I thought long and hard (well
at least a
full five minutes) what my 5000th post should be about and I decided to give you guys two useful tips to speed up things on your PC (sorry Mac users
)
Too bad
not all forum members will benefit from both these tips but
many will, so here we go:
1. This is a
GREAT tip
if you have a PC with Windows installed
and you have a few (or several) folders containing either many or large files (or both):
On my PC I have a root folder called "Music" and a sub folder for each of the letters from "A" to "Z" (plus one for "The"). All artists starting with the letter "A" I have placed in the (you guessed it
) "A" folder and so on.
Almost all of these sub folders are HUGE. My "M" folder contains almost 4,000 files (all chart hits, mind you - no fillers
).
Opening such a massive folder could take 5-10 seconds, which as you guys know is irritating beyond belief.
Then I stumbled upon this neat trick on the Internet:
Double (left) click on My Computer.
Left click on Tools.
Left click Folder Options.
Left click the View tab.
Uncheck Automatically Search For Network Printers.
Left click Apply.
Left click OK.
Done.
Note: If you have a use for the
Automatically Search For Network Printers function, then you can always recheck the box again.
2. This is a
GREAT tip
if you have the Firefox browser installed:
I have 4 Gb of RAM installed on my PC but even if I have such a fair amount of memory, I experienced that Firefox would just stall, if I had more than 12-14 tabs open at once.
I had noticed in the lower left corner of my PC (on the system bar) that each tab was sending information to Google Analytics. I then used (you guessed it
) Google to search for a solution - and I found it almost immediately:
A Firefox Extension called
CustomizeGoogle:
CustomizeGoogle: Improve Your Google Experience -- Firefox Extension
Install that extension and restart Firefox.
Left click on Tools.
Select Extensions.
Left click Options.
Select Privacy and check the two boxes.
Left click OK.
Restart Firefox.
Done.
Note: You can even choose to remove Google ads etc. using this extension
Now I can have 30-40 tabs open without slowing down my browser
or my computer one single bit
Enjoy
#5000 (Two Useful Tips To Speed Up Your PC) -
02-12-2008, 09:32 PM
I’ll start the betting with 17th November 2008 
Katie Price and Peter André -
02-12-2008, 09:47 PM
great job -
02-13-2008, 12:00 AM
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