PC Tips for improving performance by tweaking your hardware Learn how your hard drive and graphics card impact your system’s performance, and dig deep under the bonnet to discover and fix hardware issues. In previous guides we have looked at improving your system’s performance by simply removing unwanted programs. The next area we want to [...]
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PC Tips for Turning your PC into a Super Computer What, exactly, are supercomputers? The clue is in the name, really: they’re powerful computers capable of calculating many millions of floating operations per second (FLOPS) essentially, they’re very, very fast. While any array of powerful computers, such as a modern-day web server which consists of [...]
PC Tips for Quick cures for the worst Windows 7 annoyances If you find yourself tripping over new Windows 7 features or missing favorite old ones, I’ve got some tips that will come to your rescue. Lost in all the glowing Windows 7 reviews and marketing hype is the fact that not everything about Microsoft’s [...]
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PC Tips for lauching your favorite application faster There are several ways to launch apps quickly, using either mouse or keyboard. Direct method: You can assign keystrokes to launch any shortcut. Right-click the shortcut and choose Properties. On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut key box and then press the keys you want to [...]
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PC Tips for Vista to XP Copying Performance being Slower One of the issues that plagued Windows Vista when the operating system was launched in January 2007 was the slow copying speeds delivered. Over two years later, and after SP1 resolved the initial issues, Microsoft informed users that there were additional problems impacting performance. In [...]
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If you have more than one operating system installed on your PC for example, you may have both Windows Vista and Windows 7 beta installed – your computer displays a menu asking you which operating system you want to load. If you don’t select an operating system within 30 seconds, it automatically loads your default [...]
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PC Tips for making Windows Vista boot faster The time it takes for your computer to start up and run has been massively improved under Windows Vista. One of the reasons older versions of Windows, such as Windows 95 and Windows 98, took so long to boot up was because those versions of Windows were [...]
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PC Tips for Deleting your TEMP Files on Shutdown It is really easy to set Windows XP to delete the contents of your Temp folder (or run any other commands) on shutdown. There are numerous reasons why you might want to delete your Temporary files when you shutdown Windows XP. Your Temporary files folder can [...]
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PC Tips for Speed Up Your Windows XP or Vista Ever wonder how easy it is to speed your Windows Vista machine and make it run faster? Yes, its so simple that you dont need to be a computer technician to accomplish this. Microsoft has done a fabulous job to improve overall reliability as well [...]
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PC Tips for Browsing Workgroup without windows Freezing I’m making this how to for those people that want to see the computers from their network but are annoyed by Windows Xp. Why are they annoyed? When you try to access a workgroup to see it’s computers, windows explorer freezes for a few seconds while searching [...]
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