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Change Your USB port

You can associate your USB device with a different port but it will still only function on one port.  To change what port your device works on, try this: 1.       Download the free application called USBDeview.  This is a tiny app that runs from a single .exe file so nothing is installed on your computer. 2.       Run USBDeview AS ADMINISTRATOR. 3.       Locate the column titled “Last Plug/Unplug Date.”  You may need to use the scroll bar at the bottom because there are dozens of columns that you can’t see.  Now sort on this column by clicking on the column header so that the most recent times are at the top. 4.       Plug-in your USB device using the port that it currently functions on and see what device jumps to the top of the list.  You may need to hit the refresh button in the tool bar.  It may also be helpful to wait a couple minutes if you have plugged-in several devices recently so that there is more of a time offset. 5.       Once you identify the device

10 Ways To Improve Performance in Windows XP

1. Defragment Your Hard Disk Imagine you are in a shopping mall, and the person you are with wants to visit fifteen different shops. However, this person ends up walking you up and down the mall six times. Does that make sense? Of course not - as human beings, we like to do things in order to save time. When your hard drive becomes fragmented, it is literally wasting time by looking in all kinds of places on the disk for all of the pieces of one file. Defragmenting your drive is a great solution to speed up your computer as it puts all the files together in order. • Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter • Click the drives you want to defrag and click Analyze • Click Defragment 2. Defragment  you Hard Disk on BootTo make windows XP start more quickly, you can defragment your boot files. This will decrease the time it takes for your computer to boot. Boot defragment should be enabled by default; however, it might not be ena