Speed your windows boot time with Soluto

 

I know, my Mac boots in less than 5 seconds, but my Windows PC takes eternity to startup.

I tried Soluto, a free software that analyzes and optimizes your boot time sequence, available at http://www.soluto.com/. Well, my boot time passed from 5 minutes to about 3.

Not great compared to a Mac but still much better!

Saluto allows you to disable or defer boot time applications, suggests you what to do, and shows you what other users have done for each application.

 

Disk is still KO

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Too bad, if I hear of some other way I will try...

Fixing a broken hard disk

A few days ago my external UDB 60MB Lacie hard drive died, it does nothing just tirns on the light when connect. Since its way over the warranty period, I opened and found a Samsung disk inside, tried to connect it directly to one of my laptops but nothing, its dead.
I can't even run utilities such a Spinrite because it remains undetected by the BIOS.
What next?
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