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Restore Your Computer’s Performance with Windows XP If your computer seems slower than it used to be, it probably is. My one-year old Dell laptop is much slower now than when it was new. Over time, computers get slower for a variety of reasons: files become disorganized, unnecessary software consumes resources, unused network drives slow [...]

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Need to Restore Your Windows XP Registry? Before learning how to restore your Windows registry, you must know the reasons that may force you to restore the registry. Some of the common reasons are given below. Repair registry damage due to a recent program install/uninstall. Fix corrupt registry entries due to system or software crash. [...]

We have all had it happen at some stage. Sometimes the wrong answer to a cryptic Windows question has sent files to oblivion. Maybe a program crash or virus wiped files from your system. Suddenly you realise that an important file – or entire directory – has been lost or deleted. Contrary to what you [...]

Remember the first day you owned your current computer? You probably couldn’t believe how fast it was, especially if it replaced a slower predecessor. Applications snapping open, once-lengthy processes completed in a fraction of the time, and graphics and animation flowing as smooth as television programming. You probably could not imagine a day when you [...]

One of the more frustrating aspects of computer usage in the Internet era are the times when your PC slows to a crawl for no apparent reason. Suddenly it seems as if the bits are passing through molasses as they travel from the Internet to your living room. The good news is that there are [...]

Every notebook owner gets there eventually: Your once blazing-fast laptop has slowed to a pedestrian pace, or you’re out of hard drive space, or something else has occurred that causes you to ponder whether or not it’s time to spring for a new computer. But you know the old girl’s still got some life left; [...]

Baseball Notebook: MLB to Speed Up Games Major League Baseball asked all 30 respective teams yesterday to speed up the games by having the pitchers throw a pitch every 12 seconds. The rule was already on the books, but hadn’t been enforced very strictly. If pitchers exceed the 12 second time limit they will be [...]

Basic Microsoft Windows XP troubleshooting. Issue: Basic Microsoft Windows XP troubleshooting. Additional information: This document has been created as a location of general steps that can be taken to help you with problems you may be experiencing with Microsoft Windows XP that are either general problems and/or problems not documented elsewhere in the Computer Hope [...]

Windows Vista users should download this free PDF ebook – Vista Performance and Tuning Guide – as it discusses several tweaks that will help a computer feel more responsive. Thanks James. Some Windows Vista tips that you won’t find in the guide include: 1. Slipstream Windows Vista DVD with SP1 2. Delete Junk Files from [...]