How to Optimize Windows Performance - Simple Way to Speed Up Vista Or XP

If you have a computer at home and use it for your work, it is important that you take proper care of the computer. Proper care does not mean simply cleaning and brushing the exterior of the computer. You should make sure the computer is cleaned from within so that it can provide you with superior performance.You can clean your computer from within by installing a good registry cleaner on your computer. These cleaners optimize Windows performance and make sure that the computer runs like it is new.

By installing one of these cleaners on your system and running it at regular intervals you prevent potential threats and errors that could seriously harm your system.

However, you may be wondering how registry cleaners optimize Windows performance. Well, they scan the Windows registry systematically and match all registry files with applications that use these files. On finding a damaged or lost file, your cleaning expert prompts you about the same. You then have the option to repair the error.

Registry cleaners can be programmed to run in two separate modes, automatic and manual. In the automatic mode, these cleaners scan the registry, identify the errors and prepare a list of the same, and repair these errors. In the manual mode, it only scans the registry, identifies the errors, and reports them to you. It is up to you to repair these errors in the manner you feel like.

In case, you want to recover any change, the registry cleaning expert provides you the option by keeping a backup of all the repairs. Therefore, by cleaning the registry of all errors and orphan files, these cleaners optimize Windows performance. Registry cleaners come with a free scan to detect windows errors and are an extremely good tool to ensure that your computer runs smoothly and does not freeze or crash.

They can be customized and give you the leverage to set the cleaner to scan the items that you want. They also find all the invalid entries in the registry and remove them to optimize Windows performance. You can also defragment your system regularly using a registry cleaner so that your system keeps giving your superior performance. All these features and benefits at an affordable price make a registry cleaner the paramount mechanic for your computer.

Guest post by A.Wood

How Do I Use This Thing, Wordpress

All the internet marketers are telling us to build our sites in Wordpress but have you ever tried to configure a Wordpress site? At least with Google's Blogger there are some great training screenshots and videos of how to do everything step by step. Every marketer that I get email from is always offering some Wordpress thingamajig. Even on the Wordpress site you can find some great plugins and themes but the one thing that is lacking the most is some sort of instructions of how to use these plugins or themes.

I have used Fantastico which comes with my hosting to install and configure Wordpress on all of my sites. The Wordpress manual is like reading one of those manuals that Microsoft gives you with their products. Great if you are some boring intellectual but not for the every day common person. These marketers are also all talking about web video being a great new trend but then why don't more of them offer some step by step Wordpress videos?

I have used the Web to do extensive research on how to videos and the best ones I have found are from companies who you never would have thought would have provided this stuff. Microsoft has some great Free video trainings for all of their Visual products like VB, VC, and Visual Studio.

I just visited the Wordpress site, very little help, no instructions for installing optional pluggins or themes, no video how to's used Drupal and Joomla and they are so much more than just a blog plus they had a lot of great help both in documentation plus a forum where you can talk to other users.

The advantage for people who install Wordpress is the fact that every time you make a post Wordpress automatically pings a bunch of sites. Other blogs all have an add on module that will do this pinging but for some reason every marketer says that Wordpress does it better. Plus Wordpress has fields for tags, keywords and trackback's that are all with the basic features.

Wordpress or somebody who knows Wordpress needs to come out with a video that teaches you everything in one day. The could then call it Wordpress in one day video instructions. The best video tutorials I have seen on Wordpress do not come from these Internet Marketers. I should say not from the over hyped marketers. If somebody is selling something regardless of whether or not they make a living online they are still a marketer of some sort.

Most of the information I have obtained from these marketers who make their living online are always missing something. I think they do this on purpose though. Some web hosting companies offer some basic video tutorials which you get free as a hosting customer. If you really want to find some good videos that will give you everything you want to know in a day of less then I suggest you do a search for "Wordpress in a day". Or "Wordpress in one day".

Wordpress can create a nice blog site for you but you just have to learn it first. Look at the theme I now have on my site. This was a free Wordpress theme that I got directly from the Wordpress site. Installing it took a little bit of trial and error though since I could not find any instructions on how to do so.

Guest Post by Jeffrey Solochek

3 more ways to increase speed of browsing with FireFox

This is a follow up to my previous article, 5 ways to increase speed of browsing with FireFox. FireFox as we all know is one of the most used internet browsers. You and I also use it as well. The software is great for systems with RAM higher than 512MB, but when the RAM comes down the browser slows down. Following are some tips to speed up your bowsing experience.

HACK 1 - Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature!
Here’s how to fix it:
1. Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
2. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

HACK 2 - Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages!
1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter.
(Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.
This means it will make 10 requests at once.
3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now.

Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String
network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0"; (zero)

HACK 3 - Reduce RAM usage to 10mb when Firefox is minimized!
This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Also read:5 ways to increase speed of browsing with FireFox

Change Drive Letters in My Cmputer

You may all have seen the drive letters in the My Computer Window. Most probably C, D, E etc. But how would you like to change it and make it something like, X, Y and Z?

Well, to change Drive Letters:
Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management, then right-click the partition whose name you want to change (click in the white area just below the word "Volume") and select "change drive letter and paths."
From here you can add, remove or change drive letters and paths to the partition.

5 ways to increase speed of browsing with FireFox

FireFox is browser which has the 2^nd largest share in the browser market. Many people use it daily to surf the net. Even I use it too. But one thing that I don't like about FireFox is that it uses too much system resource than my 256MB RAM can hold. Following are the ways in which you can increase the speed of your browsing as well as your productivity.

1. Block the ads
   Advertisements that load in websites take way too much RAM and make the loading of the site low as well. Use Stylish or Greasemonkey to block ads off.
   Also view: How to block ads.
2. Dont load images
   Agreed that images are the very pieces that make up a website. But on a slow connection images take a long time to load. It also takes RAM to show up the image. In FireFox go to Tools => Options => Content and uncheck Load images automatically. The site may look a little distorted but it saves time and bandwidth.
3. Dont load up add-ons
   One of the very features that FireFox became so popular is that it has the ability of adding plug-ins to it called Add-ons. But the more add-ons that you add to your browser, the more RAM it will need to load them all. This will increase the start-up time of your browser.
4. Dont open and keep too much of Tabs or more than 2-3 windows
   FireFox as it is, is a RAM-hogger (no-offence!). Opening two or more windows will not only cause everything to slow down, it can also cause your browser to hang.
5. Dont maximise FireFox
   Okay this is for people like me who have 256MB RAM or less. When FireFox is maximized it uses more RAM than it uses when it is not.

Follow these simple steps for a faster browsing experience.

Re/enable regedit in Windows XP

Regdedit is the heart of tweaking you computer. But sometimes when you open it via Start => Run => regedit, we get the very popular and irritating error 'Registry editing has been disabled by your Administrator, even though you edited the registry just yesterday with no problem . There are three solutions to this problem. I would recommend the first way for newbies, and the other two ways for a little advanced users. Note:You just need to perform one method to enable the registry.

The easier way
To enable the regedit, just download this little software from here, by comGenius, that will enable your registry within seconds. You just open the software select "Enable regedit(Registry Editing)" from the drop down menu, press perform and Proceed restart and you are done.

The second way
From Group Policy Editor
Go to Run –> gpedit.msc
In the left hand menu, go to User Config –> Administrative Templated –> System.
Now In the right hand pane, select “Prevent access to registry editing tools”. It will probably be not configured or enabled. If it’s enabled, disable it and if it’s not configured, first enable it, apply settings and then disable it. Most probably the settings have been applied instantly. If not, then run gpupdate in command prompt to apply the group policies.

The third way
Go to Start –> Run, copy and paste the follow in the Run box and press OK.

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

The effects are usually instant. If not then you should see the results after restarting your computer.


 
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