I spent 4 days trying to find out why my dsl speed was so slow...aol was no help, qwest was no help, I even had technicians come out and check the phone lines. I tried almost all of the registry tweaks possible including third party tweaking programs all to no success. All the microfilters were connected to all the phones in the house but there was one thing overlooked. If you have digital cable... Read More
Ok, so I deleted the recycle bin from the system registry, because I wanted it off of my desktop, but now it's gone from my computer! Go to Start < Run < Type regedit
Read MoreTo autohide your browser toolbar in MSIE 6 simply press F11.
Read MoreThe noise that some dial up 33/56k modems make is awful, and the volume slider in modem properties never seems to stop it. Here's how I stopped mine. Make sure you're modem is NOT connected to the internet at the time.
Read MoreFor those of you who have had problems with DVD/CD probs because of your ASPI drivers for Windows 2000, or WINXP Pro or Home. Well here's the drivers to fix it.
Read MoreI found alot of people complaining about the slow network browsing with Windows 2000 and XP, but fast with 95/98 working on the same server with too many files listed in one directory (8000 in our clients case). Note: This tweak only applys to LAN connections.
Create a text file on the server put this into it:
Read MoreInstead of disabling HW and stopping services to improve gaming performance, create a Hardware Profile.
Read MoreIn Windows 2000 and XP Performance Monitor disk counters for physical disks are turned on by default, disk counters for logical disks are turned off by default.
Read MoreThis setting optimizes the contiguous file allocation size for the file system and can be especially useful for disk intensive applications. Open up your registry and go to:
Read MoreHere is a batch script to help out with replacing uxtheme.dll:
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