The broadband industry in the UK has been central to the development of Britain`s digital infrastructure which in turn has allowed huge societal shifts in the way that people communicate with one another and go about their lives. The amount of new broadband customers signing up for services is increasing despite the credit crunch having [...]

I recently got sick of trying to get the lastest version of VMWare server to play nice. I need to run an Ubuntu Linux server on my Windows XP machine for testing various pieces of software.
After a bit of research i downloaded Suns VirtualBox, which seemed to have all the features i was looking for [...]

Windows XP can load programs it thinks you need before you actually load them yourself! This is done by a process called pre-fetching. This process can consume memory and slow your XP experience.
Windows XP will retain a copy of a portion of a program you have run in the prefetch folder even if you only [...]

If you are using your Netbook on the move, it can be very frustrating if you have to wait a significant amount of time for Windows XP to shut down. The following tip will show you how to reduce shut down times, by altering the settings that dictate when windows will shut down tasks that [...]

Windows XP can be set easily for best performance or for best appearance. Setting Windows XP for best performance will disable a number of graphical user interface features, improving the speed and responsiveness of Windows XP noticeably.
To set Windows XP for best performance perform the following:

Right click My Computer
Click Properties
Click the Advanced Tab
Click Settings under [...]

Screen real estate is at a premium on most netbooks and large icons in the start menu can take a lot of room and seem out of proportion for the screen size offered. A simple change of settings in Windows XP can be used to show small icons in the start menu, giving you a [...]

The Microsoft Windows XP indexing service is a topic frequently discussed when it comes to performance tuning. The indexing service can adversely affect performance and especially when you are running Windows XP on a Netbook, you’ll want to disable any services that may slow down or hinder your experience.
The following instructions will show you how [...]

Quick data visualisation , in-cell bar graphs.
Spotting trends in large volumes of data can be tricky! Thankfully Office 2007 introduces a feature that allows you to format columns of data
according to their value, allowing you to see at a glance the distribution of data and any significant outliers!
Illustrated here is a sample of data in [...]