Microsoft last week at a conference for developers Professional Developers Conference (PDC) announced plans to appear the new version of Windows. According to these plans, Windows 8 will appear 2012th year. Although Microsoft has yet to formally consider plans for Windows 8, the publication of its 2012th continued the tradition by Microsoft which the company seeks to publish a new version of the operating system for desktop computers...

Changing performance options If you want you XP to perform faster rather than look Sexy than you should follow these steps. It’s another way to increase your system performance. Following these steps might reduce you XP visual appearance significantly. But you have to sacrifice something in order to achieve the increased performance. (i) Right-click on My Computer -> select Properties (ii) Click the Advanced tab and click...

Removing program from startup This helps in reducing boot time. If you have a slow PC than you should have noticed that even when desktop is shown after a boot it takes some time to really work properly. Removing startup program is a best solution for this. If there are so many icons next to clock it takes longer time to load and hence increase the boot time. To do this Click Start → Run → Type msconfig and than click startup tab. You...

Disabling XP services which are unnecessary: There are so many services in windows XP which are unnecessary and disabling these services makes no effect at all. If these services are active they consume some memory which is a waste. So disable the services stated below. Here are the steps to follow in order to disable the services. 1. Click the Start Menu and select Run. In the text box, type services.msc and click OK. This will start the...

(1) Windows XP has 100’s of fonts but we rarely use all of them so removing some of them would be a good idea to speed up your PC. So, removing un-necessary fonts would save some startup time. But remember that windows fonts like Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, and MS Sans Serif should never be removed. Removing the fonts might make your system unstable and create a lot of problems in system appearance. The best...

If you think that you XP is running very slow than here are some tips that you can follow to speed up your PC a bit. Remember that this trick works best in windows XP. Before following these tips make sure that you have made a proper backup. (1) Disabling Windows XP services which are unnecessary 1. Click the Start Menu and select Run. In the text box, type services.msc and click OK. This will start the Services utility. 2. Now that you...