This doesnt do magic voodoo and miraclously give you more bandwidth. But it sets reserve bandwidth to 0% on your computer so Windows doesnt put aside 20% bandwidth. This should allow your box to use closer to 100% of the bandwidth you got.
Everything little ping count right? ;-)
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Page has moved. So here is the quick instructions:
Double-click "Limit reservable Bandwidth", to bring up the properties. Select, "Enabled", then put the value of zero for "Bandwidth limit (%)" field, and Finally click, "OK".
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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,21:58
Create Desktop icon to lock the computer
Tool: Create Shortcut Wizard
1. Right click on an empty area on your desktop.
2. Select New>Shortcut.
3. In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type "Rundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation" (without quotes). Note there is no space between the comma and LockWorkStation, which is also one word. Click Next.
4. Call the shortcut something like "Lock PC" (without quotes) and click Finish.
5. To add the finishing touch, right click on the new icon, select Properties, click the Change Icon button and select an appropriate icon.
Now whenever you click this icon your PC will instantly be locked, and can only be accessed by the user entering a correct password in the Login box. Note you can also lock the computer at any time by press WINDOWS + L. Also note that if you have an account with no password, locking the desktop is a little pointless as anyone can login by just leaving the password field blank and clicking OK to log back in.
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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,22:12
Speeding Up Share Viewing
This is a great tweak. Before I found it, I was always smashing my head against the table waiting to view shares on other computers. Basically, when you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to disable this process. First, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the Registry. Below that, there should be a key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}. Just delete this, and after a restart, Windows will no longer check for scheduled tasks - mucho performance improvement!
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Posted: July 30 2006,23:06
This applies to Windows XP (all) and Windows XP PRO X64, as well as Windows 2003.
To change the default path to program files under windows:
(1) Copy all the original location, C:\Program Files (If you installed Windows to another drive letter, copy that), to the new location. The new location can be a differnt drive.
(2) Run "regedit.exe" (START -> RUN -> regedit.exe)
Change the value to the new place. For example if you new location is D:\Program Files\ change the data, ProgramFilesDir, to D:\Program Files. Then change the data CommonFilesDir to D:\Program Files\Common Files\ (The folder "Common Files" is under C:\Program Files\Common Files\ and should be copied too)
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For Windows XP X64 (and 2003 X64):
(1) X64 has 2 program files folder, 1 for 64bit programs, and all legacy 32bit programs are installed to another.
"C:\Program Files" is now reserve for 64bit native application.
A new "C:\Program Files (x86)" is created for legacy 32bit applicaitons.
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Posted: July 10 2007,22:52
ok here is one for ya Mister Whiz... how the #### can i extract win xp 32 bit from a 64 bit disk, use the same key and not have to buy new software... huh?
