Make Your Xp Life better

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This tutorial is fo those whi have just gotted Xp and those who doesnt know anything ;)
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1. Programs


A) Antivirus


Antivirus is very importan program on your compyter it deleted all crap(or it should do that) Bad antivirus-Program can use very much resources.

Free antivirus-programs :

http://www.free-av.com/

Antivir, Slightly, and does make job well.


http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

avast! 4 Home Edition makes job well, but uses more resources than Antivir.

NOTE! Many antivirus-program same time use can make conflicts between programs, and may take lot of recources.


B) Firewall

Blocks bad connections to come on your computer.

Free FireWall:

http://www.jetico.com/

Jetico Personal Firewall, opensource FireWall.

NOTE! DONT USE MANY FIREWALLS ON THE SAME TIME (Example.XP-FireWall and Jetico FireWall tooks lot of resources and makes them both pretty useless)!


C) Spyware

Spywares those little programs what may can be for spying you or something else, BUT they will slow down your computer. Here is couple good tools.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

There is tool "Search % Destroy" exellent tool for fixing things and deleting spywares and those other nasty programs.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Adaware_SE_Personal/965718306/1

Ad-Ware trustable scanner, whit this you can detect spywares and something other crap too. Doesnt make passive Blocking.


http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Spybot is totally free and , trust able scanner. Includes passive
protection to only internet Explorel and some other tools too.


http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/SpywareBlaster/1056258294/1

SpywareBlaster gives passive protection.


http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

Ewido is fresh and good Bad programs deleter.

NOTE! Your should choose ONE tool, whit many tools whit same time use can make problems ;)

D) Defragmentation

peoples most of time thinks defragmentation is not importan, but it can make big effects to your computer speed and other stuff too ;)

http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

PerfectDisk is mabey the best tool for this, give it a try!


E) Other


http://www.ccleaner.com/

Very popular crap/trash cleaner. I warmly recommend use this. Inludes register cleaning-Tool.


http://www.mozilla.org/

Mozilla Firefox. Most popular web broswer on the world, exellent private stuff deleter, Plugins.


http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

Microsoft Bootvis is microsoft company product, you can switch your boot speed whit this program, you will see the diffrent.


http://www.windowsupdate.com/

Windows update, update your windows download evrything what you can get ;), but if this site is Unable to connect, then use Windows XP own update mechanism(it will not download all updates)


B) Programs and Services




1. TweakUI

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Whit TweakUI program you can make changes on your computer.



2. Xp-AntiSpy

http://xp-antispy.org/index.php?option=com_remository&func=sellan...

Good program to find/detect useless progreams what are on your computer.


3. TCP/IP Optimizer

http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe

Optimize your internet connection.



4. SP2 TCP/IP Slowdown Fix

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

Put more TCP-connections 10 --> 50, can make your p2p programs to work faster.



5. Registery


http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/

Registry Mechanic deletes useless crap from your registry, packs it and then optimizes it.




C) some other things


1. Trash bin

Trash Bin --> Properties

For saving space change trash bin max size to 1-3 % (instead of 10% ).
and always remember empty your trash bin ;)


Other usefull Links/Tutorials:

For Increasing your Net speed:

http://82.92.130.193/forums/showthread.php?t=447

For increasing your Bandwitch:

http://82.92.130.193/forums/showthread.php?t=425

For Speeding Up Your FireFox:

http://82.92.130.193/forums/showthread.php?t=60

For Changing IP:

http://82.92.130.193/forums/showthread.php?t=62


I hope evryone understand my english. :)


~Home


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Comments are welcome.

Thanks.

[Greeny]

Thanks Home, although I have much of it there was things in their I didn't actually know about :)

[Home]

Well i just make these tutorials because i like it :)


and i am happy to see it helped/gaved more information of those things :)

[Bam Bam]

Thanks Home i take the hint ;)

Ps...Im on my fathers computer
Reason: classified

[The Un-Named]

If you change your recycle bin to 1%, be careful, if you delete somthing it's deleted for ever!

[hello world]

this is come good info for me ty

[Pwnd]

"Excellent private stuff deleter"

Lol?

[XxKanexX]

Good job, lots of content. :)

[weaselforce]

well most of it was more "windows" not so much xp...

[moparisthebest]

If you change your recycle bin to 1%, be careful, if you delete somthing it's deleted for ever!

I have my stuff set to never go to the recycle bin, much better that way imho ;) :D

[Bam Bam]

Once again thank you Home :) :D

[ExplictX]

Very nice, I also had alot but there was some I didn't even know about ;)

[da_professa]

I just pres shift and delete stuff that I know I will not need again.. Rest I leave in recycling bin.. Btw very nice tutorial.. Plain and simple.. Just the way I like it

[Wrycu]

Nice. Dont forget, AVG is a good free anti virus. (www.download.com)
Also, if you're willing to pay, NOD32 is a very good anti virus and is updated daily.

[jeffreytuner]

thx i love ur tuts

[Markus]

11-22-2006, 10:15 PM

You are really a grave digger. You should ask the admins if they can change your name in Leo.

[Hugolord]

11-22-2006, 10:15 PM

You are really a grave digger. You should ask the admins if they can change your name in Leo.

exactly and Home hasn't done Tuts in ages....

he just came back to SRL...

pls don't 'dig up old threads' in the future

[malotthouse]

Avg is probably the best program i ever used... i use avg free edition and have never had a virus... or any other problem

[sweetleaf]

yea i use avg and spybot. both good programs no problems at all

[dtp263]

yea i try to use a lot of stuff to protect my computer. Thanks helped a ton

[Harry]

03-21-2006

Please dont bump?

[supadude]

thanks nice tut had a couple of useful dl links

[julian0]

This will get my comp safe thx!

[Nereverine]

Another thing you should add is that in
Control Panel > Admin Tools > Services
You can set all programs to manual... meaning it only turns on when you need it and it turns off when it's done. This raises the overall quality however opening a gazzilion things at once will tend to crash your computer if it sucks like mine. Also just turn off stuff your never going to use.

[Userkill]

Nice guide and useful to those who dont know anything about computer safety. Noobs should read this.

[Lee Lok Hin]

oh, btw, XP SP2 has its own firewall already

[maigel]

NOD32 is a better virusscanner imo

[iwannabeacheat]

kwl thanx so much m8 some handy things in there ;)

[Eicca]

I have started using the Hibernate function of XP and it have made turning off and on the system quite pleasureable (about 20-30s from the pressing of power button to the system completely restored.

[predalienrunner]

oh, btw, XP SP2 has its own firewall already

True... but Xp Sp2's firewall only blocks information flow into your computer, not out. So its a one-way firewall which isn't effective like the professional ones. For example, it won't stop a trojan from sending logs and private date out, whereas a two-way firewall could detect it and you'd be made aware that a trojan exists on your comp.

However before you install new firewall software, you'll probably need to disable the windows XP firewall as it can conflict and cause problems (and it is a waste of system resources).

[Eicca]

and bandwitch -> bandwidth ;)

[king vash]

thanks alot! the random listed stuff at the end is the most usefull part of this, you might mention Jkdefrag (it's da best!)

[Th3Nightmare]

Emailing this Thread to all my nub freinds who don't know how to use a compy :P

Thanks for the links.

[jdisco]

Yes, great job on the amout of content.

[Metagen]

Personally, this is all noob 2 me. I dont have firewalls antivirus, spyware or any bs on my computer and i havnt a single virus or piece of spyware.

the way i see it is.
1) if you get it, ur a noob.
2) they are easy to remove manually
3) antivirus is a bitch and slows down ur computer

[lol_monkyy]

Thanks for all the freeware links, some really helped.