Top 13 Windows XP tips from MaximumPC
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This entry short and sweet. MaximumPC magazine is running a story with top 10 user-recommended tips and tricks for Windows XP machines.
You should click on and view the site, but a preview of what to expect:
- Save Searches as FND Files
- Setting priority for DNS lookups to speed up Internet connection
- Resetting ‘menushowdelay’ to improve menu speeds
- Easy loading of DOS programs on un-formatted space
- An old network idea gets a new life at the home office with the Windows XP Network Bridge
- Increasing number of max downloads in IE
- Open CD’s , drives, and folders with one easy click and without a cluttered desktop
- How to Display a DETAILS Tab in Each Device Properties Dialog Box
- Changing motherboards without reinstalling Win XP
- How to temporarily disable windows file protection without having to restart Windows
- Remotely access your PC from any Internet connected PC
- Manually syncing Windows clock with Internet time server
- Manually locating User Profiles
Some of these are more secure than others so use it at your own risk!
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- Find Lost Product Keys for Microsoft Windows and Office
- Microsoft's WSYP Program
Hi Dice, thanks for the note. I do think some of the tips were quite nifty (1, 3, 8) but you’ll notice the last line of my article. Cheers.
i accidently removed my profile from group policy. if i go to the it dept i will get fired. all i want to do is put my profile back in the group it was originally. im going crazy. any help will be appriciated . thanks
Hello to all the tweaking society!!! I seem to have a problem with Cyberlink DVD player. It won’t play a DVD whatever i do. It used to play before i formated the disk but now it is always stopping as soon as it opens. i have an old Pentium III at 450 MHZ running WinXP SP2. Before this occured i was getting a message from Dr. Watson running each time i opened the explorer thus shutting it down. My drive was also converted to PIO mode but thanks to your advice it is now back to DMA.
And another thing. My mobo seems to be locked and i can’t access the clock’s speed. Do you know anything about that? it is an Intel Seattle II SE 440 BX-2. Thank you in advance!!! And keep tweaking these chips!!!
I upgraded to XP pro but now the ethernet and other controllers/drives are not being properly recognized! I couldn’t find the disk with SP2 for this upgrade. Is that the cause of my problem? Is there a way to fix it? PLEASE HELP!
Here’s my problem Printers specifically lexmark 1185 worked fine
then not working (3 in one Printer) anyway can’t find how to remove
the drivers In XP Pro. So I want to reformat the hard drive and reinstall
Windows XP My copy of windows XP is an upgrade from windows
98se. I have the XP upgrade disk with SP2. But I want to know if I have
to reactivate windows XP? I’ve tried doing a rollback and It won’t even do that. Everything else works fine. any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you
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Amongst the several highly questionable tips in that article, one of the most useless (and even *harmful*) one is the tweak claiming to “reclaim the 20% of network bandwidth that Windows XP reserves”. Before trying that out, check out the following first:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316666
Don’t be a misinformation-spreading zealot! Always double-check the info — especially “tweaks” and “tips”.