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After wait for sooo long, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been officially released!

If you have not upgrade your Windows XP to service pack 2, this is a good opportunity for you to upgrade all patches at a glance. This might be the final service pack for Windows XP, since Vista has been out for quite some time.

My friend told me he has upgraded his Windows XP to service pack 2 some time ago. It make his machine run slower when playing games. I am not sure about this SP3, but I do believe Microsoft already fix more bugs compare to SP2.

You may download the Microsoft official Windows XP SP3 executable file (~316MB). The fixes included all previous security patches in SP1 and SP2. The full list of fixes shows more than hundred hotfix. (more…)

Frankly speaking, I have downloaded too many softwares to test, but seldom
do disk cleanup. This is no good

Since I am a windows user, I have a free disk cleanup tool under
accessories to use. Its time for me to cleanup my computer!

The problem is it took too long time just for it to start and analyzes
the amount of space that can be freed by compressing old files first (see the screenshot below). Sometime it took 5 minutes or more.

How to speed up disk cleanup tool?

The time-consuming analysis can be remove by tweaking windows
registry. But please pay more attention when tweaking registry, delete
wrong key can cause your Windows OS not function properly! (more…)