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22-06-2005
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Top 13 Windows XP tips from MaximumPC

Some really, really nifty stuff here.

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:

  1. Save Searches as FND Files
  2. Set­ting pri­or­ity for DNS lookups to speed up Inter­net connection
  3. Reset­ting ‘menushowde­lay’ to improve menu speeds
  4. Easy load­ing of DOS pro­grams on un-formatted space
  5. An old net­work idea gets a new life at the home office with the Win­dows XP Net­work Bridge
  6. Increas­ing num­ber of max down­loads in IE
  7. Open CD’s , dri­ves, and fold­ers with one easy click and with­out a clut­tered desktop
  8. How to Dis­play a DETAILS Tab in Each Device Prop­er­ties Dia­log Box
  9. Chang­ing moth­er­boards with­out rein­stalling Win XP
  10. How to tem­porar­ily dis­able win­dows file pro­tec­tion with­out hav­ing to restart Windows
  11. Remotely access your PC from any Inter­net con­nected PC
  12. Man­u­ally sync­ing Win­dows clock with Inter­net time server
  13. Man­u­ally locat­ing User Profiles

Some of these are more secure than oth­ers so use it at your own risk!

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  1. Dice Li says: Jul 13, 200511:10 pm

    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".

  2. sniptools says: Jul 13, 200511:54 pm

    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.

  3. tgarrett says: Oct 10, 20058:54 am

    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

  4. Manou says: Jan 25, 20069:22 pm

    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!!!

  5. Sue Kotila says: Jan 26, 20061:54 am

    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!

  6. Arthur Anaya says: Apr 20, 20062:36 am

    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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