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Edit Open With Items in Windows
Edit Open With Items in Windows When you right-click an item in Windows you get lots of options to choose from. One is to open or edit the file and for the case that you want to open it with a different application the Open With menu comes in handy. It’s another option available in the right-click m...
2008-07-22, 5964🔥, 0💬

FAT32 Format
FAT32 Format Need to format some brand new hard drives in …. FAT32 format. Needless to say, Vista doesn’t like to do that. Nor does Windows XP. But since these hard drives will be going into an old security surveillance DVR unit, they need to be in FAT32, not NTFS. Also taking this opportunity to up...
2008-07-17, 6737🔥, 0💬

Use Windows Vista fonts in Windows XP
Use Windows Vista fonts in Windows XP Microsoft did change some of the system fonts in Windows Vista which tend to look cleaner and crisper than those used in Windows XP. It would not be legal to simply download and use those fonts in Windows XP but there is a way to get them on the XP system legall...
2008-07-17, 6024🔥, 0💬

How to Change the Visibility of your Mouse in Windows XP
How to Change the Visibility of your Mouse in Windows XP Click your Start button at the bottom of your screen. When the menu pops up, click on the Control Panel link. The Control Panel folder will open and you will see different icons in the folder. If you can't see the icons, do this. Go to the top...
2008-07-08, 6002🔥, 0💬

How to Change the Speed of your Mouse Pointer in Windows XP
How to Change the Speed of your Mouse Pointer in Windows XP Click your Start button at the bottom of your screen. When the menu pops up, click on the Control Panel link. The Control Panel folder will open and you will see different icons in the folder. If you can't see the icons, do this. Go to the ...
2008-07-08, 5379🔥, 0💬

How to Change the Appearance of your Mouse in Windows XP
How to Change the Appearance of your Mouse in Windows XP Click your Start button at the bottom of your screen. When the menu pops up, click on the Control Panel link. The Control Panel folder will open and you will see different icons in the folder. If you can't see the icons, do this. Go to the top...
2008-07-01, 5754🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Improve XP Shutdown Speed
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Improve XP Shutdown Speed This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown. * Go to Start then select Run * Type ‘Regedit’ and click ok * Find ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop’Select...
2008-07-01, 6048🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Improve Boot Times
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Improve Boot Times A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option in enables but on some builds it is not so below is how t...
2008-06-24, 5777🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speedup Folder Access - Disable Last Access Update
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speedup Folder Access - Disable Last Access Update 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. ...
2008-06-17, 6014🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP -To disable these services
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP -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”
2008-06-17, 5935🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Disable Unnecessary Services
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Disable 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 Bro...
2008-06-10, 7283🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times III
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times III When your computer boots up it usually has to check with the network to see what IP addresses are free and then it grabs one of these. By configuring a manually assigned IP address your boot time will improve. To do this do the following: * Click...
2008-06-10, 5833🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times II
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times II When your PC starts it usually looks for any bootable media in any floppy or cd-rom drives you have installed before it gets around to loading the Operating System from the HDD. This can waste valuable time. To fix this we need to make some change...
2008-06-03, 6145🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times I
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Speed Up Boot Times I This tweak works by creating a batch file to clear the temp and history folders everytime you shutdown so that your PC doesn’t waste time checking these folders the next time it boots. It’s quite simple to implement: * Open Notepad and create a new...
2008-06-03, 6199🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Defragment Your Pagefile
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Defragment Your Pagefile 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. Anoth...
2008-05-13, 6444🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Turn Off System Restore
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Turn Off System Restore System Restore 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 Panelb * Click on Performance and M...
2008-05-13, 6490🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Optimise Your Pagefile
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Optimise Your Pagefile If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file. Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller am...
2008-04-29, 6165🔥, 0💬

Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Optimise your internet connection
Ways To Speed Up Windows XP - Optimise your internet connection There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer * Download and install * Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps) * Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use...
2008-04-29, 6256🔥, 0💬

Introductions of some basic graphics concepts: dot, pixel, color, and resolution
Introductions of some basic graphics concepts: dot, pixel, color, and resolution A computer graphics is organized as a matrix of rows and columns of dots. Each dot carries a color value. The resolution of a graphics is measured by 3 parameters: 1. Horizontal resolution: The number dots within an inc...
2008-03-11, 6190🔥, 0💬

What is Paint
What is Paint "Paint" is probably the simplest graphics tool available on a Windows system. It is very simple, but good enough to handle tasks of creating and editing computer graphics files with the following features: * Support multiple graphics file formats, including BMP, JPEG, and GIF. * Suppor...
2008-03-11, 6844🔥, 0💬

View Device components Information
How to view Device components Information? Right click on the "My Computer", click pop-up menus in the "management" were open "removable storage" ? "Libraries" by Right click on the check by the driver, click pop-up menus in the "Properties "Click" Device information, you can see the Devices informa...
2007-11-09, 6950🔥, 0💬

dvd copies
how do I copy my home dvd's
2007-08-20, 6297🔥, 0💬

What Is ActivePerl
What is ActivePerl? ActivePerl, developed by ActiveState Software Inc., is the complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. It includes: Perl core Perl Package Manager Installers Complete online documentation Windows Version Extras: Perl for ISAP...
2007-05-14, 12659🔥, 0💬

Daylight Saving Time Starting and Ending Dates Changed in 2007
When are the new Daylight Saving Time starting and ending dates in 2007 in United States, Canada and Mexico? In the past (before year 2007), Daylight Saving Time starting and ending dates for United States, Canada and Mexico are: Summer time starts: the first Sunday in April Summer time ends: the la...
2007-03-09, 6768🔥, 0💬

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