Introduction

Windows XP has been out for over a year now, and more and more people have taken to it as the OS of choice for a range of uses. You may have already read my first WinXP guide with the title Windows XP Tweaking: From Reformat to Relax. That guide covers all the essential known XP performance tweaks in a walkthrough style and is right up to date, so if you haven't read it, it's the first place you should go to for XP tweaking goodness. It's guaranteed to speed up your system.

Ever since my first XP guide was released I have received literally millions of emails every day begging me, nay, pleading with me to do a second one. It got to the point where I was being harassed in the streets by crazy fans and I couldn't even go out for a meal without someone coming up to me and asking "When are you gonna write a second XP guide man?" When the paparazzi started camping outside my house, I knew it was time to get to work on guide number two.

Well here it is. This highly anticipated second XP guide picks up where the first one left off by bringing together a range of XP tips and tweaks which address commonly encountered problems, provide visual enhancement and customization, and all the little niceties and shortcuts which make XP quicker and easier to use.

This guide applies to Windows XP Home and Professional, and is compatible with XP SP1 (or SP1a). You don't need to have read or used my first XP Guide, but of course it is highly recommended that you do. That guide again is: Windows XP Tweaking: From Reformat to Relax. This guide may seem long, but trust me, it's worth working your way through. I guarantee you'll find some real gems in this baby.

Ok, let's get ready to go from Relax to Righteous...Read on!

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