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Windows XP Tips

Disk Tools to Speed Up your PC

 

Every month or two you should do a little disk maintenance to optimize the performance of your computer.

 

1 - Disk Cleanup - Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup. Click the unnecessary files you want to remove, and click OK.

 

2 - Run ScanDisk - Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, ScanDisk.(run Standard and check Automatically fix errors)

 

3 - Run Disk Defragmenter - Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. (note this may take a long time to run the first time.)

 

 

Disabling Error Reporting

 

By default, WindowsXP will request to report application errors to Microsoft.

To turn this off:

 

Right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop

Select Properties / Advanced

Click on the Error Reporting tab

Check Disable error reporting

 

 

Speeding Up the Display of Start Menu Items

 

An easy way to speed up the display of the Start Menu Items is to turn off the menu shadow.

 

Right click on an open area of the Desktop

Select Properties

Click on the Appearance tab

Click on the Effects button

Uncheck Show shadows under menus

 

 

Setting System Time Over the Internet

 

You can set your system clock to a time server on the Internet.

 

Double-click the time on your taskbar

Click the Internet Time tab

Check Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server

Click on the Update Now button

 

 

Creating a Password Recovery Disk

 

In case you forget your password, you can create a password recovery floppy disk beforehand to help you out of this problem.

 

Single-click Start menu

Go to the Control Panel / User Accounts

Click the User Account

On the left hand side, click on Prevent forgotten password

You will need to know your password to create the disk.

If you don't remember your password sometime in the future, click on the green arrow like normal at the login and you will be prompted to insert the password recover disk.

 

 

Changing the Default Search Settings

 

By default, when you start a search,

you are prompted for what you want to search for.

(e.g. Pictures, Documents, Files, Computers)

 

To change the preferences, simply click on Change preferences

 

From here you can:

 

Turn off the animated screen character

Change files and folders search behavior (setting it to Advanced changes the default search screen to be for simply files)

Internet search settings

Turn off balloon tips

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