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Tag Archives: Windows Tweaks
Good tweak or bad tweak? TweakHound helps you decide.
An excellent site to look at tweaks and optimization of your operating system is TweakHound. TweakHound gives step by step guides and hundreds of tweaks – they also help you look at these individually and explain why they are good … Continue reading
Keep DNS services running well on your computer
If you enter ipconfig /displaydns at a command prompt you’ll see that Windows stores successful and unsuccessful name resolutions in cache. By default, Windows will store this cache for 24 hours. You can adjust this by doing the following: Open … Continue reading
Posted in network, Networking, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
Tagged DNS Cache, Windows 10, windows 7, windows server, Windows Tweaks
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Different ways to optimize your internet
Want an optimal connection to the internet? Speedguide has an excellent analyzer. Remember don’t just use a benchmark to analyzer your connection. It is good to look at all aspects of your connection. You can run their analyzer and … Continue reading
TweakHound – A site that verifies tweaks
Over the years I have offered many tweaks – most I hope are good but I too have fallen for tweaks that give very little if any tweak (performance) to Windows. TweakHound offers news and other information on their website … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged OS Tweaks, Windows, Windows 7 Tweaks, Windows 8 Tweaks, Windows 8.1 Tweaks, Windows Tweaks
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Windows 7, Vista, 2008 Tweaks
Need to tweak your internet and network throughput? Here’s an excellent guide at SpeedGuide’s website. SpeedGuide.net :: Windows 7, Vista, 2008 Tweaks.
TweakNow PowerPack 2011 SP2 – An excellent utility to tweak Windows 7
Want to tweak Windows 7 discover hidden settings and clean it thoroughly for optimal performance? TweakNow is loaded full of settings that covers Windows 7’s tweaks. Clean Windows 7’s temp files Clean applications and internet browsers Tweak Application settings Control … Continue reading
Improve Your Internet Speed
Over the years the QoS settings under your network settings have been controversial. I never really tried it until tonight. To disable QoS, don’t just uncheck it under the network adapter properties. To change how much bandwidth is reserved for … Continue reading
Posted in Computers
Tagged Internet, Internet speed, Windows, windows 7, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Professional, Windows Tweaks, Windows XP
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