{"id":707,"date":"2005-01-04T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/04\/1-4-05\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T03:48:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T11:48:43","slug":"windows-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/04\/windows-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Firefox 1.0 Tweaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of tweaks at <a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/041202\/\">http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/041202\/<\/a><br \/>\nFixing a memory leak-ish issue in Firefox 1.0<\/p>\n<p>Firefox tends to use more memory than maybe it should. Here&#8217;s how to fix the issue. From <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/viewtopic.php?t=172041\">forums.mozillazine.org<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Type about:config into the location bar, press enter, right click any line, choose &#8220;new&#8221;&gt;&#8221;integer&#8221;, paste this into the dialogue that appears:<br \/>\n&#8220;browser.cache.memory.capacity&#8221;.  Click OK, specify the amount in kb in the next dialogue that appears, restart firefox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it seems to help performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows XP Tweak: Prefetch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Windows automatically preloads programs it thinks you use a lot. But many programs shove their way into this folder, sucking up your RAM. Once every couple months or so do the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>del c:\\Windows\\Prefetch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your computer will boot faster and use less RAM. The worst that can happen is some programs will load slower the first time you start them after doing the fix.<br \/>\nCredits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweakxp.com\/\">tweakxp.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/5100-6270_11-5165773.html?tag=e064\">techrepublic.com.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Firefox Prefetch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I use Firefox all the time, so I do this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows XP by adding it to the programs that XP &#8220;prefetches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To do this, right-click the Start Menu item for Firefox, or any icon you use to start Firefox, and open the Properties dialog box. Add a space plus \/Prefetch:1 to the command line and click OK. The resulting line might look as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe&#8221; \/Prefetch:1<\/p>\n<p>A detailed explanation of XP&#8217;s prefetch feature is provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/5100-6270_11-5165773.html?tag=e064\">TechRepublic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Windows XP Tweak: Defrag<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An oldie but a goodie. Run:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> defrag c:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every couple months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 1.0 Tweaks Lots of tweaks at http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/041202\/ Fixing a memory leak-ish issue in Firefox 1.0 Firefox tends to use more memory than maybe it should. Here&#8217;s how to fix the issue. From forums.mozillazine.org Type about:config into the location bar, press enter, right click any line, choose &#8220;new&#8221;&gt;&#8221;integer&#8221;, paste this into the dialogue that appears: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}