Word of a 12.2-inch Samsung tablet has been going round for a while now, but has the mythical beast just been spotted out in the wild?
According to someone writing on a Korean forum, Samsung showed off the new tablet during a presentation for its upcoming products in 2014, Phonearena reports.
Inside a glass box on stage, the tipster claims, was a new super-sized Samsung tablet which goes by the name of the Galaxy Note Pro.
Spec-tacular
The insider wasn't able to take a picture of the mystery device, blaming Samsung's embargo. However the slab will reportedly measure 309.9mm diagonally on the display so we expect this is the 12.2- inch device we've already heard so much about.
Update: Looks like the a sly someone snagged a photo anyway, albeit of the back of the tablet:
This could be the back of the Galaxy Note Pro (credit: SamMobile)
The display resolution is allegedly 2560 x 1600, and the tablet is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 3GB of RAM, a 9,500mAh battery, and runs Android 4.4 KitKat.
Just remember that someone could just be doing some serious tablet trolling, so don't take this as gospel.
When the next Moto G comes out, they should rename this one Moto O.G.
Android smartphone owners have gotten used to carrier-delayed firmware updates, so when Motorola announced an earlier-than-promised KitKat rollout, our robot antenna ears perked up.
"Starting today, we are rolling out Android 4.4.2 to Moto Gphones bought on Motorola.com or Amazon.com in the US," wrote Punit Soni, head of product management in an official blog post.
The US doesn't get to hog the G update all to itself, however.
"KitKat will come to other Moto G carriers and regions soon as well."
Motorola is getting a jump on the "early 2014" release window it had originally promised for its mid-range handset during its launch last month.
The Google-owned company has also been steadfast in pushing KitKat to its higher-end Moto X, ensuring US carriers Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile subscribers are up-to-date.
Droid Ultra, Maxx, Mini also 4.4-ified
Motorola's slightly older Droids on Verizon are starting to receive the KitKat upgrade as well starting today.
Moto hasn't forgotten about your Droids
The Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx, and Droid Mini tweaks include a new full-screen mode, improved security, smarter power use and better camera software, according to a Verizon's website.
Also, just in time for New Year's Resolutions, Fitbit direct syncing is now possible thanks to low-powered Bluetooth 4.0.
Other apps being updated or integrated include Verizon Mobile Security, Verizon Tones, Google Photos, and NFL Mobile 8.2.3.
Even if you weren't lucky enough to receive Steam Machine beta hardware from Valve, you can still peek under the hood of its living room gaming computer thanks to a new teardown.
Of the all-important repairability, the teardown team noted that this particular "Steam Machine is designed to be opened and worked on. The case is secured with a single Phillips #2 screw."
"Modular design with off-the-shelf components makes it easy to remove and upgrade the hard drive and video card," said the website.
That's great for the typically more advanced 65 million Steam users that may want to tinker and improve their living room gaming chassis in the future.
Almost perfect repairability score
Scoring an impressive 9 out of 10 for repairability, this Steam Machine prototype presented only a few challenges for the teardown experts.
RAM was hard to extract due to the motherboard cowling, and it may require users to remove the it, the iFixit noted.
Also, since the hardware is so new and not at the consumer level, reassembly and precise cable routing were said to be difficult.
There's no readily available repair manual for something like this just yet.
Plenty of familiar specs
Tearing open Valve's companion cube package, the team found plenty of familiar internal specs and external ports.
The all-important giant graphics card (credit: iFixit)
This specific Steam Machine was being powered by a 3.2GHz Intel Core i5-4570 processor with a max turbo frequency of 3.6GHz.
The all-important graphics card was a ZOTAC GeForce GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 GPU and there were two Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3 (PC3 12800) RAM sticks for a total of 16GB of memory.
Storing games shouldn't be too difficult with a 1TB Seagate ST1000LM014 laptop solid state hybrid drive with the ability to expand just in case.
And plenty of familiar ports
On the outside, this Steam Machine beta hardware has a host of ports, new and old including the legacy PS/2 keyboard/mouse port.
Gamers will probably more readily use either the two USB 2.0 or four USB 3.0 ports for plugging in a mouse and keyboard.
More ports than next-gen consoles (credit: iFixit)
HDMI, Dual-link DVI and DisplayPort cover the bases for the visual output, while audio is taken care of with four of its own ports: 3.5mm audio in/out, rear speaker, c/sub and mic.
eSATA and RJ-45 Ethernet ports and WiFi antennas can also be found inside.
The price of these powerful living room PC components is said to be roughly $1,300 (about £794, AU$1,470), making it significantly more expensive thanXbox One and PS4, at least in beta form.
Load up your USB drive with these handy portable apps
USB memory sticks are so cheap these days that it's not uncommon to own several, and even the larger capacity ones won't break the bank. Shop around and you can find a 64GB stick for as little as £20.
With such large capacities available, you can store an awful lot of documents, photos and even music files, but that's all a little boring when with a little imagination, you can turn a USB stick into a veritable Swiss-army knife of tools and utilities.
With the right tools, you can safely browse the web, check your email or even edit your photos, no matter what's installed on the PC you're using.
You can even pack a portable fix-it suite for those times when you're asked why a relative's computer seems to be plagued with pop-up browser windows and viruses.
1. Browse the web in safety
Both Chrome and Firefox have portable versions, which can be downloaded. Once installed to the USB stick you can even add most of your favourite add-ons and extensions, such as NoScript, Xmarks and Lastpass, so you can block malicious behaviour, sync all your bookmarks with your home PC and securely access your Internet site passwords.
Because you're running the browser from the USB stick, you won't leave any cookies, browsing history or temporary files on the computer you're using, so it's ideal for use in Internet cafes, or where you don't want people to know what you've been looking at!
The portable version of chrome looks identical to the desktop version and you can install most of the same add-ons, too
2. Keep your passwords safe
If you prefer not to store your passwords online with a service such as LastPass, then you may want make use of a password vault instead.KeePass is a free password manager, which is secured with a single master key.
You're not restricted to keeping internet passwords in KeyPass, you can add pretty much anything you like and it's a useful place for keeping important information such as Windows or software serial numbers, bank card PINs, email server connection details, usernames and passwords and so on.
Just make sure that the master key you choose to encrypt your password database with is suitably strong and not something you're going to forget in a hurry!
Keypass enables you to keep all your passwords, PINs and other info safely locked away
3. Zip it up
Ok, so while Windows does have the ability to both open and create zip files, it's a pretty basic beast at best. It will only open files with the .zip extension too, so if you're the sort of person who likes to download .rar files then you're out of luck. 7-Zip is one of the better desktop archiving tools and there's a portable version, too.
7-Zip can open quite a few compressed archive formats, including CAB and ISO files (useful for extracting individual Windows files), as well as the usual ZIP, RAR, GZIP, TAR and ARJ. As a bonus, you can encrypt archives for security (see point 10).
Windows' built-in zip tool is limited, 7-Zip is a powerful, free, alternative
4. An office away from home
We are of course big fans of the cloud and applications such as Google Docs and Microsoft SkyDrive, but if you don't have an Internet connection, then these aren't so helpful. Step forward the portable office app. LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are both fully-featured suites, which have very good office compatibility and as they are both open source, there's no expensive upgrade fees when you want to get the latest version.
LibreOffice will open most Microsoft Office documents, even hugely complicated spreadsheets
5. Picture this
So, you've helped your granny transfer her photos from her smartphone to her laptop, but now she wants to edit them and Windows paint isn't really up to the job. Thankfully you've brought along your USB stick and The Gimp, a powerful, open-source image editor that rivals Adobe Elements. Download it and you'll be cropping, resizing, colour correcting and masking in no time at all.
A powerful image editing tool, no leather hood required
6. Entertain me
With USB sticks available in capacities up to 128GB (albeit at a premium price), you can pretty much carry around your entire music collection, along with a handful of movies for good measure.
There's no guarantee that the computer you end up using will have a media player, or even the right codecs installed though, which is where VLC Media Player comes in.
VLC is able to play virtually any media format you can throw at it, without the need to download CODEC packs, including FLV, DIVX, MP3, FLAC, MKV and many, many more.
Windows 7 is easy to customise with your favourite kitty pictures
Whether you've just bought a second-hand PC runningWindows 7 or you've been using it for a while, there are bound to be things you didn't know you could do.
Whether it's tweaks to get the desktop the way you want it, tips for troubleshooting or ways to squeeze more performance from Windows 7, we've got it covered.
We've updated our popular Windows 7 tips article with a load of new ones, including how to recover and reset your system, how to tweak your screen resolution and the legibility of text, play music on a network of PCs, and more.
Read on for over 90 tips to help you get the best from Windows 7.
1. Problem Steps Recorder
As the local PC guru you're probably very used to friends and family asking for help with their computer problems, yet having no idea how to clearly describe what's going on. It's frustrating, but Microsoft feels your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in the Problem Steps Recorder.
When any app starts misbehaving under Windows 7 then all your friends need do is click Start, type PSR and press Enter, then click Start Record. If they then work through whatever they're doing then the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click and keypress, take screen grabs, and package everything up into a single zipped MHTML file when they're finished, ready for emailing to you. It's quick, easy and effective, and will save you hours of troubleshooting time.
Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that other operating systems have had for years - the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it couldn't be much easier to use. Just double-click the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is created.
3. Create and mount VHD files
Microsoft's Virtual PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7 can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system. Click Start, typediskmgmt.msc and press Enter, then click Action > Attach VHD and choose the file you'd like to mount. It will then appear as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written just like any other drive.
Click Action > Create VHD and you can now create a new virtual drive of your own (right-click it, select Initialise Disk, and after it's set up right-click the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume to set this up). Again, you'll be left with a virtual drive that behaves just like any other, where you can drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do whatever you like. But it's actually just this VHD file on your real hard drive which you can easily back up or share with others. Right-click the disk (that's the left-hand label that says "Disk 2" or whatever) and select Detach VHD to remove it.
The command line DISKPART utility has also been upgraded with tools to detach a VHD file, and an EXPAND command to increase a virtual disk's maximum size. Don't play around with this unless you know what you're doing, though - it's all too easy to trash your system.
4. Troubleshoot problems
If some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don't know why, then click Control Panel > Find and fix problems (or 'Troubleshooting') to access the new troubleshooting packs. These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.
5. Startup repair
If you've downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven't) it's a good idea to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into problems booting the OS later on. Click Start > Maintenance > Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way to get your PC running again.
6. Take control
Tired of the kids installing dubious software or running applications you'd rather they left alone? AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users can only run the programs you specify. Don't worry, that's easier to set up than it sounds: you can create a rule to allow everything signed by a particular publisher, so choose Microsoft, say, and that one rule will let you run all signed Microsoft applications. Launch GPEDIT.MSC and go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Application Control Policies > AppLocker to get a feel for how this works.
7. Calculate more
At first glance the Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista's version, but explore the Mode menu and you'll see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views. And if you're clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options menu instead. This offers many different unit conversions (length, weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two dates?), and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle mileage, mortgage rates and more.
Don't take any Windows 7 applet at face value, then - there are some very powerful new features hidden in the background. Be sure to explore every option in all Windows applets to ensure you don't miss anything important.
The new Calculator is packed with useful features and functionality
8. Switch to a projector
Windows 7 now provides a standard way to switch your display from one monitor to another, or a projector - just press Win+P or runDisplaySwitch.exe and choose your preferred display. (This will have no effect if you've only one display connected.)
9. Get a power efficiency report
If you have a laptop, you can use the efficiency calculator to get Windows 7 to generate loads of useful information about its power consumption. Used in the right way, this can help you make huge gains in terms of battery life and performance. To do this you must open a command prompt as an administrator by typing 'cmd' in Start Search, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.
Then at the command line, just type in 'powercfg -energy' (without quotes) and hit Return, and Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML file, usually in the System32 folder. Just follow the path it gives you to find your report.
10. Understanding System Restore
Using System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a gamble. There's no way of telling which applications or drivers it might affect - you just have to try it and see.
Windows 7 is different. Right-click Computer, select Properties > System Protection > System Restore > Next, and choose the restore point you'd like to use. Click the new button to 'Scan for affected programs' and Windows will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or recovered by selecting this restore point. (Read our full Windows 7 System Restore tutorial.)
11. Set the time zone
System administrators will appreciate the new command line tzutil.exe utility, which lets you set a PC's time zone from scripts. If you wanted to set a PC to Greenwich Mean Time, for instance, you'd use the command
tzutil /s "gmt standard time"
The command "tzutil /g" displays the current time zone, "tzutil /l" lists all possible time zones, and "tzutil /?" displays details on how the command works.
12. Easily set screen resolution
Choosing a new screen resolution used to involve locating and browsing through the Display Properties applet. Windows 7 made this far simpler, though - just right-click an empty part of the desktop, select Screen Resolution and you'll immediately see the appropriate options.
13. Calibrate your screen
The colours you see on your screen will vary depending on your monitor, graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same default Windows colour profile. And that means a digital photo you think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else. Fortunately Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard that helps you properly set up your brightness, contrast and colour settings, and a ClearType tuner to ensure text is crisp and sharp. Click Start, type DCCW and press Enter to give it a try.
14. Clean up Live Essentials
Installing Windows Live Essentials will get you the new versions of Mail, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and others - great. Unfortunately it also includes other components that may be unnecessary, but if you like to keep a clean system then these can be quickly removed.
If you left the default Set Your Search Provider option selected during installation, for instance, Windows Live will install Choice Guard, a tool to set your browser home page and search engine, and prevent other programs from changing them. If this causes problems later, or you just decide you don't need it, then Choice Guard may be removed by clicking Start, typing msiexec /x {F0E12BBA-AD66-4022-A453-A1C8A0C4D570} and pressing [Enter].
Windows Live Essentials also adds an ActiveX Control to help upload your files to Windows Live SkyDrive, as well as the Windows Live Sign-in Assistant, which makes it easier to manage and switch between multiple Windows Live accounts. If you're sure you'll never need either then remove them with the Control Panel Uninstall a Program applet.
15. Add network support
By default Windows Live MovieMaker won't let you import files over a network, but a quick Registry tweak will change this. Run REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker, add a DWORD value called AllowNetworkFiles and set it to 1 to add network support.
16. Activate XP mode
If you've got old but important software that no longer runs under Windows 7, then you could try using XP Mode, a virtual copy of XP that runs in a window on your Windows 7 desktop. This only works with Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate. And your system will need to have hardware virtualisation (AMD-V or Intel VT) built in and turned on, too (check your Bios to make sure).
An alternative is to use VirtualBox, a free virtualisation tool that doesn't insist on hardware support, but you will need to find a licensed copy of XP (or whatever other Windows version your software requires) for its virtual machine.
17. Enable virtual Wi-Fi
Windows 7 includes a little-known new feature called Virtual Wi-Fi, which effectively turns your PC or laptop into a software-based router. Any other Wi-Fi-enabled devices within range - a desktop, laptop, an iPod perhaps - will see you as a new network and, once logged on, immediately be able to share your internet connection.
This will only work if your wireless adapter driver supports it, though, and not all do. Check with your adapter manufacturer and make sure you've installed the very latest drivers to give you the best chance.
Once you have driver support then the easiest approach is to get a network tool that can set up virtual Wi-Fi for you. Virtual Router (below) is free, easy to use and should have you sharing your internet connection very quickly.
If you don't mind working with the command line, though, maybe setting up some batch files or scripts, then it's not that difficult to set this up manually. See Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot for more.
18. Recover locked-up apps
If an application locks up under a previous version of Windows then there was nothing you could do about it. A new Windows 7 option, however, can not only explain the problem, but may get your program working again without any loss of data.
When the lockup occurs, click Start, type RESMON and click theRESMON.EXE link to launch the Resource Monitor.
Find your frozen process in the CPU pane (it should be highlighted in red), right-click it and select Analyze Wait Chain.
If you see at least two processes in the list, then the lowest, at the end of the tree, is the one holding up your program. If it's not a vital Windows component, or anything else critical, then save any work in other open applications, check the box next to this process, click End Process, and your locked-up program will often spring back to life.
19. Fault-Tolerant Help
Windows 7 includes a new feature called the Fault Tolerant Help (FTH), a clever technology that looks out for unstable processes, detects those that may be crashing due to memory issues, and applies several real-time fixes to try and help. If these work, that's fine - if not, the fixes will be undone and they won't be applied to that process again.
While this is very good in theory, it can leave you confused as some applications crash, then start working (sometimes) for no apparent reason. So if you'd like to check if the FTH is running on your PC, launch REGEDIT, and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FTH - any program currently being protected by the FTH will be listed in the State key.
Experienced users may also try tweaking the FTH settings to catch more problems, and perhaps improve system stability. A post on Microsoft's Ask The Performance Team blog (bit.ly/d1JStu) explains what the various FTH Registry keys mean.
20. Control devices and printers
Device Manager is a powerful tool for managing hardware, but it's also rather technical and intimidating, which is probably why Windows 7 has introduced a more basic alternative in the Devices and Printers applet.
The first improvement is purely visual, with lengthy and cryptic device names replaced by large icons for major hardware items only (monitor, mouse, hard drive, printer and so on).
The new applet can also save you time, though, by providing a quick and easy way to access relevant functions for each device. If you've got some printer-related issue, say, right-clicking your printer icon displays a list of useful options - See What's Printing, Printer Preferences, Printer Properties, Delete Printer Queue and more - and all you have to do is select whatever you need.
21. Automatically switch your default printer
Windows 7's location-aware printing allows the operating system to automatically switch your default printer as you move from one network to another.
To set this up, first click Start, type Devices, and click the Devices and Printers link.
Select a printer and click Manage Default Printers (this is only visible on a mobile device, like a laptop - you won't see it on a PC).
Choose the Change My Default Printer When I Change Networks option, select a network, the default printer you'd like to use, and click Add.
Repeat the process for other networks available, and pick a default printer for each one.
And now, as you connect to a new network, Windows 7 will check this list and set the default printer to the one that you've defined.
Akhilesh Sharma is the founder and editor of Tweak And Trick. He lives in Agra, India and is currently studying science. He maintains this tech blog as his hobby. He has been blogging on this blog since 2010. Besides blogging, his hobbies include playing and watching sports, customizing his PC, social networking and arguing with friends.
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A lot of online entrepreneurs seem to be having trouble finding potential customers who will buy their services or products nowadays. Well, the main reason behind this problem is the fact that most of these entrepreneurs do not generate a lot of leads through their blogs. Although having leads on social networking pages is good, blog leads are actually much more powerful in the online world. 1. The first thing you need to do in order to generate blog leads would be to find out who your target audience will be. After all, they are the ones who will influence your work in the long run. So, before starting your marketing campaign, try to figure out who you want to market to, and think about their problems and goals.
2. The next thing you need to do is uplift and update your blog. If you want to turn your blog into the main hub where people can find you, then you have to make sure it is always at its best - remember that. If you want to attract even more people, one good suggestion would be to give out free gifts in exchange for their personal information, like their names, phone numbers and email addresses. E-books, video tutorials and reports would be great freebies to give. Just make sure that your target audience will find them useful.
3. Of course, having a blog in itself will not do you any good unless you create valuable content, too. So, once you have targeted your market segment, pick out several of their most urgent problems and try to get certain keywords from them. Then, do some research on how to directly drive traffic from online search engines onto your blog through these keywords. Ideally, you should focus on long-tailed keywords, though, since they won't have as much competition out there as short-tailed keywords do.
4. Once you find several good keywords to use, it would be time for you to create valuable content for your blog. Be unique and make sure your content is always valuable. If you succeed at doing so, then you will never have trouble getting blog leads anymore since your customers will just keep coming back on their own - believe it.
5. If you want to get even more traffic later on, then you can try getting several backlinks, too. Just comment on other people's blogs or submit your own onto various search engines to get them.
Yes, with all of the methods mentioned above, you will have no trouble generating blog leads in no time and building up a list of customers out of them. However, you shouldn't forget to build relationships with your new customers, either; they are sure to appreciate it. Good luck!
Freelance writing is yet another opportunity created by the Internet and it has indeed opened up a new window of potential for people with writing skills. One important thing about writing is that it can be indulged by people involved in many other professions. This is the reason for the growth of freelance writers, because people who love to write will do so even while pursuing other professions and jobs. How can someone become a freelance writer? The answer to this lies in the new phenomena of the Internet and cyberspace that has grown to such a tremendous size in a matter of a few short years, and consists of billions of pages of content about every imaginable subject. The number of pages keeps on growing every moment, and this content is how the major search engines decide which websites should be shown when users do a search for any particular subject. As you can imagine, all of this need for content has created great demand for writers to fill the ever-growing content pages on the web.
What are the qualifications needed to take up freelance writing? You will be pleasantly surprised to learn that there are no special qualifications needed to be a writer except the ability to write grammatically error free articles in a simple language that people understand easily and enjoy reading. You must realize that people use the Internet for getting diverse information from technology reviews to medical symptoms and on to the latest fashion styles; there is room for writers who are well versed in many different things to write on the Internet. Do you know how to sew, cook, dance or play music?
You can write your own blog or submit work to other sites for publication. Do you want to share tips on troubleshooting the PC or TV? There are thousands of specialized subjects for which people might search online, and they are simply looking for accurate information on these subjects, and not high sounding literary pieces. If you have some interesting and useful topics which can be shared with others, then you are qualified to work as a writer.
Where can a freelance writer find work online? Since there is a great demand for freelance writers a system is already in place that caters to this growing demand. There are companies that take bulk content creation work and distribute the work to several smaller outfits and individual writers. These firms will advertise freelance writing jobs on the net and encourage both beginning and experienced writers to apply. You can send a few samples of your work along with your application, and if your writing is good there is no doubt you will get the opportunity to prove yourself. The compensation depends on your writing skills, your experience, and your reputation; if you do a good job for your clients you will soon get better offers as your skills improve and you become well known and respected.
In order to climb up the ladder in freelance work, several steps help in the long run. The first and the foremost of these steps are to improve your style and depth of the content. To achieve this, the best way is to read! Reading, slowly but surely, helps you to become a good writer in many ways. Apart from building an impressive vocabulary and improving your style, you will also learn by studying the approach that famous writers make to create interest and present the subject. You want your work to be compelling and make an impression on the reader. You may be writing about a routine topic, but you can keep the reader’s attention by presenting the topic well, and that is how you get the higher paying jobs.
A while ago on Tweak And Trick, I published an article on changing your processor name. But recently, Anil Kumar pointed out that the trick only changed the name temporarily. After a user restarts his computer, the name reverted back to original which is obvious as each time Windows boots, it checks the connected hardware and updates the registry value automatically. So,changing the processor name using the earlier article did not had permanent effect on the processor name.
Thus, the alien processor name you had earlier again reverted back to the boring old one.
Problem: To, make the name change permanent, it was required that the user updates the Processor Name String registry key each time when Windows starts.
Solution: It is very easy to change your processor name permanently by creating a registry key and placing a shortcut to it in the windows start up folder. To do so, just follow the steps given below:-
Steps :- 1. Open Notepad. 2. Copy and paste the exact code given below:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0] "ProcessorNameString"="My Processor name 50000MHz"
To change the processor name, edit the part of the code given in blue. Also understand that \0 in the above code should only be present if Windows store your processor name at that location. Please open Registry Editor and navigate to the above mentioned keys to check whether or not to include the \0.
3. Click on File Menu, click on Save As and select "All Types" in Save as Type option. Save the file as ProcessorNameChange.reg or *.reg. 4. Create a new shortcut on your desktop. Enter regedit / S "Location of the .reg file" as the location of the item. For example, enter regedit /S "C:\Processor Name.reg" if your registry file is located in the root of C:\ drive.
5. Copy the created Shortcut file. 6. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup(in Windows XP) or toC:\Users\ User-Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Also remember that AppData is a hidden folder.) if C: is your System drive. 7. Paste the copied file.
This registry file would now execute each time when Windows starts and the Processor Name String would be modified each time. So, even upon restarting your computer, you will see that the changed processor name is permanent.
