Microsoft claims, “With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display resolution over traditional anti-aliasing. It improves readability on color LCD monitors with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat desktop displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.”
Follow these steps to enable ClearType for Windows XP:
1. Right click on [...]
To create an XP Start Disk:
1. Place a blank floppy disk into your floppy drive.
2. Open My Computer.
3. Right click on the floppy drive icon.
4. Select “Format…” from the resulting menu options.
5. Tick the box that states “Create an MS-DOS Startup Disk”.
6. Select “Start”.
Windows will now creat your disk. This should only take a minute [...]
Windows XP does not include the old DOS SCANDISK Utility. However, you can perform the same task using XP’s Error Checking feature. To access this feature, perform the following steps:
1. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.
2. Right-click the drive you want to check, and select Properties from the menu.
3. Select the Tools tab.
4. Under Error [...]
If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can’t access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn’t work for me. Here’s what you do:
· Click on [...]
Normally, the tweak I’ve seen asks you to go into HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlSessionManagerMemory Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the LargeSystemCache.
However, in Windows XP, all you have to do is:
· Right-click My Computer.
· Select Properties.
· Click Advanced.
· Choose Performance.
· Click Advanced again.
· Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory [...]
On some XP Pro installations, when connected to a network (peer-peer in this case), the computer boot time is over 1:40. The system seems to freeze after logging in and the desktop may not appear or will freeze for a minute. As timed with the utility,Bootvis.exe, the problem was with the driver mrxsmb.dll, adding over [...]
By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don’t want Windows to back up your system files:
· Open the Control Panel.
· Double-click on System.
· Click the System Restore tab.
· Check “Turn off System Restore on [...]
Go into: C:/Program Files/Messenger. Rename the Messenger folder to “MessengerOFF”.
This does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.
If you like to view your files in Windows Explorer using the “Details” view here is a tweak to speed up the listing of file attributes:
Viewing files in Windows Explorer using the “Details” mode shows various attributes associated with each file shown. Some of these must be retrieved from the individual files when you click [...]
Like previous versions of windows,it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the “Exit Windows” sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.
· Click Start button.
· Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio
Devices > Sounds.
· Then under program [...]
