First off…

Note that to complete this tutorial you need to be able to log onto your router to change settings, if you can not do this you can not complete the last part. I’m warning you at this point so you don’t read and work trough half of it only to be pissed off!

I see this alot, people whining about torrents being slow. Taking into consideration how torrents work compared to Direct downloads, in most cases I’d say you are wrong.

Direct download connects to a single computer, sure you can use download accelerators to connect more then once and get more juice, but most servers have anti messures for this.

A torrent download on the other hand, connects to (given there are seeders/leechers) a number of computers, downloading from all those at once. As a result, one can say that given two factors a torrent will allways be faster

1. You have configured your client and such correctly
2. The torrent is active (meaning there are people uploading the data)

Now I’m not saying that it would be faster on your computer, just faster, and by this I mean that (I’d like to point out that all of this is from my own experience, I’m now wiz on the subject) most servers these days have a speed capped at somewhere around 200 +/-50 KB/s or so. This means that if you have a line with 150KB/s down, and the server capps you at 200, you will get full speed. However if your line is 500KB/s down, and the server caps at 200, you get 200.If you however were to download from a good torrent I’d bet quite sure that you could achieve 500KB/s down there. (more…)

 A big annoying feature in windows xp is the “send error report” message you get everytime a program crashes.

Here I show you how to turn off the message…

Open up the control panel, click on “system” or click on “performance and maintenance” you you use the new control panel style.

In the system settings, click on the advanced tab, click on the
error reporting button on the bottom.

Select ”disable error reporting” and you’re rid of it!…

Have you ever wanted an icon on your desktop that you could use to shutdown you computer with?

It’s pretty simple, you just right click your desktop, choose New -> Shortcut and at the ”File location” screen you just type in the following command

That is for running the shutdown application with the parameters “-s” for “this computer” and “-t 00″ for the time in seconds, which would be right away…

You could also use these commands: (more…)

After having tried Vista a couple of days, I just could not handle it anymore, so i had to format and install xp again…

Heres a couple of reasons why I didn’t like it, and why it’s not better than xp.

1. It costs too much! The much cheaper Windows xp is a far better alternative. For the same amount of cash you pay for a lisence of Vista, you could get a cheap ”low-end” computer.
2. Theres almost nothing new and special in Vista, except for the resource-using glass theme aero. Heres what Microsoft would say are news and good reasons to get vista.

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