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How to use Windows Update Properly on Windows XP

4dmin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:38:35 +0000

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 language then Search

- Choose one the following:

- Critical Updates and Service Packs
- Service Packs and Recommended Downloads – Multi-Language Features (0)
- Once chosen simply click on what you want to download and then back at the top click Review Download Basket

- You are taken to the next page where at the top you can specify where the downloads are to be saved.

- Click Download now. Each patch will make a directory under the root of the folder you saved them to.
Once finished you need to go to where you saved the file (s) to and then simply install all your patches.

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Make your Folders Private on Windows XP

4dmin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:18 +0000

•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 your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.

Note

•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS

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Vista to XP Copying Performance Slower

4dmin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:37:03 +0000

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 this regard, the Redmond company noted that, while copying a file from Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 to a down-level system, such as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, in the context in which Intel I/OAT was enabled, users would notice that the performance was significantly slower compared to when the feature was disabled.

“Consider the following scenario: you have a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) is enabled on the computer. You copy files to this computer from another computer that is running a down-level operating system, such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In this scenario, the file copying is significantly slower than when Intel I/O Acceleration Technology is disabled,” the Microsoft noted.

Microsoft has yet to update Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 in order to resolve this issue. However, a resolve is available. Affected customers will have to contact the software giant and grab a hotfix that Microsoft is offering in order to remove the performance handicap associated with copying processes from Vista and Windows Server 2008 to down-level Windows platforms. Ironically Intel I/OAT is designed to increase copying speed.

“Intel I/OAT, together with the network direct memory access (NetDMA) feature in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008, provides direct memory access to memory by network-intensive applications. This significantly reduces the CPU load by reducing memory copying during networking operations. For Intel I/OAT to work, it must be enabled in both the BIOS and the operating system. By default, Intel I/OAT is disabled,” Microsoft explained.

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How to optimize (speed up) your Windows XP or Vista in 30 seconds?

4dmin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:44:47 +0000

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 as security in Windows Vista. I meant much better than Windows XP, and yet, there are some reports showing that Vista is outperformed by Windows XP to some extent. But dont worry, we are going to show you how to improve the perfermance of Windows Vista in 30 seconds. Yes, only 30 seconds!

Less is more. This applies to Windows XP as well. Visual effects (graphics and animation) is one of the main culprits that occupy most of the system resource and slowing your computer. By disabling visual effects, your machine gain dramatic improvement on performance. Here is how you do it in Windows Vista:

1. Right-click on My Computer (if you dont see it on your desktop, you can access it from Start->Computer)
2. Then choose Properties, and then click on Advanced system settings.
3. From Advanced, click on Settings.
4. Then check Adjust for best performance under Visual Effects.
5. Click Apply then OK.

That is it! Do you see how simple it is? You dont need to purchase the latest hardware to boost the performance on your computer!

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See all Computers from your Workgroup without Windows Freezing

4dmin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:27:27 +0000

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 for computers, that sucks.
Using Command Prompt you can overcome fast and easy this problem.

1.Click Start and then click Run, a box will open.
2. Type in the box: CMD and command prompt will open.
3. Type in the command prompt box: net view
4. A list of computers in the workgroup will be shown.

NOTE: Keep in mind that computers behind a firewall will not appear in the list.

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Password Backup

4dmin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:24:34 +0000

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
Insert USB stick
Type current password

To use Backup login password:

boot pc
At login screen, press ok, or type in an incorrect password
Select reset password
insert your flash drive/floppy disk
Follow wizard

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Speed up your PC – Fit a 10,000 RPM system drive

4dmin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:10:32 +0000

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 fitting as much RAM into your PC as you can afford (up to the 4GB limit if you are running 32-bit Windows) but once your maxed out on RAM it can be tricky to find effective ways to boost performance. However, once simple way to give your PC an additional nitro kick is to fit a 10,000 RPM drive as your main system drive. And 10,000 RPM hard drives don’t come much better than the Western Digital Raptor SATA drive. This is the king of speed when it comes to drives, and if you don’t believe me, check out this AnandTech review (one of many that I could point you to, but they all say the same thing). Just as a simple comparison, take a look at the stats for a Raptor and a 7,200 RPM WD drive:

Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD (74GB)
Average Latency: 2.99ms
Average Seek Time: 4.6ms

Average Write Time: 5.2ms

Western Digital Caviar WD800BB (80GB)
Average Latency: 4.2ms
Average Seek Time: 8.9ms
Average Write Time: 10.9ms

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Make Programs Load Faster

4dmin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:07:59 +0000

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 “Ok”

Voila – your programs will now load faster.

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Improve Swapfile Performance

4dmin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:01:02 +0000

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 on the System.ini tab
Expand the 386enh tab by clicking on the plus sign
Click on new then in the blank box type”ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1″
Click OK
Restart PC

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Disable Unnecessary Services

4dmin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:56:12 +0000

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 Switching
Help and Support – (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop
Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service – (Unplug n’ Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)
Workstation

To disable these services:

Go to Start and then Run and type “services.msc”
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to ‘Disable”

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