July 2008
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Windows XP contains a guest account (turned off by default in Windows XP Pro) that has the rather unique distinction of not having a password. Not only does the account not have a password, you can’t even set one. As you can see, if this account is active, it presents a slight security risk.So, in order to protect your system and ensure that not just anybody can connect to your file or folder shares- even when using Simple File Sharing- you need to assign a password to the Guest account. read more
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Written by Tony on July 28th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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As programs get more and more power hungry it gets necessary for users to set their application priorities themselves, eg, you might want CD writing applications to have the highest process priority while writing cds. To get the prioritizing reigns back in your hand if you follow these steps.
Press the key combo CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open the Windows XP task manager. Press CTRL+TAB to go to the second tab called Processes, here you can right click any process and set its priority to any level read more
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Written by Tony on July 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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You might want to refresh ‘My Recent Documents’ or ‘Documents’ list in the Windows XP Start menu after every restart, as snoopers, who have access to your system could use these to monitor your computing. These links are a window to your accessed files, it even allows access to hidden files. Windows XP can automatically delete these for you when shutting down; here is how to do it.
Go to the Windows XP Start menu and open the ‘Run’ dialog.
Type ‘regedit’ in the dialog to read more
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Written by Tony on July 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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Windows XP includes a neat little feature called boot defrag which helps speed up the Windows startup process,which places all files required for booting next to each other on disk to provide a faster boot time. This should be enabled in Windows XP by default, however it can be changed inadvertently by various software or other means. If you experience a slow boot, you should definitely check to make sure that your Boot Defrag is enabled.Of course this can be easily turned on with a simple read more
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Written by Tony on July 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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The Page File (by default) is loaded on to the boot partition of your hard drive as are all of the Windows system files. Windows uses this page file as a sort of Random Access Memory. It is not necessary for the Page File to be on the boot partition, so if you would like to move it to a different partition in a different disk drive, you can Increase Windows XP Performance along with free up some space on your boot partition. Here’s how to do this tweak:
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Written by Tony on July 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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At first you need to know what is windows indexing service? Windows search indexing service scans through files and folders on the Windows XP system and records information about them in index files in order to speed out the searching speed.While Windows XP’s heart is in the right place, this sounds better than it is in practice. The Indexing service in Windows XP is more effective in its ability to slow down your computer than its ability to speed file searches.If you rarely use read more
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Written by Tony on July 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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The SuperFetch service in Windows Vista preloads your system’s memory with the applications that you use most often. Superfetch feature, in theory helps you because it will ‘learn’ your typical activities in terms of file and application access, then preconfigure the most commonly used apps in its memory on startup, making them much faster to access. But in practice, this works only on computers with more of 2GB of memory. If you have less than 2GB of physical memory this will read more
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Written by Tony on July 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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