Posts Tagged ‘windows xp’
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
You can follow these steps to increase the size of the thumbnail images in Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view.
- Run regedit.
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.
- In the right pane right-click on the ThumbnailSize key and select Modify. If the ThumbnailSize keys do not exist, you can create them by right-clicking on an empty space in the right pane and selecting “New – DWORD Value”.
- You can set the Value between 32 and 256, the higher the number you choose, the larger you thumbnail will be.
- Close regedit.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
When you press the power button on your computer and it just sit there with none of those clicking and beeping sounds along with the monitor still having that blank screen,you know that you’re going to have a bad day.
A computer that fails to boot can be one of the most pain staking things that can happen to a pc user.And in most cases, the user don’t have a clue as to what procedures they can take to get the PC up and running again.
When you do experience pc bootup failure, always start your troubleshooting by checking the obvious.It the cord plugged into the wall outlet and is the other end securely plugged in the rear of the system unit.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
You can disable zip folders view in Windows Explorer by following this steps:
- Click Start – Run.
- Type regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
- Click OK.
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Compressing files, folders, and programs decreases their size and reduces the amount of space they use on your drives or removable storage devices. Drive compression decreases the amount of space used by all of the files and folders stored on that drive.
Windows XP Search can get slow if you have a lot of compressed files on your hard drive. You can speed up your searches by disabling this.
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
If you want your Windows XP PC to run without errors, you need a Window XP registry cleaner. Windows registry is a file that is used for storing critical information about the hardware and software configuration and system settings of the computer. It helps the system run without faults as the system can access the data from a specific location. But to make this process absolutely flawless you need to keep the registry up to date and free from errors.
As the registry is meant to store all the information abut the PC settings it generates a new entry every time you make any changes to the system. That is whenever you install a new program or uninstall an existing program and add or remove any hardware component, the latest information about the settings is logged in the registry file. As you keep using the PC, these entries get piled up in the registry. All these data that are stored in the registry, especially the outdated data are not used by the system. Moreover, they clog up the registry file making the PC sluggish and prone to frequent failures. A Windows registry cleaner can clean up these unimportant data and make the registry file error free. To that you need a Window XP registry cleaner if you have Windows XP installed in your PC.
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
This is not about to turn out as an article on Ten Things I Hate About Vista. There is already a great number of technically enlightening pieces that will do that for anyone. This article will instead focus on what basic common user observations point out as unfortunate Vista innovations from old XP features. Some of the items are humorously simple and superficial. They should not be ignored though because a great majority of people around the world are not technology experts and can only make basic observations. Sometimes though, basic observations are what can make or break a product simply because there are more average people than computer geniuses.
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
The Desktop Cleanup Wizard displays a list of the desktop icons that have not been used for 60 days or more, enabling you to remove those icons that you don’t want on your desktop. You can retrieve icons you have removed by opening the Unused Desktop Shortcuts folder on your desktop. If you want to disable this annoying feature you can follow these steps:
- Right-click on an empty space on the Desktop then click Properties.
- Select the “Desktop” tab.
- Click “Customize Desktop” button.
- At the bottom uncheck the box labeled ‘Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard Every 60 Days‘.
- Click ‘OK’ then ‘OK’ again to save changes
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Here are a couple of tips to speed up your Windows XP computer and help keep you protected and secure online. First you need to control which programs load on startup: Many of the programs you install on your computer automatically configure themselves to launch at startup, usually invisibly. The truly essential ones, such as anti-virus and firewall products, generally run as services and run fine in the background. Other less important software like media players don’t need to be running continually.
These extra programs slow the boot process and then severely suck up resources like memory and CPU cycles. It is pretty easy to control which applications launch on startup. The System Configuration Utility lists all these applications in one place:
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
The hibernate feature saves everything in memory on disk, turns off your monitor and hard disk, and then turns off your computer. When you restart your computer, your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. It takes longer to bring your computer out of hibernation than out of standby.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The hibernate feature turns off your monitor and hard disk, saves everything in memory on disk, and turns off the computer. When you restart the computer, your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. To enable Hibernation, follow these steps:
- Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel.
- Click on Power Options icon.
- Click on the Hibernate tab.
- Check the Enable Hibernation Support checkbox.
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