How much RAM do you have? When I first bought my PC in 2005, it only had 512 MB of RAM. At that point of time, 512 MB is considered a lot. Most of the applications do not eat up much memory.

Now, more and more resource hungry applications are being made. PCs of yesteryears will surely find difficulty in providing optimum performance to it’s users. The best performance boost that any PC can get is by adding RAM. By doubling the present amount.

Yeah.. and now my RAM is 1024 MB. I am on Windows XP and the most resource hungry application on my PC is Firefox. I’m using the latest Firefox 2.0, released on October 23rd. At times it can eat up to 150 MB of RAM. But hey, it’s the best browser atm. Anyways, back to performance tweaks.

Here are the 7 performance tweaks for anyone with Windows XP.
There are many other websites out there that may give a million tips and tricks but these 7 tweaks are the only ones that will give your XP a significant boost.

1. Graphical User Interface and Themes
2. Enable Cear Type
3. Disable Last Access Timestamp
4. Kernel Paging and Cache Tuning
5. Separate Windows Processes
6. Processor Scheduling
7. Turn Off the Indexing Service

kadaitcha
I shall let the author of Kadaitcha do the talking. Here is his website.

Guess what? I found a Windows 1.0.3 short demo. It shows the instalation and applications that was used in 1.0.3. It’s funny to see how Microsoft Windows evolved from Windows 1.0 to Windows Vista.

Here’s Windows Vista

Here’s Windows 1

It tickled me when I compared the design simplicity of Windows 1.0.3 with Windows XP. I guess that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome wasn’t an issue back in those days. Take a break. Check out the 5 min video! =)

Windows 1.0.3 Video
Take a look at the 5 minute video

simplehelp.com has a short post about the 22 ways to use the Windows key. Here are 2 Windows key shortcuts that I use often.

• Windows Key + D: Minimize or restore all windows

usually used when there is a need to drag an item from the desktop to another window such as :

• dragging an mp3 file to Winamp
• dragging a file to store in another folder
• Windows Key + E: Launch Windows Explorer

running the explorer without using the mouse to click on ‘My Computer’

• Windows Key + L: Locks the workstation

used often to prevent people living in th same house to meddle with my pc, expecially my younger brother.

Thanks to simplehelp.com, I’m gonna start using

• Windows Key + R: Launch the Run dialog box

I use Run often when I want to open up the dos window (type in cmd.exe) and to modify the registry.

Simple Help
Common questions, simple answers.