How to Change MAC Address of A Computer

Why to Change MAC Address?

Sometimes, it becomes necessary to change the physical address of the computer whether it is due to the privacy point of view or to resolve the internet connectivity issues i.e. ISP (Internet Service Provider) issues an IP it may be a static or dynamic. Internet subscriptions are allowed for a static IP address in most of the cases. Therefore, ISP monitors and keeps the track record of the MAC address for all the connected devices. If customer replaces the PC or network adapters then its new MAC address does not match with the registered address; so ISP instantly blocks all internet services.

Tweak Windows XP - Disable Thumbnail Cache

 

Windows XP has a elegant feature for image and video files that creates a "thumbnail" of the image and the very first frame of the video file and then put this captured frame or image as the icon for the file. Windows Explorer can do this thing in two different ways. Firstly, by making the thumbnail at each time you open the respective folder and secondly, by loading the thumbnail from previously saved thumbnails which are placed in the cache which we call thumbnail cache. With the passage of time, system has a large collection of the thumbnails or very large cache memory for them. So in order to increase the opening time of the folders you have to delete this cached memory.

Tweak Windows XP - Disable User Tracking

Do you know there is a built in user tracking system in Windows XP which is not beneficialfor the majority of computer user. Approximately 99% of users do not need this feature because there are very few uses for the information collected by user tracking system. Moreover, this feature utilize precious resources to boot so you should have to disable this feature to increase the efficiency of your Windows XP.

Google Talk: Run Multiple Instances or Login as Multiple Users

Sometimes people have multiple Google accounts and they want to run Google Talk for each of them. Now, it is not a big deal.

It is not possible without some effort because you can not login from more than one account due to the limitations by the Google Talk. So  what you need is to follow the given steps to resolve this issue.

When Google Talk is installed to the default location i.e C:\\Program Files\Google Talk.. then you can easily use the following setting to its shortcut which you used to oprn Google Talk. Here is the way:

•  Click Right button of the mouse on your desktop
• Select "New"
• Select "Shortcut"
• Paste this into the text box:
  "c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
• Click "Next"
• Name it whatever: Google Talk Multiple, etc.  (Optional)
• Click "OK" until you are done.