If you have a large house, and your wireless signal is not cutting it…It’s amazing what a few sheets of tinfoil can do for the strength of your wireless signal. By carefully folding tinfoil into a parabola, you can boost your wireless strength tremendously. The fellas in the video saw gains from 82% to just under 100%, though I only saw boosts of around five percent, so your mileage may vary. This project should only take about three minutes and will hopefully leave you with impressive results.
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Your computer was working fine, but then suddenly started locking up (aka hanging or freezing), rebooting itself (crashing) or shutting down spontaneously? If you know only too well what I am talking about, then read on! Performing the simple steps below can fix the majority of lockup cases.

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1. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. If you don?t use the search feature on your computer often, this system service is completely unnecessary.

To disable do the following:
? Go to Start
? Click Settings
? Click Control Panel
? Double-click Add/Remove Programs
? Click the Add/Remove Window Components
? Uncheck the Indexing services
? Click Next

2. Optimise Display Settings

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources.

To optimise:
? Go to Start
? Click Settings
? Click Control Panel
? Click System
? Click Advanced tab
? In the Performance tab click Settings
? Leave only the following ticked:
? Show shadows under menus
? Show shadows under mouse pointer
? Show translucent selection rectangle
? Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
? Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Speedup Folder Browsing

If you notice every time you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer.

To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:
? Open My Computer
? Click on Tools menu
? Click on Folder Options
? Click on the View tab.
? Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
? Click Apply
? Click Ok
? Reboot your computer

If your computer is still slow, your computer will need a proper tuneup. Sometimes slow computers are caused by viruses, software corruption or not enough memory to power your powerful anti-virus software such as Norton.

Give us a call or bring your computer in. We can perform a full hardware and software assessment. Speed up your computer, so you can enjoy it once again.

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