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How to make an older program run in Windows XP 2008-03-30 02:16:00 When you want to run a program designed for a previous version of windows, right click on it, open properties and choose the Compatibility tab. Check the box for run this program in compatibility mode and choose the operating system it was made for. If you aren’t sure, try them all and see which one works best. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

How to increase your internet speed 2008-03-30 01:08:00 By default, most systems have some bandwidth reserved for nothing. You can change this the following way: (Note: this only works in Windows XP Professional) Open gpedit.msc from the run box in the start menu. Navigate to: Local Computer Policy > Computer configuration > Administrative templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler Open Limit Reservable Bandwidth Check the enabled box and change the Bandwidth Limit to 0%. Depending on your system, this might need a restart to start working. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

The ultimate Windows configuration tool 2008-03-29 14:36:00 This is called the Local Group Policy Editor and it lets you customize just about everything on your XP. This only comes with XP Professional, so the registry editor will have to do for Home users.Go to run from the start menu and type gpedit.msc to open it. Look around and see for yourself what this wonderful tool has to offer. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

5 tips to surf faster in the web 2008-03-28 08:18:00 These tips will show you how to surf the internet a lot faster. 1. When typing a web address into the address bar, just type the website and press Ctrl + Enter to add http://www. to the beginning and .com to the end. E.g. you want to go to google: type google and press Ctrl + Enter. It’s as easy as that!(Note: this only works with .com addresses.) 2. Use tabs instead of separate windows. This is a lot faster and doesn’t mess up your taskbar. 3. Use Firefox. Firefox is a much safer than I.E. and is also a little faster. It has many useful plugins. 4. Press Ctrl and + to zoom in the text and Ctrl and - to zoom out. 5. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on google and yahoo, try a metasearch engine such as dogpile, which compiles results from most popular search engines. Happy browsing! More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

How to change your IP adress 2008-03-27 15:25:00 If you get your IP blocked somewhere and you don’t like it, then this can be pretty useful. One way is to just turn off your router for some time, but most people don’t have static IP routers and this won’t help. If that didn’t help, then you have to renew your IP using windows’ command prompt. 1. Type cmd into the run box from the start menu.2. Type ipconfig into the command prompt. This will show you basic info about your IP address.3. Type ipconfig /release. This will remove your current IP.4. Type ipconfig /renew, and you will be presented with a new IP address! You can also make a .bat program to execute these commands when opened.To do this, open notepad and write all the commands on a separate line and save it onto your desktop as ip_renewer.bat. Make sure you choose All files when saving it. It should be like this: ipconfigipconfig /releaseipconfig /renewpause (Tip: If you want to see your IP info and stop the renewer program from closing itself ...

How to capture a screenshot 2008-03-17 03:51:00 I’m surprised that many people don’t actually know this, and reach for their camera to take a picture of the current screen image. Most keyboards have a special button Prt Scr / Sys Rq on them. It’s just to the right from F12. When pressed, it captures the current screen into a bmp image which can be pasted (Ctrl + V) into any image editing software. Even Paint will do. The only problem is that you can only take one screenshot, if you take another, the previous one will be erased. The .bmp file also takes a lot of space and compressing to .jpg is better. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

Shortcut of the week: Changing text size in browser 2008-03-16 11:02:00 Tap Ctrl and + to make text larger or Ctrl and - to make text smaller. PS: Sorry for no posts the last few days, my internet was down. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

How to speed up your PC: Display settings 2008-03-07 23:57:00 By disabling unneeded visual effects, you can speed up your windows xp pretty much. How to change display effects: Go to control panel from the start menu Open performance and maintenance Choose adjust visual effects In the window that appears, uncheck any effects that you don’t consider necessary, or just choose “Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer” Hit OK and you’re done! More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

Speeding up your XP: Disabling unwanted programs at startup 2008-03-07 08:12:00 You probably need only half the programs that have been set to be loaded at startup. Having too many programs drastically slows down your startup. It’s very easy to specify which ones you want to start automatically. It’s wise to leave all the anti virus and system tools. Here’s what you need to do: Go to Run from the Start menu Open “msconfig” (without the quotes!) and click OK In the windows that opens, choose the Startup tab Make your choices by unchecking the programs you don’t need to load at startup Hit OK and restart your PC. After starting a box appears. Check the option that the dialog box won’t display at restart. That’s all! Check back tomorrow for the next part, display settings. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

News: Internet Explorer 8 BETA released! 2008-03-06 12:41:00 A new beta version of Internet explorer was released this week at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. According to Microsoft, the browser will render the Acid2 browser test correctly and supports CSS 2.1. It also has various other bug fixes and improvements. In addition to IE8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 (all in beta) were released. Download More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

How to cheat in Windows Solitaire 2008-03-06 10:02:00 Open up Solitaire from Start -> All Programs -> Games 1. When clicking on the stack in the top-left of the game, three cards will come. To have them come one-by-one, press down Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking on the stack. 2. Instantly Win: Alt + Shift + 2 3. Illegal move. Drag any card anywhere and press Escape before you release it. 4. All cards up. Ctrl + A will move any cards up that can move to their suit deck. Happy cheating! More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

Software Review: TuneUp Utilities 2008 2008-03-03 11:25:00 This is a very useful all-in-one computer performance and speed enhancing program. The interface is simple and easy to use, and it has basically everything you need to speed up your computer. It includes: defragging, registry cleaner, disc cleanup, repair wizard and much more. This definitely helped to speed up my pc and freed up a lot of hard disk space. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

What is the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions? 2008-03-02 11:10:00 The differences are not very big and casual home users will find XP Home Edition sufficient. Windows XP Professional Edition has the following differences: Administrative Tools in the Start Menu and Control PanelAutomated System RecoveryBoot Configuration ManagerDriverQueryGroup Policy Refresh UtilityMulti-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-onNTFS Encryption UtilitiyOffline Files and FoldersOpenFilesPerformance Log ManagerRemote DesktopScheduled Tasks ConsoleSecurity Template UtilityTaskkillTasklistTelnet Administrator XP professional also provides support for multi-processor systems (several CPUs), Dynamic Disks and Fax. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

Design your own icons 2008-03-01 12:50:00 This is very easy and gives your PC a customized look. 1. Fire up Paint from Start-All Programs-Accessories.2. Press Ctrl + E and set the image size to 32 x 32 px.3. Draw your icon or minimize a picture4. Save as filename.ico5. Right-click on a folder and open the properties window. Click on the customize tab an the Choose Picture button and locate your icon. More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...

Toggling autoplay. 2008-02-29 11:35:00 Autoplay is very useful, but can also be a security risk. To turn it on or off:1. Open gpedit.msc from the run box from the start menu.2. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System3. Find Turn off autoplay More Cool Windows XP tips & tricks HERE ...