23 Ways To Speed WinXP, Not only Defrag

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1. To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.
2. If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.

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Best Keyboard Shortcuts

Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I use the following keyboard shortcuts every day:

Windows key + R = Run menu

This is usually followed by:

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Best Travel Laptop

Travel can be for various purposes like for pleasure, work, business, study or whatever purpose you have. We all carry our laptop along with essential things and it would get very tiresome to carry a laptop which weighs over 4 or 5 kg along with our backpack. An ideal travel laptop should be light, easy to carry, offer a good mixture of performance and battery backup along with good connectivity features too.

A prerequisite of a good travel laptop is that it should be very light, weighing below 2 kg and should have a good battery backup of about seven - eight hours. It is hard to make laptops which are both lightweight and have good battery backup. Since the advent of netbooks and UMPC (ultra mobile portable computer), and tablet pc's it has been made clear that many companies are focusing their attention on how to make laptops which are easy to carry around with very good battery backup and has lot of connectivity options too. Some of the new travel laptops has features like being waterproof, splash proof, dust proof, shock resistant etc. Of course, when people hear about these features in a travel laptop they are surely going to buy the laptop without any much further ado.

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Tips on Finding the Best Calgary iPhone App Consulting Agency Online

Calgary is one of business hubs in the whole of Canada and in today’s competitive business environment there is a need for marketing your products and services differently. One of the best platforms to market products is through iPhone apps. What you will need is the services of a good Calgary iPhone app consulting company. Where to look for the company which offers you good service? Online is the answer, and in this write-up we shall discuss a few tips which will help you in finding the best Calgary iPhone app consulting agency online.

Research Well – There are a lot of companies in Calgary which will make tall claims with their website but you need to make sure that the Calgary iPhone app design company that you hire has the expertise and the resources to undertake the job. Shortlist a few companies based on their credentials before you start contacting them. Do not commit the mistake of striking a deal with the company till you have made a thorough check of the background. Ask for reference from your friends and colleagues as you will be guided to some of the best iPhone app companies.

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