geekyHacks

well there's always gonna be people telling you how you can overclock your computer and getting it to perform better than what it's rated on the box. and they'd be right you know. most PC components today are made to much tighter specifications in terms of performance, with sufficient (and significant) margins for even better performance if you'd just know how to unlock it. that said, overclocking is not for everyone, and in most cases it would void your warranty. also, there's a fair bit of elbow grease involved, as well as a certain level of competence and comfort required to go about tweaking the BIOS. well, that's for those who want to push their machines to the limit. but what if you're a middle of the road kind of guy - just want the computer to perform to specs, and maybe get a little more useful life out of the components? there's something for you too! and its known as under-volting .

so i was about to go through the computer based training package from boeing on my computer at home, when i came across an error asking me to locate the files on my computer. a simple "replace.." command editing the lessons.lst file via notepad made light work of that. basically, all that needed to be done was to change the lessons.lst file so that the CBT program knows which directory the files are stored. once fired up, i realised that the fonts look crappy as a geocities website. i figured it's gotta be a font problem since, you know.. crappy fonts right? so i muck around the directory and voila ! a folder called "fonts". i did the silly thing first - copying the entire "fonts" directory from my windows\fonts folder into my CBT folder, and when that didn't work, i figured the next best thing to do was to copy the contents of the "fonts" directory from CBT into the windows one. brilliant. my CBT now looks pretty as a pancake. with...