Windows XP stocke un couple des valeurs dans son enregistrement qui sont responsables de déterminer combien de temps attendre avant d'arrêter (massacre) des applications ouvertes et des services une fois la commande d'arrêt a été donnés.

En éditant ces deux arrangements et en les changeant en valeurs plus basses, vous pouvez considérablement diminuer la quantité de temps que Windows XP doit fermer avec succès lui-même. La première partie de ce coup sec traite placer la quantité de temps Windows prendra aux applications ouvertes de mise à mort sur l'arrêt. (plus…)

Voici quelques bouts qui vous aideront à devenir un message de sollicitation de commande pro :

* Tournez éditent dessus vite le mode. Ceci te permettra de choisir facilement, copie et colle tous avec juste votre souris et un bon clic. Détails Ici

* En saisissant un nom de dossier ou de chemise, saisissez une partie du nom et frappez alors la clef d'ÉTIQUETTE pour évoquer des matchs. Employez le DÉCALAGE +TAB pour aller l'autre direction.

* En recherchant un dossier, saisissez le part_of_filename* de dir pour rechercher le dossier dans la chemise. Pour rechercher des sous-répertoires aussi bien, apposez le drapeau de /s aussi bien. Exemple : exp* /s de dir (plus…)

For power users Command Prompt is where you go to get work done quickly and efficiently. If you spend a lot of time using Command Prompt, why not customize the appearance and operation to your preferences? There are actually a few Command Prompt customizations that will make it more useful and good looking.

Just follow these steps to customize your Command Prompt:

1. Click on the Start Button and key in Command Prompt and hit Enter. (more…)

Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably). Before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your base operating system, check out these 10 Simple Ways To Speedup Windows Vista tips to lighten the load. This is just the first in the series, so many of them may be very apparent to those experienced in tweaking. If you’re still using Windows XP, then check out 10 Simple Ways To Speedup Windows XP.

This article details the following 10 tips: (more…)

Firefox has a couple of hidden network settings. With this extension, you can tweak these settings, and you might be able to speed up the loading of web pages. You can also increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site (the default is only four).

Instead of changing each setting, you can also choose one of two profiles. The Power profile increases the maximum number of connections and turns on pipelining. The Default profile will reset the settings to the save, default values. (more…)

Well, this one is arguable. Many sites preach service tweaking as the end all of tweaks, and Vista does have a lot of services (like 130). However, a good portion of them are set to manual or disabled by default. Manual will only start the service when the operating system thinks it needs to use that program. However, Vista does have a lot of services set to Automatic by default that are not needed for many people. Granted, they are usually sleeping, not using any CPU, and if they use memory, they usually get paged out to disk pretty fast. But, regardless, it is fairly quick to do, and will gain you some improvement.

First off, how to tell what you should really be worried about. One new feature in Vista is the ‘Go to Service’ feature in Task Manager (or at least I never noticed it before). Open Task Manager, Processes tab, right click on a particularly heavy process, and select ‘Go to Service (s)’. This will jump you over to the services tab, and select all the services that are running under that process (multiple ones are usually running under svchost.exe, many of the others only map to one service). (more…)