All Posts Tagged With: "XP"
Optimize Your Internet Connection
Remember the days when 512K seemed fast? Even though most of us have connections much faster than this now it is still worthwhile to make sure that your connectedion is optimized.
One of the quickest ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer. To run the tool do [...]
Free Up PC Memory By Disabling Indexing Services
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it [...]
19Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Make Your Hard Drive Run Faster
We spend so much time worrying about the speed of Graphics Cards and Memory, we tend to forget about optimizing one important component of all PCS - the Hard Drive.
These 10 tips will help to speedup your Hard Drives and your file access times. The ten tips are:
1. Disable Short Filenames
2. Name Your Files [...]
Automatically Defragment Your Pagefile
Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get impacted by normal disk usage.
If you are unable to do this then another solution could be to [...]
List Of Useful Microsoft Office Shortcuts
I tend to use a laptop a lot and using keyboard shortcuts are essential if you don’t have a mouse.
Here are some useful ones I’ve learnt. Please share any others that you know.
SHIFT+F10: Display the shortcut menu
HOME or END: Select the first or last command on the menu or submenu
F1:Displays the Help task pane.
CTRL+F1: [...]
Faster Windows XP Menus
Sometimes making your PC ‘run’ faster is just about changing the way programs run e.g disabling splash screens. This tip will make your machine feel faster, by increasing the speed with which menus load, by removing the delay between clicking on a menu and that menu being displayed, which is enforced by XP.
To enable [...]
Use ClearMem To Freeup Windows XP Memory
Although most modern computers have enough memory to run Windows XP properly, the longer you leave PC running without a reboot the more chance there is that old processes and programs you’ve been using are still ‘holding onto’ memory, making less available to other programs.
An easy way to fix this is to install ClearMem. [...]
Remove Unused Drivers in XP
Did you know that unless you uninstall a device driver on a Windows XP
machine that it still may be sucking up valuable system resources? If you are a serial upgrader like me, then you could have developed quite a mess on your machine.
TechRepublic has step-by-step instructions on how you can view and remove these
unnecessary devices.
More: [...]
How To Improve Your Swapfile Performance
If you have more than 256MB of RAM on your PC this tweak will considerably improve your performance. What it does is tell your PC to use every last drop of RAM before using the swap file, which is slower than real RAM.
To enable this tweak is easy. Just follow the steps below:
Go to [...]
29Sep2006 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Browse Windows XP Folders Faster
You may have noticed that everytime you open My Computer on your PC to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer.
To stop XP doing this follow the steps below:
Open My Computer
Click on Tools menu
Click on Folder Options
Click [...]
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