Tip's & Trick's Here you will find some really usefull Info and link's to some of the best PC Help sites on the Net.
If you have a spare hour or so,why not peruse some of the link's and find out a little more of what makes your PC Tick and how to fix it yourself and save a lot of cash!
Or maybe learn a little about how you can make your PC Secure from would be hackers etc.
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Free Memory Diagnostic Tool The free "Windows Memory Diagnostic" from Microsoft is actually a DOS-like low-level tool that runs on any system based on Intel Pentiums or Celerons; AMD K6s, Athlons, or Durons; and other "x86" compatible CPUs. The download file contains both the tool and a kind of installer application that lets you automatically create a special-purpose boot floppy, or an ISO image you can burn to a boot CD. You then boot from the floppy or CD, and the memory diagnostic tool will run automatically.
The diagnostic test starts by filling your RAM with all ones, all zeros, and various regular patterns of ones and zeros. Any discrepancies between what is written into RAM and what is read back out indicates a problem with one or more RAM modules. The test can pinpoint the failure location, so you'll know exactly which RAM module is giving you trouble.
The test speed depends on the speed of your system (CPU and RAM speed) and how much RAM you're testing. The base test runs in a matter of minutes on most systems, but the thorough tests can take many hours--- it's *very* thorough.
RAM is usually quite reliable, but RAM problems, when they occur, can be very hard to pin down. Tools like this can help a lot.
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Better Performance from XP/Win-2ooo Here are some suggestions that I find vital to XP/Win2000 performance.
1. Always disable the Indexing service. This service is the
equivalent of the hated Find Fast program installed by
previous editions of Microsoft Office. It consumes incredible
amounts of system resources and is basically useless.
2. Get Mike Lin's great free startup control panel at
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
This little tool is a
control panel applet that allows you to see all the programs
that start with the system. You will often be surprised how
many useless and resource consuming programs there are. If you
are in doubt what a program is and does and whether it is
something useful that you need, the program allows you to
disable it and test the result at your next boot. (Mike Lin
also has a great Startup Monitor that asks you each time some
program tries to add itself to the programs that start with
the system - http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml
3. Bootvis is a free Microsoft tool (only for XP) to monitor
what happens when the system starts. It also has an
optimization function that places all the programs that need
to start with the system at the "front" of the harddisk, thus
speeding boot performance. Get it at:
http://www.bluesdigital.net/downloads/BootVis.zip
4. Pagedefrag is a great free tool available here
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml
It defragments your pagefile (swapfile) and your registry
files every time you boot. This greatly improves system
performance.
5. Regularly use the free Lite version of the ultimate
Defragmentation tool Diskeeper.
http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe
This is a much improved version of the built-in defragmentation utility in
Win2000 and XP - developed by the same company.
Find more freeware from this company at:
http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Following the above suggestions will greatly improve your
system performance.
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Ten Ways To Make Windows XP Run Better This is a fantastic resource for those wishing to tune-up XP.
Nice plain language!
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