Speed up your internet by 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc You can get it back: Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor. Then go to: --> Local Computer Policy --> Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Network --> QOS Packet Scheduler --> Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain'...

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Improve Windows XP Shutdown Speed

This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown. Go to Start then select Run Type 'Regedit' and click ok Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\' Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' Right click and select 'Modify' Change the value to '1000' Click 'OK' Now select 'HungAppTimeout' Right click and select 'Modify' Change the value to '1000' Click 'OK' Now find 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop' Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' Right click and select 'Modify' Change the value to '1000' Click 'OK' Now find 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\'...

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Increase your RAM and so system speed

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents. 2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory. 3). Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Don't use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar). 4). Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where...

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REGEDIT Keyboard Shortcuts

Searching: "Ctrl+F" -- Opens the Find dialog box. "F3" -- Repeats the last search. Browsing: "Keypad +" -- Expands the selected branch. "Keypad -" -- Collapses the selected branch. "Keypad *" -- Expands all the selected branch's sub keys. "Up Arrow" -- Selects the previous key. "Down Arrow" -- Selects the next key. "Left Arrow" -- Collapses the selected branch if it's not collapsed; otherwise, selects the parent key. "Right Arrow" -- Expands the selected branch if it's not already expanded; otherwise, selects the key's first sub key. "Home" -- Selects My Computer. "End" -- Selects the last key that's visible in the key pane. "Page...

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Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Internet Explorer

These are achieved by holding down the CONTROL (CTRL) key and pressing the assigned key To Select all items on a webpage use CTRL and A.To Copy a selected item to the clipboard use CTRL and C.To Paste an item from the clipboard into a document use CTRL and V.To Add the current page/document to your favorites use CTRL and D.To Open the IE search utility use CTRL and E.To Open the FIND box to search the current document use CTRL and F.To Open the History utility use CTRL and H.To Open the Favorites utility use CTRL and I.To Go to a new location/document use CTRL and L. Also CTRL and O.To Open a new Explorer window use CTRL and N.To Print...

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Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

CTRL + A Select all text on a webpage CTRL + B Open the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + C Copy the selected text to the Windows clipboard CTRL + D Bookmark the current webpage CTRL + F Find text within the current webpage CTRL + G Find more text within the same webpage CTRL + H Opens the webpage History sidebar CTRL + I Open the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + J Opens the Download Dialogue Box ...

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Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster. Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes. network.http.max-connections-per-server =32 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16 network.http.max-connections = 64 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10 network.http.pipelining = true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200 network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0 network.http.proxy.pipelining = true network.http.proxy.version...

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