Archive for the 'Tweaks' Category


How to hibernate you Windows XP machine

Friday, July 15th, 2005


You've enabled the hibernate option under the Hibernate tab in Power Options in Control Panel but you still can't find how to hibernate?
If, when you try to hibernate your system you are only faced with the option to Stand by, Turn Off and Restart in the Turn Off Your Computer dialog box then you [...]

Speed up your PC by hacking the voltage

Monday, July 11th, 2005


... also known as "how to invalidate your warranty" and "how to make your PC a LOT slower (by making it not work at all)". Interesting read  but take care and don't do this on your only system if your brand new PC!
Note: The reference to "magic smoke" is an engineer's joke - [...]

Hacking an unhackable BIOS

Monday, July 11th, 2005


Here's another great link I found from the MAKE: blog - hacking  an unhackable BIOS. An interesting read into why not all BIOSes are hackable (or "tweakable" as I prefer to call it).HonorTagJournalist HonorTagProfessional PC Doctor PC Doctor Computers Hardware 

Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod

Thursday, June 30th, 2005


Do something with all that excess heat  that your PC generates!
Really funny!PC Doctor PC Doctor Gadgets Computers Hardware 

Ed Bott - System Restore tip

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005


Excellent tip from Ed Bott today on tweaking the Windows System Restore  feature. System Restore is great but I feel that it needs reining in from defaults. Ed's tweaked values are much better - mine are slightly different in that I only keep restore points for 14 days (1,209,600 seconds) but do [...]

Fuji 602Z battery drain fix

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005


Here's a hardware tweak for a popular digital camera that I came across today that I thought I'd share because while the Fuji 602Z is now quite old it's still a popular camera. However, it does suffer from a problem - battery drain. This is because the plastic case contains a lot of [...]

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