Enabling two-factor authentication is a great way to add an additional level of protection to your Microsoft account. Even if your password is stolen, your account is still protected because two-factor authetication requires an additional level of verification to log in. Microsoft calls their version of two-factor authentication "two-step verification" and it works by providing you with a random code that must be entered in additional to your password when you log in.
Microsoft offers three ways to generate the verification code. It can be sent via e-mail, SMS message or using a token generator app on your mobile phone.
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next. Next, you will need to specify the password for the local account XPMuser that runs in the XP virtual machine. Type in a password in both boxes and click Next. XP Mode runs a fully functional Windows XP virtual machine in the background so it must be patched every month as new security updates are released to keep applications running in the VM protected. The best way to accomplish this is by turning on Automatic Updates.
Check Help protect my computer by turning on Automatic Updates now and click Next. Setup will now run and configure the Windows XP virtual machine. This will take a few minutes. The CPU should always be running at its highest speed. This is simply to prevent Windows from going on the internet and downloading stuff right in the middle of that perfect vocal performance you were doing in the early hours of the morning. Run occasional updates manually.
Firewall — leave that on Windows Defender — Tools — Options — turn off automatic scanning. This is supposed to give priority to the ASIO drivers of audio interfaces and soundcards but no one really knows if it does any more.
It used to be an issue many years ago and made a difference. Tweak 10 — Indexing This is perhaps one of the cool Vista features in that it holds an index of files on the system to help it find things quicker. This is good but it does take over your hard drive from time to time — you may hear it churning away when the computer is idle. You can turn off indexing for each drive individually.
A DPC or Deferred Procedure Call is when something interrupts the processor to demand an important task is done and everything else is knocked to a lower priority. All sorts of system devices need to do this but badly written ones hang on to that interruption far longer than they should.
The result could be that it breaks the real-time streaming of your audio and so you get glitches. Download it and run it and it will tell you exactly how well your system is behaving.
If you get any spikes then open up the Device Manager and disable devices until the spikes go away. Be careful not to disable something that your system needs to function, like the hard drives, but other devices are fair game. I would disable things in this order:. If it has no effect then you can re-enable. Also disconnect any external devices such as drives, printers, cameras etc. Some are straightforward, others involve a degree of skill. Where we suggest Registry editing, it's important to have a recent backup.
Windows backs it up automatically, but it doesn't hurt to back up manually as well. If you have a drive imaging program such as Macrium Reflect , back up your main Windows drive to an external hard disk before making any major changes.
Remember that it's your computer, so don't be shy — claim it for yourself and make it work smarter. You can remove unwanted programs that appear on the Open with… list when you're trying to open an unknown program. To remove an unwanted program from this list, select it and then right-click in the right-hand pane. Add a "Copy to folder" option to the context menu so you can right-click a file to quickly copy it. By default, a file named 2. Many people work around this by starting single digit numbers in file names with a leading zero, but you can change this behaviour by making a Registry edit.
Right-click and modify its value to "1". Select the scheme you want to use from the drop-down list. You can modify individual pointers by selecting one in the current scheme and clicking Browse — then replace this with any static cursor file with the extension. CUR, or an animated cursor file, which will have the. ANI file extension. You can also download sets of mouse pointers online. These are generally distributed in sets of.
CUR or. ANI files, grouped together in a zip archive.
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