17 Tips on How to make Windows Run Faster

This is a 17 post series. In fact this series has been prepared by re-organizing some of my previous posts.

You will find that these tips, in general, are in context of Windows
XP. But most of these tips are equally applicable to Windows Vista as
well. They will speed up Windows XP and are equally relevant to make
Windows Vista run faster. Click on the following links to go to the
individual tip to make Windows run faster.

1. 50 Light Weight Software to Make Windows Run faster
2. Convert Hard Drive from FAT32 to NTFS to Run Windows Faster
3. Reduce Startup Programs to Increase Windows Speed
4. Disable Indexing Services to Run Windows Faster
5. Increase Windows speed by Disabling Unused Windows services
6. Increase Windows Speed by Optimizing Paging File
7. Make Windows Run fast by Disabling Performance Counters
8. Use Manual Windows Updates to Run Windows Faster
9. Make Windows Fast by Adjusting Visual Effects
10. Make Windows Run Faster by Disabling Error Reporting
11. Disable Sounds to Make Windows Run Faster
12. Defragment Hard Disks to Make Windows Run Faster
13. Speedup Windows by Disabling Auto Search for Network Folders and Printers
14. Get Rid of Balloon Tips to Make Windows Run Faster
15. Replace Background to Load Windows XP faster
16. Run Disk Cleanup and make Windows run faster
17. Making Windows XP run faster by fixing system errors

via [ Webtoolsandtips.com ]

Backup Profiles & Force install Extensions for Firefox

Great little tutorial about firefox profiles and configuring firefox via about:config page. This video is about 7.5 minutes.

Backup Profiles & Force install Extensions for Firefox

SpringGraph Flex Component

SpringGraph is a Adobe Flex 2.0 component that displays a set of items that are linked to each other. The component calculates the layout for the items using an organic-looking annealing algorithm based on the size and links of each item, and draws lines to represent the links.

The component allows the user to drag and/or interact with individual items. Data can be provided in XML or as Actionscript objects. The Roamer component is an extension to SpringGraph for browsing large graphs of 10,000 items.

via[ mark-shepherd.com ]

Flexlib Interface Components

The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.

Current
components: AdvancedForm, Base64Image, EnhancedButtonSkin,
CanvasButton, ConvertibleTreeList, Draggable Slider, Fire, Highlighter,
HorizontalAxisDataSelector IconLoader, ImageMap, PromptingTextArea,
PromptingTextInput, Scrollable Menu Controls, SuperTabNavigator,
Alternative Scrolling Canvases, Horizontal Accordion, TreeGrid,
FlowBox, Docking ToolBar, Flex Scheduling Framework

See the Full Component List.

Browse the documentation, download the source code, or learn How to Contribute to the project.

SpringGraph Flex Component

SpringGraph is a Adobe Flex 2.0 component that displays a set of items that are linked to each other. The component calculates the layout for the items using an organic-looking annealing algorithm based on the size and links of each item, and draws lines to represent the links.

The component allows the user to drag and/or interact with individual items. Data can be provided in XML or as Actionscript objects. The Roamer component is an extension to SpringGraph for browsing large graphs of 10,000 items.

via[ mark-shepherd.com ]

Candy Colored Code: Open Source Syntax Highlighting Library in ActionScript 3

I’m happy to announce the release of my syntax highlighting library
written in ActionScript 3. It’s released under a BSD license, so have
at it.

This great Open Source Syntax Highlighting Library component was just what i was looking for!

via[ machine501.com ]

Using embedded fonts with the Panel container in Flex

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Panel container so that a Panel container can be rotated or faded without the text “disappearing”. The trick here is to set the panel’s titleStyleName style to a custom style which sets the font family to the embedded font.

Full code after the jump.
via[ FlexExamples ]

Flex Accordion Open on Hover by faking mouse events

In my extension to accordion upon child add, I merely add an eventlistenr to each child’s header, listening for mouseOver events and responding to them by dispatching a click event. Everything else just fall into place, since things are already wired to respond to the click event.

via[ Flexmonkeypatches ]

Using embedded fonts with the Panel container in Flex

“The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Panel container so that a Panel container can be rotated or faded without the text “disappearing”. The trick here is to set the panel’s titleStyleName style to a custom style which sets the font family to the embedded font.”

Full code after the jump.
via[ FlexExamples ]

VASGen: Free ActionScript3 Code Generation

“VioletUML is a simple, lightweight, and free (GPL) tool for generating UML diagrams.
The VASGen build described here adds the ability to export from a UML Class Diagram to a set of ActionScript3 code files.
For ActionScript3 language manipulation, I integrate
Metaas, a project which provides an API for generating and parsing AS3.
Metaas in turn relies on ANTLR, a tool for
building lexers, parsers, and automated processing in general, for grammars.”