Advice comes from many sources, most with the best intentions of improving your system, but not all doing what they claim. I have seen more than my share of tips and tricks, some that work, some that don't.

As a computer service technician, many of the systems that come through service are in need of some fine-tuning or general system maintenance to obtain their peak performance.

Knowing that these units could be performing better, has prompted me to publish this list of tips and tricks.

In this page I have simply put together information from a variety of sources (computer magazines, books, and personal experience) that will peak your systems performance, and enhance your personal computer expertise.

For experienced users, some of these tips are going to seem old-hat and a waste of time, but remember we all had to start somewhere on the learning curve. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all levels of competency.

This is not meant to be an all-inclusive list, but as place to locate tips to improve your systems performance and perhaps learn some helpful tricks.

This list is updated as often as possible. Check back regularly for new information.

These tips and tricks have been gathered together from various magazines, books, and personal experience. The author claims no responsibility for the reliability, usefulness, or use of any of these tips. The rights to any of the suggestions presented here are the rights of the original authors. When possible, I will include the source for further reference.

Further more, this author shall not be responsibile for any problems, expenses, inconvience, lost of system information, or any damages arising from the users attempt to use any of these tips or tricks.

I have tried all of these suggestions on my systems without problems.
The text has checked multiple times to ensure the accuracy of the information.

Before attempting to modify any file, copy the file to another location (folder/directory) or copy & rename it (DO NOT RENAME THE ORIGINAL FILE / name the copy something you will remember!)

In the case of the System Registry file in Windows95, use the Registry / Export Registry file... in the REGEDIT.EXE program to save the current registry file.

Note: There are 2 read-only/hidden/system backup files located in the WINDOWS folder. I explain how to restore these in the System Registry Tips for WIN95.

Once you have a backup copy of the file saved, you can proceed to make the suggested modification. Be sure to follow the directions exactly!

If the desired results are not what you expected, you can copy the backup file you created back to its original location and name.