Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Here is a kewl trick I have used for years, Bookmarks as your home page. This trick works for Internet Explorer and Fire Fox.First go to you (C:\) drive and make a new folder called homepage. Now open your Internet Explorer and go to File [...]
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Delete Temporary internet files
April 20th, 2006 
Jim Shonk Listen to the artical theme while you read[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Temporary internet Files Well this should help some of you. While tiring to optimize my system one night . “Believe it or not”, I found this little bug, Temporary internet files were slowing down my system and taking up disk space, [...]
Increase BROADBAND
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A while back we lerned about “gpedit” Now we are going to use this hidden tool to hop up our braodband a bit. Now this is not some tweak that will jump up and announce i’s self out loud. But it will increese data transfer [...]
Add an Item to the Send To Menu
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This weeks tip will show us how to add a folder or location to the SEND TO menu when you right click a file or folder, The first thing you will need to do is make shore your viewing hidden system files and folders, To [...]
Create desktop icons for Shutdown or Restart
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I like things simple so I make shortcut’s to things I often use and want real fast, This is my fovorite, Fast shut down and Reboot.Tool: Create Shortcut WizardInstead of clicking Start>Turn Off Computer and selecting Shutdown or Restart, you can create desktop icons which [...]
Lonley Key Print Screen
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week tips will cover a key on your key board that just sit’s there and seems to never work, The Print Scr/Sys Rq key. What the hell ya say. Believe it or not this lonely key has a purpose. It’s the only way to [...]
Clean your prefetch to improve performance
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is a simple tweek that will improve system preformance, This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after [...]
Explore your system
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Here is another nice tool built in the XP OS that rarely gets used, Explorer, I would guess the main reason is, it’s tucked away under accessories and the darn thing opens to my documents by default. But Explorer is a lot better than MY [...]
A free CPU meter
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This little tweak will let you put Windows XP’s built in CPU meter right down in the system tray. So let’s have some fun and make this toy available. I love these little built in toy’s that you have to hack to get them running. [...]
Flush DNS
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song[Audio clip: view full post to listen]DNS is one of the most important parts of the net. Each time you type in a web adress (ie) “www.whateversite.com” you contact a DNS server that takes a look at that name and finds what ip it lives at.This can be slow or fast but it [...]
Internet Explorer cache size
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The maximum size of your Internet Explorer browser cache is most likely 100 megabytes or more . Generally, cache sizes above 80 megabytes waste disk space and can actually cause slower performance.: How to adjust the IE cache size Start Internet Explorer Select Tools | [...]
Faster IP information
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Well, since the replies to last few post have complemented the LERNING FACTOR I thought you all mite enjoy a small taste of some C+ code. So here goes . Use this if you just want to display your IP address and not the extra [...]
Faster Disk Seek Time, Gpedit
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week we will tweak up your Disk Seek Time. Windows XP by default run’s a program on your hard disk called indexing service. This program came about during the development of XP to speed up file searches on the local disc for third party [...]
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April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week were going to hop things up a bit. This tip will cover the services you are running in the back ground and are probably not even aware of. So let’s get started. Now go to Control Panel, Then Administrative Tools, and Finally Services. [...]
Control Panel Short Cuts
April 16th, 2006 Jim Shonk Catagory Theme Song [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Run dialog gives you easy access to many different programs and options. To get to the Run dialog, click the Start button, then click Run. Type in the command and press Enter, to launch it. For example, type “control folders” (without the quotes) in [...]