Computer Performance and Maintenance, Tutorials Options

[Jghelfi]

This Thread is designed for posting tutorials designed for Computer Maintenance and Performance, so in order to post in this thread, you can ONLY post your own tutorial that will help the user guide their way through their computer.
*You may post tutorials regarding the following..
-Overclocking
-Restoration of files
-Battery Conservation
-Troubleshooting
-Constructing^NEW!

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Table of Contents^Updated!
- Recovering your documents after you do a System Restore
- Speeding up your Computer [1 | 2]
- Phenom II X3 - Turn it into a quad core
- Make menu's open instantly
- Automate HDD Defragmentation on Idle
- Build a Computer
- How to Create/Do a System Restore^NEW!
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Please post your tutorial in this style that i am displaying:

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"[i]Title of tutorial here[/i]"
[b]Operating System:[/b] "Name of OS"
[b]DIfficulty:[/b] "Dif. here"
[b]Time needed:[/b] "Length of tutorial (Approx. are acceptable)"

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"Instructions to your tutorial..
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"Recovering your documents after you do a System Restore"
Operating System: Windows XP
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time needed: 25 min. or less


So, you did a System Restore and only found some files that the computer had restored itself, and now you are saying: "Where did all my Documents (Music, Videos and Photos) Go!?." Now you are thinking that they have been wiped off your computer permanently right? Well thats a no. They are still on your computer! The Way you can recover your missing documents is by following this tutorial that will be easy if you follow the instructions correctly.

Step 1) Go to your Start menu
Step 2) Next go to My Computer.
Step 3) Go under the Hard Disk Drives section and double click PC_PAVILLION (C:).
Step 4) Now go into Documents and Settings.
Step 5) Choose the name of your computer that you had before. My computer's name was "HP_Owner.YOUR-86339EB2BF"
Step 6) Go to "HP Owner's Documents".
Step 7) And now you can see all the documents that you had before the restore.

Just Copy, Cut, or Drag the Folder or Documents that you have in there to the destined place. I hope this helps you later on when you have problems with your computer.

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If you have any problems regarding this tutorial, please PM me.

This post has been edited by -Jon-: May 1 2010, 03:18 PM

[Maccabee]

"Make menu's open instantly."
Operating System: "Windows XP - Windows Vista"
DIfficulty: "Easy"
Time needed: "2 minutes."

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When you open the start menu you may notice that you have to hover for a few seconds before the all programs list opens. its the same when you right click and hover "new". You can save time and frustration with this simple registry tweak that makes a menu open instantly as soon as you hover it.

Press the windows key and r at the same time, then in the box type regedit and hit enter.

Open HKEY_CLASSES_CURRENT_USER (by clicking the plus sign next to it, then open control panel and click on desktop. On the right side, look for "MenuShowDelay" The value should be at 400. Double click it and change it to 0. Simple as that. Restart your computer and test it out to see if you like it. I find it a little annoying because when I pass it on the start menu it always flies open. So you may want to put it back to 400 or change it to 200. If you dont see MenuShowDelay on the right hand side when you go to it in regedit, then you may have to right click the word desktop, in the registry editor and click new string and name it MenuShowDelay and set the value to 0.

Fell free to PM me with any questions.