I've created a fix for a nasty bug in WinXP which seems to affect Abit KT7A users. Symptoms are the computer sitting there during bootup doing nothing for 40-80 seconds, and you can't do anything. Update: Apparently there was a bug in that fix. Users need to redownload cause 3 services need to be stopped for this fix to work.

GeForce AA Set: software installs itself in the Windows Taskbar as a couple Tray icons, and gives you fast access to total control over the Antialiasing capabilities of your GeForce1/2/3 card.

This little utility will cool your Athlon/Duron processor on Via KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363, VT8361, VT82C691/693A/694 or VT8371 +VT82C686x) chipsets during idle!! :D

I saw this over @ rage3d.com and it's called Stinkys' MMC 7.5 Registry Tweaker.

Stinkys' MMC 7.5 Registry Tweaker is a useful regtool that can tweak your ATI MMC 7.5 or do you have broke regfiles this tool can tweak or fix it!

ClearTweak Freeware allows you to change the contrast setting of the ClearType setting for Windows XP. ClearTweak is freeware and does not contain any spyware, adware, or any other type of embedded monitoring software. ClearType is designed to enhance LCD displays. It may appear slightly blurry on standard desktop monitors. To use ClearType, you must have a video adapter and monitor that support a color setting of at least 256 colors. Best results are achieved with High color (24-bit) or Highest color (32-bit) support.

I noticed in some forums, including ours and the Warp2Search.De forums, that some people have an bootlag on WinXP when they start their computer.
I found out why that happend and I can tell you, how to remove the bootlag. Read More

Just read some interesting tweaks @ TweakXP and thought I'll pass them on to you. Thanks to Dr. Dong for the tweaks. The first "works" quite well so far. The second gave me a BSOD but perhaps it works for you: 1. Improve Your CPU's Performance 2. Increase Speed By Tweaking Prefetcher Settings Learn more about those two... German Translation @ Planet-XP.de :)

I received an e-mail today, I thought everyone using the latest nVidia drivers would be VERY interested in knowing this :) Maybe you gamers out there have noticed that the newest Detonators (23.10, 23.11) have different D3D keys in the registry than previous drivers? Maybe not? Anyways, these new D3D-keys disables the use of coolbits...... Read more over @ MaxReboot

I came across the site Speedguide.net which seems to offer quite a few tweaks for broadband connections. There is an interesting network card tweak posted there which gave me a little extra performance...

Saw this @ Entcity. Check out

FiringSquad has a nice article about overclocking the Geforce 3 Ti 200. Are you wondering how high they can go? Maybe they match the Geforce 3 Ti 500...

Don't know if this is new cos I can't remember the version number of the last one I posted. LoL. But the date is a lot newer and maybe MSI have sorted out the bugs so here goes:

Intel Application Accelerator
IDE driver for Intel based Motherboard
Driver version: 1.1.2045
Date 10 / 11 / 2001
Size 1.73MB

Intel Application Accelerator Windows 9X / ME / 2000 / NT / XP Rancho*: I may be wrong too but wasn't the Intel release we also have available for download 1.1.2053? Anyway check your version number, folks!

Ah this is interesting. I noticed a forum post over @ the marvelous MadOnion Forums stating that there is still some performance to gain by using the DX8 control panel which you can download here.
Apparently DX8 was shipped by good old M$ with the "Debug" left on. This is a huge mistake and will cause unusual CPU access and lower performance significantly. This is what you have to do: Extract to Windows/System then go to Control Panel click on the DX applet go to the Direct Sound tab and slide the debug slider all the way to the left! This should give you some performance gain during playing games that use Direct Sound. Try it and post your experiences in our forums!

Just a quickie: I use this whenever I reinstall to tweak my ADSL connection. It seems to help quite a bit :) Tweak your broadband connection at www.dslreports.com

Over a 1000 hardware and software links neatly organised. The startpage to have if you have hardware or software troubles, want to tweak your system or just want some information, guides and tutorials. The faq was founded in the end of 2000 and went through several appearances with a continiously growing number of links. Our site has now come to a grown up state with full PHP and Dbase support for easy and quick access. We started it to prevent people on our hardwareboard from asking the same things over and over again and it became such a big success that we went international. And remember: all banner free and no irritating popups. hwfaq.shrimpwars.be Thanks alot to RunOb for this link, its a great page.

You might remember me installing XP pro on My Athlon 1.4/G-Force 3 system and showing you the results from 3dMark2001 with the XP 21.81 drivers. Well I took things a little further... Before I show you my results, I've attached a poll to this post, I want you to vote if you think I should write an article on tweaking the G-Force for the best 3dMark2001 score and overall performance on my system. Let me know, If enough people vote then I'll show you how I do it :) Enough with the babble click Read More to see my results, and dont forget to vote

Yep there finally is a six-page long tweaking guide for M$ latest OS Win XP. Read it here. This guide (was written) in order to help Windows XP users of any experience level gain familiarity with the new features that XP adds. It?s not so much of a tweak guide for performance, but a tweak guide for usability ? by knowing the new features of the OS, you can get up to speed even faster.

New entries concerning NVIDIA chipset based cards and KYRO/KYRO2 chipset based cards. The 3DMark2001 FAQ is a good source of information if you are having anykind of problems with the software.

What more can I say but, The definitive BIOS guide had another update bringing it up to 6.40. The latest additions are:

Refresh Interval
Refresh Mode Select
SDRAM Idle Limit

BIOS Guide Rev. 6.40

Following our ZoneAlarm Firewall Configuration Guide we now have a little tweak for all of you that want to get rid of a hidden spyware that is introduced to your system by M$ Internet Explorer. Want to learn more? Click Read More...