The Weekly Geek

Many articles have been written about SSD hard drives, Intel recently put out a review of the speeds of these drives new compared to well used and thus fragmented. I would just like to throw my results in to the piles of articles. A year ago this week I built a test Windows 7 64 [...]

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I have taken a large collection of my tips for tweaking and optimizing Windows XP and put them in this PDF just for you. Some tips are “old” and some of the changes suggested were implemented by Microsoft with XP’s Service Pack 3, however I have put them all in one place, just in case. Enjoy [...]

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Over the years I have written several articles on the use of Virtual Memory and how to use it to speed up your computer. Now that you have several “old” and “small” USB thumb or stick drives around that you don’t use anymore you can format them and install them on the back of your [...]

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With Firefox 4 about to come out, I figure it is way past time to get some tweaks about version 3.x out. Now I used to be a big fan of Firefox until it became more bloated than Internet Explorer and started taking 2 or 3 minutes (literally) to load. But unless I want to [...]

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When you click on the “Start” button and hover over the “All Programs” button and then your individual programs buttons, there is a slight delay. I see no reason for that. We can decrease and even remove that delay with a simple registry edit. Before you make the following changes to the registry, be sure [...]

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