Posted by: Helen on: June 19, 2006
If you’ve ever had to use the task manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) to kill a “Not Responding” program, you’ve probably been frustrated by the time it takes for the program to actually disappear from your screen. What’s going on here is that a Microsoft provided tool called “Windows Error Dump Reporting,” or “dumprep.exe,” is creating a file [...]
Posted by: Helen on: June 19, 2006
Relocate your virtual memory: Among the largest system files in your Windows folder is the one that Windows uses for virtual memory–disk space that complements your system RAM to let Windows act as if your PC has more memory than it does. Fortunately, you can tell Windows to put this file (known variously as the [...]
Posted by: Helen on: June 19, 2006
[http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,126116,RSS,RSS,00.asp]
You can remedy some common Windows woes by reloading system files; a free tool to maximize shutdown options.
Scott Dunn
From the August 2006 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006
Windows XP and 2000 store information about many of their functions in files known as dynamic link libraries, or DLLs. Information about the DLLs is [...]
