99 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

There's a handy guide over at PC Stats which outlines about 99 ways to speed up your Windows installation. While some of them are elementary, quite a few listed are adjustments that probably wouldn't come to the forefront for many out there. The guide covers the following areas: * Preparing Your System * ...

Ways to Speed Up Windows XP & Windows 2000

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

While surfing around the net tonight in an epic battle against what I considered excessive hard-drive accesses by Windows XP, I ran across quite a useful site that some of you might find useful. The site, BlackViper.com, contains very detailed descriptions of the services built into Windows XP and Windows 2000. ...

Guide to Securing Windows XP Professional

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

This guide is a summary of the Windows XP Security Guide and is intended for use in a small or medium sized business. It discusses the use of security templates to further configure security on client machines. Additionally, it discusses the use of anti-virus software, automatic updates, and the Internet ...

Download Windows XP Setup Boot Disks

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft. The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run Setup on computers that do not support a bootable CD-ROM. If your computer does support booting from a CD-ROM, or if network-based installation is available, Microsoft recommends that ...

Beginners Guides: Back up and Restore Data in WinXP

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

PCStats has published a guide about backing up data in Windows XP "Sure, if you've read our article on hard drive restoration you know that there are ways to recover lost data cheaply and easily, but this can lead to a false sense of security. What happens when a hard drive ...