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Here I am sharing you a trick to increase your RAM without any extra investment. This trick will surely improve the performance of your computer and increase operational speed. Here you have to use a USB pen drive or flashdrive, which can be used as RAM of your computer. Before trying this trick, make sure this can damage pen drive so be careful. To make it true we have to make some modifications. Just follow given steps carefully



How to use USB pen drive as RAM in Windows XP -:

1. First connect your pen drive to computer. Note that pen drive should be at least of 1GB.
2. Now right click on the my computer and then click properties.
3. Click on Advanced Tab and then Performance.
4. Now click on Advanced and then click on Virtual Memory.
5. Select your pen drive icon and click Custom size.
6. Now view the memory available in your pen drive and note it down then click on OK.
7. Restart your computer and enjoy your fast system.

How to use USB pen drive as RAM in Windows Vista and Windows 7 -:

1. Insert your pen drive and format it.
2. Right click on your pen drive and click on properties.
3. Now click on Ready boost tab and then Use this device.
4. Choose maximum space to reserve system speed then click on OK and Apply.
Youve done! use your pen drive as RAM.

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Drive Test is conducted for checking coverage criteria of a cell site with RF drive test tool. The data collected by drive test tool as Log files is analyzed to evaluate various RF parameters of the network.

• Drive Route and Site Data for the sites to be driven is taken from customer
• Drive Test LOG File of the specified Drive Route / Site is saved and the same will be handed over to customer at the end of the day
• Drive Test Resource identify routine field optimization issues like cable swapping, missing neighbors etc., and rectify the same with the help of the customer.

This way mobile phone companies can decide how to improve their network coverage in a certain geographical area.


Normally it is conducted in a car, with one driver and one or two drive testing engineers checking the data and navigating the driver to the right direction if necessary. These drive testing engineers first reach to the tower location and make physical optimization by inspecting issues like cable swapping, improper hardware, alarms, antenna tilting (machenical and electrical), antenna orientation.After field or physical optimization he starts drive testing by his vehicle. Drive testing engineer collects network data by making a lot of calls (short and long). The data collected includes data for serving cell as well as the neighbours.This data collected helps us to find and analyze the problems in the network.

Drive Test performance  measurements are carried out  for the following reasons:

•  Test the network from the subscribers point of view
•  Test the complete system, end to end
• Benchmark performance against competitor networks
• Test specific important routes and areas
• Test in-building coverage for specific buildings(Metro, Airport, office etc.) called walk test.

Equiment Necessary for Drive testing :

• Vehicle
• Drive test mobile phone (e.g Ericsson TEMS)
• Dongle (network inspection USB)
• External vehicle mounted GPS
• Laptop with drive test software and GPS connection capability and data cables, multi-connector port etc.

Network Optimization Tools Used are as  following:

• TEMS Investigation
• Agilent E6474A
• Neptune
• CDMA Air Interface Tester (CAIT)
• TEMS DeskCat
• Actix Analyze

Here i am suggesting some precautions for beginners in drive testing -

1. Before starting your drive test, Collect all your equipment like GPS, Dongle, Data cables, laptop etc.  You should check your kit properly working and properly setup. Also check site data, mapinfo etc. should be installed on your system.
2. Make sure all USBs are properly attached and must not be loose, otherwise it will create problem while drive testing
3. At physical optimization time, you should have proper safety measures.
4. First analyze the problem, then start driving to optimize the network problem.
5. Dont forget to play and save logfile before starting drive testing.

 For any other help regarding drive testing, feel free to comment. Enjoy !!

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An Easy Way to Make a Bootable USB Drive with Rufus - Not infrequently some of us are faced with obstacles that require the computer booting from a USB flash drive (flash). For example, should re-install windows, Linux, update the BIOS, Recovery password or to just check and analyze the operating system. One free and portable software that we can use is Rufus.

Previously Ive had to review a variety of free software to create a bootable Windows (see 5 Software Free make Bootable USB Windows). Now there is another free software and other portable that is no less good, which is Rufus. Even the software is not just for windows installation alone but more than that.

Rufus is a small, lightweight utility that can be used to format and create a bootable USBFlash drive (flash, memory stick, etc.). By Rufus we can use for various things, such as:

Although previously I cover a variety of software to create a bootable USB, but some onlyfor Windows and some are also limited to Windows Vista / 7 only. Another case with Rufus, despite its small size, Rufus has several advantages, including: 

Various systems are supported Rufus enough of them: Arch Linux, Archbang,CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren�s Boot CD, Knoppix, Kubuntu, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Slackware, Tails,Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows 7, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Windows Vista, and others.

When creating a bootable USB, there is the option to make bootable MS-DOS, FreeDOS, or from an ISO Image file. Where do we get the ISO file? To get the ISO file that contains the operating system, we can make it from the CD / DVD windows, Linux or otherwise using such software ImageBurn.

After setting the selection is complete, we just click the Start button to begin creating a bootable USB flash drive and wait until the process is complete.