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What Is My CPU Speed: How Do I Find It?

Your CPU speed, also known as the speed of your computer processor, determines how fast everything happens on your computer. If your CPU speed is slow, there isn’t much you can do about it (although we will discuss some options later). If your CPU speed is fast, then you’ll enjoy playing the latest games and be more productive than your peers.
How To Find Your CPU Speed

Finding your CPU speed on Windows is easy:

Go to the start menu.
Right-click the My Computer link for Windows XP or “Computer” for Vista and Windows Seven.
Choose Properties from the context menu that appears.
Your computer processor’s brand name and CPU speed will be displayed.
To properly determine your CPU speed, you need a few extra pieces of information. Using the tabs above the information screen you just accessed, switched to the Hardware screen and find the listing for your CPU. Detailed information about your CPU speed will be displayed here, including how many processors you have and whether they’re 32 or 64 bit processors.



So What’s Your Real CPU Speed?

Interpreting the data you just found can be a little difficult because of a feature in some processors called hyper-threading. Hyper-threading lets one processor pretend to be two processors, which can provide a minor speed boost to some applications.

To figure out whether your processor has hyper-threading, search Google or Wikipedia for the name of your processor as displayed on the screen you just looked at. If it has hyper-threading, divide the number of processors displayed by two. (For example, my Dad’s computer shows four processors, but he has hyper-threading, so the correct number of processors is two.)[easyazon-image-link asin="B004EBUXSA" alt="Intel Core i7-2600K Processor 3.4GHz 8 MB Cache Socket LGA1155" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gvmvH14TL._SL160_.jpg" align="right" width="127" height="160"]

Now that you know how many processors you have, you can do a little bit more math to determine your total CPU speed. Multiply the CPU speed you saw on the first screen (usually printed in megahertz [MHz] or gigahertz [GHz]) by the number of processors you have. For example, 2 times 1.33 GHz equals 2.66 GHz.

How to connect two computers to a broadband modem..

If you have a broadband modem or one that is supplied from your internet service provider (ISP) you can most probably connect two computers to it without needing a router. If you look at the picture of my modem below, it has a USB (blue) and a ETHERNET (yellow) port. Of course there are many other ways to connect two computers together to share files or an internet connection, however this article is about connecting two computers to one modem.

My service provider, Telstra Australia, supplied this modem to me. It came with an installation disc, which you should use to connect to the modem through the USB.



Now if you do not have a router, but have a similar modem to the one shown, you can connect two computers off the one broadband modem and thus both accessing the internet.

One computer can connect through the USB port and the other through the Ethernet.

A USB cable and and Ethernet cable come with the modem, however to connect the second computer you may need to buy a longer Ethernet cable. Get a blue cable.. NOT yellow or red. The blue one is a CROSSOVER cable, the others will be PATCH cables. They have the same connections on them but do entirely different jobs. (this colour coding applies in Australia, I don’t know about other countries.)

A free program to recover (Recuva) and restore accidentally deleted pictures, photos, and files..

Sooner or later you will be desperate to find out how to recover deleted files, because accidentally deleting your precious pictures, photos, and files is bound to happen to anyone. I hope that you do not encounter this dilemma, however if you do, you may possibly have a chance to recover deleted files. One way is to get a professional IT guy that specializes in file or data recovery, which in itself can be very expensive. Maybe you are recovering files from a crashed hard drive and haven’t actually deleted anything or maybe you want to recover deleted pictures from your digital camera. This article is about how to recover deleted files free using software but if you have a crashed hard drive then this is a different story altogether.

Firstly we need to know what has happened to our deleted files so that we can learn which action is best to recover deleted files.

Creating a Successful Wordpress Website..

Creating a successful Wordpress website is not as hard as you think! In the old days, building a website was a drama and only for the highly technical geek.

Well certain CMS (content management systems) have just made it so simple that a computer illiterate person can now build a million dollar website.

When I first started building Wordpress Websites about 3 years ago, I started out with in depth technical methods. Now I just use Wordpress and it is just like writing a Word document and pressing publish. Of course there is a little bit more to it than that but 90% of the technical aspects have disappeared.

The attitude now days is that "Why waste time on technical design and coding when you can just get on with building a website and filling it with valuable content?"

It took me a long time to convince myself of this..(ha ha, yes i talk to myself), and when I finally did, I felt the burden lift.

If you are thinking about building Wordpress websites for a living or blogging online, do not forget to try Wordpress as it is free and easy!

Can't Boot From CD - BIOS Boot Options..

Sometimes when you try to change your boot priority in your BIOS you cannot select the CD ROM option or sometimes it is not even available to choose.

Your CD ROM is dead!
This means you have a problem with your cd rom drive. They do die after a while so try plugging in another one in and see if that solves your problem. Dead CD roms might still show up in the BIOS but do not work.


You can easily replace a CD ROM with a new and improved drive. Most likely a DVD drive or even a BLURAY drive.

Your Cd ROM is not installed
You might not have your cd rom installed correctly. For example it might have a power cable plugged in but not an IDE or Sata connection. I have done this many times when building computers.


You can see an exclamation mark!
You can see and Exclamation mark next to the device you want to choose as the first boot device. For example you might see this ! next to your cd Rom or even a hard drive you have installed.


You chose to boot from CD
You actually chose to boot from CD but it still will not! Maybe the CD you want to boot to is not a bootable CD. Or maybe you did not save your changes in your BIOS on exit.

VIEW PICTURE COMPRESSION EFFECTS..

f you regularly need to change the compression levels on JPEG picture files, so you can send them in emails or use them web pages and so on, it can be difficult to quickly see what effects higher or lower settings have on picture quality. A side-by-side compression preview display that shows before and after file sizes is just one of the many useful features in a little freeware program called CSDN Pic Viewer.

It works with all common image file formats, there’s a fast batch conversion facility, picture browser and slideshow, ‘smart’ picture resizer and it only takes up a few megabytes of hard disc space. The only thing to watch out for is that it needs the .NET Framework plug-in to work, you may already have it, otherwise it can be downloaded free from the Microsoft web site.

Enlarging the Text on Web Pages..

A lot of my customers are “senior surfers” and would like to enlarge the text on web pages. They try to do this in Internet Explorer by left clicking View, then Text Size then either Larger or Largest.

But there are many web sites that specify the exact text size of most sections of the site and changing to Larger or Largest has little or no effect. A good example is http://news.bbc.co.uk The sites do this to maintain the layout exactly as they designed it.

But you can override the site designers and get the text larger (but the layout might become a little untidy). You do it by left clicking Tools, then Internet Options. Select the General tab and then left click the Accessibility button in the bottom right hand corner. You then need to select the third option - “Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages” and then OK and OK again.

Now the View, Text Size options will affect all the text. (But all text will be the same size - headings will be the same size as body text)

You may even find that the Medium setting is fine, now that it applies to all the text.



If you use Firefox, the View, Text Size options are different (Increase, Normal, Decrease) and work as you would expect and want them to - they change the size of all text, but in proportion. Again, because you have overridden the careful design, sometimes the layout suffers.

Wireless security key..

A lot of wireless routers are now being supplied by ISPs with pre-configured security settings. These can sometimes be altered by the user (BT, Tiscali) or sometimes not (Sky).

The pre-configured wireless network name (SSID) and wireless key (WPA key) are usually printed on the bottom/back of the router and sometimes also on an accompanying card.

Take great care when entering the key - it is probably case sensitive. In other words, if it shows an uppercase letter then enter it as an uppercase letter.

Don’t blindly assume that the whole key is hexadecimal and therefore that the case of the letters doesn’t matter. Bitter experience says that it does!

I think that this only really applies to WPA (rather than WEP) security, but play safe, just copy the key exactly.