When you want to run a program designed for a previous version of windows, right click on it, open properties and choose the Compatibility tab. Check the box for run this program in compatibility mode and choose the operating system it was made for. If you aren't sure, try them all and see which one works best.
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By default, most systems have some bandwidth reserved for nothing. You can change this the following way: (Note: this only works in Windows XP Professional)
- Open gpedit.msc from the run box in the start menu.
- Navigate to: Local Computer Policy > Computer configuration > Administrative templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler
- Open Limit Reservable Bandwidth
- Check the enabled box and change the Bandwidth Limit to 0%.
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This is called the Local Group Policy Editor and it lets you customize just about everything on your XP. This only comes with XP Professional, so the registry editor will have to do for Home users.
Go to run from the start menu and type gpedit.msc to open it.
Look around and see for yourself what this wonderful tool has to offer.
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1. When typing a web address into the address bar, just type the website and press Ctrl + Enter to add http://www. to the beginning and .com to the end. E.g. you want to go to google: type google and press Ctrl + Enter. It's as easy as that!
(Note: this only works with .com addresses.)
2. Use tabs instead of separate windows. This is a lot faster and doesn't mess up your taskbar.
3. Use Firefox. Firefox is a much safer than I.E. and is also a little faster. It has many useful plugins.
4. Press Ctrl and + to zoom in the text and Ctrl and - to zoom out.
5. If you can't find what you're looking for on google and yahoo, try a metasearch engine such as dogpile, which compiles results from most popular search engines.
Happy browsing!
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If you get your IP blocked somewhere and you don't like it, then this can be pretty useful.
One way is to just turn off your router for some time, but most people don't have static IP routers and this won't help.
If that didn't help, then you have to renew your IP using windows' command prompt.
1. Type cmd into the run box from the start menu.
2. Type ipconfig into the command prompt. This will show you basic info about your IP address.
3. Type ipconfig /release. This will remove your current IP.
4. Type ipconfig /renew, and you will be presented with a new IP address!
You can also make a .bat program to execute these commands when opened.
To do this, open notepad and write all the commands on a separate line and save it onto your desktop as ip_renewer.bat. Make sure you choose All files when saving it.
It should be like this:
ipconfig
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
pause
(Tip: If you want to see your IP info and stop the renewer program from closing itself, type pause after the commands.)
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