Windows XP Tips and Tricks

Custom User Icons

If you intend to get a copy of Windows XP, one of the first things we do is create a new user. Why not go and change your account image to one you want? That is correct, if you don’t want to use an image of your own, Windows XP ...

Password Recovery Disk

You should always take a good set of measures to prevent the loss of user level passwords. Whether or not you remember a password in Windows, it doesn’t really matter. With Windows XP Wizard for forgotten password, your conscience will be free and clear – in case you accidently forgot your ...

Windows XP and Symmetric Multiprocessing

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) is a technology that allows a computer to use more than one processor. The most common configuration of a Symmetric Multiprocessing computer is one that uses two processors. The two processors are used to perform the functions for the calculation faster than one processor. (Two of them ...

XP Game Compatibility

Do you want to know whether your favorite games are still going to run under Windows XP. Remember what happened when we tried our games to start the Windows 2000-based computers? Sometimes we were a little disappointed. Windows 2000 was more for the use of "Quake," but true techno-geeks know ...

Windows XP Step by step the installation

These measures are for a new installation of XP. Read this article for the steps to update your XP. First, you need to change your BIOS in order boot from the CD-ROM. Once you do that then you are in a position to upgrade your computer from the installation CD. After you ...

Installing Windows XP Professional – Reasons to install it

There are three reasons why it is necessary for you to install a new copy of Windows XP: Your current operating system does not support an upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Your current operating system supports an upgrade to Windows XP Professional, but you ...

Take on the compatibility of the programs in Windows XP

If you have any problems with older programs originally designed for earlier versions of Windows, you may think that you have no chance. Fortunately for consumers, Microsoft XP has a compatibility mode. In compatibility mode, you can create a program to do the same thing the original was designed to. ...

XP File and permissions

The files and permissions in Windows XP seem complex. Microsoft has released an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, but after reading that, it describes in detail the infinity of a security system based on a 1-5 scale. However, if you are looking for this scale, 1 to 5 in ...

Change the login Window

Windows XP configures the setup on the login screen to be user friendly and the shutdown buttons, if the installation on a personal computer (a computer where a domain is not specified). This Windows XP tweaks article describes how you can change the logon screen to the classic logon screen ...

Speed up Mozilla Firefox

Want to speed up Mozilla Firefox some more in Microsoft Windows XP? It won’t take long at all, so hang on! The first thing you need to do, of course, is to open Mozilla Firefox. In the address bar, type in ‘about:config.’ Now find ‘network.http.pipelining’ to ‘true.’ Next, find ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ and ...