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Hi folks, I have finally changed the interface and have got a domain for the site itself. xptools site has been moved to http://www.xptuneup.com . Check it out. You will also find a new utility tool called XPTuneup that tweaks various registry settings and is an implementation of 49 tips...

Hi Rig, I must agree that value of IOPageLimit will not be the all ways good and it may be a good idea to let the WINDOWS XP take care of itself. My objective was to let users know that it exists and would be beneficial for some. But if someone does not know what he/she is doing, its better...

Hello LocutusX, I think I can not say much more than the fact that you are partially correct and have a right to your opinion. I am glad that you have prior knowledge of IoPageLockLimit. It is true that system tries to calculate the best possible value for this key at install time but you...

Added 1 more tip with total being 73. Also added a mirror site at http://www.geocities.com/xptipstricks

72. Protect yourself from denial of service attacks: UPnP weakness in Windows XP You might have heard of the denial of service attacks. Recently there was a news in media of XP vulerability for such attacks due to certain weakness in plug and play functionality. Microsoft has provided a fix...

71. How to Add a Control Panel Tool to a Category : Tips on customizing categories Have you noticed the new view of control panel in XP. Well as its says,its a view and you can swich to a classic view anytime. But if you like the view but want to customize the categorises, there is again a good...

70. Customize your Start Menu setting and preferences You can open group policy editor (gpedit.msc) and go to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar and set a variety of preferences for your startmenu. Or if you want you can open registry editor and change the...

In the meantime use this for your other tips needs 69. EFS cache validation tip: Navigate to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTFS\EFS\Parameters and set the parameter of EFSKCACHEPERIOD to a value between 2 and 30. default is 5. Value suggest the time in seconds the kernel will cache the...

I am not able to login yesterday as my internet connection was down. I am writing this from office today using a different id (I don't remember password of old id and do not have access to email account right now due to internet being down due to CABLE ISP outage). But I would try to respond to...

Hello Folks, I had to register a new id because my home internet connection is down and I don't remember my own password !!!!!!!. I do wanted you all to have an update. I am writing this mail from my dail job and would be brief. As you all know http://xptools.tripod.com was hacked on...