Archive for July, 2008
If your hard drive has a NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup on Windows XP can compress old files. Disk cleanup does this to save file space on your hard drive. The downfall of this, though, is that it can take a long time and on some computers, Disk Cleanup can hang during the process. To fix [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
If you are missing the original Administrator account that is made right after a clean installation of Windows XP is installed. Once other user accounts are created, the Administrator account disappears from the logon screen. So don’t panic if you’re missing it! To bring back the ‘disappeared’ Administrator account, press ‘Ctrl + Alt + Delete’ [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
Zone Alarm Pro isn’t as easy as it seems in Microsoft Windows XP. To improve its firewall settings, launch Zone Alarms Pro. On the left hand side, click on the ‘Firewall’ tab. Then on the right, in ‘Internet Zone Security,’ set the slider to ‘High’ and select the ‘Custom’ button also.
Now the settings page [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
Is Acrobat Reader a little slow at loading in Microsoft Windows XP? Well here is how to speed it up!
Go to
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader (If you do not use drive C: as your hard drive, then change it to your hard drive)
Now create a new folder called
plug_ins_disabled
Now all you have to do is to move [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment
Ever wanted to share a folder, or folders really fast in Windows XP? Well you can! There are 2 ways to do this:
The first way is to go to
Start -> Run -> type in ‘cmd’
After a black, and rectangle box opens, type in ‘shrpubw.exe’ without the quotes (‘ ‘).
The second and fastest way is to [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
If you run certain programs every day in Windows XP, you can use hotkeys to open that program up, or you can switch to a certain program by using a hotkey. This is a lot faster than going through ‘Alt + Tab.’
So you like this idea? Well here is how to do it:
Find a program [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
This is something that is nice to make from time to time in Microsoft Windows XP. With this you can have a screen saver as a slideshow with your photos or pictures!
First, ‘right click’ some where on your desktop, where there is nothing, and click ‘Properties.’ Then click on the ‘Screen Saver’ tab. Now in [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
Yes you can save your Windows Updates to your desktop on Microsoft Windows XP! This way you can keep them for later use, or burn them on a CD or something, which we do not take responsibility for you going against any copyrights by burning CDs.
Now to do this, go to the Windows Update website, [...]
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Tips and Tricks | No Comments
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