When you're installing Windows in a virtual machine or on old, slow hardware, you want the leanest, meanest and fastest-running configuration possible. Most of the time, you want the best from your operating system, including all the bells and whistles. Other times, you don't want the default, bloated Windows installation, with every single built-in feature slowing you down. Luckily, whether you want to put Windows on a diet in a virtual machine or you want to get Windows up and running all snappy-like on older hardware, you've got a handful of excellent and free options at your disposal. Let's take a look at a few ways to trim down your Windows installation so that it takes up less space on your hard drive and eats less RAM while it's running.
Falls sich der Windows Explorer jedes mal aufhängt, wenn im aktuellen Verzeichnis eine avi Datei liegt, dann kann man es nach dem Tip aus diesen Thread beheben.
Safely and easily change your Windows boot screen with BootSkin. It allows you to replace your Windows boot up screen with ones you can download from websites such as WinCustomize.com or create yourself. It works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP and replace
Windows shops. They want me to use my laptop and join their domains. I'm not going to join my windows partition to their domain. solution is to use a Virtual XP Pro machine to join their domain.They never know I'm not running windows only on my machine
Windows 7's arrival is just a few months away, but many people aren't waiting and just want to replace Vista's newness — some say weirdness — for the familiarity of XP.
OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read
Per Mausklick zur vollwertigen Windows-XP-CD
Wenn der Hersteller Ihres Komplett-PC oder Notebooks keine voll-wertige Windows-CD mitliefert, brennen Sie sich einfach selbst eine: Das hier vorgestellte Skript baut eine solche vollautomatisch aus Installationsdateien zusammen, die es der Systempartition entnimmt.
"Google can be considered a fusion of the startup and grad-school mentalities ... It's all been done before; the only thing that's really surprising is that Google has managed to make it scale."
Although many Windows users intend to hold onto their copies of XP until it is pried from their cold, dead fingers, Microsoft fully intends to phase out the OS in favor of Vista
I am fascinated by the art of software development. How do you write great code? How do you document complex architectures? How do you lead teams and projects? How do you create interesting and effective development environments? How do you communicate wi
CodeAsDocumentation agile 22 March 2005 One of the common elements of agile methods is that they raise programming to a central role in software development - one much greater than the software engineering community usually does. Part of this is classifyi
Since Ubuntu 6.10 was released less than a month ago, Windows Vista went RTM and dates for new Ubuntu 7.4 were announced today, I thought I’ll post a tutorial on how to create a single boot screen triple boot system with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ub
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer.
ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with applications and device drivers
Anytime I install a fresh copy of Windows XP or I create a new user there is one thing I do. It's probably the simplest tweak I do, but it's also one of the most effective at speeding up EVERYTHING in Windows. This tweak only cost you 5% of Windows visual
Back in days of yore, when Windows 3.1 ruled the land, one utility I found incredibly useful was Macro Recorder (recorder.exe). This simple tool let you record a series of mouse clicks and keystrokes and play them back, and it provided a simple method for
PAE is an Intel-provided memory address extension that enables support of greater than 4 GB of physical memory for most 32-bit (IA-32) Intel Pentium Pro and later platforms. This article provides information to help device driver developers implement Windows drivers that support PAE.
C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstallation,Setup requires 4 additional megabytes of free space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again.
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