We’ve all experienced it. That PC you know should be zipping along but isn’t. You add more memory, but it’s still barely chugging. Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to troubleshoot those ailing machines. Here are five steps you can take to help your machines run much faster. 1: Defragment This one should go without saying. However, I am always surprised at how few people regularly do this — or how many IT admins neglect to set up machines to do this…
For many users, the Recycle Bin typically found on the Microsoft Windows Desktop is an important facet of the graphical-user interface and the overall operating system experience. However, under certain conditions, which we will not go into here, the Recycle Bin has been known to disappear from the Windows Desktop. This quirky behavior is no big deal for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users because the fix is just a few clicks away under Desktop Properties. However, for Windows XP…
If you do any consulting or if you are an administrator of enough personal computers, you know that having to go through the process of de-fragmenting or cleaning up a hard drive is a time-consuming ordeal. Yes, you can schedule these tasks so that they are handled automatically. But what if you need to do them manually? What if you have to do this to a number of machines? If that’s the case, we’re back to consuming your time. Anything…
Well this is the first post in the open discussion. What’s up?
1: Disable AutoPlay I always find it a bit annoying to insert a CD and have Windows open Internet Explorer and display a bunch of information I don’t care about. I would rather just be able to navigate through the disc’s file system and go directly to what I need. Fortunately, it’s easy to create a registry setting that disables AutoPlay: Navigate through the Registry Editor to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Create a DWORD named NoDriveTypeAutoRun. Set the value to 000000FF. 2: Increase…