Windows XP Tweaks

Click on Start>Run..., type regedit.exe and click OK. Delete this key:

Correcting Some Incorrect Claims About Windows XP QoS Support. There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings

The run the phone dialer that I noticed is missing from the communications section. go to "run" type in dialer

For some of you guys out there who may just want to setup a small lan of computers, you may not want to load up tcp/ip.

Have you ever wondered how to change the built in MSN Search that comes with Internet Explorer to the search engine you want? Perhaps Google, or even Altavista. It is possible and very simple to do.

Traffic flow can be managed very well in Windows XP using the Quality of Service (QoS) Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). However, programs must be designed to take advantage of this QoS API.

Are you tired of getting those pop ups sent to your ip address if you are not behing a router or firewall. I have found out how to block those.

Windows XP refuses to log into a domain hosted by a Samba PDC. To make it work you must change the following registry key from 1 to 0:

If you use mIRC then you have noticed that the Ident requests do not get answered and mIRC will only connect to servers that do not require Ident.

Edit your link to start Internet Explorer to have -nohome after it. For Example: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome