Greg sent me an email earlier today – “Why is my computer so slow even though it’s brand new?”. A couple of email exchanges between us fixed his problem. If you are curious to know what problem his computer faced, it’s mentioned at the end of this post. By the way, if you are reading this post because your computer is slow as well and want to find why your computer is so slow, know that there are many reasons
Continue ReadingDo you have a situation where you can no longer uninstall a software due to either a problem with the Windows registry or corrupt software installation? Also, you might come across a situation when you want to reinstall or upgrade your existing software to the latest version but since the older version is not behaving properly, you may not be able to do so. Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is what you should look forward for dealing with such situations. It’s
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Did you recently uninstall any program that you thought was a spyware and lost your system’s network settings? Is your registry corrupt and you can no longer connect to any network resources? Are you able to connect to the network but find it timing out and sometimes ridiculously slow for no apparent reason? WinSock XP Fix can fix the network settings for you in one step. WinSock XP Fix is a small freeware utility [1.4MB in size] that can fix
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This small utility will be of a special help to those of us whose ISPs have locked their Internet connection to the MAC address of the network adapter of their primary computer. This prevents them from using the same Internet connection on their laptops or other systems. Occasionally, when your friend arrive at home with their laptops, they can not use your Internet connection because it is already locked to your network card’s MAC address. This utility will change all
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Tired of looking at those annoying Notification Area Balloon Tips all the time? To disable those notifications, follow the simple registry change and you will not see those ever again. [Before you make any changes to your registry, take a backup] 1. Click Start->Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER. 2. Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 3. Right-click in the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips. 4. Double-click this new entry [EnableBalloonTips],
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Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that monitors the registry in real-time. It shows you the applications that are accessing your Registry, the registry values and keys being modified. Using Regmon There is no installation required to run this tool. [Download] and copy all the files in a directory and run the Regmon.exe file. Using the filter dialog, you can filter the data that is being shown. For example, if you want to only show HKLM\Software, then press the Filter
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Perhaps it’s a tool which has the most number of system settings to tweak. I have tried various tools in the past to tweak and play with my system’s settings but this one has the most of all those. The tool is called X-Setup Pro, has over 1800 hidden settings for the following versions of windows: Windows 95/95 OSR 2 Windows 98/98 SE Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Windows NT 4.0 Server/NT 4.0 Enterprise Windows ME Windows 2000 Professional/2000 Server/2000 Server
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