Windows XP

Speeding Up and Cleaning Up Windows XP

* This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances
* Windows is the world’s dominant desktop operating system, with 93.8 percent of the market as of 2002
* Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, speeding up access to programs and data, customizing the interface, rooting out resource hogs, tuning… »

Stopping unnecessary Windows services

I have an old computer at home that I bought 7 years ago. It is my main computer at home and is the one I’m using to write this document right now and amazingly I have never had any major problems with it like a hard drive failure, etc. It runs pretty fast actually.
I have… »

Speed up Windows XP Dramatically

Is your XP-running computer too slow to be of much use? It may not be your computer’s fault. Windows XP, when used correctly, can be fast, efficient, and fun to use. Here’s how to speed up your XP system.
Steps:

Convert your hard drive to NTFS. If your drive is using FAT16 or FAT32, you can gain… »

Automatically Defragment Files in Windows XP

Have you ever been annoyed of waiting too much till the Disk Defragmenter defragments your disk? Have you ever wondered of adding a new item in the Menus of Windows XP, just for De-fragmentation. Through this article, you can add a new item in the Menu, which appears whenever you right-click on any drive in… »

Putting Your Own Logo & Details on Copy of Windows XP

Have you used someone’s new Hewlet Packard with their OEM version of Windows XP? You’ve seen that HP has their own icon in the Start Menu, underneath Run, that goes to their Help Site. Now, you can have your icon that does anything you want (website, program, etc) and says anything you want. Basically, you… »

Change the Way You Start up to Make Windows XP Faster

Are you tired of all those icons on the bottom right of the screen? Well now you can prevent them from loading.
Steps:

First create a restore point so if you mess up, you can restore it to an earlier date/time.
This is how: Press start and click all programs.
Find and click accessories.
Then find system tools and click… »

Retrieving a Lost Windows XP Password

You know how it goes: you have your Social Security number, your bank number, your gym locker number, your work computers password, names of people, phone numbers and dozens of other things shoved into your brain. Who has time to remember their own Windows XP password? Below are the most efficient ways to recover a… »