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I’ve taken a screenshot of my Firefox extentions for backup purposes, just in case my Firefox breaks or my PC crashes, I still have a copy of the extentions that might disappear. No need for me to remember this nor miss something from the list.

The title says it all. In my own experience, I noticed that there is 95-100% chance of success when fewer Windows tasks are being carried out while burning a cd, assuming you have a good quality of cd-r and cd writer. I leave my pc in an idle state while i’m burning a cd and I personally believe that there is a significant difference on cd burn quality when doing this.

This set of tweaks will make the contents of your folder display faster by disabling all of the unnecessary folder options.

How-to:

1. Open any Windows folder you like
2. Go to Tools
3. Click Folder Options…

Under General Tab

- Tick Use Windows Classic Folders

Under View Tab

Files and Folder

- Untick Automatically search for network folders and printers
- Untick Display file size information in folder tips
- Tick Display simple folder view in Explorer’s Folders list
- Untick Display the contents of system folders
- Tick Display the full path in the address bar
- Untick Display the full path in the title bar
- Tick Do not cache thumbnails

Hidden files and folders

- Tick Do not show hidden files and folders
- Untick Hide extentions for known file types
- Tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
- Untick Launch folder windows in a separate process

Managing pairs of Web pages and folders

- Tick Show and manage the pair as a single file
- Untick Remember each folder’s view settings
- Untick previous folder windows at logon
- Untick Show Control Panel in My Computer
- Tick Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
- Untick Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items
- Untick simple file sharing (Recommended)

Under Offline Files tab

- Untick Enable Offline Files

4. Click Apply
5. Click OK

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How To:
Copy & Paste the link and place it in your (with embed, object, etc.) profile form

The best way to refresh your exporer.exe and system RAM is to reboot your Windows XP instead of doing a full system restart. This will make your boot timeout lesser so you won’t be bothered by a long and gruesome wait.

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When defragmenting your hard disk, you can defrag it while your system is under safe mode. In principle, fewer drivers loaded means fewer CPU usage. This way, you can save extra system resources for more important tasks, like in this case, you can make the defrag faster and stable.

Autoruns - This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon’s “Windows Internals” seminar), shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. A “Hide Signed Microsoft Entries” option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system. You’ll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically! - text taken from sysinternals website

Just minutes later after I installed this nifty little program, I found out some entries that I think it can be disabled to improve the bootup timeout and further more save valuable system resources.

Here’s the list of entries I disabled

Summary:

Before I made this changes, I see to it that I know what I am doing. As what you can see from above, I disabled 5 entries that belongs to MS Windows Media Player. I did this because in the first place, I am not using this media player, same with the entries that belongs to the other MS bundled apps like MS Outlook, MS Briefcase, MS Windows Messenger, and MS Themes. Along with the disabled items are the programs that I actually use. I disabled entries for Ewido and dB PowerAMP because I don’t think it is necessary for this programs to run during system bootup. In addition, I found two weird startup entries that belongs to Canon’s Bubble-Jet Printer driver and an Internet Explorer 4 Suite Splash Screen even though I never owned any Canon device nor I have an Internet Explorer 4 bundled with my Windows XP SP2. I also disabled Windows features like Help and Support, Scheduled Tasks, Offline Files, Search Assistant, and History, because I don’t find this things useful for my computing needs.

Conclusion:

I managed to disable 26 windows explorer autorun entries without experiencing a single system error. This customization works absolutely fine with me. If you want to test it for yourself, I cannot give you 100% assurance that this settings will also work in your set-up. With this fact, I cannot be held responsible to any unexpected events that might occur while applying this settings.

An update to my first post about my Apache wizard error

thanks to fatbull of FudForum for providing the partial instructions.

Before starting this manual installation, be sure to make some necessary changes to the following.
1 - be sure to start the Windows Installer service
2 - kill all Antivirus, Firewall, Windows Firewall and other security programs
3 - clean your windows temp folder
4 - check if there’s an older version of Apache installed
5 - check if you have the latest Microsoft Windows Installer.

1 - msiexec /a apache_2.0.54-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi
The installer will ask for a “network location”. Enter any path you like
there, e.g. c:\temp. The installer extracts some files into
c:\temp\program files\Apache Group\Apache2. This folder contains an
almost complete Apache distribution. Note that there is no httpd.conf
yet.

2 - Go to the conf directory and rename httpd-win.conf to httpd.conf.
This file won’t work as it still contains a few variables (e.g.
@@ ServerRoot @@ ) that need to be replaced. Usually the installer does
that job, but since we’re not using it we have to do that outselves.

3 - That task should be straightforward; just use the “replace all” feature
in your favourite text editor to replace all @@ -variables with something
meaningful.

4 - Next, go to the bin directory and run
apache -k install

This will install Apache as a service so it will start automatically
with Windows. Run

Pitbull did’nt mentioned something about the following errors I encountered.

Error in: Port Number
Solution: Set port number to 80
Error: logs directory cannot be found
Solution: under C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2 create a folder name it “logs”

Run net start apache2 or type services.msc and start the service manually.

Error: [Sat Dec 10 10:47:53 2005] [error] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : could not open mime types config file C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/conf/mime.types.

Solution: Go to C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf, rename mime.types.default to mime.types

Now it works showing this log entry

[Sat Dec 10 10:48:49 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) configured — resuming normal operations

What if you are in dire need to use a public computer at a cafe or a public library, just to find out that there’s no shortcut icon of any browser? Worst of all, you don’t have the luxury of time to ask for assistance or do some technical tinkering.

Your Solution? Fire up any windows folder you can find. Under the address bar (long white horizontal space right below the toolbar). Type the address of the website and press enter or click the “Go” Button.

The windows folder address bar can also function as a web browser.