching your USB drive to your system and then format it from My Computer window.

2. Now open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select "Run as administrator" option.

3. Now type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter. It'll launch DiskPart program:

4. Now provide following command:

list volume

It'll show a list of all drives in your system. Look for your USB drive entry. As in the below screenshot, the USB drive is "G" which you can determine from its "Type" entry.

Now you have to select the USB drive volume by providing select volume no. command. Since in our case volume no. of USB drive is "Volume 4", the command would be:

select volume 4

Now we have to make this drive active. So provide active command:

active

Now exit from DiskPart using exit command.

5. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We'll use "bootsect.exe" utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It'll be present in "Boot" directory.

Now provide following command in Command Prompt:

bootsect /nt60 G:

Here G is drive letter of USB drive. Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.

6. At last, copy all files/folders from Vista Setup DVD to your USB drive and you have done.

Now you can boot using your USB drive and can install Windows Vista in any system.

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How To Increase Firefox Page Transfer Speed Up To 40 Percent

In this brief tutorial I’m going show you how to easily make Firefox load pages up to 40% faster !

Firefox, when tweaked in this manner, will render faster than Opera.

Type about:config on the Firefox address bar and hit Enter.

This will display an alphabetical listing of preferences by name, as well as a search bar at the top.

Type network.http.pipe on the Filter search bar.

A narrowed down list will appear showing preferences network.http.pipelining andnetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequests and their current values.

Double-click on the network.http.pipelining string to change its value to true if not already. [see notes 1 & 2]

Double-click on the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests string and change the current value in the Enter interger value box to 34 and click ok. [see note 3]

To enable the turbo feature in Firefox you will need to manually create a preference.

Right-click anywhere on the page and select New and then Boolean.

Enter browser.turbo.enabled as the preference name in the New boolean value box and click ok, and then set the value in the Enter Boolean value box to true.

That’s it, now simply close and restart Firefox, and you should see an immediate 10% to 40% increase in web page transfer speed, and faster opening of your tabbed windows !

note 1:
The Boolean preference network.http.pipelining enables an experimental acceleration technique called pipelining, which speeds up the loading of most Web pages. A browser normally waits for some acknowledgment of a given request from a server before attempting to send another one to that server; pipelining sends multiple requests at once without waiting for responses one at a time.

note 2:
If you use a proxy, set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true as well.

note 3:
The integer preference network.http.pipelining.maxrequests controls the maximum number of requests that can be pipelined at once. There’s not much evidence that going above 34 will help.