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If you want to disable the “Take Tour of Windows XP” that comes up after you install WindowsXP, then follow the below tips.

Click on the “Start” Button.
Select “Run“
Type “Regedit” and press enter.
Go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour“.
Create a new “DWORD key” called “RunCount“.
Give it a value of “0“.

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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 [...]