A trackball is an alternative device to a computer mouse or a touch pad which is used for moving the pointer on a computer screen. 1. A trackball has a stationary hand rest that will be larger than a mouse. It also contains a round track ball that has been set in a socket, which [...]
Compressing a hard drive can be helpful, but it also has a drawback of being unreliable and slow. The process of uncompressing a hard drive is very simple and only needs a few clicks to complete. 1. Go to My Computer in the desktop and look for the compressed drive. It will depend on the [...]
Most of the hardware components like the memory, graphics card and processor will function together to make a computer work. If there is any performance problem, you must find out which of these components are giving trouble. 1. Select Windows logo on the desktop to access the Control Panel. Then enter Performance Information and Tools [...]
A Virtual PC can be created using virtualization software and it is used by the users who want to run Mac operating system on a PC or PC operating system on a Mac computer. 1. Virtual PC is used as a computer within a computer using virtualization software which allows the execution of entire OS [...]
A swap partition is used as a dedicated space on hard drive and less-used pages of physical memory is stored. Here are few ways to use a swap partition in Ubuntu. 1. First right-click on desktop and select the Terminal option. Then enter command, sudo mkswap /dev/swap_part to format your partition as a swap space. [...]
