Pc Windows Tips

I do this fairly frequently. Once a month or so. There are a few things I do first to make sure I don’t waste time defragging unnecessary files.

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There can be many reasons why you need to edit the Boot.ini file, my personal favorite is to remove programs that I don’t use or want installed on my Windows XP like that pesky MSN Messenger.

The boot.ini file is a simple text file that is on the root of the boot drive.
You can edit this with any plain text editor like Notepad (may need to unhide the file first)

To edit your boot.ini file read the following

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There are a lot of things which can negatively impact how fast Windows XP will browse the network of shared files between two computers or a whole workgroup of computers.

Other things you can try, especially when there is slow browsing to network or shared files with a lot of files is the following…

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I have received a lot of emails over the last week from users experiencing this error. When the Windows Support service won’t run it can be 2 things.

1. You have disabled help and support in the service manager or,
2. A registry string may be corrupted or missing.

Click read more for the solution to this Windows Support Error!

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For Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 2000, if you have View as Web Page enabled but do not see a picture preview in Explorer do the following:
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