Stop the 'last access update' stamp

Every time a directory on an NTFS drive is accessed by Windows XP, it updates that directory and every subdirectory with a time stamp to indicate the date of access. In folders with a lot of subdirectories, this can add considerable overhead to whatever your PC happens to be doing.

This process can be disabled through the registry:

Open REGEDIT and Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ FileSystem.
Create a new DWORD value called 'NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate' and set the value to '1'

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Modify Processor and memory voltage

[Caution! Incautious modification of CPU and memory voltage can easily damage your components.]

If you have reached the upper limit of your PC's stock overclocking potential, consider bumping up the voltage delivered to the processor and/or the memory. By increasing the amount of voltage available to these components, you can increase their overclocked stability. Unfortunately increasing the voltage also increases the heat produced, especially in the case of the processor.

While increasing the voltage slightly generally results in a better overclock, increasing the voltage too much will simply result in a locked-up PC due to overheating, or burnt out circuits. Definitely a case of diminishing returns, unless you invest in a better cooling solution (which is beyond the scope of this article).

Be sure to increase voltage only in single increments. Once you have increased CPU voltage, experiment with overclocking the CPU and FSB again to see if you can push the system farther. It is unlikely that you will see much benefit past one or two voltage increments, especially with a stock heatsink.

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Changing the CPU multiplier

Depending on your combination of processor and motherboard, you may also be able to change the actual internal frequency multiplier of the CPU itself, which multiplies the FSB speed to arrive at the actual speed of the CPU in GHz or MHz.

For example: an Athlon XP 3000+ 'Barton' processor has a multiplier of 13 and uses a FSB speed of 166Mhz. 166Mhz x 13 equals approximately 2.16Ghz. Change the multiplier to 13.5 and you get (166MHz x 13.5 =) 2.24 Ghz.

Although a small change to the multiplier has a larger proportional effect on your systems speed than increasing the front side bus a considerable amount, the actual performance advantage of increasing the CPU multiplier is not so simple. As the multiplier purely effects the processor's performance, the performance gained by increasing it is not felt system-wide, as is the case with overclocking the FSB. It merely enables the processor to do more work per second. In fact, it may well serve you better to decrease the CPU multiplier in order to overclock the FSB to a higher frequency than would otherwise be possible.

This is something to consider if you have high-quality memory that is rated for greater speeds than the FSB of your computer requires. Many memory producers make DDR memory that is capable of running at much higher frequencies than modern computers normally use, specifically for overclocking purposes.

The option for changing the multiplier is found in the BIOS in the same location as the FSB options, generally the 'frequency\voltage control' section.

Raise the multiplier only a step at first, in concert with overclocking the FSB. Find the maximum stable speed you can achieve, then benchmark. If you have high-spec memory, consider lowering the multiplier and increasing the FSB, then compare the new set of benchmarks to the previous ones.

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Overclocking the memory/front side bus

The Front Side Bus (FSB) is the data channel used to carry information between the processor and the main memory. Generally this runs at the speed of the memory itself, though some newer chipsets allow the memory to run faster than the actual speed of the FSB. Since almost all data dealt with by your computer is passed over this link, increasing the speed of the FSB by overclocking it is the single best way to increase the performance of your PC.

Overclocking the FSB stresses both the processor and the memory, since both are forced to work faster.

The rated speed of the processor (in MHz or GHz) is derived from the speed of the front side bus x the CPU multiplier, which multiplies the FSB speed to arrive at the internal speed of the processor (the amount of operations it can perform in a second).

For example, a recent AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor uses a 166MHz FSB speed (which is actually 333MHz with DDR memory, but this is not taken into account when calculating the processor speed). The AthlonXP 2800+ has a multiplier of 13, so that works out to 12.5 X 166MHz which equals roughly 2.075GHz.

So you can see, as the FSB increases, so does the speed of the processor. FSB overclocking also increases memory bandwidth (the amount of data that can be carried at one time between the processor and the memory) and this has a huge impact on performance in some applications.

To overclock the FSB:

1. First benchmark your system with one of the 'whole system' benchmarks listed above, or one of the 3D gaming benchmarks listed in the 'video' section of this guide. It's good to know where your system stands before you go about overclocking. That way, you'll have an idea of what kind of advantage the tweak has brought you and your system.
2. Find the memory/FSB frequency setting (generally found within the 'frequency\voltage control' section of the BIOS) and begin increasing the speed in small increments (3-10Mhz).
3. Save and reboot after each change.
4. If your PC boots successfully, run the benchmark(s) again and compare the numbers.
5. Repeat the process until the system fails to boot into Windows successfully.
6. Retry once to be sure, then boot back into the BIOS and change to the previous highest setting. By running the benchmark each time, you are also testing to see how stable the overclocked system is; so if the benchmark crashes, chances are you've pushed your PC too far to run reliably.

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Disable built-in features on your motherboard | Windows XP Performance Tips

The majority of modern motherboards come with one or more system components built into the board itself ('integrated'). The most common example is an integrated sound card, but network cards, RAID cards and even video cards are also found on some newer boards.

If you are not using these integrated features, it's a good idea to disable them in your motherboard's BIOS, as they can suck up system resources and cause software confusion if you have installed alternate components without disabling the built in ones.

Most of these features will be found in the 'integrated peripherals' section of the BIOS. Disable what you are not using.

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Disable unneeded ports | Windows XP Performance Tips

What do you figure the chances of you ever using your computer's serial ports are? Exactly. The same with that parallel port. Disabling unneeded ports in your computer's BIOS can streamline the boot process and net you a little performance gain. Better still, no pain is involved.

If you need the ports in the future, simply reactivate them in the BIOS. Look in the 'integrated peripherals' section of the BIOS to find your ports and disable them.

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Update your BIOS | Windows XP Performance Tips

In order to ensure that you get the maximum performance and stability out of your system, it's a good idea to make sure that you are using the latest version of your motherboard's BIOS.

Motherboard manufacturers periodically release updated BIOS versions for their products, which are designed to be written over the older software. Traditionally, the process of BIOS 'flashing' involved using a bootable floppy to start the computer in DOS, then using the motherboard companies BIOS programming software in combination with the newest BIOS version that you had acquired to update the motherboard.

Most manufacturers now offer more user friendly BIOS updating methods, some working within Windows itself. Check the website of your motherboard manufacturer for updated BIOS versions and the software to install them, which will include instructions.

The current version number of your motherboard is available both on the POST screen and within the BIOS settings screen.

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Set the correct AGP mode | Windows XP Performance Tips

Ensure that your motherboard's BIOS is making correct use of the capabilities of your video card by checking which AGP mode is enabled.

Depending on whether your video card is an AGP 2x, 4X or 8X compatible card (most recent cards are either 4x or 8x), find the AGP mode options (usually within 'advanced chipset settings') and enable the one matching your card.

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Developing continues | Blogs Performance Tips

One factor that makes people keep returning to your blog is to provide different media promotion. Use social media such service technocati, mybloglog, digg, etc., to comment on other blogs or it could be through forums and mailing lists.

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Useful content | Blogs Performance Tips

Write a useful article, not a general or just copy and paste. Everyone can do copy and paste. If you want to get an idea of a writing, make a summary in our own language. Make your articles can help people, improve the quality of life of others and can be used as a guide by others.

One of the requirements to become a true blogger should have a good inspiration for writing that can produce meaningful, and marketable. But for us who are beginners who are less accustomed to writing may be difficult for an article that could make a useful and marketable. There are several factors that make people feel difficult to pour brilliant ideas, like a lazy, was not able to write, inferior clay writings of others who are better, etc.. Well, for you who find it difficult to write an article for a useful and marketable, I have a few tips that might be useful for you. Please be listened ...

Before you start writing articles, it's good we started to plant if some important points in us:

1. Positive Thinking
   Allowing myself to think positively is very good in everyday life. Including in writing the article. Biggest obstacles people can not do something is his own. For any outside influences on our own finally decide to act or not our minds Kalo has said can not do something, then we will tehambat steps to do something, when we can actually do it and maybe we can do better than others. Pessimistic thinking that we are not gifted to write, writing is difficult, etc.. is one of the obstacles a person to produce useful work. Obstacles that arise from within ourselves. So, we discard the negative thoughts about the difficulty we write, hard to find ideas, inferior clay writings of others, etc.. We planted a positive suggestion in us and we strengthened our belief that writing is easy and we can do it. Since the foundation of every action is a belief.
   
2.  Do procrastinator
   The idea was not every time emerged. Sometimes we get to spend hours and hours to find a single idea. But it can be when we again not intention to find precisely the idea that ideas emerge. Well, every time an idea comes, do not be put off no longer. Written and posted soon. If does not allow for direct written or posted, then write down the ideas that emerged earlier in the notes so that the ideas did not disappear.
   
3. Stay away from lazy nature
   Lazy to write may be a disease of all blogger. Especially when the idea is difficult to find. We must begin to eliminate the sense of laziness. Just imagine how much money has been generated our friends when we're cool lazy. There is no such thing as get rich quick. Everything takes persistence and patience. If we continue to idle, when are we going to produce something useful for ourselves and others? So, let's stay away from lazy.
   
   Having invested some of the above, it is time we started writing. Here the tips ...
   

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Use the unique design | Blogs Performance Tips

Has a unique design that will increase the interest of visitors. Unique design does not mean that design is expensive prepared by a professional but unique designs that are personalized

Often we find a typical website: "welcome to my homepage," an animated e-mail, background in italics (diagonal), animated lines, tables with border-dimesi and three others. This happens because of the facilities provided by the template creator software web as: frontpage, corel webdesigner, etc. intended to facilitate users in the building or create a website. If you are satisfied with the results of your work with the facility to build website templates, well enough to get here. But if you are not satisfied with what you make, and you feel like better, then you need to know how to build a web designer website design and website design, no matter you have artistic talent or not. Please stay here...

1. Unique:
   In creating any work of a website designer has the sense not to imitate or use other people's work. Similarly, a website design should have a culture of shame for using icons, animations, buttons, etc., which have been used or created by others.
   
2. Composition:
   A web designer always noticed that the color composition will be used in site design and web design are made. Use always webcolor palette 216, which can be obtained from adobe.com, this is to prevent the occurrence of Dither in gif format image. In building a company website, web designers always customize colors used by the company's corporate color. For example: telkom its corporate color is blue, coca-cola: red and white, standard-chartered: green and blue, and so on. For then the colors had been used as a dominant color or as a supporting element (line, background, buttons, etc.).
   
3. Simple:
   website design uses many of the principle of "keep it simple", it is intended to display the website look neat, clean and informative.
   
4. Semiotics:
   Semiotics is the study of signs. In this case expected to see signs or images, the user / audience can easily and quickly understood. For example: do not make pictures / images that memorable buttons, yet it is not the buttons / links
   

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Procedure writing | Blog Performance Tips

The procedure of writing is also very important. Because of our visitors from various countries, so when we use the foreign term or terms of name should not be changed into the language we use. Since it also affects the google search. Although now google has provided "Search translated" but I think it is still rarely used and not perfect, especially on special terms. So ...

1. Pay attention to the words that are often perceived wrong
   
   There are some words that are often wrongly perceived that the writing was wrong, for example, is undeniable (should be denied because the word renege basically), jor-rod (jorjoran should because there is no basic word jor) of anxiety (should be wary because there is no basic word was) , or blunt because there is no basic word candid.
    
2. Nickname state or country
   
   State nicknames or country written in small letters, except the form of greeting. For example, the land of bamboo curtain (China), or a white elephant country (Thailand). While written in the form of address as a person, such as Uncle Sam's country (United States).
    
3. Not all foreign language words in italics
   
   In the ordinary word function (generika), the words of a foreign language should the text in italics in the article or be in quotes when in a position title. However, this rule does not apply if the foreign words that refer to kenama office, a tool, or the name of the company. The names are like it was written with the letter remained upright.
    
4. Translate the local language or specific terms
   
   Given the diversity of readers, writers should include language translation of the sentence or the specific terms understood only a small part of the reader. Without special translation or explanation, the reader does not understand certain words or terms will have difficulty digesting the meaning of the text presented. This of course should be avoided.
   

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started writing | Blog Performance Tips

1.  Create compelling title
   The first thing look our blog visitors are the titles of our posts. If the title not interested, which they probably will continue to read the contents. So, the title should make an intriguing impression to those who see it. We can use words that contain the controversy or the words that invite curiosity.
   
2. Write sincerely
   If we write sincerely and without coercion then we would easily out of ideas in our minds into the writing. The words in our writing will flow by itself and made us felt more alive.
   
3. Write with responsibility
   Writing we not only read by one or two of our friends. But we are going to read written by people who seek information. So, write an article in a responsible manner. If we are going to write the solution of a problem, then do research prior to the problem we will write and we will give the solution. Do not ever write the solution of a problem but we do not know whether the solution will be successful or not. Imagine, how many people we losted if we write something irresponsible.
   
4. Do not be stingy to share knowledge with other people
   If we do have the ability in a particular case then feel free to share with others. We pour all of our capabilities in our writings. Visitors will be more comfortable for long in our blog we can share your reply with their benefits. And the reply they go, we'll leave a good impression on their hearts, yes? The more knowledge we share, the more powerful will our science. But we reply stingy to share, when we can demonstrate our capabilities? And when we can provide benefits for someone else? Let's share the knowledge ...
   
5. Writing is coherent and clear
   Writing is coherent and clearly it is very important so visitors not be confused with article what we deliver. We can start with the opening of the light of what we write, then the content of our articles, and the final conclusions or suggestions of things we write this. We can also adhered to the principle 5W +1 H (What, Who, Where, When, Why + How). This principle is suitable to explain things clearly and in detail. Ga 'need too focused with the standard rules of writing for her blog language is relaxed. The important meaning is clear and coherent explanations run.
   
6. Use appropriate punctuation
   You now must know the function of each punctuation mark? Well, do not let one use punctuation, might mean that readers actually received so different from the purpose we want. His intention to ask even thought angrily, will not reply until it happens? Use commas to shorten the sentences are too long, so don't saturation reading. Use the ellipse (three points respectively) for brook make words. And bold, tilt, or underlined words or phrases that we want to give emphasis. Let mean more wear so ... also use the bullet or numbering to clarify the text. 
   
7. Focus on writing
   We must focus on one thing when writing an article. We will determine what we write, we create a framework and we develop our writing without leaving the main problems that we have written earlier. Do not like jumping. Visitors going to upset our discussion veered reply anywhere.
   
8. Do not write about yourself alone
   For personal blogs is not problem if we write about ourselves. Our reply or a celebrity. We just write about ourselves because it's a lot of our fans who want to know us better. But the reply of our blog is not a personal blog, or we are not a celebrity, we are not needs are too often write about ourselves. Because visitors may feel tired or we are too busy with ourselves. We have written quite a few of our personal experiences that might be useful for the reader.
   
9. Write with the intention of sharing rather than preaching
   Write something because we want to share with others. Not because we felt the most clever and we want to patronize others. Many people who are smarter than us out there. Visitors also ga 'gonna like us too patronizing reply. We use the words soft and not force. We also invited readers make gift criticism, suggestions, or support in the comments box. A wise person is someone who will listen to suggestions and input from others. Ga 'to be ashamed for accepting suggestions from others. It is precisely the way we took the advice and input from others, we are going to increasingly know and more can.
   
10. Check back before the article posted
    Lastly, we check our writing. This job is boring. I myself also lazy when asked to check articles've written. Especially if the article length. But it is important to do. We check again the order of words in our articles. We'll see what were the words written wrong or not. Indeed if you've become human destiny are not free from mistakes, but it would be wise if we try to minimize the mistakes that we do. We also do not want to say no thanks to the professional we made too many mistakes right? So, do not be lazy for writing checks that you have created ...

Well, that's the tips that might be used as a reference you to write an article. All the tips above actually refers to a single goal, namely to touch the hearts of readers. If we can touch the hearts of readers so they will addicted to our articles, and they will find our articles others. Well, maybe there is going to give suggestions, criticism or support please write in the comments box yes ... let us more and more in knowledge ...

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Editing registry settings without restarting | Windows XP Performance Tips

Once you have made a change to the registry in Windows XP, you generally have to reboot the computer in order for your change to take effect. This is not actually necessary, as with a simple set of commands, you can cause the system to reload the registry by stopping and restarting the 'Explorer' process.

To do this:

1. Save and close all open files you might be working on. For example, if you are writing a document, you'll need to close this before reloading the registry.
2. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the task manager.
3. In the 'processes' tab, highlight 'explorer.exe' and click 'end process.' All windows and desktop icons will disappear except for task manager.
4. Now go to the 'file' menu in task manager and select 'new task (run…).' Type 'explorer' into the text box. This will relaunch explorer and load your new registry settings without restarting.

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Dare start and be careful in writing | Blogs Performance Tips

For starters, there is no doubt sometimes to start writing an article or opinion. These feelings should be thrown away. If there are bound to form words, such as anti-(anti-corruption), super (supermarket), post (graduate, post-pay, pascapembunuhan), sub (subcommittee, subdinas, subdivision), pre (Pre, prehistoric, pre-paid) and others. The word "macro" is only a bound morpheme when preceding other words (misalya macroeconomics), whereas when in the other words, "macro" is not bound morpheme, such as macro-economic.

So why do I say it like that? In the most important blog in the beginning is indexed seachengine (google for example). After that we can bring in visitors. So, if since the beginning of google indexes too many words that are wrong, then we will lose many visitors. For example, in a writing "Software", you do not use the letter "t" there. So if someone wrote down the word in the search engines, ever your blog will not appear.

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Change memory Latency time | Windows XP Performance Tips

If you do not intend to overclock your system much or at all, but would still like to squeeze out a little extra performance from your hardware, it's time to look at changing the latency settings of your memory. These affect the 'turnaround' time of your memory, how long it takes for the memory to prepare to send and receive data.

Understandably, lower latency times equal better memory performance, which in turn equals better system performance. Lowering latency times puts additional stress on your memory though, and may lead to system instability, especially if combined with overclocking.

Generally speaking, the higher the speed a memory module is rated for, the higher its latency will be. Hence, memory that is designed for overclocking will often have higher latency settings than 'normal' memory. There are four significant latency settings for modern DDR memory, listed here in order of significance:

1. CAS (Column Address strobe) Latency: The time between a data request and the data being made available. The most important value for SDRAM memory
2. RAS-to-CAS latency: Delay incurred by activating a new 'row' of memory addresses to read from. More important for DDR memory.
3. RAS precharge: How long a row of memory is held 'open' (powered) so that data can be read from it.
4. ACT to precharge delay: There are some things even us "experts" don't know - this is one of them ;-)

These values are often displayed as a set of four numbers illustrating the latency timing of the memory: for example, 2-2-2-5 (with the first number representing CAS latency.) These are either listed in the same order as presented above, with CAS latency leading, or with ACT to RAS precharge as the second number.

If these memory settings are available in your motherboard's BIOS, they should be in the 'advanced chipset options' section. Test your memory with lower latency values and benchmark if stable. For a slightly more in-depth look at the kind of memory you may need to have in your system to take advantage of CAS settings, please see PCstats article on Memory and CAS Latencies.

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Editing BIOS settings | Windows XP Performance Tips

Several tips in this guide involve making changes within your computer's BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). The BIOS is the set of instructions your motherboard has built into it which allow it to work with the rest of the hardware in your system.

Some BIOS settings can be changed, and the changes stored in a small area of memory built into the board (the CMOS) which is powered by a single coin-cell battery. The actual BIOS itself cannot be changed (though it can be completely written over by a newer BIOS version, see Tip 11).

To edit the BIOS settings, most systems require you to press the DEL key while the computer is going through its initial POST (Power On Self Test) the first screen that appears after turning your system on. Once you are in the BIOS screen, changes can be made to the available settings by highlighting the item, pressing ENTER then choosing from a list - usually with the +/- keys.

Note that these changes will not take effect until you have saved them (using the menu option) and restarted the computer. It is possible that your motherboard's BIOS may not contain some of the settings that we will edit below, as boards from various manufacturers differ widely.

Again to edit the BIOS settings:

1. Press DEL several times immediately after restarting your computer. Other manufacturers like IBM may require a different key (such as F2, or F6), but this should be listed on the POST screen.
2. Select the menu and item you wish to edit, press ENTER and choose the correct setting.
3. Save and exit the BIOS, which will restart your system and put your changes into effect.

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Tweak insurance part 4: Use hardware profiles to experiment with system settings. | Windows XP Performance Tips

If you'd like to experiment with disabling various services to increase performance, but are afraid of changing your original configuration too drastically, consider using 'hardware profiles'.

Hardware profiles allow separate configurations of WindowsXP to be chosen at boot up time. This feature is intended for laptop users who will be transporting their system between various hardware and network setups (docking stations, different networks, etc.) and allows devices attached to the system to be activated or deactivated depending on the profile chosen.

Hardware profiles also allow services to be selectively activated or deactivated, so it's an easy matter to create a new hardware profile, reboot into that profile and experiment with services to your heart's content without fear of messing up your starting configuration.

To set up Hardware Profiles on your computer :

1. Right click on 'my computer' and select 'properties' then choose the 'hardware' tab and hit the 'hardware profiles' button.
2. If you have not used profiles before, you should only have 'profile 1 (current)' listed in the window. This is the default profile, or your current settings.
3. Now click 'copy' to create a duplicate profile and name the new profile as you wish. Once you have created your profile, highlight it and hit 'properties.' Check the 'always include this profile as an option' box.
4. Now reboot the PC and you will be prompted to select a profile. Choose your new one.
5. You can now configure services within your new profile. These changes will take effect only when this profile is loaded.

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Mastery article material | Blog Performance Tips

Ideas and views so that the writer can come to pambaca selectively, of course required a comprehensive understanding about the field or issue in depth will be removed. Without mastery of the material, certain opinion articles or peeling will feel "dry", not komprensif, and certainly not interesting to read.

Optimizing the quality of article writing should be done because after writing an Blogger on the blog will be an effective means of communication with the audience. This course will complement the activities of the relevant articles in the virtual world.

As a Blogger an article or opinion, should there a way to hold onto to the text well organized, easy to understand, and draw the reader's interest. Things that need to be considered include:

1. Dare start and be careful in writing
2. Procedure writing

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Select a topic focus | Blog Performance Tips

Choosing a broad topic that can make people confused by your blog, let your content with another one linked to each other, even if it has earned interest in several areas still relevant. It's not funny if your topic is about the 'health' for example, combined with the topic 'software' :-) But if it is to use the topic "health" and "software", as do a post try not too medical. Focus on health. So when in the topic of "software" you can relate.

Note :

After all of the above tips are the most important thing is to select a topic that many people search, manage your blog consistently and try to bring high traffic to your blog.

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