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rasi

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Vineet, can you make this topic pinned please.

Guyz, post here your questions, news, etc. about computers in this topic.

I'll put up some interesting news, tweaking options, etc. everyday in here.
 
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rasi

Guest
Here you go. First one.

Reclaim CD-ROM cache. 20 June, 2003
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If you do not use the CD-ROM drive very often, you can reclaim some precious memory. This can be especially useful for low-end computers.

1. Open Control Panel > System > Performance > File System.
2. From the CD-ROM tab, configure the amount of cache that is assigned to the drive.
3. Adjust the slider according to your needs. The minimum amount is 64 KB and the maximum is 1238 KB. Changing the Optimise access pattern for drop-down selection also affects the amount of memory used.

You could see a pretty good increment in the performance of your computer.
 

Sanju

Club Cricketer
Joined
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Location
Mumbai, India.
Online Cricket Games Owned
Hey iniyan nice tweaks a few more would be appreaciated deffinately.Unfortunately my cd rom cache speedwas the highest so......
 
R

rasi

Guest
Yeah sure, I'll post a tweak on alternate days or something, because I've studies to do as well.
 
R

rasi

Guest
Number two.

Enable DMA for faster disk access. 22 June 2003.
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The advantage of using Direct Memory Access (DMA) with IDE drives is that it lowers CPU usage

during file transfers, drastically improving performance. Ensure that your drive supports DMA

before making these changes, otherwise it could lead to unpredictable results.
1. Open Control Panel > System > Device Manager.
2. Click the '+' sign next to the Disk drives
entry.
3. Select the drive you want to enable DMA for
and click Properties.
4. On the Settings tab, enable the DMA check
box.
 
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rasi

Guest
Number three.

Cascading menus on clicking start.
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Cascading menus of folders like Control Panel or Printers can be very handy at the start menu. Here?s how to get them there:
1. Right click the Start button and click on
Explore.
2. Create a new folder and type the following string, all on one line, replacing the words New Folder with this new line. You must type the period, the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the hexadecimal numbers exactly as shown.

Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
Briefcase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
Dial Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
Fonts.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}
Inbox.{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
Internet Cache.{7BD29E00-76C1-11CF-9DD0-00A0C9034933}
Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Subscriptions.{F5175861-2688-11d0-9C5E-00AA00A45957}
URL History.{FF393560-C2A7-11CF-BFF4-444553540000}
 
R

rasi

Guest
Yeah, I use XP. But there are some people who just don't care about anything else other than 98 or Me.
 
R

rasi

Guest
Yeah that's right, but the main reason I've put up this topic is to help people know their computer deeper than just use some software to do stuff which you can do.
 
A

Admin

Guest
Nice tips Iniyan :thumbs:

Some sites along the same lines anyone interested in this might find useful are:

www.tweakxp.com - Have an equally useful section about bogus "Tweaks" that dont work. Interesting site.

www.pureperformance.com/ - Well Organised site

Axcel - Makes for some interesting reading if you want to tweak your PC. Pretty comprehensive.

Winguides - Specific Registry tweaks.


As always with anything of this sort: Always backup your registry and/or data. Nothing should go wrong but better be safe than sorry.
 
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Admin

Guest
Another good site Insha

Actually a site I find extremely useful is :

shellcity.net/ :thumbs:

A goldmine of rarely seen but highly useful little proggies
 

Sanju

Club Cricketer
Joined
Apr 27, 2003
Location
Mumbai, India.
Online Cricket Games Owned
Hey i am expeiriencing some problems bout my pc after installin some intel updates to my pc some things r appearing very small and even the resoulation is small but the spped is very low even i uninstalled it here the screenshot of my pc look at the bottom right corner there it is very small.
 

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