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Why dual boot Vista and XP? I help my sister in-law to order a Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop computer six months ago. She was so excited with the big 20″ inch widescreen. But sad because can’t play much game in Windows Vista Home Basic. Those games can be installed but can’t play. I suspect is compatibility problem.

To resolve the problem, I’ve installed Windows XP into computer as second operating system. The Windows XP has been installed successfully without format the current harddisk. Vista is still remain inside but Windows XP take over as default boot up. So, I have to do some tricks to enable dual boot for Vista and XP (with Vista installed first).

How to Dual Boot Vista and XP ?

You need 2 softwares: Windows Vista DVD and EasyBCD. The rough idea is make it boot from Vista first (restore Vista boot up files). Then install EasyBCD to make it dual boot. (more…)

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I’ve went through the 5 ways to speed up your PC at Microsoft Website. I found it is useful and rewrite the tips. I want to make the speed up process itself even faster than the build in Windows utilities.

Many Windows user like me face the slowness after use for some time. My friend took 5 minutes to boot up and login to Vista on her HP laptop. That is really ridiculous! Hope these 5 ways could help to increase your computer speed too.

5 Ways to Speed Up Your PC

By following these few simple steps, you can maintain your computer easily and keep it running smoothly.

• Free up disk space

You can improve your computer performance by freeing disk space. Windows build in Disk Cleanup Tool is an easy to use tool. This tool identifies files that you can safely delete. You can speed up the Disk Cleanup Tool to run faster using my tips.

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After wait for sooo long, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been officially released!

If you have not upgrade your Windows XP to service pack 2, this is a good opportunity for you to upgrade all patches at a glance. This might be the final service pack for Windows XP, since Vista has been out for quite some time.

My friend told me he has upgraded his Windows XP to service pack 2 some time ago. It make his machine run slower when playing games. I am not sure about this SP3, but I do believe Microsoft already fix more bugs compare to SP2.

You may download the Microsoft official Windows XP SP3 executable file (~316MB). The fixes included all previous security patches in SP1 and SP2. The full list of fixes shows more than hundred hotfix. (more…)

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Frankly speaking, I have downloaded too many softwares to test, but seldom
do disk cleanup. This is no good

Since I am a windows user, I have a free disk cleanup tool under
accessories to use. Its time for me to cleanup my computer!

The problem is it took too long time just for it to start and analyzes
the amount of space that can be freed by compressing old files first (see the screenshot below). Sometime it took 5 minutes or more.

How to speed up disk cleanup tool?

The time-consuming analysis can be remove by tweaking windows
registry. But please pay more attention when tweaking registry, delete
wrong key can cause your Windows OS not function properly! (more…)

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