For Windows XP:
Right-click the Taskbar (the area next to the Start button – don’t right-click the Start button itself) and select Properties.
Click on the Start Menu tab, then Customize. Click the Advanced tab. At the bottom of the dialogue box, tick the box marked ‘List my most recently opened documents’.
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One of the best ways to speed up Windows Vista that we’ll cover is simple.
Simply use it!
Vista’s Superfetch feature, its prefetching powerhouse, is incredibly powerful on its own—don’t mess with it.
Vista monitors your computing habits and caches the stuff you use the most. It also moves things on the hard
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Defrag Once in a While

June 3rd, 2008

If you’ve somehow gotten the impression that Windows Vista doesn’t need to be defragged, think again. Vista comes with a defrag program (Microsoft’s worst yet, in terms of usability) and it even comes preconfigured to defrag the hard drive once each week.
Unless you keep your computer on 24 hours a
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