How to disable unnecessary services in Windows XP

By Detector | 26 November 2008

Windows XP runs a lot of services in the background. Stopping or disabling some of services will impact in increasing system speed and increasing computer RAM usage. Most of the services are not necessary to the...
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How to fix NTOSKRNL Missing or Corrupt

By Detector | 25 November 2008

Windows tip: If you get an error that “NTOSKRNL not found”, here is steps how you can fix that: Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key Press...
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How to fix IPCONFIG Error

By Detector | 25 November 2008

This is short Windows tip. In some cases when you run IPCONFIG you can get an error: An internal error occured: The request is not supported.Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help.Additional information: Unable...
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Windows tip: How to overclock Nvidia Video cards

By Detector | 25 November 2008

If you have Nvidea graphic card you may know that Nvidia’s video driver package has an overclocking component to it, but it is disabled by default and can only be re-enabled by editing the registry manually...
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Windows tip: How to clear the Pagefile on Shutdown

By Detector | 24 November 2008

A pagefile or swap file is a reserved portion of a hard disk that is used as an extension of random access memory (RAM) for data in RAM that hasn’t been used recently. A pagefile can...
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Thunderbird mail notifier (minimize to tray) for Windows XP and Vista

By Detector | 22 November 2008

I use Thunderbird a lot, but running all the time minimized on my taskbar is really a mess with many open apps, so I always wanted a little Thunderbird notification icon on the taskbar notification section,...
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Open CMD from a specific folder in Windows Explorer

By Detector | 22 November 2008

Windows setting doesn’t allow you to open CMD from a specific folder by “Right-click”. One way to do this is: (1) Start –> Run –> CMD –> Ok; (2) browse to your desired folder with CD...
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How to save hard drive space from system restore utility in XP

By Detector | 21 November 2008

Windows XP’s system restore utility by default uses 12% of each hard drive in your system. That’s a lot of not used space. With reducing this percentage, you will reduce the amount of restore points system...
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Windows tip: Mounting Partitions to Directories

By Detector | 18 November 2008

By definition – to mount is to make a group of files in a file system structure accessible to a user or user group. In some usages, it means to make a device physically accessible. In...
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Windows tip: How to speed up the display of Start Menu Items

By Detector | 17 November 2008

Another useful speeding Windows tip will be increasing speed of display Start Menu Items. An easy way to speed up the display of the Start Menu Items is to turn off the menu shadow. Right click...
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