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Sal_55

As many have said, increase the RAM and that will make the largest speed
improvement. I would go with a min. of 512meg.

As far as increasing the amount of Virtual Memory goes, this may help a
little bit if it was manually set too low or too high.
Keep in mind that what virtual memory does is use your hard drive in place
of RAM. A hard drive is many, many times slower than RAM so it will not give
you a great increase in the speed of operation of your programs. Using
virtual memory can be a bit tricky. You must balance between what is best
for running the software and OS with the amount of available hard drive
space. Unless you know what you are doing, it's best to let the OS controll
the amount of virtual memory. If you try to set it yourself, you could
actually slow down the machine. Many factors come into play when adjusting
virtual memory.

If you are using graphics programs then you might want to look at the video
card as well. If the video is onboard (built onto the motherboard) then that
might also be part of the problem. An onboard video circuit will usually
share some of the systems RAM which is slower than the ram used on a good
video card. If this is the case, you may be able to increase the speed a
little by installing a video card. You can get good boards cheep for your
system.

For example, one of the systems that I use at work was running slow, 1.8
ghz, onboard video, WinXP Pro and 512 RAM. We often have M$ Word, Adobe
Illustrator and sometimes also Photoshop running at the same time as well as
a web page or two. I added another 512 RAM, a 128meg video card, total
upgrade about $100. Now the system seems to run more than twice as fast when
working with drawings and noticeably faster when simply using non-video
intensive programs.

Of the long list of MANY things that can slow down a system, here is one
more.
A few of our systems had McAfee antivirus and were a year or two expired. I
uninstalled McAfee, ran a couple utilities to clean the system and installed
AVG. I noticed that Quickbooks now loads in less than a minute. Before I
uninstalled McAfee it would take as much as three minutes to open
Quickbooks. There are many, many, many software issues that can slow down a
system and getting those under control can make a big difference in the
speed of a system.

All that said, 128meg of RAM in a system using XP is like trying to pull
stumps with a Yugo!

I would do the following . . .

* set the OS to control virtual memory.
* clean out the system tray. Uninstall any utilities that you don't use
which load at startup.
* Get rid of Norton Utilities and/or McAfee if you are using them.
* Defrag the hard drive.
* Upgrade the RAM to at least 512meg.
* Add a video card if, you're using graphics programs and have onboard
video.

Last of all, and the most important,

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let us know what you did and how well it worked for you!

Sal_55 formulated the question :

> Anyone know if I can somehow increase the size of the virtual memory?
> Or any good progams which can speed up my computer?

One thing we need to know, is the slowness new?

You can play around in here, I personally use these settings, but it
depends on you own requiements, mine are very basic.
Performance
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...6-5032840.html
Right-click "My Computer", then "Properties".
Choose the "Advanced" tab. Under "Performance" click "Settings".
In Visual Effects, click on Custom & untick everything, except these 2 >
Smooth edges of screen fonts & Use visual styles on windows and buttons
( Default has everything ticked, except > Smooth edges of screen fonts
)
Click Apply & then OK.
Advanced
I select Programs for both.
Change
I use > System managed size

Jimbo wrote:
> Sal_55
>
> As many have said, increase the RAM and that will make the largest speed
> improvement. I would go with a min. of 512meg.
>
> As far as increasing the amount of Virtual Memory goes, this may help a
> little bit if it was manually set too low or too high.

I'd like to understand how this helps. If virtual memory is big enough,
it is as big as it needs to be. If it's too small, it increases itself,
or the system refuses to load anything else.
There have been some threads suggesting that one should defrag the
virtual memory and set min and max numbers the same to reduce overhead.
But that relates
to getting stuff on/off the drive quickly and not the actual size of the VM.

> Keep in mind that what virtual memory does is use your hard drive in place
> of RAM. A hard drive is many, many times slower than RAM so it will not give
> you a great increase in the speed of operation of your programs. Using
> virtual memory can be a bit tricky. You must balance between what is best
> for running the software and OS with the amount of available hard drive
> space. Unless you know what you are doing, it's best to let the OS controll
> the amount of virtual memory. If you try to set it yourself, you could
> actually slow down the machine.

OK, but there's been lots of discussion about manually setting VM
speeding up things.

Many factors come into play when adjusting
> virtual memory.
>
> If you are using graphics programs then you might want to look at the video
> card as well. If the video is onboard (built onto the motherboard) then that
> might also be part of the problem. An onboard video circuit will usually
> share some of the systems RAM which is slower than the ram used on a good
> video card. If this is the case, you may be able to increase the speed a
> little by installing a video card. You can get good boards cheep for your
> system.
>
> For example, one of the systems that I use at work was running slow, 1.8
> ghz, onboard video, WinXP Pro and 512 RAM. We often have M$ Word, Adobe
> Illustrator and sometimes also Photoshop running at the same time as well as
> a web page or two. I added another 512 RAM, a 128meg video card, total
> upgrade about $100. Now the system seems to run more than twice as fast when
> working with drawings and noticeably faster when simply using non-video
> intensive programs.
>
> Of the long list of MANY things that can slow down a system, here is one
> more.
> A few of our systems had McAfee antivirus and were a year or two expired. I
> uninstalled McAfee, ran a couple utilities to clean the system and installed
> AVG. I noticed that Quickbooks now loads in less than a minute. Before I
> uninstalled McAfee it would take as much as three minutes to open
> Quickbooks. There are many, many, many software issues that can slow down a
> system and getting those under control can make a big difference in the
> speed of a system.
>
> All that said, 128meg of RAM in a system using XP is like trying to pull
> stumps with a Yugo!
>
> I would do the following . . .
>
> * set the OS to control virtual memory.
> * clean out the system tray. Uninstall any utilities that you don't use
> which load at startup.
> * Get rid of Norton Utilities and/or McAfee if you are using them.
> * Defrag the hard drive.
> * Upgrade the RAM to at least 512meg.
> * Add a video card if, you're using graphics programs and have onboard
> video.
>
> Last of all, and the most important,
>
> \/
>
> \/
>
> \/
>
> \/
>
> \/
>
> let us know what you did and how well it worked for you!
>
>


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Sal_55 explained :
> But the computer still lags when I run about 3 processes at the same time.

Fast User Switching and Automatic Updating
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1153279,00.asp
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_fast_..._in_xp_pro.htm
Available on XP Home Edition and on Professional when it's not part of
a domain, fast user switching lets users of the same computer switch
between accounts without logging off. It's a great feature when Mom,
Dad and the twins all share the same computer, but keeping multiple
user accounts active is a burden to a PC's memory usage.
When more than one user is logged on, each user's settings remain
active and the programs activated through his or her account remain
open--even if someone switches to another user account. Sally left
Word, Excel and Barbie Fashion Designer open and Bobby comes along,
switches over to his account and attempts to play Red Faction, he will
notice a definite degradation in performance compared to the last time
he played it when Sally wasn't logged in.
Windows XP automatically disables fast user switching during
installation if the computer has 64MB of RAM or less. For best
performance, make sure only one user is logged in at a time, and if
that becomes a nuisance, disable the feature altogether: go to Control
Panel\User Accounts, click the "Change the way users log on or off"
button, and uncheck "Use Fast User Switching".

Sal_55 laid this down on his screen :
> I know some of you will say that in order to run many
> programs at the same time I need to upgrade to a better machine, but
> currently due to disablity this is the only computer I can afford.

Ok, here is more of my info, sorry about the volume of stuff, but as
you are on a budget, these all help.

Disable Indexing Services
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=1335
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts of RAM and
can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process
indexing and updates lists of the files on your system, so you can
search for them quickly, but it's completely unnecessary.
To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add or Remove
Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply untick the
Indexing services and click Next!
And,
1. Browse to your hard drive either through Windows Explorer or through
My Computer.
2. Right click your hard drive icon and select Properties.
3. At the bottom of this window you'll see "Allow Indexing Service to
index this disk for fast file searching," turn this feature off for all
of your drives by unchecking the box and clicking Apply.
4. After that a window will appear, Select "Apply changes to subfolders
and files". If any files can not be updated select "Ignore All".
===================================
How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q158705
8. THE TRUTH ABOUT FIND FAST
http://www.remainsecure.com/whitepap...g/mshidden.htm
=====================================
Not networking, this will help.
1) Control Panel -> Internet Options
2) Connections tab
3) LAN Settings
4) Uncheck "Automatically Detect Settings"
=======================================
http://www.technobabble.com.au/techn...aks/access.htm
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...Id=145&dPage=3
Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode
correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary
IDE and secondary IDE channels. 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. Here's
how:
Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click on "My
Computer", select the Hardware tab, and select Device Manager.
Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE
Channel".
Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1" setting. More
than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.
Set it to "DMA if available".
Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel" if you have devices
attached to it. Reboot.
Enabling DMA in XP
http://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htm
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asp
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7625
http://www.optorite.com/manual/English/manual/dma.htm
Problems enabling DMA in XP
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645
http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/hardware/dma66.shtml
If the computer persists on having only PIO after reboot even though
the hard drive is a flashing super-duper ATA133 and transfer mode set
to “DMA if available�, then you have to do the following:
Remove the primary device in the device manager and reboot! VoilÃ*, now
the harddrive should be running in DMA mode.
Repeat on the secondary IDE channel if necessary.
=======================================
Disable XP support for zip files
http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/022654.html
http://www.technobabble.com.au/techn...aks/access.htm
Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, so that you can view
them as normal folders. However, the system uses a sizeable portion of
resources doing this, so disabling this feature can increase
performance. It's easy to do, you just have to un-register the
zipfldr.dll, by going to Start -> Run... Copy & Paste > regsvr32 /u
zipfldr.dll < then press Enter. You should see a message telling you
the command was succesfully applied.
========================================
Simple File Sharing is enabled by default if your computer is NOT a
member of a domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874
http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol92...c/simplshr.htm
http://www.chicagotech.net/sfs.htm
To disable Simple File Sharing:
1. Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options.
2. Select the View tab.
3. Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) box in the Advanced
Settings area.
4. Press Apply and OK.
How to Disable Simple File Sharing in Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Simpl...P-Home-Edition
===========================================
Unknown hard drive activity.
Right click an empty part of your desktop > Properties > Display
Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Desktop Items.
Down the bottom of that screen, uncheck > Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard
every 60 days.
=======================================
Auto Delete Temporary Folder
http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2021
First go into gpedit.msc ( only available in the Pro version of XP )
Start > Run, copy & paste > gpedit.msc & press Enter
Next select -> Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates >
Windows Components > Terminal Services > Temporary folders.
Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
Go to properties and hit Disabled.
Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will
automatically delete it when its done!
=======================================
Make icons in Windows appear quicker
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320138
http://www.totalxp.com/networkfolders.htm
In Windows XP everytime you open My Computer to browse folders XP
automatically searches for network files and printers. This causes a
delay in displaying your icons. You probably see the "default" windows
icon and as you scroll it changes to the correct icon. This is how to
stop that...
1. Open My Computer
2. Click on the Tools menu and select Folder Options...
3. Under Folder Options select the View tab.
4. Uncheck the very first box that reads "Automatically search for
network folders and printers".
5. Click "Apply" or "OK"
You should see a dramatic increase in speed when Windows displays your
icons.

Sal_55 brought next idea :

> I know some of you will say that in order to run many
> programs at the same time I need to upgrade to a better machine, but
> currently due to disablity this is the only computer I can afford.

Doing this in between watching footy, these are worth doing, everything
I have given you I have done myself on XP Pro, 2.8 GHz & 1 gb of ram.

If your computer is NOT a laptop/notebook then you can stop Hibernate.
Hibernation, reserves disk space equal to your RAM.
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...Id=145&dPage=5
The mysterious hiberfil.sys
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html
===========================================
For those that may notice that Select All, includes Prefetch, there are
some occasions when you have to clean prefetch, this is one of them.
ATF Cleaner
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...-Cleaner.shtml
http://www.atribune.org/
http://www.atribune.org/content/view/25/2/
Forum
http://www.atribune.org/forums/
This program is for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP and Vista!
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
If you use Firefox browser
Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please
click No at the prompt.
If you use Opera browser
Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please
click No at the prompt.
Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.
For Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the
bottom of each menu.
This will remove all files from the items that are checked so if you
have some cookies you'd like to save. please move them to a different
directory first.

On 20 Mar, 07:30, Johnw <jm...@webace.com.au> wrote:
> Sal_55 laid this down on his screen :
>
> > I know some of you will say that in order to run many
> > programs at the same time I need to upgrade to a better machine, but
> > currently due to disablity this is the only computer I can afford.
>
> Ok, here is more of my info, sorry about the volume of stuff, but as
> you are on a budget, these all help.
>
> Disable Indexing Serviceshttp://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=1335http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
> Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts of RAM and
> can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process
> indexing and updates lists of the files on your system, so you can
> search for them quickly, but it's completely unnecessary.
> To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add or Remove
> Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply untick the
> Indexing services and click Next!
> And,
> 1. Browse to your hard drive either through Windows Explorer or through
> My Computer.
> 2. Right click your hard drive icon and select Properties.
> 3. At the bottom of this window you'll see "Allow Indexing Service to
> index this disk for fast file searching," turn this feature off for all
> of your drives by unchecking the box and clicking Apply.
> 4. After that a window will appear, Select "Apply changes to subfolders
> and files". If any files can not be updated select "Ignore All".
> ===================================
> How to Disable the Find Fast Indexerhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q158705
> 8. THE TRUTH ABOUT FIND FASThttp://www.remainsecure.com/whitepapers/hacking/mshidden.htm
> =====================================
> Not networking, this will help.
> 1) Control Panel -> Internet Options
> 2) Connections tab
> 3) LAN Settings
> 4) Uncheck "Automatically Detect Settings"
> =======================================http://www.technobabble.com.au/technobabble/html/tweaks/access.htmhttp://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=145&dPage=3
> Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode
> correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary
> IDE and secondary IDE channels. 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. Here's
> how:
> Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click on "My
> Computer", select the Hardware tab, and select Device Manager.
> Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE
> Channel".
> Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1" setting. More
> than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.
> Set it to "DMA if available".
> Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel" if you have devices
> attached to it. Reboot.
> Enabling DMA in XPhttp://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htmhttp://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asphttp://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7625http://www.optorite.com/manual/English/manual/dma.htm
> Problems enabling DMA in XPhttp://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/hardware/dma66.shtml
> If the computer persists on having only PIO after reboot even though
> the hard drive is a flashing super-duper ATA133 and transfer mode set
> to "DMA if available", then you have to do the following:
> Remove the primary device in the device manager and reboot! Voilà, now
> the harddrive should be running in DMA mode.
> Repeat on the secondary IDE channel if necessary.
> =======================================
> Disable XP support for zip fileshttp://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/022654.htmlhttp://www.technobabble.com.au/technobabble/html/tweaks/access.htm
> Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, so that you can view
> them as normal folders. However, the system uses a sizeable portion of
> resources doing this, so disabling this feature can increase
> performance. It's easy to do, you just have to un-register the
> zipfldr.dll, by going to Start -> Run... Copy & Paste > regsvr32 /u
> zipfldr.dll < then press Enter. You should see a message telling you
> the command was succesfully applied.
> ========================================
> Simple File Sharing is enabled by default if your computer is NOT a
> member of a domainhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol929/ruXP/NetSec/simplshr.htmhttp://www.chicagotech.net/sfs.htm
> To disable Simple File Sharing:
> 1. Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options.
> 2. Select the View tab.
> 3. Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) box in the Advanced
> Settings area.
> 4. Press Apply and OK.
> How to Disable Simple File Sharing in Windows XP Home Editionhttp://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Simple-File-Sharing-in-Windows-XP-Home...
> ===========================================
> Unknown hard drive activity.
> Right click an empty part of your desktop > Properties > Display
> Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Desktop Items.
> Down the bottom of that screen, uncheck > Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard
> every 60 days.
> =======================================
> Auto Delete Temporary Folderhttp://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2021
> First go into gpedit.msc ( only available in the Pro version of XP )
> Start > Run, copy & paste > gpedit.msc & press Enter
> Next select -> Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates >
> Windows Components > Terminal Services > Temporary folders.
> Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
> Go to properties and hit Disabled.
> Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will
> automatically delete it when its done!
> =======================================
> Make icons in Windows appear quickerhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/320138http://www.totalxp.com/networkfolders.htm
> In Windows XP everytime you open My Computer to browse folders XP
> automatically searches for network files and printers. This causes a
> delay in displaying your icons. You probably see the "default" windows
> icon and as you scroll it changes to the correct icon. This is how to
> stop that...
> 1. Open My Computer
> 2. Click on the Tools menu and select Folder Options...
> 3. Under Folder Options select the View tab.
> 4. Uncheck the very first box that reads "Automatically search for
> network folders and printers".
> 5. Click "Apply" or "OK"
> You should see a dramatic increase in speed when Windows displays your
> icons.

Thanks for the all the advice folks. you're so kind.
If I do an anti-virus/spyware/defragmention etc, then immediately
afterwards
the system runs quite quickly. But within about 24 hours the system
slows down again.
I know this suggests I should set automatic defragmentation,
antispyware checks to run
every night,but I can't be bothered to do that. So until I can buy
some more RAM, I think
I will have to find a program that enhances the speed of my computer.
In the past
System Mechanic has done quite a good job,but I wonder if there's an
even better
program out now?
When I say that when I run 3 proceses or so, the system runs slow,
it's not only that.
For example,when you minimize Realplayer, it should minimize almost
immediately,
and this happens most of the time, but sometimes it takes 1 whole
minute (!) for the
program to minimise.
Maybe I'm expecting too much, but this is the kind of performance
you'd expect from
one of those old Pentium 120 MHz computers, not a 1.5 GHz one. I'm not
really into
conspiracy theories, but I wonder if there's some top-secret cartel
which is ensuring
computers keep on crashing, in order for them to keep selling
customers newer and
newer,better and faster machines. I mean, televisions don't crash like
computers.
Thanks again and sorry for the conspiracy theory.

Sal_55 explained :

> I will have to find a program that enhances the speed of my computer.
> In the past
> System Mechanic has done quite a good job,but I wonder if there's an
> even better
> program out now?

Hav'nt used it myself, you can try this one.

Advanced WindowsCare Personal
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...dowsCare.shtml
http://www.iobit.com/
http://www.iobit.com/WindowsCare.htm

Sal_55 explained on 20/03/2008 :
> I mean, televisions don't crash like
> computers.
> Thanks again and sorry for the conspiracy theory.

Overheating is the biggest enemy of computers, dust slows down or stops
the fans.

Cleaning a Laptop/Notebook Computer
http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/usi...leanlaptop.htm
http://lifehacker.com/software/life-...ess-037671.php

Information about cleaning computer components
http://www.computerhope.com/cleaning.htm
http://www.wiscocomputing.com/articles/maintenance.htm
http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/4compcare.html
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial118.html
Getting The Grunge Out Of Your PC, Fred Langa cleans the dirtiest PC he
can find, and along the way shows you how you can easily tackle yours.
http://www.informationweek.com/story...cleID=60403472
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=2
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=3
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=4
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=5
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=6
http://www.informationweek.com/story...0403472&pgno=7
Quiet noisy computer fans with a drop of oil
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-625...42.html?tag=tt

On 20 Mar, 10:36, Johnw <jm...@webace.com.au> wrote:
> Sal_55 brought next idea :
>
> > I know some of you will say that in order to run many
> > programs at the same time I need to upgrade to a better machine, but
> > currently due to disablity this is the only computer I can afford.
>
> Doing this in between watching footy, these are worth doing, everything
> I have given you I have done myself on XP Pro, 2.8 GHz & 1 gb of ram.
>
> If your computer is NOT a laptop/notebook then you can stop Hibernate.
> Hibernation, reserves disk space equal to your RAM.http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...Id=145&dPage=5
> The mysterious hiberfil.syshttp://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html
> ===========================================
> For those that may notice that Select All, includes Prefetch, there are
> some occasions when you have to clean prefetch, this is one of them.
> ATF Cleanerhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/ATF-Cleaner.shtmlhttp://www.atribune.org/http://www.atribune.org/content/view/25/2/
> Forumhttp://www.atribune.org/forums/
> This program is for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP and Vista!
> * * * Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
> * * * Under Main choose: Select All
> * * * Click the Empty Selected button.
> If you use Firefox browser
> * * * Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
> * * * Click the Empty Selected button.
> * * * NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please
> click No at the prompt.
> If you use Opera browser
> * * * Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
> * * * Click the Empty Selected button.
> * * * NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please
> click No at the prompt.
> Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.
> For Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the
> bottom of each menu.
> This will remove all files from the items that are checked so if you
> have some cookies you'd like to save. please move them to a different
> directory first.

Sorry if this is a stupid question,but if I stop hibernation mode,
then can I resume it later on?
Also, what is hibernation mode? Is it the same as standby?