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How to make your old laptop surprisingly fast.

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 Hello guys, This is TechCS again with some new content for yall. And this is the first of our new upgrading series. And this is the 1st time I'm........ Okay! not the first. Still this is an isolated post and a new series starts with this. Last time it was somehow related to Virtual Machine. So guys and gals, let's see what I have got for you guys here. So, this time we are gonna see how to upgrade your laptop or old laptop (yeah, new ones don't need that much upgrading and most of them aren't that upgradable.) Moreover don't think that this will make your laptop new. So I'd be discussing 5 ways to increase the performance of an old laptop. Moreover we'll keep in mind that it should be worth (Means you know Budget) Prerequisites - Obviously an old laptop. A budget around $100 ( Depends upon your requirements) A bit of paitence. Included laptops-  Sandy bridge  Ivy bridge Some Nehalem/westmere 1.  Get a Solid state drive(SSD) This is the most important thing...

Guide to install fedora in Virtualbox.

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Hey there, TechCS here again with some new content for yall. This time I'm gonna demonstrate Fedora installation in Virtualbox. Guys If you're reading my article first time then please subscribe to our blog. That will keep you updated with the new content. So guys let's dig in. Prerequisites- Fedora iso -  take it Virtualbox -  get it here Extension pack - get it from the link given above. Step 1- Now download Virtualbox and install it. Then flash the extension pack. Step 2- Then hit virtualbox up and start setting our VM. So, first create a new VM named as Fedora or whatever you want. Now click next and set up our RAM. Let it be 2 gigs and use VDI as for image. The storage should not be less than 6 gigs if you are testing( It can be given less but I don't recommend that). For regular use, the sweet spot is 20 gigs. Now click create and enter settings. In settings, go to system and uncheck floppy and set the processor to 2 cores.   Now let's  move to display and ...

How to install FreeBSD in Virtualbox.

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Hey there, TechCS here with something new with me this time. Guess it. Anyways you might have landed here seeing the title only from google or somewhere. So no surprises. That's a BSD. So I'll be doing BSD installation in Virtualbox this time.  So guys, let's see what are the pre-requisites here. Pre Requisites 1. FreeBSD iso-  get it here 2. Virtualbox -  get it from resource section or somewhere 3. Extension pack - Resource section 4.  Link to resource section. Step 1- Now let's start. Install virtualbox and flash the extension pack.  Step 2- Now we'll be doing the main setups. So open virtualbox and create a VM called BSD or anything you want. The RAM should be around 2 gigs and disk space shouldn't be less than 8 gigs. For regular use get atleast 20 gigs. Step 3 - Now we need to set our VM up. So open settings and uncheck floppy and select 'Enable EFI'. In processor set cores to 2. Now lets head on to display and set it up. For Video memory we'l...