Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition, which previously known as Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Express Edition is a stripped down version of popular full version of Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal (where a variant of Paragon Drive Backup 9 Special Edition is available for free) and Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Professional. Although Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Free provides only basic features and functionalities, it’s able to provide easy yet total backup and protection solution, with ability to recover the files when disaster or lost happens.

Features of Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition:

* Backup Entire PC – backup an entire hard disk or separate partitions
* Perform Live Backups – Paragon Hot Backup technology
creates backup images without restarting Windows
* Storage options for your backups – Save backup images to local drives or external USB or...

change drives icon

First of all copy a icon file to the root of the drive.example: c:\icon.ico Then create a file called: autorun.inf in c:\autorun.infthen open that file and type the following:icon=icon.ico save and close the file. Now open my computer and refresh.. and woh! icon changed....you can apply to other drives too.be careful:autorun.inf and ico.ico must be in the root of the drive.example: c:\autorun.inf and c:\icon.ico.same on the root.

Use your pen drive as a temporary ram in vista

Till this date, Microsoft’s windows had Page File (A virtual memory file, stored on hard disk) options for the memory requirement of the computer, so that the computing can be done at cheaper rates and that too without installing the physical memory (RAM).

The page file is used by the Windows OS to cater the needs of various applications when the physical memory is fully used up. The reason for that is, that Virtual memory is slower as compared to the physical memory and thus Phyical memory takes the first priority.

However, with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has introduced a new technology called ReadyBoost. With the help of this technology one can use any Flash drive, SD Cards, CF Cards as the third memory option for the computer.

Now, the benefits of Flash Drive or Cards as a source of Memory :
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For those who are getting this error when you try to install WinXP on a motherboard that has UDMA 100 Promise Controllers you need to do the following in order to get XP to install correctly if your hard drives are connected to the UDMA 100 controller.

Now there are two ways to get XP installed, the first one I am going to mention is the easiest way and the second is a bit more complicated but will work never the less.

#1 - Easiest Way

I have an Asus A7V motherboard and I have run into this more than once. What you need to do (this is the easiest way to do it that I have found) is to move your hard drives cable off the UDMA 100 controller (normally color coded blue) over to the UDMA 66 master controller on the motherboard. Once you have done that make sure your PC still boots into your current OS correctly. If it does then start your XP install or upgrade. Everything should be fine. Now, once XP...

To change drive letters (useful if you have two drives and have partitioned the boot drive, but the secondary drive shows up as D)

Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management, then right-click the partition whose name you want to change (click in the white area just below the word Volume) and select change drive letter and paths.
From here you can add, remove or change drive letters and paths to the partition