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Cascade
'Printer and Fax': cascades the entries of the
'Printer and Fax'
folder.
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Show 'My
Computer': shows the 'My Computer' folder of the
Windows Startmenu.
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Show 'My
documents': shows the 'My documents' folder of the
Windows Startmenu.
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Cascade 'My
documents': cascades the entries of the 'My documents'
folder.
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Deactivate
'Intelligent menues': this option deactivates the
'intelligent menues' feature of Win XP Tweak.
Intelligent menues do only display those entries you
use most of the time and hide unused
sections.
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Show
'favorites': Shows the 'favorites' folder of the
Windows Startmenu.
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Show Run
Command: Shows the 'Run' command of the Windows
Startmenu.
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Show 'Network
neighborhood': Shows the 'Network neighborhood' option
of the Windows
Startmenu.
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Show 'Network
connections': Shows the 'Network connections' option
of the Windows
Startmenu.
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Don't Notify
new applications: forces Windows not to notify new
installed applications in the
Startmenu.
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Display Admin
tools: this option displays an admin folder containing
powerful administration
utilities.
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Disable
startmenu scrolling: Disables the Startmenu scrolling
effect.
DeskTop
Tweaks
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Activate
Desktop QuickInfos: Activates the Quickinfos of the
desktop elements.
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Deactivate
TaskBar Balloon Tool-Tips: this option will disable
the balloon tool-tips - such as the one that appears
when you go online.
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Animate
windows: on minimizing / maximizing a window an
animation of the window will be displayed. Use this
feature to disable the
animation.
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Don't move
Windows filled: sets whether windows will be moved
filled or not.
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Changes 3D
effects of Windows: changes some of the 3D effects of
Windows.
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Desktop-Shortcutarrows: usually
shortcuts on the desktop are displayed with an
additional arrow symbol. Use this feature of Win XP
Tweak to remove the
arrows.
Miscellaneous
Tweaks
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No automatic
Window refresh: to refresh the view in Explorer, you
have to hit the F5 key. Using this feature of Win XP
Tweak you can make the Explorer refresh
automatically.
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Show bitmaps
as icons in Explorer: activate this option and your
bitmap files will be displayed with an icon
representing the bitmap
itself.
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Show the
Shared Documents folders from 'My Computer': by
activating this option, your 'Shared Documents'
folders will be appears in the 'My computer' view of
Explorer.
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Automatically
close non-responding applications: occasionally when
Windows XP shuts down, a task will return as 'Not
Responding' and you are given the option to end the
task. This tweak automatically closes any
non-responding
applications.
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Run each
16bit application in a separate virtual machine (VDM):
when starting a 16bit application you have the option
of running each in a separate virtual machine (VDM).
Having a separate virtual machine, has the advantage
that if the applications crashes only that one
application is affected, on the down side it takes
more system
resources.
Cache
optimization
The cache
optimization of Win XP Tweak offers an increasement of
system performance depending on the amount of physical
memory installed in your
PC.
If you have
some extra RAM, you can speed up the file system
activity by increasing the 'IoPageLockLimit' to 4096
Kbytes or more, depending on your amount of physical
RAM. Choose from the options offered by Win XP Tweak and
save your changes. Remember that you'll have to restart
Windows to activate the new
settings.
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4096 KB (for
machines with 32 MB or less
RAM)
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8192 KB (for
machines with 32+ MB
RAM)
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16384 KB (for
machines with 64+ MB
RAM)
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32768 KB (for
machines with 128+ MB
RAM)
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65536 KB (for
machines with 256+ MB
RAM)
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Clear
pagefile (swapfile) on shutdown: This option forces
Windows XP to clear the swapfile (virtual memory on
your harddisc) on
shutdown.
Note: with this
feature enabled, the shutdown process of Windows XP
might be much slower since the operating system needs
some time to delete the
swapfile.
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Disable 8.3
Name Creation (NTFS): This feature of Win XP Tweak
stops the NTFS volume from generating MS-DOS
compatible 8.3 file names. This can increase the
performance on heavily used NTFS partitions that have
large amount of files with long
filenames.
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Increase NTFS
Performance by Disabling the Last Access Time Stamp:
When Windows XP accesses a directory on an NTFS
volume, it updates the LastAccess time stamp on each
directory it detects. Therefore, if there are a large
number of directories, this can affect
performance.
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Enable boot
defrag for faster booting: Boot Defrag places all boot
files next to each other on the disk for faster
booting.
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Core System
Performance: On systems with large amount of RAM (512
MB or more) this tweak can be enabled to force the
core Windows XP system to be kept in memory and not be
paged to disk.
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Optimize CPU
and Memory usage: Using these two features you can
force Windows XP to optimize the CPU usage for
applications or background tasks. The memory usage
optimization is available for applications and system
caching.
System
Restore Point
Win XP Tweak
can create System-Restore points using the System
Restore feature of Windows XP. If you experience system
failure or another significant problem, you can use
System Restore to go back to a previous system state,
restoring optimal system functionality. System Restore
will not revert user data or document files, so
restoring will not cause you to lose your work, mail, or
even browsing history and favorites. System Restore is
also available to you in safe mode, making it easier for
you to roll back your PC to a time before a problem
occurred.
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