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www.frameworkx.com introduces the new Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, allows you to either way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even customize it in Windows Vista.
In the new version 2.0, Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover now called as Vista Shortcut Manager has added many new welcome features like:
Custom overlay icons,
Enable/Disable “-shortcut” extension, [...]

Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won’t make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. In order to improve your IDE Harddisk performance which supports DMA access, do it as follows,
1. Right Click on “My Computer” on the [...]

If you are worrying about the time taken to turning off and starting your windows,
Instead of turning off your Computer you can use the hibernate feature in windows xp.
To do this,
1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“.
2. Or You can just press H to hibernate [...]