Thursday, October 29, 2009

Increasing System Performance - Clearing Clipboard

Many a times when we are doing lot of data processing job which involves cut and paste from one document to another, our system performance starts degrading. One may encounter some funny & unrelated messages popping up. What to do? One small bit is to clear the clipboard. This is the place which keeps record of all copied information.

Best way to clear the clipboard is to create a shortcut for it. How? Here are the steps –

  1. Right Click on desktop. Select New->Shortcut.
  2. Copy C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "echo off clip" in the location of the item. Press Next.
  3. Name it as Clear Clipboard. Click Finish.

Voila...

When system is slow, double click this shortcut. Surely you will experience better performance.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Convert SHAPE File to DWG File

Steps to perform:
ArcToolbox
-Conversion Tools
--To CAD
---Export to CAD