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Articles tagged with: xp

Measure Your Computer Boot Time
Monday, 8 March 2010
Measure Your Computer Boot Time

Windows Boot Time Utility – measure your computer boot time. The current version of the free utility BootTimer, from Planetsoft.org, currently runs on Windows XP platforms and is a handy utility for getting a good understanding of your computers boot time (the time from BIOS start up to loading Windows). BootTime is a very small [read more...]

Quick Tip: Manage Stored User Names and Passwords
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Quick Tip: Manage Stored User Names and Passwords

Windows XP has a utility which manages stored usernames and passwords for a number of programs and services located in domains other than your currently logged in one, such as such as Passport.NET, Drive Shares, etc.If the icon to manage them is not listed under your Control Panel you can still see a list of [read more...]

Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of Windows XP
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of Windows XP

If you don’t perform much file searching on your Windows XP Computer or, perhaps, you use another search provider for searching local files you might be able to squeeze a little more performance out of your computer by telling it not to index your hard disks.  

Get More Productive With Windows Search Companion
Friday, 22 January 2010
Get More Productive With Windows Search Companion

Sometimes, in Windows XP, we work with custom file extensions because it’s handy to work that way. An example of this would be text based Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) files which we store locally and suffix with a .edi extension. We might want to search the contents of these files using the Windows Search Companion [read more...]

Windows 7 Anti-Virus Packages
Monday, 18 January 2010
Windows 7 Anti-Virus Packages

After installing Windows 7 on your computer the first thing you should do is install protection software, especially anti-virus and anti-spyware, as base level anti-virus and anti-spyware is not provided as part of the Windows 7 software. Fortunately, a number of solutions are available – many of which are free for home and non-commercial use [read more...]

Quick Tip To Restore Show Desktop On Notepad
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Quick Tip To Restore Show Desktop On Notepad

I found this quick tip on the Microsoft support website and it is really quite handy. Under Windows XP and on the quick launch toolbar on the taskbar – if the Show Desktop icon disappears (probably due to an over efficient Administrator but let’s not point the finger!) you can restore it by creating a [read more...]

Removing WebFldrs from Windows Servers
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Removing WebFldrs from Windows Servers

I have been working through the software inventory, as reported by SpiceWorks, and noticed two entries for WebFldrs and WebFldrs XP, which is as its name suggests is the Web Folders component for operating systems running Microsoft Windows. From Knowledge Base Article ID 195851, Web Folders is a “Web authoring component that is included with [read more...]

Computer installation with XP Professional
Friday, 14 August 2009
Computer installation with XP Professional

When receiving a new computer we always replace the default install the computer was shipped with- with a new build based on the recovery discs. We do this to ensure we know exactly what is on the computer prior to issuing it to an end users. When installing a number of computers it can be [read more...]