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To completely disable the potentially dangerous UPnP service from Windows XP, there are two services present that should be disabled. You can access the Services panel through Administrative Tools (Control Panel>>Performance and Maintenance). The two services you need to disable are:

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This is to increase the the number of max downloads to 10.

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Clicking on a mailto: link in IE launches Outlook even if the default mail client is changed to something else. This forces mailto: links to open in Netscape 6, though varying the command line should allow you to use other clients.

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Use the following step to add your own browser toolbars in Internet Explorer. You can add links to any programs on your computer or to any web page (tweaks.com) for example.

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This is a simple registry tweak which adds a website link to your Start Menu.....its very handy for quick access to your favourite website.

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The run the phone dialer that I noticed is missing from the communications section.

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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.

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This tweak was based on the Easy IP Check tweak posted by Hugo Tremblay.

Use this if you just want to display your IP address and not the extra information (default gateway / subnet mask)

Simply copy and paste the following into notepad

@echo.
@ipconfig | find "IP Address"
@echo.
@pause

And save as IP.BAT (save to your windows dir if you want to be able to access it anywhere)

Now...

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This tweak will have you searching the Internet faster and more powerfully then you ever have before.

  1. Get TweakUI Powertoy for WindowsXP

  2. Start -> Programs -> Powertoys for Windows XP -> TweakUI for Windows XP

  3. Click the '+' next to 'Internet Explorer'

  4. Hightlight 'Search'...

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For some of you guys out there who may just want to setup a small lan of computers, you may not want to load up tcp/ip. In the past we've been able to intall netbeui easily...until XP. In order to install it in XP, go to your XP cd and look in the following folder:
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