Guide To Windows XP Maintenance - 4 Easy Steps

We want our computers to be fast, efficient and responsive. But when it slows down most people get mad on it. It is not the computer's fault if you had given it some good care it would never betray you. Basically its due to your operating system that slows down your computer. And here RMS SA is discussing 4 easy steps to maintain your PC in good health.

Guide To Windows Xp Maintenance

1. Reduce Your Recycle Bin Size.

Data capacity of a hard drive is now available in large quantity now days like you can easily purchase a terabyte hard drive from market easily. By default the recycle bin size for the hard drives is 10 % if the hard drive's data capacity is 500 Gb it would be useless to define a 10 % default recycle bin settings. Change it to 2 to 5 % or it can be 5 Gb to 10 Gb.

2. Turn off Remote Desktop Management

Remote desktop management is a windows utility that allows other to access your PC remotely. Its very useful if your computer is a part of network but its always a danger as hackers can easily penetrate into your computer. So my recommendation is to turn it off, use Team viewer instead.

3. Run Windows Xp CHKDSK (Check Disk) from Time To Time

CHKDSK is essential tool for windows xp maintenance, it should run from time to time. It will scan the disk for errors, fix logical errors, detect and mark bad sectors, so that Windows will no longer try to use them. This way it can prevent your computer from becoming unstable.

4. Defrag Regularly

Defrag is another essential tool for windows xp maintenance. Badly fragmented disks can cause a lot of problems, like general system slowdowns, slower start-up and shutdowns, and even computer crashes. Basically, your hard drive is the slowest part of your computer and file fragmentation makes it even slower.

Like any other defrag utility it gathers file fragments that are scattered all over your disk and writes them into adjacent clusters.

I hope that my short guide to Windows Xp Maintenance will help you. If you like this article please share it with your friends and donot forget to comment back

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Revised pay limits for entitlement of School Pass, School Card Pass and Residential Card Pass

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.E(W) 2008/PS 5-1/38

New Delhi, dated 13.10.2011

The General Managers,
All Zonal Railways & Production Units, etc.

Sub: Revised pay limits for entitlement of School Pass, School Card Pass and Residential Card Pass.

Consequent upon revision of Pay Scales on the basis of decision of the Government on the of 6th Central Pay Commission, the question of revision of existing entitlement ‘School Pass’, School Card Pass’ and ‘Residential Card Pass' under the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules,1986 (Second Edition, 1993) has been under Consideration of this Ministry.

2. The matter has been examined and in exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution, the President Is pleased to direct that the pay limits for entitlement to 'School Pass’, ‘School Card Pass’ and ‘Residential Card Pass’ be revised as per Advance Correction Slip No. 69 attached.

2.1 In all other respects, the existing provisions of the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 (Second Edition, 1993), as amended from time to time shall continue to apply.

3. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of Ministry of Railways.

4. Please acknowledge receipt.

DA One

sd/-
(Debasis MaZuumdar)
Joint Director Estt.(Welfare)
Railway Board.

Source: AIRF

Original Order

Real Time Train Information System (RTIS) based on ‘SIMRAN’ becomes Functional from Today

Advanced Communication and Information Technologies have revolutionalised the ways we do our business. Indian Railways is no exception. Customer expectations have risen. Yesterday's better services are today's basic necessities. Availability of accurate train running information on a click of a button is one such facility public would love to have.

Train information dissemination through 139 in the existing Train Information System over Indian Railway, being dependent on manual collection & feeding of train running information has certain limitations.

To overcome limitations of the existing Train Running Information System, it was decided to develop GPS based train tracking system jointly by RDSO & IIT-Kanpur. The system has been developed and working successfully in number of trains. It has now been decided to open the Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) to public in few trains to begin with effect from today i.e.19 October 2011. Minister of Railways Shri Dinesh Trivedi inaugurated this facility during the Economic Editors Conference being held here . The trains covered for this first phase will be:-

S.NO.	Train No.	Train Name
1	12301	Howrah - N Delhi Rajdhani
2	12302	N Delhi - Howrah Rajdhani
3	12305	Howrah - N Delhi Rajdhani
4	12306	N Delhi - Howrah Rajdhani
5	12313	Sealdah - N Delhi Rajdhani
6	12314	N Delhi - Sealdah Rajdhani
7	12951	Mumbai Central - N Delhi Rajdhani
8	12952	N Delhi - Mumbai Central Rajdhani
9	12953	Mumbai Central - Nizamuddin A K Rajdhani
10	12954	Nizamuddin - Mumbai Central A K Rajdhani
11	12003	Lucknow - N Delhi Shatabdi
12	12004	N Delhi - Lucknow Shatabdi

RTIS system deployed in the trains mentioned above will provide the
following information to public/passengers:
(i) Train locations.

(ii) Train running position (i.e. whether train is running on time or if running late and by how much.

(iii) Train location with respect to next stopping station in terms of kms.

This information will be available on website “http://www.simran.in”. Public may also get the train running information through SMS by sending a text message “ ” to mobile number 09415139139. A typical message received by passenger say for train number 12004, a Shatabdi Exp. train, is as under:-

" On 19/10/2011 10:00, Train 12004 N Delhi – Lucknow Shat. is running at 129kmph near Bharthana, 126 km from KANPUR CENTRAL. Presently Right on time "

The above message is actual reply received to a SMS querry.

Ministry of Railways has decided to implement RTIS to track all trains, passenger as well as freight trains. For this, a work has been approved in Railway Budget 2011 at a cost of Rs. 110.0 Cr. The project is likely to be completed by Dec.’ 2012.

AKS/HK/LK/TR

(Release ID :76758)

Source : PIB

GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS (GDS) DA ORDERS ISSUED

No.14-01/2011-PAP

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

(Establishment Division)

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi-110001

Dated 18^th October, 2011

To

All Chief Postmaster General

All GMs (PAF) Director of Accounts (Postal)

Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) at revised rates w.e.f. 01.07.2011 onwards-reg.

Consequent upon grant of another installment of Dearness allowance , with effect from 1^st July, 2011 to the Central Government Employees vide Government of India , Ministry of Finance , Department of Expenditure, OM No. 1(14)/2011-E-II(B) dated 3^rd October,2011, the Gramin Dak Sevaks(GSD) have also become entitled to the payment of dearness allowance on basic TRCA at the revised rate with effect from 01.07.2011. It has, therefore, been decided that the dearness allowance payable to the Gramin Dak Sevaks shall be enhances from the existing rate 51% to 58% on the basic Time Related Continuity Allowance with effect from the 1^st July, 2011.

2. The additional installment of dearness allowance payable under this order, shall be paid in cash to all Gramin Dak Sevaks. The payment of arrears of dearness allowance for the months of July to September, 2011, shall not be made before the date of disbursement of TRCA for the month of September, 2011.

3. The expenditure on this account shall be debited to the Head" Salaries" the relevant head of account and should be met from the sanctioned grant.

4. This issues with the concurrence of Integrated Wing vide their Dairy No. 123/FA/II/CS dated 18^th October, 2011.

Sd/-

(Kalpana Rajsinghot)

Director (Estt.)

Tele o11-23096036

Original Order Below

Amendments to Indian Post Office Act soon

Paving way for over 1.5 lakh post offices to offer banking and insurance services, especially in the hinterland, the government will soon make amendments to 'The Indian Post Office Act, 1898'

"The draft amendment bill to make necessary changes in 'The Indian Post Office Act, 1898' has been circulated by the Department of Post for enabling post offices to enter banking and insurance sector," a source privy to the development said.

He further said, "The Planning Commission is vetting the proposal to convert post offices across the nation into full fledged banks and provide insurance service."

Besides mail service, post offices in the country have broadly confined their business to offer financial services like savings bank, postal life insurance, pension payments and money transfer services.

The Department of Posts (DoP), which has the largest reach in the country, has diversified in recent times with providing facilities like rail reservation and telephone recharge coupons, but this move will substantially improve its basket of services.

The government, according to the source, wants to completely give a new dimension to the way post offices do business in the country and this Bill is a step towards that goal.

With this initiative, the Department of Post (DoP) wants to tap the vast rural market with modern banking facilities through post offices.

"We want to commercialise the department. We will seek a licence from the RBI to convert all our post offices into banks," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal had recently said.

The lack of modern banking facilities in rural areas and dependence of villagers on informal sector for their credit requirements have prompted the government to work on financial inclusion by way of setting up 'postal banks'.

"The State Bank of India can't build branches all over India, but there are post offices across India. The branches are already there, so infrastructure expenditure is not required. So you can actually give banking facilities at relatively lower costs, which would be extremely beneficial to people," he had said.

This will also pave the way for the DoP to offer ATM services and debit cards to its customers.

HOW TO: Print to a USB Printer from DOS in Windows XP

In order to print from DOS in an offline environment like the stores, you will need to do a couple of things.

1) Install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter

a) In Control Panel, double click on Add Hardware.

b) Click Next

c) When the scan finishes, select "Yes, I have already connected the hardware"

d) Click Next

e) Scroll to the bottom of the list and select "Add a new hardware device"
Click Next

f) Select "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)"

g) Click Next

h) Select "Network Adapters"

i) Click Next

j) Select "Microsoft" under the Manufacturer list.

k) Select "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" in the Network Adapter list.

l) Click Next

m) Click Next

n) Click Finish

2) Configure the Adapter

a) The loopback adapter is a virtual network adapter and can be configured the same as a regular network card.

b) Set the adapter to have a static IP address such as 192.168.1.1/ 255.255.255.0

3) Share the printer.

a) I recommend you use a share name that you will remember. I used “Printer” in the new machines that are already deployed.

4) Capture the printer port.

a) NET USE LPT1: \\[Computer Name]\Printer /PERSISTENT:YES

Allotment of Government accommodation – Notice from DIRECTORATE OF ESTATES

NOTICE FOR APPLICANTS

NOTICE

All the applicants who are registered with the DIRECTORATE OF ESTATES for allotment of Govt. accommodation of various types are sent their login ID and password for exercising their preferences for the houses and are Informed about the allotment via SMS on their mobile numbers as well as e-mail on their mail IDs registered with this Directorate.

However, as per the new guidelines issued by the Telephone Regularity Authority of India (TRAI) in September 2011, messages sent via group SMS are not being delivered to those applicants whose mobile numbers are registered for “Do Not Disturb (DND)”.

Therefore, those applicants who have registered for login ID and password and have not received the same via SMS are advised to check their e-mails. In case they do not get it on e-mail too, they may contact in person to NIC, Room No. 418-C, Directorate of Estates, Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi along with their Registration No. and office ID.

Further, those applicants who have not received SMS alert about allotment are also advised to check their e-mails or visit www.estates.nic.in day after the date of allotment for information regarding allotment. In case of any difficulty, they may contact the following:

S.No.	TYPES OF HOUSES	TELEPHONE NUMBER
1.	Type – I	23022199 Extn.2906/23061319	23062505
2.	Type – II	23022199 Extn.2899/2951/ 23061319	23062505
3.	Type – III	23022199 Extn.2961/3147/2879/ 23061319	23062505
4.	Type – IV	23022199 Extn.2871/23061319	23062505
5.	Type -4S,5A	23061287/23061319	23061372
6.	Types — 5B, 6A, 6B,7 & 8	23062164/23061319	23061372
7.	Hostel (DS, SK, SS)	23062278/23061319	23062543

Source: www.estates.nic.in

OUTSTATION ALLOWANCE FOR RMS STAFF-REVISION OF RATES

No.28-2/2010-D

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS &IT

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

MAIL BUSINESS (DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONS) DIVISION

DAK BHAWAN, SANSAD MARG,

New Delhi-110001 Dated: 13.10.2011

Sub: Outstation allowance for RMS Staff-revision of rates thereof.

This has reference to Directorate memo of even no. dated 19.07.2011 on the subject noted above and reference received from the staff side.

The mater has been examined and it has been clarified in this regard that the higher rate of OSA is admissible only to the LSG Supervisors of the Transit/Mail Sorting Sections holding norms-based LSG Posts and not to the LSG/Sorting Assistants who have been placed in higher grade of pay under MACP Scheme.

Sd/----

(R.Kumar Raj)

Asstt Director (Task Force)