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As you know or not, Windows XP and Vista has a delay when you mouse over a menu. By default, Windows takes 400 miliseconds to show the menu items after you mouse over the menu. Sometimes, we think it’s too slow and of course we have a not so fast computer, make it so slowpoke’s performance. Actually, we can shorten the delay, even make it to zero. But, I recommend not to set it to zero, because it’s “too fast!”.

This is how to do it:

1. Open the registry editor (click “Run” and type “regedit”)
   

   run regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
   

   Menu Show Delay Key

3. Double-click the MenuSHowDelay or right-click and click modify
4. Modify the value of the delay lower than 400, or if you want to make it slower because your computer it’s too fast for you just input the value hingher than 400, but I recommend to trade your computer with mine.
   

   Edit value

5. Click OK and restart your computer to take effect.

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This is very classic and simple method that can boost your internet connection speed. For example, Windows will default take your 20% of your bandwidth to do the automatic update. Whether you turn it off or not, it still take your 20% bandwidth. This can decrease your internet speed of course, but may increase your security. I believe, although your computer do update, but if your brain still dumb, it’s meaningless to do update. So, you can turn it off (You must at least run on XP Professional or Server 2003 to do it). How to do it:

1. Click Start and click Run
2. Type gpedit.msc and click OK
3. Go to Administrative Templates -> Network -> QoS Packet Scheduler
4. Double-click Limit reservable bandwidth -> Setting tab
5. Enable it and set bandwidth limit to 0 and click OK.

Another way to boost your internet speed, don’t do too many simultaneously download. For Bit Torrent user, a torrent will eat your bandwidth although it’s download speed is 0 KB/s in downloading status. Just pause it if the download speed is low and wait for another moment where the Seeds and Peers are in frenzy mode.

Use third party download accelerator/ manager. This can help you to get optimal speed of your connection. Internet Download Manager is very good download manager, but it’s not free, it’s shareware. A quite good and free download manager is Free Download Manager.

After you do like the above, you can check your connection speed. A web like speedtest.net can help you to know how much your connection speed is.

If these tips and tricks still don’t increase your connection speed, please check these fundamental things.

1. Are you using 56K Modem?
2. What speed your connection is?
3. Is the speed you get is the same as your provider promised at the promo so you use their product till now?
4. How much you’ve spent your money for your modem?
5. Change to another provider.

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Well, when we do right-click over a file, we can use Send To option to make it easier to transfer or copy a file. We can copy it to external drive, My Documents, desktop as a shortcut, or compressed folder, but we want another location that we use it frequently, like a favorite folder or another folders beside My Documents. I will show you how to do that.

1. First step is make sure you unhide all files.
   

   Unhide all files

2. Go to C:Documents and SettingsXP. Remember, “C” is where is my Documents and Settings location and “XP” is my username, if you have another location and username, then open Documents and Settings folder in your computer and click your username folder. After that, you will see Send To folder, open it.
   

   Send to

3. Now, in this place, you can make a shortcut of your favorite folder or another folders that you feel necessary. For example, I make a shortcut of My mp3s folder, then after you make your shortcut, you can cut it and paste it in Send To folder.
   

   Place your shortcut here

4. It’s done. You can hide your porn videos and forbidden files now :D. Like the picture below, now you can copy a file directly to your favorite folder, such a mp3 file or whatever you like.
   

   Send to your shortcut

It’s simple, isn’t it? Make it easier to transfer files and less time to do instead of the normal one =).

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