Cool tricks or features for your laptop or computer

some computer tricks.......................... awesome

Step 1: Flip screen

hold down alt cntrl then any of the arrow keys. ATTENTION: this does not work on  every CPU   

Comments

[lemonie]

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This isn't useful.

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[hoghuntingdude384005582]

but it is a fun thing to do while your bored

[lemonie]

How many of these have you done while you were bored?

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[Soksume]

its a feature not a "trick".

[hoghuntingdude384005582]

"in fact its not a trick"

[verence]

Oh well....

None of your 'tricks' has to do with the CPU (the Central Processing Unit). They all are related to the operation system - Windows in your case (and XP I guess based on the registry trick).

1) Will only work if there is a background program looking for those key code. On some laptops/notebooks such programs are installed.

3) Will only speed up the showing of some menus. No speed up for CPU or anything else, sorry.

4) That's a leftover from good old DOS times. CON is the (reserved) name of the console-device. For similar reasons, you cant have a file named NUL, COM1, COM2.. LPT1, LPT2 etc.

8) Yep, that saved me when suddenly 8 keys stopped working on my netbook keyboard halfway through a trip in Africa.

Again, some nice tricks (I liked the Star Wars 'movie' when I found it first ... some five years ago) but none of them is a CPU trick.

[hoghuntingdude384005582]

thanks for the information i will change this now that I know what CPU actually means.

[kristiaan_d]

FYI heres a good article on why you cannot create a folder with this name, its goes back to the really old dos windows days when CON was used as a reserved device name short for CONSOLE

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_can't_you_create_a_folder_named_CON_in_Windows_or_MS-DOS

hope this helps

[kristiaan_d]

Just to point out, that this does not acutally make your PC faster or improve its speed, if your pc is generally running slow and applications preform badly this change will make little difference.

all this change does is affect windows and how it delays the loading of menus for normal windows etc.

If you want to read a little more on this hack please read below.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/17/

the only guaranteed way to increase the performance of your PC is to upgrade the hardware within it, the best and normally cheapest speed increase you can get is to upgrade the RAM (Physical Memory) in the PC, if the PC is not that old i.e. less than three years consider upgrading the RAM to the maximum amount it will take.

failing that a good old fashioned CPU upgrade will help to increase the performance, not to mention regular maintenance like Disk Defrag, clearing out temporary files, etc. your local PC shop will be able to advise you the best on any upgrades you may need.