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Speed Up Your Shut Down In Windows XP 2008-05-03 20:03:00 Tired of waiting while your windows shuts down? Now no more wait, thanks to this cool trick.The trick is in two parts. Follow both of them for best results.Part I1. Open the Registry Editor (Start >> Run >> type regedit).2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control3. Click on the "Control" Folder.4. Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout".5. Right click on it, select modify and set it a value lower than 2000 (the lesser the faster, but remember don't set it less than 100 to be on the safer side).Part IILike 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. Follow these steps to disable this sound.1. Go to Start -> Control Pane Read more:Speed
Make Invisible Folders in Windows XP 2008-05-03 19:59:00 This is a very unusual & easy trick to make your private folders invisible to others. :)A folder contains two parts; an icon and a name.So to make the folder invisible you will have to make both the icon & the name invisible.These are the steps to do that:1. *For Making The Name Invisible*Select the folder which you want to make invisible. Press F2 key then type ALT+0160 and hit enter key. You will notice that the name of the folder has become invisible. See the snapshot below.2. *For Making The Icon Invisible*Right click on the folder whose name you made invisible. Go to Properties, then go to the Customize tab. Then click on the Change Icon button. Select any blank icon there. Remember there will be many blank icons (see snapshot). Just choose any one.Click OK. your folder is inv Read more:Folders
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Pokemon Characters Rubi and Sapphire 2008-05-02 15:44:00 Pokemon for your PC.We started the game in a truck that brings us to our new home.Once we arrived, the mother tells us that we enter and uploaded to the room. Here we can see everything in the room and put on hour on the clock. Nothing more to put an end to the clock function, the mother goes up and tells you that you can download. As you can leave the house has to go to the home of your rival that is next to yours. When choosing personage there are 2, the boy and girl, and the opponent is the character who did not choose.Once you've talked with your opponent can leave the city.Nothing else leave a Pochena attacking the professor is Odamaki, he dropped his wallet and asks you to get one of their Pokemon to help. Now you must choose your first Pokemon: * Treecko, initial rate Plant Ac Read more:Characters
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Optimize Your Graphics for a Fast Loading Site 2008-05-04 10:43:00 Heavy images cost you money and traffic. They cost you money because they require both significant storage space and bandwidth. Since your web host will usually give you a limited amount of storage space and a maximum data transfer allowance, heavy graphics can cause you to exceed those limits, in which case you’ll have to pay extra.Then, heavy images cost you traffic: put up a web page that takes more than 10 seconds to load, and your visitors will run away faster than you can say “back button”. If you happen to be running an e-commerce website, you already know that traffic equals money, so heavy graphics will make you lose both.Fortunately, there is a solution: you can optimize your images for the web. Your images should be in either .gif or .jpg formats (.gif works best for logos Read more:Graphics
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5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website 2008-05-04 10:42:00 When designing your website, remember to avoid useless and confusing features, however “cool” they may seem to be. Usually, keeping things simple and consistent are the best way to go. Here are five easy ways to improve your website and make it more appealing to your visitors.1. Put your logo on every page of your site, and in the same location. Usually, the best place to put it is in the upper left corner of the page. Remember to make your logo clickable, linking to the main page of your site (an exception is the logo of the main page itself, since you are already there). The benefit of doing so is that if your visitors get lost they can always come back to a familiar location.2. Don’ t use a splash screen. Splash screens are seen in many websites before they give you access to the Read more:Improve
The Importance of a Good Web Page Title 2008-05-04 10:40:00 Many web designers focus just on the actual look and feel of a page and dismiss seemingly minor details like the page title.However, a good title can, in just a few words, tell your visitors what they can expect by reading your page. More importantly, the page title is the only way that many visitors will be able to identify and find your page. A good title can therefore increase the traffic to your site.More and more Internet users rely on search engines every day, and search engines use page titles to generate the links displayed after a search. Let’s suppose that you own a company called The Attic, that specializes in vintage clothing and you have just submitted your website to a search engine. If the title of your page is: “The Attic. Specializing in Vintage Clothing”, it is OK. Read more:Title
Make Your Small Business Look Big 2008-05-04 10:24:00 Our business friendly culture, the improvements in communications, and the abundance of Internet resources have all combined to make it possible even for a garage-based one-man-show to look as professional as the largest corporation. You should take advantage of all available options to develop a professional image for your business.Even if you are a sole proprietor you can operate under a trade name that relates to your business. You do this by registering a Fictitious Name. This is a relatively simple and straightforward procedure that can be done on-line in a few minutes. The registration of fictitious names is administered by the Department of State or by the County (depends on the state; call your county clerk or your state government to find out what applies in your case). For exampl Read more:Business
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Block Image, ads, pop up and anymore in Mozilla Firefox 2008-05-04 08:48:00 Picture Block PopupEver been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.Long DescriptionRight-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.Works with:* Firefox
: 1.5 – 3.0preDownload Add block Read more:Image
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Fast Download Video with Firefox 2008-05-04 07:46:00 In one click, Fast Video Download
will save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:Advantage using this Program ag.ru, angryalien.com, animeepisodes.net, badjojo.com, break.com, bublare.dk, current.com, dailymotion.com, hi5.com, metacafe.com, vids.myspace.com, mult.ru, putfile.com, Streetfire.net, vidiac.com, video.google.com and YOUTUBE! 1. With just ONE click on the status-bar or custom toolbar icon, FVD immediately opens a "Save As" dialog with the video title and extension in place. 2. FVD is able to pick any multimedia links from embeded objects and links on ordinary pages. 3. If there's only one link, the standard dialog opens immediately. Otherwise, links are listed in a pop-up window. 4. Processing of embedded YouTube video objects: A special dow Read more:Firefox
Blocking pop up and ads in Mozilla Firefox 2008-05-04 07:38:00 Picture Block PopupEver been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.Long DescriptionRight-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.Works with:* Firefox
: 1.5 – 3.0pre Read more:Blocking
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Make Menu Load Faster in Windows XP 2008-05-03 21:03:00 This is one of my favourite tweaks as it makes a huge difference to how fast your machine will 'feel'. What this tweak does is remove the slight delay between clicking on a menu and XP displaying the menu.Go to Start then RunType 'Regedit' then click 'Ok'Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\"Select "MenuShowDelay"Right click and select "Modify'Reduce the number to around "100"This is the delay time before a menu is opened. You can set it to "0" but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open if you just look at them - well move your mouse over them anyway. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on my mood Read more:Windows
Fast Performance Swapfile 2008-05-03 21:00:00 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 RunType "msconfig.exe" then okClick on the System.ini tabExpand the 386enh tab by clicking on the plus signClick on new then in the blank box type "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1"Click OKRestart PC Read more:Performance
Disable System Sounds in Windows XP 2008-05-03 21:00:00 Surprisingly, the beeps that your computer makes for various system sounds can slow it down, particularly at startup and shut-down. To fix this turn off the system sounds:Open Control PanelClick Sounds
and Audio DevicesCheck Place volume icon in taskbarClick Sounds TabChoose "No Sounds" for the Sound SchemeClick "No"Click "Apply"Click "OK" Read more:Disable
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Speedup Folder Access with Disable Last Access Update 2008-05-03 20:59:00 If you have a lot of folders and subdirectories on your computer, when you access a directory XP wastes a lot of time updating the time stamp showing the last access time for that directory and for ALL sub directories. To stop XP doing this you need to edit the registry. If you are uncomfortable doing this then please do not attempt.Go to Start and then Run and type "regedit"Click through the file system until you get to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"Right-click in a blank area of the window on the right and select 'DWORD Value'Create a new DWORD Value called 'NtfsDisable
LastAccessUpdate
'Then Right click on the new value and select 'Modify'Change the Value Data to '1'Click 'OK' Read more:Folder
Defragment in Your Pagefile 2008-05-03 20:58:00 Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn't get impacted by normal disk usage. Another way of keeping your pagefile defragmented is to run PageDefrag. This cool little app can be used to defrag your pagefile, and can also be set to defrag the pagefile everytime your PC starts. To install:Download(www.sysinternals.com) and Run PageDefragTick "Defrag at next Reboot",Click "Ok"Reboot
Turn Off System Restore 2008-05-03 20:56:00 SystemRestore
can be a useful if your computer is having problems, however storing all the restore points can literally take up Gigabytes of space on your hard drive. To turn off System Restore
:Open Control PanelClick on Performance and MaintenanceClick on SystemClick on the System Restore tabTick 'Turn off System Restore on All Drives'Click 'Ok'
Improve Speed with Disable Unnecessary Services 2008-05-03 20:54:00 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:AlerterClipbookComputer BrowserDistributed Link Tracking ClientFast User SwitchingHelp and Support - (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)Human Interface Access DevicesIndexing ServiceIPSEC Services
MessengerNetmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)Portable Media Serial NumberRemote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)Remote Procedure Call LocatorRemote Registry (disabled for extra security)Remote Registry ServiceSecondary LogonRouting & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)ServerSSDP Discovery Service - (Unplug n' Pray Read more:Disable
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