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How to change or add a new item in explorer 'Other Places'?
How to add an item here or change one of them:
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Solutions for making Windows XP faster
My Windows XP installation at work is (painfully) slow.
How can I determine the bottlenecks?
I'm using TuneUp Utilities to clean my registry.
What else can I do to speed up my windows installation.
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What can cause an ultra-slow screen refresh in Windows XP?
I'm hoping that someone else has possibly encountered this before so that they understand what I'm describing.
My wife and I just moved to a new place and the movers haven't arrived with our stuff ...
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Fairly new laptop hard drive extremely slow
I installed a new drive in this customer's laptop about two months ago. Brand new WD1200BEVE PATA drive. The machine worked well until about a week ago. She told me it was running extremely slow, and ...
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iTunes is so laggy it's virtually unusable
Are there any hacks for iTunes which make it less laggy? Something which replaces the UI with a more windows like one or something?
On my laptop (1.6 Ghz/1GB RAM) it's completely unusable.
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Why does my Windows XP system take longer to start up?
I bought my computer about 2 years ago. Since then the start up time (Windows XP) has gone from less than 30 seconds to over 3 minutes. Part of this happened immediately after installation of the ...
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VS2010 Performance [closed]
so i have this laptop Compaq Presario C700
intel T2310 + 2.5GB RAM + 120GB HDD + intel GMA 965
im running Windows 7 ultimate + VS2008
VS2008 is fast but VS2010 is sluggish and laggy idk why
i searched ...
Yassine
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Why is the CPU Usage History pane "split" in Windows Task Manager / Performance
In Windows Task Manager, under the Performance tab, Page File Usage History is shown in a continuous pane, while the CPU Usage History is split up into 8 narrow panes, which make it look like the ...
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Computer Running Slow -- Identifying what is causing the problem
I was wondering what utilities can help identify what is causing a computer to slow down. I am a J2EE programmer and have WebSphere and eclipse continuously running on my computer and lately my ...
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Would Windows XP provide better performance than Windows 7 on Intel Atom Z520?
I've bought a netbook Asus Eee 1101HA with Intel Atom Z520 1,33GHz and Windows 7.
Even though it is used for basic things (web browsing and simple photo edition in Picasa), its performance is ...
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Firefox 3.6 so slow to start
This issue is present since Firefox v3.6 and now it's 3.6.6 without any changes. When I start Firefox, it takes more than 5 minutes to start and it kills me. I have the same version at home with more ...
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Post-lunch 'swapping in' redraw effect - can I avoid it?
With the advent of multiple processes grouped together to comprise one application like IE8 and Chrome uses processes for each tab/group-of-tabs, I'm seeing an effect that I hadn't seen since Windows ...
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What browser or any tool can reduce flash CPU usage?
OS: windows XP SP3
While listening to Pandora in Chrome, the CPU usage is almost to 100% for a single core in CPU. Is there any way to reduce CPU usage? Either by using another browser, any plugins ...
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VMware Workstation has terrible performance on local hard disk
I'm working on vmware image files. My computer always load hard disk and vmware works very slow at the same time.
Guest OS: Windows XP SP2
Host OS: Windows XP SP2
Is there any way can improve the ...
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Hard Drive Fundamentals And Verifying Disk Performance
Over the past few months, my Windows XP machine has slowed down to a crawl. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go from power-up to reaching a responsive state. I have reasons to believe that this is a ...
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