Roberto

SPONSOR MESSAGE (please read)

HTC has been making massive waves with their HTC One Android smartphone, and while unfortunately we are not able to bring you any HTC Ones in this giveaway, the available options are absolutely rockin'. My wife has been using a DROID DNA for quite a while now, and with its S4 Pro processor and gorgeous 1080p screen it is a head-turner in spite of, or perhaps BECAUSE of the fact that most people don't recognize exactly what phone it is, particularly here in Canada.
 
TLDR: HUGE thanks to HTC for making this giveaway possible. You guys freakin' rock and the support you're showing for our brand new community is overwhelming!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PHONE GIVEAWAY RULES & REGULATIONS 
 
Guys, this is one of the biggest giveaways we've ever done. HTC is making it all possible by providing us with not one, not two, not three, not four... Oh wait actually four.
 

 
FOUR phones to give away!! ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.....
 
Not only that, but you get to PICK your prize! Read on for more details.
 
This is a Linus Tech Tips giveaway, so I'm keeping it "unofficial" and opening it up to the world. With that said HTC is going to cover helping me ship TWO of the phone globally, while the other two will only be shipped to the USA only. We will draw four winners and in a case where more than 2 winners are outside of the USA will we re-draw.
 
Now for the really cool part. You actually get to PICK the phone you want from the list of available phones! With that said, the phones available in the different regions vary a little bit.
 
 
Prizes: 4 HTC smartphones with a "pick your prize" approach!
 
USA winners can pick between the following: 
 
DROID DNA
HTC 8X
HTC One S
HTC EVO 4G LTE
HTC One X+
 
International winners can pick between the following:
 
HTC One X+
HTC 8X
HTC 8S
 
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
 
1x entry - Post in this thread. Anything is fine. We will be tabulating entries based on the posts in this thread. Double posting will DISQUALIFY you. If you decide after you've posted to share to social networks EDIT your existing post rather than creating another one.

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing a link to this giveaway announcement thread on your personal Twitter or Facebook account

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing a link to this giveaway announcement thread in some other community (forums, social networks, super-active community websites other than linustechtips.com like Digg... etc). We aren't trying to spam so make sure you are sharing with people who you genuinely think will care about it!

You can get a maximum of 3 entries by including links in your post to the two eligible sharing places. Here is an example of what a maximum entry (3) post would look like:
                                                                                                                                                                                     
1. Thanks for the cool contest, Linus. HTC rocks for making this happen.
 
2. Facebook share from (Name Goes Here): (insert verifiable link here)
OR
Twitter share with Twitter handle @example: (insert verifiable link here)
 
3. Community Site share with nickname (nickname goes here): (insert verifiable link here)
                                                                                                                                                                                    
 
 


The contest closes June 30th and the winners will be contacted before July 31st. Good luck everyone! Thanks for participating, and a big thanks again to our sponsor, HTC!

just got a 3570k gonna try it out with my wheel!

I have a small list of optimizations and little tricks to do after installing windows (and the drivers of course), I thought about sharing with you guys, and asking for more things to add to it. Many of it I got from an video from teksyndicate and the rest from elsewhere. If anyone don't know what one of this things do just ask, no problema
 
CREATE RESTORE POINT
 
Ninite
http://www.ninite.com
CCleaner
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
 
Defraggler
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
 
REGEDIT
→ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE→SYSTEM→CurrentControlSet→Control→FileSystem
NtfsDisableLastAccesUpdate (1)
info: Determines whether windows updates the last-access timestamp on each directory when it lists the directories on an NTFS volume, so specially if you are using a hard drive your computer isn't scratching the disk at all times.
 
 
→ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE→SYSTEM→CurrentControlSet→Control
WaitToKillServiceTimeout (?miliseconds)
info: The time that windows waits to forceclose programs, normally when you shutdown your pc, normally it can take a while. 
 
 
 
→ HKEY_CURRENT_USER → Control Panel→Desktop→MenuShowDelay (50?miliseconds)
info: when you hover an option in the start menu, the time it takes to show the next menu
 
SERVICES
Windows Search → Properties → Start up Type → Disabled
info: If you never/very rarelly use windows search you can disable it so windows don't keep indexing everything.
 
(SSD only!)Superfetch → Disabled
info: SuperFetch has two goals: it decreases boot time, and makes sure applications that you use the most load more efficiently, but uses much ram and ssds are already fast enough. 
 
 
MSCONFIG
Boot→Advanced→ Number of Processors (MAX)
Startup
 
System
Advanced System Settings → Advanced → Performance Settings (Animations...)
 
System Protection → System Protection → Advanced (System Volume Information)
 
 
Power Settings
Optional
 
Always Bypass Win8 Password
cmd.exe → "control userpasswords2" -> uncheck "Users has to enter a user name and password to use this computer"
 
Deactivate Win8 Lock Screen
gpedit.msc → Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Control Panel → Personalization → Don’t show lock screen → Enable
 
Space Optimization
CMD.exe → powercfg -h off (Turn off hybernate mode/delete hyberfile.sys)
info: disable hybernate mode for people who don't use it.
 
FAST Youtube
CMD.exe → netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="YoutubeHTTP1" protocol=TCP localport=80 action=block dir=IN remoteip=173.194.55.0/24
→ netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="YoutubeHTTP2" protocol=TCP localport=80 action=block dir=IN remoteip=206.111.0.0/16
 
info: Because companies like Time Warner Cable throttle your youtube connection, if you want to learn more about that here is a reddit link: http://goo.gl/joLYW
 
 
added 20/jun/2013:
Create Shutdown/Restart Button in Windows 8
in desktop or any folder right click → new → shortcut
in the location type "shutdown /s /t 0" or "restart /r /t 0"
 
change the icon right click on the new shortcut → properties → customize → change icon
ps.: To add to taskbar just click it and "pin to taskbar" and to add to Metro Start(New UI) just "pin to start"
ps2.: in the command "shutdown /s /t 0" shutdown is the name you give, you can write whatever, and 0 is the time in seconds to shutdown you can write a timer that way
 
 
added 22/may/2013:
Move My Documents and other folders from SSD to HDD
C:/Users/user(your username)/
right click on the folders you want to change the location, normally 'my documents', 'downloads', 'my music', 'my video' select properties, go to the location tab, and select move. Find your destination folder, if you don't have one yet feel free to create a new one.
 
info: This is with the intention to free space on your SSD and move the not so much used or not heavy files to the HDD, if you have a big SSD or a big array of SSDs in raid there is no need to do that
 
 
Logan Things to do an a new PC, I will add some of this later  to the list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMGX6UnCASE

Another board with a right angle 24 pin connector! Awesome!

Have you tried to run from the windows disk?

Every time i try to turn my computer on either it freezes before it loads windows or it doesn't find disks or I get a boot mgr error. 
Specs 
intel core 2 quad q6600 @2.4ghz
dgb ram
4 gb
500gb hdd and
650gb hdd
geforce 8800 gts video card
 

Wow, that's so lame! Not to mention they are using YouTube, a Google product, to diss them out

8/10 love deadmau5, but not one of his better songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1DvVzKXktY

Flux Pavilion <3 Awesome summer chill out tune! 8/10!

4/10 probably. Not really my type of music. Not terrible though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qc89c_9ne4