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Drive Performance

Some drives have configurable acoustic levels. They sacrifice performance for quiet. You can always turn off acoustic management for maximum...

When Windows XP is installed, hard disks and CD drives may occasionally be set to the PIO mode for transferring data, which is slower than t...

Windows NT by default is optimized for a 256K size L2 cache. With most computers now having L2 caches larger than 256K it pays to take the t...

If you get annoyed by the beeps and noises coming from your PC speaker but can't find a way to turn it off, then use this tip to disable...

You can disable the CD-ROM autorun function by changing this registry setting, this will stop applications from auto launching when you inse...