Windows XP

Automatically Kill Hanging Applications in Windows XP 1

Automatically Kill Hanging Applications in Windows XP

Haning applications is a fact of life. Depending on your PC configuration and the type of applications you use, occasionally you will experience a hanging application. In most cases terminating and restarting the application is the only way out. But if this happens a lot, why not tell Windows XP to automatically do this?

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Turn Off Windows Active Desktop

Active Desktop is a nice Windows feature that allows you to have web content on your desktop. Indeed a nice feature, but unfortunately not something that benefits computer stability. It requires that the web...

Prevent Windows Activation after Reinstall 3

Prevent Windows Activation after Reinstall

Performance problems or other Windows errors can be difficult to deal with. As a last result you might choose to reinstall Windows XP. One of the problems of reinstalling Windows is that it needs to be activated again. But there is a way to preserve your activation file and use it on the new installation.

Uninstall More Windows Components 0

Uninstall More Windows Components

Freeing up disk space can be a difficult task, deciding what to remove from your computer is not alwasy easy. Apart from user files, you can also uninstall programs to free up space. But what about the Windows components? Even they can be removed to free up disk space.

Disable Themes in Windows XP 1

Disable Themes in Windows XP

The visual aspects of Windows XP add to the overal user experience. Windows themes are the main concept behind the personalization of your Windows XP computer. If you do not care about the nice graphics or if you are running XP on a slow computer, you can disable the themes service to maximize PC performance.