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.

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.

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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.

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.

There are many ways performance might be improved. Sometimes data processing is to blame for slowdowns (e.g., layout computation, item processing). In these cases it can often help to either find ways to move data processing out of an "inner loop" condition (if possible) or to find ways to process fewer data items by limiting operations to a filtered set of data.

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.

There are many options in the configuration page. The Pixmap theme in particular is very sluggish on older machines; avoid it.

lxml.etree is a very fast library for processing XML. There are, however, a few caveats involved in the mapping of the powerful libxml2 library to the simple and convenient ElementTree API. Not all operations are as fast as the simplicity of the API might suggest, while some use cases can heavily benefit from finding the right way of doing them. The benchmark page has a comparison to other ElementTree implementations and a number of tips for performance tweaking.

When I select Host Session or Join Session for Online Play, I get the error "Could not initialize DirectPlay connection.

To get an idea of how well your web site will compress use a program like GZIP or WINZIP to compress the files in your web site's directories. This will give you a fairly accurate idea of what kind of gains you are likely to get.

TurboExcel completely takes advantage of the fact that programming code runs much faster than spreadsheet code. TurboExcel's patent-pending technology actually converts the Excel spreadsheet formulas into C++ programming code, and then compiles it into binary code (0's and 1's). Excel needs to trade off between speed and flexibility.

The initials ECC stand for "elliptic curve cryptosystem." An elliptic curve is a complicated mathematical object consisting of points that can be "added" to one another. An elliptic curve cryptosystem is formed from a field F, an elliptic curve E and a point P on the elliptic curve. Encryption and decryption require repeated addition of P to itself P+P+...+P. (This is analogous in some ways to RSA encryption, which requires repeated multiplications g*g*...*g.

You can make your PC run faster by taking advantage of the System Tools that are already on your computer. To use these tools, go to Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> then choose the tool you want to run. This tool helps clear space on the hard disk drive. Disk Cleanup searches the drive, and then shows the temporary files, Internet cache files, and unnecessary program files that you can safely delete.

Excel Translator? takes advantage of the simple fact of life that programming code runs faster than spreadsheet code. The powerful, flexible and feature-rich modeling environment of Excel comes at a price, as far as the speed of recalculating models is concerned. A lot of CPU cycles are used up by Excel's environment, which is "the overhead" from the standpoint of the model's end user.

Sun Management Center will run better if the Console and Server are run on separate hosts. This is especially true for users running Sun Management Center on hosts that do not meet the minimum requirements. For users running Windows NT/9x/2000, the Sun Management Center console can be installed and run locally. In general, CPU and memory resources consumed by the Agent may be decreased by unloading unnecessary modules from the Agent.