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Two years ago on Lifehacker, you learned how to install a motherboard and CPU, wipe your hard drive and install Windows from scratch, and then applied nifty Windows tweaks to your newly-built PC. One year ago, you copied TV shows to your iPod, synchronized Greasemonkey scripts across computers, o read more »
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Dear Lifehacker,I have two Dell computers here—one running Windows 2000 and one running Windows XP. The XP machine is old and broken down, so I'm going to gut it for parts. I have the Dell-branded Windows XP installation disc that came with it, and I was wondering—can I use it to format and install XP on the Windows 2000 PC? I have the Dell drivers discs for both computers, and the XP license key on the label stuck to the computer.
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Trade In 2000 for XP
Dear Trade,
Sadly the answer to your question is "probably not." If the XP CD you have is the one that came with the PC you're breaking down for parts, it's what's called the OEM ("Original Equipment Manufacturer") Windows disc. That means that unlike the retail box version (for sale separate from the computer), the disc read more »
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Windows only: Instead of dropping cash on a new stick of RAM for that old computer, go grab a free license for the normally $20 memory manager TweakRAM—today only. TweakRAM speeds up your machine by optimizing Windows memory management, and when your computer slows to a crawl, you can use TweakRAM to manually free up memory. The developers say:
TweakRAM defragments your computer's memory, increasing the efficiency of your CPU and Motherboard caches, recovers memory leaks from poorly behaved applications, flushes unused libraries temporarily out to disk and so on. By all this optimization tricks your favorite applications and games will run faster and efficiently even on old computers.
TweakRAM did in fact free up memory on my Windows PC, according to its own repor read more »
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Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard / motherboard information, and much more. read more »
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This app is for editing your BIOS chip on all Motherboards that have a Phoenix or Award BIOS. This file is useful if you want to add/delete/modify any BIOS information/settings. Set your own bootsplash image, or add a startup sound. read more »
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