You may have heard by now about the planned partnership between the two search engine minor players Microsoft and Yahoo. Here is a Bloomberg video discussing the partnership and what that might mean to their search engine future on the web;
If you are a regular user on Twitter you probably haven’t been to the homepage since the day you signed up, so you probably haven’t noticed that there is a new homepage.
The new homepage is more about searching for different topics and niches on twitter, rather than just a sign up form.
And there is a new headline on the homepage, “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world”.
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.
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
