Tag: Tutorial
The Microsoft Windows XP system optimization saga continues today with a few tweaks that will enable you, as the title states, to customize your Start Menu. Why would you do that? Well, if you’re a long-time user of a Windows operating system, you’ve surely noticed that some of the items in your Start Menu are totally redundant: you’ve rarely or never used them. For example, I’ve never used Help & Support, so one could wonder: why not remove all unused items? If you’re interested in doing this, keep reading and you’ll soon find out it only takes a few seconds of your time.
Surely there’s no surprise in the fact that you won’t be able to perform these Start Menu customizations not even from an obscure, well-hidden window in your XP. So, before we get started, I’ll have to kindly ask you to read the first article, if you haven’t done so already, to perfectly understand what should be done with the bolded lines that will follow.
Good, now that the article is read and you’ve created your tweaks.reg file starting with Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00, let’s get down to business. Here’s an absolutely free tutorial on how to make your Start Menu fit your needs in just a few seconds and using only Notepad. Read More»
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December 09, 2008 by
Jason You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.
Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed
I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.
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November 14, 2008 by
Jason So you are using Windows Vista and feel that its slower than Windows XP? Then you have come to the right place.
Following tutorial will help you in tweaking your Windows Vista to the max and you’ll feel a significant improvement in your system performance. So without wasting any time lets start:
1. Following is a registry file containing a few registry modifications, which are completely safe and can increase the performance of Windows Vista. Just download the attached ZIP file, extract it and then run the file:
Tweak Windows Vista
Restore Default Settings (Use this file if you want to restore default Windows settings)
2. Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties (or press key + key), click on Advanced system settings link in left side pane (You can also open it by typing sysdm.cpl in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter). Now click on Settings button in Performance section: Read More»
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September 13, 2008 by
Jason Ever wanted to have a portable operating system? One that can reside inside a small USB flash drive? In the past, it was possible to run a Linux distribution from an USB stick just like you would have run it from a Compact Disc, but this task was quite hard to achieve. Why? Simply because you had to type a lot of geeky commands in a terminal and if, somehow, you forgot one or typed something wrong, the whole process had to be started all over again. Not to mention that it could take about 1-2 hours to make a bootable USB stick. Therefore, this guide is here to teach you some new Linux magic tricks on how to achieve a portable Linux operating system, in no more than 5 minutes! How? With the help of a great and marvelous tool called UNetbootin.
For this tutorial, we’ve used Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS and BackTrack 3 Linux distributions, both tested with an 1GB Kingstone DataTraveler 2.0 USB flash drive. Read More»
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Color blindness, sometimes called daltonism, is mostly a color vision deficiency. Colorblind people can’t tell the difference between some chromatic colors and as far as I know there are no tools on Linux OSes that can help them distinguish the hues. I use Ubuntu, and the colorblind applet is part of the gnome-mag package, but for some reason (and I have no idea why) the developers didn’t include it in the distro. So, basically, we’re gonna recompile the gnome-mag package, with the colorblind panel applet.
The following tutorial was tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with GNOME 2.22.3. Anyway, we are interested in the gnome-mag package version, so you should check yours right now! How? Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) and search for gnome-mag. You will see the version number on the ‘Installed Version’ column. Read More»
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This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.
In short here’s what you do:
Prepare the USB flash drive
Boot the computer from your USB flash drive.
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January 29, 2007 by
Jason Step 1. Download and install Ad Aware
First download the free Ad Aware SE Personal from here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
Install A-A after closing as many running programs as possible.
Step 2a. Updating Ad Aware to the current reference file
You will need to run the Web-update Feature before each scan to make sure you have the current reference file installed. It is imperative that you always have the current Build and Reference File in use to ensure the proper detection and removal of objects.
On the start screen:
Click on the “Check for updates now” hotlink. (The globe at the upper right also opens the web-update feature)
Click “Connect”.
If you see that a new reference file is available, click “OK”, and it will download and install automatically.
Click “Finish”.
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