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How to Make Windows XP Startup Faster

Anthony — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:20:26 +0000

Click on Start, then Run, and type “msconfig”. Wait for a new window to pop up.
Look under the “BOOT.INI” tab. You will see a box labeled “Timeout:”, and a numerical value. By default, it’s 30, which means 30 seconds of wait time before boot. This can be changed, make it 3 seconds. (Note: if you have more than one operating system, this means the wait time to startup to the highlighted Operating System. Sometimes you might want a bit more than 3 seconds than you can opt 5 or 10 seconds)
Delete The Temporary Files Periodically From Your Computer To Make The Applications Run Faster. Type %Temp% in the run dialog box by clicking on Start -> Run, and click on “OK”. You will see an open folder with many files. Click on the Edit menu and click on Select all and then click on the File menu and select Delete. Note: Always confirm that the folder which is opened has a “temp” on the top of menu bar and the folder indicates that it is a temporary folder.
Perform a Scandisk To See That Your Computer Hard Drive is in Healthy Condition and it helps Your Computer Run Faster
Always Perform a Disk Defragmentation at least once in a month. Start the disk defragmentation from the system tools available in the accessories from the start menu. It takes a longer time and it is advised not to run any applications in the computer including the screen savers, while running disk defragmentation.

Hibernation

After doing all this, another method you can do is to allow the computer to hibernate. Hibernation closes and opens Windows faster than usual. However, Hibernation is a good long-term recommended solution, as it does save electricity.

Go to Start->Control Panel->Power Options. Click on the Hibernate tab.
Click on the box that says “Enable hibernation” to check it.
Click on the Advanced tab and change the Power buttons options if you want to hibernate by pressing the sleep button or the power button. Otherwise, holding the Shift key while in the Turn Off Computer menu will give you the option to hibernate.
Restart your computer every week or so to clean your computer.

The power can then be completely turned off, even at the socket so that no power is wasted.

Prefetch

1

Simply browse to the windows folder (Ex: C:\Windows) and under there you would see the prefetch folder. Go into the prefetch folder and delete all the files (Beware! It should look like this c:\windows\prefetch). We need to edit a registry key to tweak it. Open regedit and browse to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Under this key you should see a value named: EnablePrefetcher

It has 4 possible values:

0 – Disabled : The prefetch system is turned off.

1 – Application : The prefetch only caches applications.

2 – Boot : The prefetch only caches boot system files.

3 – All : The prefetch caches boot, and application files.

You need not to disable it entirely. This would actually make boot times *longer*. This is because this feature is also used to speed up the loading of boot files. That is why you should pick the number 2 option. It allows you to keep the advantage of caching system files, without continually clogging the system up with applications.

Set the value to 2 and reboot.

The 2nd time you boot it should boot much faster. Remember that, the side effect is that launching individual applications once windows has loaded will now be slightly slower.

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scripting

Anthony — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:13:24 +0000

Scripting in Alex! is like making a song or creating something you know everyone will like because a little Alex! will never hurt anyone!

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If you guys haven’t noticed

Anthony — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:53:58 +0000

reopened strangebutfunny last month and am going to be editing that too as i will edit this a wee tiny bit slower but i will still keep track of it. however you can find some cool pages hosted here on strangebutfunny too or they have been moved because im attractacting traffic over there too and if you guys want to can you click on my advertisements to keep strangebutfunny a non-you-have-to-pay-for-it-bub- kinda website because i like to mix coding and humor to try to make it funny and more enthusiast humor with coding

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Ubuntu is amazing!!!

Anthony — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:48:18 +0000

i was sitting here and using my install of ubuntu 9.10 and getting used to it when i realised that i couldn’t find a chat program like Yahoo or AIM and this scared me because it had everything and by everything i mean everything else that i needed and then it didn’t have that, but i had heard of pidgin but i didn’t know what it was so i went and downloaded it for my architecture and it WORKED!!!! WOO!!!!!!!!HOO!!!!

and i can carry on with the fact that ubuntu has EVERYTHING i need!!!!!

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How to get a users ip in php

Anthony — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:13:26 +0000

This is how to get a users ip address in php

$alexip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

echo "Your IP address is," . $alexip;

This is how we do it(lol!) over at http://www.humorsearch.20x.cc

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Make an md5 encoder in php or base64 encode/decode

Anthony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:33:30 +0000

If you’ve ever been on a website with a login you might not notice but there is an encoder on the website that matches the encoded version of your password with the one on the database or this is what it does in wordpress and other php apps who use md5 as there encoder or encryption

the code below uses a query like a search engine and turns your text into an undecryptable md5

php

$alexstr = $_GET['password'];

echo md5($alexstr);

?>

Most will say there is one but there is no web or online way to decrypt md5 however there is a way to encrypt and decrypt base64

php

$alexstr = $_GET['password'];

echo base64_decode($alexstr);// you can change it to base64_encode to encode a password

?>

this one can encrypt or decrypt base64 passwords into or out of there base64 form

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WOOT!!! BIRTHDAY!!!!

Anthony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:41:28 +0000

I JUST TURNED 16 YEARS OLD AT 1:13 PM woohoo~~~!!!!!!

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How to upload files to the server in php

Anthony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:28:28 +0000

You can upload files and other things in php but how many people know how??? well here i will show you:

first create your form page

<html>

<body>


<form action="upload_file.php" method="post"

enctype="multipart/form-data">

<label for="file">Filename:label>

<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />

<br />

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

form>


body>

html>

then create your upload_file.php page

php

if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)

  {

  echo "Error: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "
";

  }

else

  {

  echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "
";

  echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "
";

  echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb
";

  echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];

  }

?>

how to restrain the files to a specific file type

php

if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")

|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")

|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg"))

&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 20000))

  {

  if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)

    {

    echo "Error: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "
";

    }

  else

    {

    echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "
";

    echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "
";

    echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb
";

    echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];

    }

  }

else

  {

  echo "Invalid file";

  }

?>

you can edit this page as you wish, you can even put the form and the receiving page on the same page~!

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Its the eve of the eve of my birthday and the eve of halloween

Anthony — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:49:37 +0000

Its the eve of the eve of my birthday and i will be 16 on november 1st its not exciting because i enjoy being young but i am happy because i have the coolest birthday ever its on the day after halloween wich is one of my favorite holidays my favorite is Christmas i always even when i was younger new when my birthday was because it was the exact day after halloween i wonder if anyone else has a birthday on halloween?

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Send information between pages in php

Anthony — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:25:35 +0000

this is very similar to how a search engine gets and sends your data between the websites pages a good example of this is over at Alex! Humor Search where when you search for something funny it says what you searched for on the results.php page

here is a good example of that

<form action="theotherpage.php" method="get">

Your Name <input type="text" name="name" />

Search Query <input type="text" name="query" />

<input type="submit" value="Search"/>

form>

This is the form of the search page that can be on the same page but is different than the actual code

here is the actual example of the theotherpage.php


Welcome php echo $_GET["name"]; ?>.<br />~!

You searched for php echo $_GET["query"]; ?>~!

this is the php section of the pages where the query string is sent

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