Useful links for MS Windows XP installs and cleanup, and other maintenance and upgrades.
 
Mozilla Firefox
ZoneAlarm
AVG 8.0 Free Antivirus
Open Office - A FREE replacement for MS Office!
DIVX codec
Quicktime
Macromedia Flash Player
Shockwave Player
Macromedia Authorware Web Player
Microsoft Office Readers
PalmVNC and Ultr@VNC
Dynamic DNS Updater
Java (Sun Microsystems)
Google Toolbar and pop-up blocker
Irfan View
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Electric Sheep Screensaver
AIDA32 System Info Utility

Resources and useful hacks: Price searches: Scripts and Automation: Recommended Products:
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spybot Command Line Options
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner
HijackThis
I Am Not A Geek HJT Parse helper (not a download)

(Work in progress...)
Win XP registry speed tweaks:
Right click and Save As as .REG file instead of TXT due to a web server security limitation. You must reboot after making these changes. Selecting the default should undo any changes.  However...
CAUTION! Every one of these files will modify your registry. Make sure you are running Windows XP. Any error modifying your registry could corrupt your registry and cause your system not to boot or  loss of data. Using this means you accept full liabilty and understand that you are using this at your own risk.
Description: DWORD: Key: Value:
Windows Prefetcher EnablePrefetcher [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management \ PrefetchParameters] 3
(default)		 4 5
(reccomended)		 6 7 8 9
Master File Table Zone Reservation NtfsMftZoneReservation [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ FileSystem] 1
(default)		 2
(reccomended)		 3 4
Offload Network Task Processing onto the Network Card DisableTaskOffload [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Tcpip \ Parameters] 1
(default)		 0
(reccomended)
Force XP to Unload DLLs AlwaysUnloadDLL [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer] 0
(default)		 1
(reccomended)
All 4 above (reccomended)
Disable User Tracking NoInstrumentation [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer] 0
(default)		 1
(reccomended)
Caution: This key will disable the recently used programs feature on the left of the Start Menu!
Hide Messenger Hide Messenger [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Outlook Express] (missing) 2
(reccomended)
Change XP Source Files Location SourcePath [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup] D:\
(usually)
(suggested)
This assumes you have copied the entire Windows XP CD-ROM (not just the i386 folder) to the C:\WINDOWS\XP_CD\ folder.
You can change it to any folder you wish, but be careful.


 
 
 
 
 
 
Created: 01:03 AM 02/02/2004
By: TC Holmes

Last edited: 09:55 PM 06/05/2008