Windows Xp Tips ,secrets & Tracks

[thecount83]

well well well im a new member here so this is my gift to this forum :love:

actually the text are so big so i will post it in the attachements hopefully every body gain something for it :

Those are some tips & tricks For the windows XP Home Or Pro Edition collected from sites on The net and also some books hopefully it will be usefully for every body but Every body must notice that there are some tips for the experts users to do and some others for every body means that every information is this document is tested but you must check the results yourself and understanding what it will cause to your pc so you must be careful in using this
:sarcastic :sarcastic :cool:

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[fire_scorpion]

thank u very much

[Mastertch]

This Xp Tracks & Tips.doc includes various bad advice and mythical tweaks: Find out more here: XP Myths (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html)

[JN4OldSchool]

This includes various bad advice and mythical tweaks:

XP Myths (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html)

Sure does! Stay away from these links!

[Mastertch]

Hey JN, the Xp Tracks & Tips.doc irresponsibly tells people to add a useless registry key: AlwaysUnloadDLL and mentions to disable the DNS Client and Task Scheduler Services. Now I realize you don't care about bad advice and your PC's performance but I do.

[JN4OldSchool]

Hey JN, the Xp Tracks & Tips.doc irresponsibly tells people to add a useless registry key: AlwaysUnloadDLL and mentions to disable the DNS Client and Task Scheduler Services. Now I realize you don't care about bad advice and your PC's performance but I do.

Actually, I have nothing against your advice. For what it's worth I never said you were drastically wrong on any Windows topic. I just hate know it alls who think their way is the only way and wont listen to anyone else. For instance, why are you so intent on bashing Firefox? People use it and like it. Whats the problem? Now, if someone claims Firefox is vulnerability free while IE is a huge hole in cyberspace then feel free to fire away at them. But thats not what you are doing. You bash Firefox, Linux or anything else that you dont personally use but get mad when others point out why they prefer these things. No, your advice wasnt ever in question, by anyone in MGF. It is your personality that needs some work. You come in here every six to eight months and run roughshod over faithful members that are here every day giving advice. Maybe you are smarter than everyone else, but when you go out of your way to prove it you arent going to get much respect.

[Mastertch]

JN, stop going offtopic, Firefox and Linux has nothing to do with this topic AGAIN. If you have a problem with me giving accurate advice on bad advice then don't read it.

[JN4OldSchool]

What topic homeboy? Who are you even replying to anyway? This thread was created in 11-20-2004 for Gods sake. We had one reply in June 2006 just saying thank you. Thank you for what is beyond me and besides that Thecount83 probably hasnt been heard from in years. So what exactly am I hijacking here anyway? It's just you and me partner, it's our dance. No one else is even in the durn building.

[Mastertch]

Every thread has a topic clearly posted. You are obviously obsessed with whatever I post, this is not my problem. This topic was still listed on the first page of this forum section. I posted this after reading it so people do not follow the bad advice it provides. There are more then 900 views on it. Many people also use the forum seach to look up these topics. If I help one person from slowing there system down it is worth it. These are my concerns, why not take yours to PM or start a new topic.

[JN4OldSchool]

Who's to say it was bad advice just because you disagree with it? Are you saying that if you disagree with anything in this forum it should be labled as "bad advice" and disregarded?

[Mastertch]

There is only one way how the Windows Operating System works. These are not OPINIONs.

I posted fully sourced documentation clearly explaining how and why these things are bad advice.

One Example:

If you disable the Task Scheduler Service, this will disable Windows Prefetching and EVERYTHING including Windows will take longer to load.

[JN4OldSchool]

Hmmm, clearly a flaw in the OS. What if I dont need to schedule any tasks?

[Mastertch]

It is not a flaw, it is by design and it has nothing to do with Scheduling any Tasks.

[JN4OldSchool]

How is it NOT a flaw?

[Mastertch]

What are you talking about? The Task Scheduler is designed to execute Tasks, in this case it is writing the Prefetch Files.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/XPKernel/

The Task Scheduler is set to automatic after all Windows XP installs. It is bad advice like found in guides like this that recommend to disable it.

[JN4OldSchool]

so why would you disable it? Sheesh...

edit: Has to be an XP flaw. I'm checking "XP for dummies" right now...

[Mastertch]

You shouldn't ever disable it! That is my whole point!

[acal3000]

Man, I didn't realized XP Myths flame Circus thread was deleted. Now seems the circus will start here

[Random]

Hehe, me neither. I though that thread was abandoned... :)

[Sundown]

They deleted the whole thread?.....I guess the mods were sick and tired of being sick and tired of that one.

Can't say I blame them. The thread was rendered useless and possibly a tad embarrasing to a community that always keeps things respectful.

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My advanced apologies for being off topic here.....

[JN4OldSchool]

Shoot, go ahead and go off topic. There really isnt much of one anyway. They should probably just close this one down too before it also gets out of hand.

[JN4OldSchool]

To add fuel to the fire, some responses to Vista and anti-piracy DRM tech. Very interesting reading.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217820,00.html

And an even better take on the same story:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+lock+pirates+out+of+Vista+PCs/2100-7355_3-6122462.html?tag=newsmap

Now dont get me wrong. I am not in favor of piracy and I applaude trying to stop it. MS is not in business to GIVE AWAY free software. But...I have recently had the same problem crop up several times where I install a fully licensed, paid for copy of XP on a computer, use it for a month or two and one day get a strange message that it is a pirated or bootleg copy. Each time, on different computers with different copies of XP, I go on to the MS website and do a manuel update and the problem mysteriously dissapears as fast as it appeared. I shrug my shoulders, let out a long "hmmmm" and go about my business. But what happens with Vista? Is it going to shut down my computer, blow my computer up or otherwise inconvienance me when I DIDNT DO ANYTHING WRONG? I am in business to make money, just like MS. I cant afford to have my computer go down due to MS's stupidity! Check out this tounge in cheek response to the second article, I think it says it all:

Microsoft had finally reached the end.

Bill Gates had known what was coming and had already run away to hide himself, and his money, behind his charity-organization. Steve Ballmer had clearly, simply, gone insane. Most IT people had also sensed the impending demise, and had begun frantically looking for the alternatives which would replace the "Behemoth of Redmond", once the giant fell.

"Trusted Computing" had been Microsofts last hope. Only by encouraging others, such as ISPs and Government-bodies, to literally force everyone to use Microsoft-products, and by Microsoft being able to use their, long-standing, unethically-created, monopoly-position and various, under-handed, technological-means to lock-in customers, and lock-out competition, ...not to mention forcibly-extract revenue from virtually the entire computer-industry... did Microsoft stand any chance of remaining "...on top".

But... They had pushed too far, too fast, and too often.

And, there were "alternatives"... Even Microsofts best propaganda-campaigns had failed to hide that truth.

The impending customer-rage, consumer-backlash, anti-trust prosecutions, and countless lawsuits, would kill Microsoft more quickly than had ever before been seen in connection to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Yes, Microsoft had a long history, ...of making history. Just not in a good way. And, now, they were paying the price for their long history of raping absolutely everyone.

If only... They had invested more time in actually producing better products. If only... They had, had, any ethics. If only... They had accepted reasonable profits. If only... They had been forced to compete fairly. If only... They actually had changed... instead of simply, perpetually, claiming to have turned over a new leaf. If only... They had respected consumers, and not continually tried to eliminate virtually every right that consumers had. If only... they hadnt always tried to cheat, everyone, from the very beginning.

If only... in the end... their desperation hadnt been so pathetically-obvious.

...Then, maybe, Microsofts collapse, and the economic-devastation that would obliterate Microsoft stock-holders, ...could have been avoided.

But, Microsoft was one, consistent, thing. And it, just, could not change its spots...

So... with shaking fingers... Microsoft inserted the last bit of DRM into "Vista"... slowly put the muzzle of the OS in their mouth... and clicked

Say what you will MASTERTCH, but MS has pushed too hard and I will stick with Linux, thanks anyway. And I feel a LOT more people are going to feel the same once Vista, and all it's problems, is released!

edit: Also found this :

http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4383/nls_networking061005/page_1.html

"The Vista Budget Vacuum." How much will it cost a business to migrate to Vista? Maybe the article is a little biased to prove it's point, for instance how many businesses are really going to care about running aero? But the point is still made. RHEL is looking better and better for the business world!

[HaXoRoWnS]

What topic homeboy? Who are you even replying to anyway? This thread was created in 11-20-2004 for Gods sake. We had one reply in June 2006 just saying thank you. Thank you for what is beyond me and besides that Thecount83 probably hasnt been heard from in years. So what exactly am I hijacking here anyway? It's just you and me partner, it's our dance. No one else is even in the durn building.

ROTFL!!!:clap: I wouldnt trust anything from anyone unless it was yall here at MGForums!!!!