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Let’s Start Cleaning
This chapter hasn’t explored the registry in detail, but it has provided you with ideas of where to look for problem entries. More importantly, this chapter helps you understand how to trace registry
entries and provides a number of techniques for searching for specific registry entries. Even though the registry can cause problems when you don’t understand how to work with it, careful removal of stubborn entries with the right cleaning product keeps your registry in great shape.
It’s time to work with the registry. Open the registry and carefully explore the areas discussed in this chapter. Remember that simply looking at the registry doesn’t modify it in any way. When you do decide to edit the registry, make sure you create a backup. In fact, you might want to practice exporting and importing simple registry entries before you perform any editing. Finally, remember the simple principle of using a tool designed to work with the registry whenever possible. Try one or more of the cleaning products discussed in this chapter on your registry.
Memory has gone down considerably in price since computers first appeared on the market, but it’s still a relatively expensive part of your system. Consequently, you’ll want to ensure that your system
uses memory for tasks you want to perform, rather than wastes it on applications you don’t know or care about. Chapter 7 looks at memory and various ways to ensure your system uses it properly.
Memory optimization isn’t difficult, but you’ll want to check for any memory-eating beasts on your system.
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CHAPTER 10 Medication Toxicity, Infections, and Head Injury
MEDICATION TOXICITY IS A COMMON CAUSE of poor concentration and memory loss, particularly among people who take many medications. In this book, I generally give the pharmacologic name of the medication first, followed by the U.S. trade name (used to market the product) in parentheses, whenever applicable. For example, fluoxetine is marketed under the trade name Prozac, and acetaminophen is better known by its U.S. trade name Tylenol.
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Choosing between Security and Shutdown Speed
Some registry edits let you choose between two different goals. For example, the page file on your system contains information that appeared in memory. Windows doesn’t clear this file at any given time
(not even at shutdown), so a cracker could view it and learn more about you. For example, the passwords you think are so secure aren’t, because the page file stores the plain text password that you
thought was in memory. Consequently, many people want Windows to clear the page file before they shut down the system. This act ensures that no one can see what was in memory, not even a fellow
employee who uses your machine when you’re not around.
Unfortunately, clearing the page file is a time-intensive process. When you have a relatively large page file, clearing it can take a long time. It might not be practical to clear the page file before you go home each evening and it’s probably not even necessary for most home systems.
You’ll find this setting in the LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management key of the registry. Setting the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value to 1 tells Windows to clear the page file, while setting it to 0 tells Windows to shut down faster.
Clearing the Open With List
Whenever you right-click a file in Windows Explorer, you see a list of standard operations for that file such as opening or printing it. You can also send the file to another location (such as an email message
or a floppy disk). Another useful option is to open the file using an application other than the standard application—these options appear as part of the Open With menu. One option always appears
in this list, Choose Program. All of the other options are optional.
Sometimes this list is filled with applications for popular files. As you remove older applications from the machine and add new ones, the list gets longer because Windows Explorer doesn’t remove the old applications from the list. At some point, it becomes a chore to decide which application to use. The only way to clear this list and make the system efficient again is to perform a registry edit beginning at theKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FileExts branch.
The subkeys in this branch are file extensions. To edit the Open With list, locate the file extension you want to modify and click the plus (+) sign next to it. You’ll see several subkeys, one of which is
OpenWithList. The values in this key tell which applications to use to open the file. Simply delete the values that you no longer need and they won’t appear in the Open With menu of Windows Explorer any longer.
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They also provide us with credit score report. The more score that I get the more opportunity for me to get the loan approve from the lender. With totally free credit report service I’m easy to get my loan money because as far as I concern I have a good credit history. By using this credit report I can make sure that I’m in the right track.
Beautiful Wedding Favors
As we know, there are so many things need to be prepared when we are arranging the wedding party. We must make sure that everything is clear. This is important to make sure that the party would be done perfectly.
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Toxic Effects: Psychosis
With both drugs, excessive dopamine release can cause psychosis with hallucinations (hearing and seeing things that are not there) and delusions (false, bizarre beliefs). Amphetamine-induced psychosis symptoms are similar to paranoid schizophrenia, while cocaine-induced psychosis is typically associated with grandiosity and the hallucination of bugs crawling on the skin. The psychiatric symptoms are paramount, and memory loss is secondary.
Working with Device Drivers (2)
TIP Deciding on which device driver to use for your system can be a time-consuming task. Vendor device drivers tend to provide the best access to every device feature and the fastest access speed, but at the cost of resource usage and system reliability. Choose this driver type when you need the most from the driver. Windows drivers are generic, so they tend to ignore any special device features. However, Windows drivers are generally very reliable because Microsoft tests them thoroughly and they use resources more efficiently. Use the Windows drivers when you want to optimize the system as a whole and don’t need access to special device features. Third party drivers, when you can find them, tend to be somewhere between these two extremes. However, you also have to consider third party driver risks such as potential compatibility problems.
Drivers supplied with Windows require a different process for removal. Begin by opening the System applet of the Control Panel—you’ll see the System Properties dialog box. Select the Hardware tab and click Device Manager. The Device Manager dialog box shown in Figure 7.20 tells you the status of every device driver on the system (at least those that you need to know about). Notice that the Multimedia Controller entry in the Other Devices folder has an exclamation point next to it (some peoplesay that the entry is banged). This entry is a Windows driver that was left over when I removed adevice from my system (in this case, for experimentation because I really do need the device). To remove this driver from the system, right-click it and choose Uninstall from the context menu. Windows will remove the driver from the list.
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Cocaine and Amphetamines
Cocaine (“crack” in its concentrated form) and amphetamines (“speed”; “Ecstasy”) increase the release of catecholamines, a broad group of chemical neurotransmitters in the brain. Dopamine is a catecholamine that gives rise to the subjective sensation of pleasure and promotes adventuresome, novelty-seeking behavior. Not surprisingly, cocaine and amphetamines produce euphoria, a sense of being on top of the world, plus high levels of energy.
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Performing Registry Tweaks that Make Sense
Some users are looking for every possibly means to increase the performance of their machine—nothing is off limits, even tricks like overclocking (a method of gaining better performance from a system by increasing the clock speed over the recommended value) their systems aren’t out of the question. In at least a few cases, these performance tricks end up costing the user their machine or at least severely shortening its life. This section doesn’t contain any tweaks of that sort. These are optimizing tips that you can use within the constraints provided so long as you’re extremely careful. These tweaks often make sense in the context provided because Microsoft optimizes Windows for a standard machine and your machine is most definitely unique.
Disabling the Paging File
If you have at least 256MB of RAM and don’t run many applications at once, you can get a performance boost by disabling the paging file. The paging file acts as extra memory when your system runs
out of physical memory. When you use this tip, you’re reducing reliability to gain speed. The best way to gauge whether this tip will work for you is to monitor how much memory Windows currently uses on your system—if you have a 40 percent or higher surplus, this tip should work. If you receive out of memory messages, however, restore the paging file setting to normal or get more physical memory.
This is a three-step process. You’ll find all of the required values in the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management key of the registry. Begin by opening the Registry Editor. To change any entry, double-click its value and type the new
value in the dialog box provided.
1. Disable the paging executive by setting the DisablePagingExecutive value to 1. Changing this setting tells Windows XP to keep data in memory, rather than page it out to the hard drive.
2. Disable the large system cache by setting the LargeSystemCache value to 1. Changing this value tells Windows XP to keep the kernel (the main part of Windows) in memory.
3. Create a new DWORD value named IOPageLockLimit. Set this value to 10000 if you have at least 256MB of RAM or 40000 when you have more than 512MB of RAM.
Try the new settings during work to ensure you don’t experience any out of memory errors. Once you’ve worked with the settings for a while reopen the Registry Editor and locate the PagingFiles value. Remove the text from this entry and reboot. This change effectively sets the paging file size to 0 (a change you can’t make using any other method). After you reboot the system, manually erase the
PageFile.SYS file on your hard drive—the file won’t return unless you set a new paging file entry.
Taken From : Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization