How-to Guides
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How to Speed Up Boot Times with Microsoft’s BootVis Utility
This short how-to will walk you through the simple steps necessary to use Microsoft's BootVis Utility to speed up your computer's overall boot...
How to Optimize Your Internet Connection
Your computer has the ability of being tweaked to increase performance while browsing. This is often achieved bu the use of thrid-party applications that...
How to Disable Windows XP’s Indexing Service
Your computer ships with an indexing service that keeps track of all the files on your system, this in turn makes searches a lot...
How to Disable Performance Counters
Windows 2000 and Windows XP have a built-in performance monitor that essentially monitors your computer's performance. This feature is something that is hardly...
How to Disable Visual Styles to Increase Performance
Windows contains a lot of visual effects and elements that tend to use valuable resources that would otherwise be used for something useful,...
How to Schedule a Defragmentation on your Windows XP Machine
When you use or install programs on your computer files get scattered all over your hard drive. This is what is referred to as...
Get the Vista Sidebar on Your Windows XP Machine
I found this article on Tech-Recipes demonstrating how to get the Windows Vista Sidebar on Windows XP and thought this would be nice addition...
How to Change Your Windows XP Logon Screen
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to change your Windows XP logon screen to anything you like. There are several programs...
How to Change Your System Properties Picture & Information
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to change your Windows XP System properties picture & information. Most OEM machines will have this...
How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts to Your Favorite Programs
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to create keyboard shortcuts to your favorite applications and documents. In this example I will make...
How to Get Rid of the Sometimes Annoying Clipboard in Microsoft Office
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to disable the Clipboard in Microsoft Office from automatically popping up whenever you copy more than...
How to Add A ‘Copy To’ and ‘Move To’ Command to Your Windows XP...
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to add the ‘Move To’ and ‘Copy To’ command to your context menu. With these two...