Posts tagged Windows XP
Snippy – Portable Screen Capture Tool For Windows XP
May 26th
Windows Vista and 7 has a very cool screen capture program called Snipping Tool that lets you take screenshots of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. You can snip a whole window, a rectangular section of the screen, or draw a freehand outline with your mouse or tablet pen (or your finger, if you’re using a PC with a touch screen). However, if you’re still using Windows XP like me, don’t be sad because there is Snippy, a cool portable screen capture tool for Windows XP.
Snippy doesn’t require any installation that’s why it’s called “portable”. You just have to download it, open the program and click the Snippy icon in the notification area. Your mouse cursor will change to a pen and you can now start to mark an area of the screen. That’s it!
How To Speed Up And Optimize Windows XP For Better Performance
Jan 2nd
Are you tired of using your very slow PC? You already tried different ways to speed it up yet nothing worked?
On my previous posts, I already showed you the different ways to speed up and optimize your Windows XP and here’s the compilation of those steps:
How To Enable Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Jan 2nd
What is the advantage when we enable DMA on our Windows PC?
DMA (also referred to as bus mastering) is a technique that some components and devices use to transfer data directly to and from memory without passing through the Central Processing Unit (CPU). DMA reduces CPU overhead by providing a mechanism for data transfers that do not require monitoring by the CPU. The number associated with DMA indicates the direct memory access channel that the component or device uses to transfer data to and from memory.
Without DMA, the CPU is typically fully occupied for the entire duration of the read or write operation, and is thus unavailable to perform other work.
Disable File Indexing
Nov 28th
Indexing Services is just a small program that uses large amounts of memory and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. Why? So that the next time you do a search on your PC, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, this system service is completely unnecessary.
Run Disk Cleanup
Nov 14th
Both Windows and application programs tend to leave temporary files on your hard drive, taking up space. Like in my case, I have McAfee Anti-virus installed on my PC and it always leaves a lot of temporary files when it is updating. A hard drive that is close to being “full” can cause Windows to slow down or interfere with efficient disk access and virtual memory operations.
If you surf the web a lot, your temporary internet files folder can become quite large, causing your web browser to slow down or malfunction. To prevent this from happening, you have to run disk cleanup at least once a month.
Optimize Display Settings
Oct 28th
Windows XP looks really cool but displaying all the visual items is not recommended and it just waste system resources. By turning off other display settings, it can really increase the performance of your PC.
To optimize the display settings of your Windows XP, just follow these very simple steps:
