This is a useful security measure you can set on your computers that will stop all users from writing anything to a USB drive, this could stop people from stealing info from your PC’s.
This tweak requires a pretty simple registry hack;
You will all have seen the windows key on your keyboard, well here are some shortcuts you can use with it;
Here is a cool tweak that allows you to get all your Windows version information through your registry;
In this section it will give you this information;
Here is a quick little tweak you can do to both Windows Vista and XP that will automatically set your PC to run at its best performance.
The trouble with Vista is that it is so full of graphics and animations that it effects the performance of your PC, so if you are someone who doesn’t care about the looks of something but just want performance, then this tweak is for you.
Just follow these pointers and you will have your PC running at its best performance;
Windows Vista
Windows XP
You can increase your computer’s performance by adjusting the visual effects. The visual effects can take up your PC’s CPU and slow it down, often leading to more annoying problems. This tweak should work on all Windows Vista machines.
These options for changing your visual effects are totally optional, you can edit which ones you like and keep the ones you want. But I can assure you that these system settings only change the ‘pretty’ look of your computer and nothing important.
To get started adjusting your visual effects settings just;
One simple way you can improve the speed of your PC is to scan your hard drive for errors such as bad sectors. These errors will slow down your hard disk performance and make your computer run slower.
To run a scan and repair any problematic sectors in your hard drive just follow these points;
The paging files in Windows XP are there to basically store your temporary files and data, and in XP these files are cleared everytime you shut down. So whenever you shutdown XP it takes time first to clear the paging files, and this can take time.
If you have information that is secure or you don’t want anyone else to see then I recommend you keep XP clearing the paging files, but if you don’t really care then you can get faster shutdown speeds by stopping XP from clearing the paging files.
To stop XP from clearing the paging files you need to do this registry edit;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Notification balloons are those annoying things popping up in a balloon that tells you basic stuff about the OS, so unless you are one of the few that actually enjoys the balloons you may want to get rid of them.
You will notice that all of your messages that come through in Outlook Express are in a html format, so it can look ‘pretty’ with colors, borders, fonts etc.
This ‘pretty’ look is great if you always know who the sender is (even then they can forward dodgy stuff), but you can recieve malicious emails through the html code.
The best way I believe (unless you have some awesome security) to safeguard your Outlook Express messages is to just get them in a plain text format, to do this just;
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