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Windows XP includes a great tool for improving the readability of fonts on screen. ClearType is available both as a web interface and a downloadable extension accessible from the Control Panel. From the Microsoft website:
With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves [...]
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I finally determined the cause of a problem that lurked me for quite some time. Whenever I went to stream audio using windows media player I received the following problem:
Windows Media Player loads, displays Ready, but stubbornly refuses to play any audio, even if I press play. The first time this happened, I [...]
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Whenever I turn on my external hard drive, I get the annoying Windows XP Auto-play dialog box informing me that I have content on the drive and would I like to open it, etc, etc. Here’s a trick to turn off that annoying box once and for all.
1. Download and install Tweak UI [...]
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An annoying feature of Windows XP is it’s auto-restart whenever a (albeit, infrequent) blue screen of death appears. The instantaneous restart leaves no time to read any error code which could be useful in diagnosing the problem. Here’s how to disable the restart so you have time to read the message.
1. Go to [...]
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The device manager in Windows XP is really buried: Start ? Settings ? Control Panel ? System ? Hardware ? Device Manager.
Here’s a quicker way:
1. Go to the run command (Start ? Run)
2. Type devmgmt.msc. You’re done!
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Say you have your iTunes library on an external hard drive, but now XP decides to assign the drive a different drive letter making your library unmapped. Here’s how to fix that annoyance.
1. Choose Start ? Run
2. Type diskmgmt.msc
3. Right click the drive you want to change and choose Change Drive [...]
