Your Windows XP Running Slow?

My laptop was running a little slow so as I was looking thru the Internet for possible solutions, this particular article helped a lot and my laptop is much faster now.

Taken from:
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/03/10-simple-ways-to-speed-up-windows-xp/

1. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Double-click Add/Remove Programs
• Click the Add/Remove Window Components
• Uncheck the Indexing services
• Click Next

2. Optimise Display Settings

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Click System
• Click Advanced tab
• In the Performance tab click Settings
• Leave only the following ticked:

• Show shadows under menus
• Show shadows under mouse pointer
• Show translucent selection rectangle
• Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
• Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Speedup Folder Browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

• Open My Computer
• Click on Tools menu
• Click on Folder Options
• Click on the View tab.
• Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
• Reboot your computer

4. Disable Performance Counters

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

To disable:

• download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
• Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below

5. Improve Memory Usage

Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.

Once Installed:

• Go to Show Wizard and select All
• Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what you are doing
• Exit and Save Cacheman
• Restart Windows

6. Optimise your internet connection

There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer.

• Download and install
• Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
• Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
• Check Optimal Settings then Apply
• Reboot

7. Optimise Your Pagefile

If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.

• Right click on My Computer and select Properties
• Select the Advanced tab
• Under Performance choose the Settings button
• Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
• Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

Update: If are feeling more adventurous I have also posted 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows and also More Ways to Speed Up Windows XP

8. Run BootVis - Improve Boot Times

BootVis will significantly improve boot times

• Download and Run
• Select Trace
• Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
• A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and Reboot
• Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log your system’s boot process. When it’s done, in the menu go to Trace and select Optimize System
• Reboot.
• When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete

9. Remove the Desktop Picture

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

• Right click on Desktop and select Properties
• Select the Desktop tab
• In the Background window select None
• Click Ok

10. Remove Fonts for Speed

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

• Open Control Panel
• Open Fonts folder
• Move fonts you don’t need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

Hope you find these 10 tips useful please leave a comment below and please share any other tips you may have with other readers.

Joke of the Week

Three Little Pigs


One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three
Little
Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first
pig
was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She
read,
"...and so the pig went up to the man with the wheel barrow full of
straw
and said, "Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build
my
house?" The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you
think
that man said?"

One little boy raised his hand and said, "I think he said
'Holy Sh*t! A talking pig!'"

The teacher was unable to teach for the next
10 minutes.

Harry Potter.....

After 9 years of following the series, it has finally ended.

The book is awesome, just finished it the day the book got released. hehe.

I only stopped for meals/nap/bathroom matters. haha. Other than that I was locked in my room with book in hand.

Trader's had a special 50% discount on the books which is kinda awesome since original price is RM109+. So far work is great, I am beginning to detest Arab guests as they are very bossy, rude and at times, extremely impossible to work with.

Its been raining almost every morning while I am going to work which is sorta welcomed, as during the day it can get pretty hot.

Was browsing through J.K Rowling's website and read that she isnt going to stop writing, she is working on something else, two projects, one for Adults one for Children, which is also funnily enough how Harry Potter came about. Maybe she will continue with the Harry Potter series? haha

I am dreading the last two movies of the Harry Potter sequel since Order of the Phoenix was a downer. What a waste of time really, I couldnt stop yawning in the cinema. Parts when it wasn't funny people laughed, when it was funny no one did - I looked like a fool when I laughed at the little amusing bits; I dont care.

They should'nt have changed directors and also drastically change the storyline. Original story is much better as it is, why the silly changes here and there? I just have a feeling they are going to spoil the last two movies.

Finally Photos...

Porsche Turbo S 2005

Where I Think i am supposed to do work :p

The Office

Ma Cubicle

A String of bad luck.....

...Bring it on LIFE!! Man just when I thought my bad luck streak disappeared, it sneaks up and bites me in the ass. I got another summons from stupid Majlis Bandaraya PJ....FARRRKKK another RM100, but thanks to my aunt, she says she can get it down to RM30 per summon.

What the freak sial...what a great start to the already fucked up week. Everyone keeps telling me to chill, take it easy, relax, start telling their own personal stories and what not, thinking that it would make me feel better but, I just dont give a rat's ass. Then yesterday I was with this long stay guest, Mr Habib "the Con-man" Shahid, who wanted me to update his laptop drivers, install new software, update his Office 2007 (which I dont usually bother and also I dont know how, so i just winged it) etc etc. I was attending to him and his wife for more than an hour while trying to suppress this boiling anger because my friend smsed me saying that I got another summon.

I was really faking the "helpful attitude, cheery smile" when actually deep inside I wanted to scream "FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK".

I have to see that idiot Habib later and I am so dreading this. How do you tell a guest to fuck off when you are supposed to attend to him....? any ideas anyone?

MMU NOW OFFICIALLY FUCKING SUCKS.

I just got an email from the Dean of FIST saying that my case for appeal marks for my Final Year Project, which I unfairly got a C when another USELESS INTERNATIONAL GROUP MATE didn't do MUCH got a B. How is this fair ? Just because he pays more than us locals, he gets "special" treatment.


FUCK MMU and this is my blog and I can write whatever I feel like writing. I don't know what to tell my parents because I know I am going to get a screwing of my life. So now its a blanket hatred I am having towards Arabs in general, oh yeah my group mate is an Arab, biggest fucking mistake of my life!!!! except for a few, i mean very little that made the cut.

Call me a racist, bigot, whatever, i just don't care anymore. This is who I am, you don't like me? Fuck off.

ohhh man I am sooo angry with the stupid Majlis Bandaraya PJ!!!! FIRST i kena saman RM100!!! for parking illegally....where got! i have been parking there for a month now, and there is no sign saying "No Parking" no yellow line also. Haaaaaaaiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhh. AND TO TOP IT OFF, someone DENTED MY CAR!!!! aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh what bad luck!!!! I hope that guy/girl/lady/makcik/pakcik/bangla/indon etc crashes into a tree/longkang or something along those lines. I only realised when I came back and showed K.Nipah my saman then she wanted to see where I parked, as getting out of the driveway i just pandang my car and saw the dent! i am just so furious!!!

what the helll

*readreallyfast*and relevant pictures will come later.

What a Woman Really Wants

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What a Woman Really Wants
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King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighboring
kingdom. The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur's
youth and ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he
could answer a very difficult question. Arthur would have a year to
figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had no answer; he
would be put to death.

The question? . . . What do women really want? Such a question would
perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and to young Arthur, it seemed
an impossible query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted
the monarch's proposition to have an answer by year's end.

He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone: the princess,
the priests, the wise men and even the court jester. He spoke with every
one, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer.

Many people advised him to consult the old witch, for only she would
have the answer.

But the price would be high; as the witch was famous throughout the
kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged.

The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no choice but to talk
to the witch. She agreed to answer the question, but he would have to
agree to her price first.

The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most noble of the
Knights of the Round Table and Arthur's closest friend!

Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunchbacked and hideous, had only
one tooth, smelled like sewage, made obscene noises, etc. He had never
encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life.

He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure such a terrible
burden; but Lancelot, learning of the proposal, spoke with Arthur. He
said nothing was too big of a sacrifice, compared to Arthur's life and
the preservation of the Round Table.

Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered Arthur's
question thus:

What a woman really wants, she answered . . . is to be in charge of her
own life.

Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a
great truth and that Arthur's life would be spared.

And so it was, the neighboring monarch granted Arthur his freedom and
Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding.

The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling himself for a
horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, what a sight awaited him.
The most beautiful woman he had ever seen lay before him on the bed. The
astounded Lancelot asked what had happened

The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she
appeared as a witch, she would henceforth be her horrible, deformed self
only half-the-time and the beautiful maiden the other half.

Which would he prefer? Beautiful during the day . . . or night?

Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day, a beautiful woman to
show off to his friends, but at night, in the privacy of his castle,
an old witch? Or, would he prefer having a hideous witch during the day,
but by night, a beautiful woman for him to enjoy wondrous intimate
moments?

What would YOU do?

What Lancelot chose is below. BUT . . . make YOUR choice before you
scroll down below. OKAY?

Noble Lancelot said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.

Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the
time because he had respected her enough to let her be in charge of her
own life.

Now . . . what is the moral to this story?

The moral is . . .

If you don't let a woman have her own way . . .

Things are going to get ugly!

What i listen on the LRT...

My MP3 player has become my Best Friend. The boring LRT rides finally doesnt seem to take so long anymore.

Beyonce - BDay Album:

- Freakum Dress
- Green Light
- Resentment

Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

- Push Up On Me
- Don’t Stop The Music
- Breakin’ Dishes

LRT Stories

haha nearly a month I have been taking the LRT to work and by far yesterday was the funniest and the most unpleasant.

At KLCC, after work, LRT was packed like sardines, then there was this Indian guy and boy did he smell bad!! Really teruk, I was TEARING up cos the smell radiating from him was just fantastically STRONG. Then at the next stop, I managed to move away from him but the ladies around him didnt get to and they were pinching their noses cos they cannot tahan his smell hahahahaha. When he looked around they put their hands down, when he wasnt looking the nose pinching began again la. So i think it was at Abdullah Hukum station he got off, the ladies began frantically fanning the area with whatever paper they have HAHAHAHAHAH i couldnt stop laughing cos it was soo funny...the ladies just gave me a look hehe i guess they were friends la....

Starting a new chapter.....

First blog post since err....dunno la, all i know it was quite sometime ago lolz. Now doing my training at Trader's Hotel KLCC and the place is like a spaceship; big, luxurious, trendy, modern and niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

My training:

My supervisor is a cool guy, easy going and very informative.
Never seems irritated when i ask him questions lol....and i ask a lot of questions hehe.
This hotel has a lot of servers.
I am slowly learning about how to manage them. Very tricky. But lots of fun too.

Pictures:

Coming soon, a small cubicle where i sit and use the computer, more like surf net (things i am not supposed to la :p heh heh)

I have sorta gotten used to the routine of waking up every morning at 6.45am, take a shower+get dressed+breakfast=7.25am. Then get on the LRT to KLCC. Simple. then Breakfast 2 at the staff cafeteria LOL. Meals are free here, dinner/lunch/tea/breakfast/supper.

I work saturdays.......................half day.................... :( huhuhuhuhuhhuhu

Last Sunday I just automatically woke up at 7am, turned on TV and spent the rest of my day watching TV, with breaks for meals and showers and surf net. Other than that, I was watching TV :)

My aunty, Khala Nipah asked me "Why don't you read a book?"
My reply "Books require reading, TV is more entertaining :P"
I spent my Sunday watching shows after shows from 8am till abt 11pm. :)

I still have to do my weekly reports. Very lazy to do. Don't know where to start. Working here is always fun, my aunty juliana forever keeps me on my toes, constantly aware of where I should be, what I should be doing, who I should see, what to wear, what not to wear...etc...its like having a very cool, fun secretary :p

Walking. This is what 15% of the time I am in KL doing, WALKING and I am starting to think that I need more comfortable shoes because my feet are screaming. In Melaka, I rarely do any walking, RARELY, only to my car to the classroom and back. HAHA. Now: LRT station - Trader's Hotel KLCC - Convention Center but thank God its an air conditioned walkway. :p

Favorite Quote of the Week

This time my favorite quote comes from 3rd Rock from the Sun - Sally and Don's First Kiss s3ep24. This is a guide on how to do an MCQ based question paper! LOLZ:

"Harry said thank you to Tommi for teaching him the method, :

a couple of "all the above"
not to many of "B"
easy on the "c"'s , Heavy on the "D"'s
and dont be stingy with the "A"s.

Birthday blues....

Birthdays ooooh Birthdays.....I think birthdays should only be celebrated if you are getting YOUNGER :p I know its stupid lol...yeah Its my Birthday, 23.......damn........23...........

Child Prodigies

Was browsing through Youtube , from a special place, I found this video and just had to embed it in my blog.

Scientists May Have Cancer Cure-No one notices..

After my two scary papers Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I just decided to declare a holiday for maybe 2-3 days till my next paper, on the 25th, I found this article on http://www.spikedhumor.com

Just shows you how mean the Cooperate World can be. Aren't we getting ready to enter that kind of world?

Current Craze!!~!!

This is more than just a comedy. I has hidden messages , probably subliminal, about Humans in general, People, Americans, American Government, People's Sensibility, Love, Friendship, Global Awareness, Perspective on Life and the Day to Day Grind. My favorite character is played by French Stewart

Currently watching Season 3 episode 3. Extremely funny and currently at the top of my list of things to watch everyday, it even helps me fall asleep.

One more paper to go, Technology Transfer. Transferring of Technology through everyday life it seems.......or something along those lines.

Lost Masquarade

Here are some pictures, these are the only ones that I have that i look good HAHAHA :p more to come.....KUNA I WANT PHOTOS!!!

From Yahoo!
bob forwarded this link to me and it was just too delicious to pass up

VIENNA (AFP) - What may be the world's most celebrated chocolate cake, Vienna's Sacher-Torte, is feting 175 years since its creator produced a recipe that still remains as closely guarded as a state secret. Aside from me, only my pastry chef and his assistant know the recipe, which is kept in a safe," said Elisabeth Gurtler, the dynamic 57-year-old businesswoman who took over the reins of the Hotel Sacher group in 1990, following the death of her husband. "All that I can say is that we use butter, sugar, eggs, flour, chocolate and jam," she said coyly, adding that ingredients are "all natural" and all from Austria -- except for the chocolate that comes from Belgium and Germany.

The story started in 1832 when the Austrian chancellor at the time, Count Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, asked for a new desert that would impress his guests. His requirement: "don´t make me look a fool tonight!"

When the master chef took ill, a 16-year-old apprentice, Franz Sacher, was entrusted with the task. "He came up with a recipe that would make his job easier," said Gurtler.

The demands of Metternich's daily banquets meant that large quantities of desserts had to be prepared in advance - in the days when there were no refrigerators and no preservatives.

"Even then, we could make Sacher-Torte that would keep for at least a fortnight," said Gurtler.

The dessert consists of two layers of dense chocolate cake with a fine spreading of apricot jam in between. Rich, dark chocolate icing coats the top and sides.

From the few details offered by pastry chef Alfred Buxbaum, it seems the icing makes all the difference. "I use three types of chocolate and we work with about 2,000 litres (quarts) of liquid chocolate on hand at all times," he said, adding he'll be slapped with a "six-figure fine if I say more."

Buxbaum and his partner are the only ones who know the exact proportions for the icing.

Thanks to the success of Franz' creation, his son Eduard opened the Hotel Sacher behind the Viennese opera house in 1876 - not only a showcase for the city's best-known culinary speciality but a landmark in its own right whose notable guests once included John Lennon and Yoko Ono who gave one of their "bed-in" press conferences here on their 1969 peace tour.

Today the Sacher group owns four five-star hotels and produces 360,000 cakes a year, though only the 13 pastry chefs in Vienna are allowed to whip up the "Original Sacher-Torte," now a registered trademark.

Despite others' attempts to tap into the cake's fame, the Sacher group, which was bought by the Gurtler family in 1934, "has won every single copyright infringement case ever brought to trial," 40 to date, according to Gurtler.

The latest incident occurred this month when Irene Sacher, the great-great-granddaughter of Franz Sacher, published what she asserted to be the original recipe in the Austrian newspaper, Kurier.

Gurtler remains unperturbed. "There is only one original Sacher-Torte," she said. "In fact, this is going to be our new advertising slogan."

"No one ever knew the recipe for Coca-Cola and for us it is the same thing."

She also refuses to disclose the company's turnover, saying only one-third of annual production is sold abroad with 40 percent going to neighboring Germany, a hefty 18 percent to the United States and four percent as far away as Japan. Britain also imports seven percent and France five.

In 1998, the Sacher-Torte even made it into the Guinness World Records when Hotel Sacher produced a cake measuring 2.5 metres (just over eight feet) in diameter.

WHAT IF a caller had called MMU for directions..

I suggest that rather than close off the entrance to EP, just add the divider, in that case, cars lining up behind wouldn't cut queues by trying to sneak in from behind, well, come to think of it, that would just make the waiting process longer.

SOMEHOW i think it is MMU's responsibility into ensuring that the UNIVERSITY has a proper ENTRANCE rather than a confusing labyrinth of confusing lanes and turns.

Imagine this:

Caller: Hello, I was wondering how to get to MMU?
MMU Official: Hello, okay sure. Follow this very simple steps. As you reach Melaka and pass Jaya Jusco, follow the signboard and take a right turn at the traffic lights. Then go straight ahead into Bkt Beruang, then now here is where you must give me your utmost and undivided attention. After the traffic lights opposite Petronas, go in front a little, till you see Emerald Park, the hostels, THEN you keep on going straight. You should be able to see MMU from here. THEN you go straight for about 200meters or so, till you see a very very small turning to the right, opposite some restaurants going towards MMU. Take the turn in. OK here is the twist in your panties part, you cannot enter the gate which you so logically assume is one of the entrances of MMU, but no, only after 5pm, you can enter. Instead you have to go just a little bit more heading towards Emerald Park, then you see MMU's OTHER entrance. NOW this is the entrance. Got it?
Caller: errr......*in the background*sayang dont lar, getting directions here...* err can you please repeat that please?

and yes......i am bored.

LOST MASQUARADE DRAMA

This is my blog and I can right what ever the hell I want.

First and foremost,

JUNIORS: (You damn well know who you are, TWO in particular, WELL MORE TO ONE ASSWIPE..)

Dear pre-pubescent juniors of SPARC,

Before you mouth of unjustified comments and your little fairy tale complains which have no base of integrity, THINK THINK THINK THINK. As you go to sleep soundly each night, YOUR IGNORANT COMMENTS, had a GREAT EFFECT on the people who you offended, whether you notice or care to know about.

With ALL THE BULLSHIT the committee of Lost Masquarade had to PUT UP WITH, I thoroughly ENJOYED the Prom and this is coming from a person who has been to MANY MANY PROMS.

IF, God help me if this happens, we cross path ANYWHERE & ANYTIME, you'd do yourself a favor by IGNORING ME, because if you don't, I wouldn't hesitate to put you in your place. Every little COMMENT that was made on the Yahoo Groups, is being REPEATED with every single message. Only retards repeat.........and morons.....and dumbasses....and fuckwits.


HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........

I feel much better :) Have a great end of semester.