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How to Find Windows Vista Device Drivers

How to Find Windows Vista Device Drivers

Windows Vista is the latest Windows operating system, and it is becoming very popular with computer users everywhere. If you own a Windows Vista operating system, you may experience a few issues with your...

Problems Playing Videos with Windows Media Player 0

Problems Playing Videos with Windows Media Player

Playing multimedia on a computer has become so common during daily PC use, that we are not always prepared for problems. There are so many different multimedia players and so many different multimedia formats, that error causes can be almost anything. But if you are using the Windows Media Player, there is one common cause of problmes that can be easily fixed.

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Activate DMA mode for IDE controller

Large and fast hard disks are very common in computers these days. Running them at the maximum speed is essential to maximize your system’s performance though. One aspect that affects the speed of hard disks is the Direct Memory Access (DMA) configuration on the IDE controller.

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Force Windows to Reexamine the DMA Capabilities of Devices

Hardware recognition and configuration is almost completely automated in modern operating systems. Microsoft Windows is no exception here. But that does not mean you can completely rely on it. If for some reason the detection or configuration is incorrect or incomplete, your system might not be running at maximum performance. Forcing a re-examination of hardware can help.

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Control Windows Indexing

Both Windows XP and Windows Vista use disk indexing to speed up file searches. By default this index function is active on all disks. Although the indexing function is intended to speed up your...