December 21st, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: Windows XP Tips
In Windows, if something goes wrong with a driver update, or certain software installations run into conflicts with each other, it can be necessary to rely on the System Restore feature to get back to a working, functional desktop environment. Of course, System Restore is definitely not a complete back-up utility. It doesn’t help against [...]
October 21st, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Windows XP Tips
Want a specific program to run every time Windows starts? Maybe you created your own program or downloaded something off the Internet. Either way, it’s relatively simple to add a program to the startup in Windows XP. There are mainly two ways to go about doing this. One is to add a shortcut to the [...]
September 25th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
We have previously written about setting options for file search indexing in Windows 7. The indexing service may slow down your system because it works in the background to automatically index files in certain locations on your hard drive. Tweaking the indexing service in Windows 7 allows you to increase your system’s performance by removing [...]
July 16th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Windows XP Tips
There are many different programs out there that allow you to protect files and information. However, there is an easy way to “lock” the contents of a folder on the Windows desktop by double-clicking on a file and without using third-party software. To accomplish this task, we will create a folder and two batch files, [...]
June 23rd, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about using Windows Sidebar for XP to use Windows 7 and Vista gadgets on your Windows XP desktop. In Part I, we covered installing Alky for Applications and the Windows Sidebar, closing gadgets, and adding pre-installed gadgets from the gallery. In this post, we discuss moving [...]
June 18th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
For those of you who like Windows 7 gadgets but are still using Windows XP, we have previously written about a way to install some gadgets in Windows XP (see our post, Get Windows 7 Gadgets in Windows XP). However, that tool, Windows 7 Sidebar for XP, only allows you to use the gadgets that [...]
June 5th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
CCleaner is a free system optimization, privacy, and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system, freeing up valuable hard drive space, allowing Windows to run faster. It also cleans traces of online activities, such as your Internet history and cookies. CCleaner also comes with a fully featured registry cleaner. It’s a fast, free, [...]
May 29th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
There are many enhancements that were added to Word 2007 and are still available in Word 2010. A couple of the new formatting enhancements are the Mini Toolbar and Live Preview. The Mini Toolbar allows you to quickly change fonts, underline text, make text bold and italic, and more. A small formatting toolbar becomes available [...]
May 22nd, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about using USB Disk Ejector to easily eject your USB devices and setting up shortcuts with shortcut keys for quicker ejection of your USB drives. In Part I, we covered using the USB Disk Ejector GUI to eject a USB drive, creating a shortcut and a [...]
May 21st, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
We have previously written about how to create a shortcut and a keyboard shortcut for quickly accessing the Safely Remove Hardware dialog box (see our post, Use a Shortcut or Keyboard Shortcut to Access the Safely Remove Hardware Dialog Box ). If you often use the same external USB drive and you want to be [...]
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