Right Click on Start, and select Properties, and then click on Customize Click on the Advanced tab, and in the Start Menu Items box, scroll down to the bottom In the System Administrative Tools, either click on:
Quick Access to Anything Without a Mouse! If your someone like me who wants quick access to everything then just listen to what I have to say. This article will tell you how to makes shortcuts on your Keyboard that are Ctrl + Alt + "Any Key Of Your Choice." Heres what you have to do:
If you are using Norton Internet Security 2002, and are experiencing slow start-up of XP. i.e. you can see the desktop with icons etc. but it takes 30-60sec before you can start using the computer.
It seems that even without pointer precision disabled, the mouse under XP is still influenced by an acceleration curve. This is especially noticeable in games. To completely remove mouse acceleration from XP, you will need to go into the registry and adjust the SmoothmouseXYCurve values. Here is how its done.
If you would like to change your boot up screen follow the directions below. These instructions assume that you have a place to download the boot screen from the net. If you would like to download a boot screen, visit http://www.themexp.org
The tweak is simple. Beside the QoS and others around the Internet for the new XP OS, I found out that native drivers sometimes slow you down (cable and xDSL users). So if you have applied all tweaks and you are still having slow downs try reinstalling your NICs drivers
When you choose a wallpaper using the standard method (selecting a background on the desktop tab, in the properties window), Windows converts this image to a huge .bmp file (even if you selected a .jpg).
Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows xp when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. to solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.
We all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the system's performance is Windows Media Player
Buried deep inside Windows XP lurks a little-known program called shutdown that shuts down your system in a very fast — but orderly — way. Here's how to put an icon on your desktop that'll shut down your machine quickly:
If you like to view your files in Windows Explorer using the "Details" view here is a tweak to speed up the listing of file attribute....
When a user shuts down Windows XP, first the system has to kill all services currently running. Every once in a while the service does not shut down instantly and windows gives it a change to shut down on its own before it kills it. This amount of time that windows waits is stored in the system registry.
In this weeks article, we are going to discuss some of the annoying things that almost all people go through when they deal with thier PCs. One the most annoying things we've encountered is the appearing of Windows Messenger in our System Tray (Next To The PC Clock). Before removing Windows Messenger, lets discuss what exactly does Windows Messenger do in the first place.
Install more RAM. Yeah, everybody says it, but its true. If you can't stop buggy programs from leaking memory, you can at least give them more memory to leak. How much RAM do you need? According to a scientific survey of experts, you always need n + 16 MB, where n equals the amount of RAM you have now.
Editing the registry is not as hard as you might think, but you need to understand what you're doing, and it's essential to make a backup before you make any changes so that you can back them out if necessary. Put simply, the Windows registry is a central repository of information about all aspects of the computer - in particular, its hardware, operating system, applications and users. It can be...