Copyright Credits About the Author Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Why PC Hacks? How to Use This Book How This Book Is Organized Conventions Using Code Examples Disclaimer How to Contact O'Reilly Got a Hack? Chapter 1. Basic System Board Hacks Introduction: Hacks #1-10 Hack 1. Lock Others Out of Your Computer Hack 2. Bypass the BIOS Password Hack 3. Recover a BIOS That Won't Boot Hack 4. Boot Faster Hack 5. Display a Boot-Time Graphic Hack 6. Configure Boot Device Order Hack 7. Set Your Clock Back Hack 8. Avoid the Legacy USB Option Hack 9. Hack an Unhackable BIOS Hack 10. Upgrade Your Flash BIOS Chapter 2. Basic System Board Setup Introduction: Hacks #11-18 Hack 11. Step Away from the Legacy Device Hack 12. Manage Devices Hack 13. Configure Serial Ports Hack 14. Configure Parallel Ports Hack 15. Configure Sound Cards Hack 16. Configure SCSI Host Adapters Hack 17. Configure Network Cards Hack 18. Reeducate Plug and Play Chapter 3. CPU Hacks Hacks #19-29 Hack 19. Get More Power Hack 20. Identify Your CPU Hack 21. Which CPUs Are Hackable? Hack 22. Which System Boards Are Hackable? Hack 23. Determine Your CPU Speed Hack 24. Keep It Cool Hack 25. Control CPU Clock Speed from the BIOS Hack 26. As Goes Voltage, So Goes Speed Hack 27. Set the CPU Multiplier Hack 28. Unlock Your CPU Multiplier Hack 29. Check the Vents Chapter 4. Memory Hacks Introduction: Hacks #30-39 Hack 30. Install More RAM Hack 31. Recognize Memory Limitations Hack 32. Install the RAM Your Operating System Needs Hack 33. Tame the Windows 95 and 98 Cache Hack 34. Manage the Paging File Hack 35. Manage Windows System Resources Hack 36. Force Windows 98 and Me to Swap Less Hack 37. Pin the Kernel in RAM Hack 38. Speed Up Your RAM Hack 39. Enable Memory Interleave for Via Chipsets Chapter 5. Disk Hacks Introduction: Hacks #40-57 Hack 40. Partition and Format Wisely Hack 41. Determine Your Filesystem Hack 42. Create a New Partition with NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 Hack 43. Create a New Partition with PartitionMagic Hack 44. Merge Partitions with PartitionMagic Hack 45. Convert FAT to NTFS Hack 46. Create or Delete NTFS Partitions from the Recovery Console Hack 47. Fix the Master Boot Record on FAT Partitions Hack 48. Fix the Master Boot Record on NTFS Partitions Hack 49. Fix the Partition Boot Sector on NTFS Partitions Hack 50. Fix GRUB or LILO Boot Problems Hack 51. Format Your Disk Hack 52. Change Logical Drive Letters Hack 53. Restore DOS Bootability Hack 54. Rescue a Blown 2000 or XP Installation Hack 55. Fix the Windows 95 File-Caching Bug Hack 56. Avoid the Delayed-Write-Caching Blues Hack 57. Detect Drive Failure Before It Happens Chapter 6. Disk Drive Performance Hacks Introduction: Hacks #58-67 Hack 58. Choose the Fastest Hard Drive Hack 59. Use an 80-Wire Cable Hack 60. Upgrade Your IDE Interface Hack 61. Kick It Up a Notch with Serial ATA Hack 62. Get the Fastest IDE Driver for Intel Chipsets Hack 63. Get the Fastest IDE Driver for Via Chipsets Hack 64. Speed It Up with RAID Hack 65. Speed Up DOS with SMARTDRV Hack 66. Speed Up Windows with VCACHE Hack 67. Linux's Drive Performance Booster Chapter 7. Video Hacks Introduction: Hacks #68-74 Hack 68. Get off the PCI Bus Hack 69. Upgrade from Built-in Video Hack 70. Don't Expect Much from AGP Aperture Size Hack 71. Choose the Correct AGP Mode Hack 72. Overclock Your nVidia Adapter Hack 73. Overclock Your ATI Radeon Hack 74. Overclock Anything Chapter 8. I/O Device Hacks Introduction: Hacks #75-84 Basic PC Configuration Rules Hack 75. Let Windows Tell You About I/O Card Conflicts Hack 76. Break the Rules with LPT Ports Hack 77. Break the Rules with COM Ports Hack 78. Rewire Your COM Ports Hack 79. Boost COM Port Performance Hack 80. New Uses for an Old Port Hack 81. Use USB for Peer-to-Peer Networking Hack 82. Get the Most out of USB Hack 83. Install the Driver Before You Install the Hardware Hack 84. Please Continue Anyway Chapter 9. Boot-Up Hacks Introduction: Hacks #85-94 Hack 85. Make a Bare Disk Bootable Hack 86. Configure a Multiboot System Hack 87. Multiboot with Third-Party Utilities Hack 88. Speed up Operating System Installation and Maintenance Hack 89. Access NTFS Files from Other Operating Systems Hack 90. Give Your XP Installation Access to the Recovery Console Hack 91. Hack the Windows 95/98/Me DOS Startup Hack 92. Hack the MS-DOS Configuration File Hack 93. Hack the MS-DOS Startup File Hack 94. Hack the Windows NT/2000/XP Boot Loader Chapter 10. Configuring a New PC Introduction: Hacks #95-100 Hack 95. Clone Your Hard Disk Hack 96. Move Applications and Settings from One PC to Another Hack 97. Protect Your PC from Viruses Hack 98. Protect Your PC from Malware Hack 99. Surround Yourself with a Firewall Hack 100. Do Your Backups Colophon Index
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