If you want to save your files to your hard drive, so after a format you dont have to download them all again, here’s How: – Logon to Windows Update – Choose Windows Update Catalogue (left hand pane) – Choose Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems (right hand pane) – Choose your version and [...]
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•Open My Computer •Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer). •If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive. •Double-click the Documents and Settings folder. •Double-click your user folder. •Right-click any folder in [...]
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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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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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 SpeedUp Your PC Power uses go to great lengths to tweak their systems in order to experience improved performance but I’m here to tell you that all the registry tweaks and killing unnecessary services won’t beat fitting a 10,000 RPM drive and loading your OS onto it. I’m a huge fan of [...]
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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 Improving Swapfile Performance If you have more than 256MB of RAM this tweak will considerably improve your performance. It basically makes sure that your PC uses every last drop of memory (faster than swap file) before it starts using the swap file. Go to Start then Run Type “msconfig.exe” then ok 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 [...]