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Entries Tagged as 'Speeding Up'

Stop that annoying Windows log-on

July 31st, 2008 · Comments Off

For those of you who do not use log-on passwords and only have one user account, I am sure that you have run into the joy of being required to click on your user name everytime you start your computer. In most cases, this is caused by the various updates and versions of .NET.
There are [...]

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Tags: Optimizing · Speeding Up

Another FREE Book from The Weekly Geek!

March 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

Get your free PDF on Optimizing Windows 98 by clicking here.
This is a short 9 page “how-to” on speeding up and tweaking Windows 98 for the novice user. You can also go to the BOOKS tab across the top of the page here and see more and still get to the link! This is smaller than [...]

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Tags: Optimizing · Speeding Up

FREE! Windows 95 Optimization PDF

February 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

I am breaking my old book down as I rewrite it (yes, again) and want to spread the love.
For those of you still using or supporting Windows 95, click here for a 23 page (about 1.1MB) PDF on tips, tweaking, and optimizing Windows 95 or You can go to the BOOKS tab across the top [...]

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Tags: Optimizing · Speeding Up

Speeding up your internet connection

October 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off

Originally written 4/7/04 Updated 9/19/07
Howdy one and all and a great big welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Geek. In this weeks fun filled and exciting edition I want to go over a few ways to speed up your internet connection. Everyone wants more speed from their internet connection, this weekly let’s go [...]

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Tags: Internet · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Scheduling Scan Disk in 95, 98 and ME

July 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

In our prior editions of The Weekly Geek we were concentrating on optimizing and cleaning up your PC, after a brief break and delving into viruses, worms and other such nastiness, we are now back into the performance issues of your computer.
As a brief overview, you need to clean your computer and organize its files [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up