All Posts Tagged With: "Modding"
Installing Vista RC2 As My Main OS Was Definitely A Bad Idea
My decision to install Windows Vista RC2 as my main OS last week was a very bad idea. Yes, I know I should have known better but I thought it was time to force myself to give Vista a real tryout.
The installation of Vista itself went almost without a hitch. The only problem [...]
Speedup Hard Drives - 10 NTFS Performance Hacks
I’ve featured some of these tweaks previously, in my PC optimisation guides, but some of these are new to me, particularly the tweaks to improve page file performance. The 10 tweaks are:
Disable Short Filenames
Name Your Files Appropriately
Use More Folders
Use More Partitions
Plan Your Cluster Size
Defragment Regularly
Reserve Space for the MFT
Disable Last Access Time
Turn Off (or [...]
Xbox360 Mod Chips For Sale In A Few Weeks
Team I.C.E have posted details of Xbox 360 mod chips that will be available for sale in a few weeks. Only NTSC versions are working at the moment.
Although it is impressive that they’ve managed to hack the Xbox 360 already, I’m not sure how useful these first gen chips will be. Even non-Windows [...]
Building My First PC Was Easy - Everyone Can Do This
One of the projects I’ve been working on over the Christmas break is building my first PC as my old PC which was over 4 years old started acting up. It’s gone really well and I’ve run a few tests to compare the performance between the old PC and the new machine and there [...]
8Jan2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Xbox360 Media Center Extender Vs Modded Xbox
A few days ago I setup Windows XP Media Center Edition on a PC so that I could access my media on my Xbox360 using the in-built Media Center Extender.
I have to say that the overall experience so far hasn’t been overwhelming, but will hopefully pick up once I get my TVcard which will unlock [...]
10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows
Update: If you are using Windows Vista then check out 10 Simple Ways To SpeedUp Windows Vista.
Given how successful my Simple Guide to Tweaking Windows XP has been I’ve decided to post some more complex tweaks. The effectiveness of each of these tweaks will vary from machine to machine.
I’ve tried to focus on tweaks that [...]
Two Great Gmail Tweaks
Gmail has been a major revelation for me over the last day or so. Until yesterday I was using Thunderbird as my email client, but Gmail is so much faster and it is already changing the way I manage and organise my conversations.I discovered two cool Gmail tweaks today, courtesy of Persistent Info, that utilise [...]
26Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Speedup Windows XP By 15% Using Longhorn’s Enablesuperfetch
One of the many claims Microsoft makes for Windows Longhorn/Vista is that it will launch applications 15% faster than Windows XP does currently. This is down to improvements in the Prefetch functionality.Well, there’s no need to wait until Longhorn arrives; this improvement is already in Windows XP thanks to Service Pack 2. It just needs [...]
25Aug2005 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
PC Optimisation Tips
Slightly off-topic but I’m posting anyway as I think this post will be useful for a lot of readers. I’ve been playing with the setups of my PCs and I’ve managed to eek out quite a lot more speed. It’s amazing how much faster a PC can get if you can disable the [...]
28Jun2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
Sony update PSP BIOS to stop hacking
Well after praising Sony for allowing hacking, they’ve just released a new PSP firmware to prevent “unauthorized†software from being run on the system.
Pity.
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