Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines

Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

How to export the Outlook address book

How to export the Outlook address book

Looking for a way to export your Outlook Address Book to another program? Outlook 97 and Outlook 98 doesn't come with a built-in method to export the address book, but if you have Outlook Express 4.x here's an indirect method:

 

• Run Outlook Express 4.x (if you don't already have it, install Explorer 4.x full version)
   
• Select "File | Import | Address Book..." from the main menu
   
• Select "Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book"
   
• Click "Import" and click "Close" once the importing is completed
   
   
  To export the address book:
   
• Select "File | Export | Address Book..." from the main menu
   
• Select "Text File (Comma Separated Values)"
   
• Click "Export"
   
• Type a file name in the "Save exported file as" input box.
   

  For example type, "C:\MYADRBOK.CSV"

   


• Click "Next"
   


• Optionally select the fields you wish to export and click "Finish"
   


• Click "Close" once the exporting is completed
   

 

You're now ready to import the newly exported Outlook address book (C:\MYADRBOK.CSV file for example) into the program you were trying to export to. CSV (comma separated values) text files are supported by almost all programs with the ability to import information from external programs. Refer to the documentation for further instructions.