The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply.

NCDC we have installed the Atlas successfully onto a Windows 2000 pc. (We haven't tried it in Windows ME or Windows XP.) Here's how we made it work in Windows 2000: Please note that neither NCDC nor ESRI supports ArcExplorer in Windows 2000, or Windows ME, or Windows XP. Please read the Atlas' Minimum Requirements page. Download Sun's jre 1.3.1 for Microsoft Windows from the sun website. We got it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.

There are a lot of different approaches to improving the performance of your maps, aside from the obvious and expensive step of buying faster hardware. Here are links to some individual howtos for various optimizations. First ands foremost is hardware. An extra GB of RAM will give your map performance increases beyond anything you're likely to achieve by tweaking your data. With the price of RAM these days, it's cheap and easy to speed up every map with one inexpensive upgrade.

No, even though Windows Me ships with a newer version of DirectX 7, there is little speed increase in any game we have tried out, the main difference is stability across all fronts.

you may know, we're willing to give up a little speed to make sure that you are getting the best answer, but the program can be made to run faster. We are actively working on some initiatives in this area, but there are a few things that you can do. Getting a faster computer will always help, but short of that, the best way to speed up STRATEGY for Windows is to add more memory to your computer.

Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.

I would try the compatibility wizard. Go to Start>Programs>Accessories>Program Compatibility Wizard. Then follow the prompts. I have not tried this myself since I am not running any games on XP, but my local computer shop tells me that that's all there is to it. Also feel free to post any further questions on this subject here: http://pub131.ezboard.com/fjpspanzersfrm10 I recently installed People's General on a new Compaq computer running Windows XP.

UFT will run under XP. You must either have the most recent release of UFT (versions 3.0 or 3.1) or install a special patch. Only these lasest versions include the fix to run on computers faster than 300mhz so your machine will not loop on opening. If you don't have one of these most recent versions, see the question, "Why do I get a FOXPROW Error..." below, about installing a patch.

Mailfilter was originally designed to only support UNIX (-like) operating systems. But if you have additional libraries such as the Cygwin environment, DJGPP or MinGW installed, then you should also be able to translate the program on your Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP platform.

Each time SETI@home launches, it optimizes itself for the current monitor color depth (256 colors, Thousands, Millions). If you change the color depth while SETI@home is running, it may slow things to a crawl. It should run reasonably at any screen depth, but it will run somewhat faster at lower screen depths (256 colors) than higher ones. Screen resolution (800X600, 1024X732, etc.) should have negligible effect on speed.

a) Run Idem and configure your source-destination folders, set menu Log active if you whish a daily report of list of files processed. d) to run the Idem Service, ensure that you follow above considerations about Windows and account rights. run it using a true account with the appropriate rights (something like 'Administrator'). Do not use the default 'LocalSystem' account. This is necessary to be able to replicate files out of the NT box (and this is not our conditions but Microsoft's..

Yes. You must be set up as an Administrator in order to install and setup MDC for the first time. MDC was designed using XP as a base operating system. We have tested the software on all platforms including Windows 98, ME, XP, and 2000. If you need to transfer your database to another computer, you'll need to Backup your database on the existing computer, and then Restore the database on the new computer. This is done through the File Menu.

This problem can be solved when you install DOSBox. You can download this program from site: dosbox.sourceforge.net You can run DOSBox under other operating systems for example Linux. Exchange dosbox.conf file for dosbox.conf from PG download page.

Answer the step by step questions. When the software runs successfully, you will have the option to SAVE the settings. If you save the settings you will not have to complete this step again.

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Microsoft article: How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP

The default settings for SciTE were changed in version 1.63 to use the Pango font system and antialiased fonts. You can return to using X core fonts which are faster with these settings:

The level of detail displayed in the graphics has a significant impact on how fast the game runs. Experiment with turning Graphics options (Graphics command on the Options menu) on and off to find the right combination of graphics and speed. For example, set Image Quality to Low (Faster), turn off the Textured Sky, Shadows, and Allow Damage options. You can also try setting Scenery to Sparse (Faster). Turning off the dashboard and steering wheel in cockpit view can also make the game run faster.

Runtimes are affected by many factors, including the size and structure of your decision tree, the size of your spreadsheet (if applicable) and the DPL optimization settings in effect. Click here for tips on reducing runtimes. DPL supports the Excel functions that are most commonly found in cash flow spreadsheets. If you see an "@na" error after converting, your spreadsheet may contain functions not supported by DPL. See the note on Excel functions in DPL for more information.

The speed of CurlCAST can be impacted by your connection rate, available RAM and system processing power. If you meet the minimum requirements for an acceptable CurlCAST experience and continue to experience slow response, exit all other non-essential applications. You may also wish to restart your computer to ensure system resources are free and available.

CalFUSE requires two things of your machine: memory and I/O. To help the program run more quickly, turn off other memory-intensive applications, especially IDL. If your computer has a fiber-optically-coupled disk, take advantage of its increased speed by moving your data and calibration files there. We've seen this problem before. Typing "make -e install" instead of "make install" should do the trick.

Click-and-drag a player into the Running zone located on the top of your training field. Click here to learn more about how to trian your players.

The SimCity 3000 packaging indicates that the program runs on Windows 95 or Windows 98, but it will run in Windows 2000 without difficulty. Windows XP users will have to set SimCity 3000 to run in Windows 2000 mode as follows: After installing the program, go to Start, All Programs, Maxis, SimCity 3000. Instead of launching SimCity, right click on the SimCity 3000 icon, select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and change it to whichever mode works best in your system.

Windows XP is a far superior manger of your PC's resources and therefore requires more RAM (memory) to operate efficiently. We recommend as a minimum 256MB of RAM - 128 MB of RAM for WXP alone, and another 128 MB of RAM for the user and any applications you may use.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.