Coffee beta tasting
Windows On Speed
Published on February 15, 2011 By coffeegrinder In Personal Computing

 

Another free guide from the Make Use Of team,  "Windows On Speed"

 

Download or read online :- 


Comments
on Feb 15, 2011

Beat me to it, cg... very nice guide.

on Feb 15, 2011

Thanks cg! I'll MakeUseOf this!!

on Feb 15, 2011

I want to know what the key is to make a link open in a new window.

on Feb 15, 2011

Ok, sorry for my google idiocy: target="_blank"

on Feb 15, 2011

Read through the entire guide and it explains everything reasonably well. Recommends excellent third party apps for defrag, backup and AV software like MalwareBytes and MSE. A must have for any noobie with links to the third party software. I recommend downloading the pdf file as it is always good to have it on hand.

on Feb 15, 2011

key to open link in a new window is

 

a right mouse click on the url link, opens a menu list, choose

 

'open in a new tab'      -OR-     'open in a new window'

on Feb 15, 2011

Dr Guy
I want to know what the key is to make a link open in a new window.

If you're in IE8, it's ctrl.

on Feb 15, 2011

Oops....that's a new tab, not a new window. Try shift.

on Feb 15, 2011

While there is some good advice found in this guide for a newbie, there is also some bad.

One is, you should never use msconfig as a permanent solution for disabling start up programs. It is intended for diagnostic use only.

It also suggest increasing virtual memory by increasing the page file size but it does not suggest what to set it to.

There have been formulas for setting the pagefile manually tossed around for years. In some cases you can actually hurt performance if you manually set too low or high.

For the most part, letting Windows manage your page file is far better solution than guessing at what you should manually set it to.

A far better suggestion for performance concerning the page file is to defrag it.

After having a few bad experiances with 3rd party defrag apps, I found it best to rely on Microsoft's built in defrag utility. The problem with it and many other defrag apps is it will not defrag the page file. The best way to defrag it is to turn the page file off and reboot. Defrag the drive and turn the page file back on. You can reboot again if you want but it's not necessary.

on Feb 16, 2011

Doc, you done it again!  I checked out the "Windows Tune Up" guide, and there was nothing new in it that I did not already know.  EXCEPT!

EPM!  W00t!

And here I was paying for a partition program for 2k and xp!  Sweet!

Thanks!

Oh, and Redneck and ElanaAhova - I was not worried about how to open links in new windows. I wanted to know how to program links to open in new windows (is that too geeky?)