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C:\ Drive full in Windows 7? 6 Steps to make space for your C Drive

As your laptop with Windows 7 Operating System grows older, the C: Drive gradually starts to fill up all the disk space and soon you might start getting popups like “Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on system (C:\)…” Now neither you are able to update he applications nor can you install a new software. Why C Drive getting full? Although there might be several reasons behind this, few of the key points are listed below:   If your system is affected by viruses and malwares, they may generate random files that keeps filling the available disk space. Temporary files, installation files and other such system files may also take up the space. Different applications as they keep on updating automatically may also add to the space consumption since with every update the size of these Softwares generally increases. How to free up the space in Windows 7 system? To get some space in the C drive, we need to perform these steps.      1.    Windows collects a lot of temporary f

Is investing in Stocks and Mutual Funds safe?

There are so many ads nowadays in different videos and social media stating “ Mutual Funds sahi hai ” that it’s obvious to think for a common man to give it a try. Afterall there are so many people claiming to become rich by investing on them with some claiming to give a profit of even 50% ! Is everything so fancy in the Stock world?   What is Stock or Share all about? To understand this, let’s take an example. Suppose a person “A” owns a company. Now as the company is getting bigger each year, he needs to invest capital to grow his business. But since the company now is so big that “A” does not have that capital to invest more, so what he does is, he divides his company into some number of divisions, say 1000. Now if his company’s value today is 100 crores, then each of those units i.e., Share price would be 10 lacs ( 100 cr divided by 1000 ). Now he decides that he would keep 50% of those Shares to himself and rest he would make available for the public to buy them. That means, h

C# or Java: Which one is better to learn?

                                           Many people who are eager to start their career in IT have been pondering over the question of which one to trust with to begin their journey of becoming a successful Software Developer . Guess what??? I too was among the questioners!! So, have I found my answers yet? The origin of Java Java was originally developed at Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle ) and its founder was J ames Gosling in the year 1995. The idea was to create simple, object-oriented and robust language which can be used to execute high performance programs. Along with that, came the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) concept which was necessary to run Java programs on the machines. The JVM was later released as a free and open-source in the year 2006 which really popularized the platform. The latest version of Java i.e., Java 14 was release recently in March 2020. The origin of C# C# (or C Sharp ) was developed at Microsoft by Anders Hejlsberg and his developmen

Corona Virus effect : Was lockdown needed?

Before beginning of this year, we all were busy in your daily schedules-------working, studying, jogging, exercising and the daily routines we used to follow. Suddenly an unknown flu virus came and that changed everything. We are stuck at our home and it’s beginning to make our lives so boring!   Post Covid era: We were busy enjoying and partying to welcome the New Year but little did we know what was waiting to happen this year in our lives. Although we were hearing cases of the new virus, COVID-19 which had impacted so much in the Wuhan province of China , but as everyone, I was also thinking that won’t affect India since we have very few incomings from China as compared to US and Europe . Although he world has been through several major epidemics like Ebola , but those really did not impact our country much and this time also I felt it won’t be much different from its predecessors.   The entry of Covid in India: Although I was partly correct predicting that the virus

Indian Super League (ISL): Should foreigners be reduced from 5 to 4?

                                                                             Founded in the year 2013 by IMG and Reliance along with Start Sports , the Indian Super League came as a savior for Indian football, which grew hopes in every football fans and lovers across India. It is now the top league in India.   Era before ISL Prior to the entry of Indian Super League , I League was the main event of Indian Football which till this year was the main league of the country. Club giants like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Dempo and Churchill Brothers were the most popular teams which attracted thousands of spectators into the ground in a nation where people does not really care about any other sports than Cricket . Later came the North-Eastern clubs like Royal Wahingdoh, Shillong Lajong and others which put up a positive effect on Indian Football, few even went up to become table toppers!   The problem with I League Although some of the I League clubs being well established ( teams l

YouTube vs TikTok: The war we are worried about... Should we?

So we have come to an era where we are fighting for or against two different apps without much of a reason because some "social influencers" are taking on each other trying to prove why they are the best!    YouTube and TikTok YouTube and TikTok are one of the leading social media platforms where anyone can create videos, upload them on the applications and share it publicly. YouTube was created in the year 2005 and pre-installed in all the Android devices while TikTok is relatively newer application created in the year 2012. YouTube has an estimated of 2 billion users worldwide, while TikTok has an estimated 800 million users. Where this "war" of the two worlds started? The world was suffering from Corona and was concentrated over it when a YouTuber Elvish Yadav suddenly thought of bringing some new idea for his content and roasted TikTok vidoes and stated them as cringe, he further added that that these videos are very easy to make since they don't really hav