PC Tips for Windows 7 Calculator to Vista Windows 7 will most likely offer users a pleasant surprise, at least through its redefined interface and the set of redesigned tools it brings. The plain old calculator suffered a beautiful transformation into a more consumer-oriented product capable of serving both more science prone users as well [...]
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PC Tips for Vista Defender Users who put their faith in Vista’s new security features and Microsoft’s Windows Defender antispyware product may find themselves under attack from spyware all the same, according to the results of a study by Webroot, a leading antispyware vendor and Microsoft competitor. On Thursday, the company released the results of [...]
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PC Tips for Windows XP Password Backup Have a fear you will forget your password, or the adminstrator password. Well, back it up. I’d personally not worry about it all, but it’s a feature. Backup up login password: open Control Panel User Accounts and Family Safety User Accounts Create a password reset disk Follow wizard [...]
PC Tips for Making Programs Load Faster This little tweak tends to work for most programs. If your program doesn’t load properly just undo the change. For any program: Right-click on the icon/shortcut you use to launch the program Select properties In the ‘target’ box, add ‘ /prefetch:1′ at the end of the line. Click [...]
PC Tips for Disabling Unnecessary Services Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines: Alerter Clipbook Computer Browser Distributed Link Tracking Client Fast User [...]
PC Tips for Changing Windows XP Virtual Memory Size The virtual memory is a portion of your hard disk that acts as RAM memory when your Random Access Memory(RAM) is full. The downside is that is much slower because the access time is determined by the hard disk’s speed. But you need it for those [...]
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PC Tips for Modifying Application Timeout Often this number is set too high. But in some circumstances it is set too low. Depending on if the program is doing a lot of calculations in the background the computer may think that it is timed out. To prevent this increase the value of the timeout in [...]
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PC Tips for Compress Files and Folders in Windows XP Running out of room on your hard disk? Need some extra space to install a new program? Don’t worry, Windows XP comes to the rescue. Both Windows XP Professional and Home Edition now include a zip compression utility that you can use to compress files [...]
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