April 18th, 2009 4dmin
PC Tips for Making Windows XP boot even faster Microsoft has chosen a completely different path for XP and it’s boot features by trying to incorporate as much support for newer fastboot BIOSes that are on most current motherboards. They built XP in such a way as to make it able to take advantage of [...]
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April 4th, 2009 4dmin
You may think a certain program is slowing your system down or actually hanging it for a few moments as soon as it boots. If so, try starting Windows in “lite” mode. Click Start | Run, then type msconfig and press Enter. When the System Configuration Utility loads, click the Startup tab; you’ll be surprised [...]
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March 22nd, 2009 4dmin
PC Tips for Boot Defragment Very important new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This basically means that all boot files are placed next to each other on the disk drive to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled but some upgrade users have reported [...]
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March 1st, 2009 4dmin
PC Tips how to speed up loading windows with disabling the boot logo. You can remove the boot logo that appears when you start Windows XP. This little tweak probably shaves only a few seconds off your boot time but seconds count if you are serious about trying to get Windows XP up and running [...]
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