For an excellent guide to using your myfreeforum forum, you can visit howtodoit
The howtodoit "readonly" forum provides answers and walkthroughs for all common questions.
got cached, but this file needs to change with each and every link shown.
that's cached why exactly?, as I thought the portals on that page were cached individually leaving no need for that page to be cached? _________________ CALM TIME: When calm time is called, all posters in a topic must take time out to calm down.
was it the intention to put the code in bold on the forums or did you have the html < b > < /b > in mind because it shows up on the mentioned templates. _________________ TFL Forum
Hey symon what do you think about adding a guide like this?
http://templatetester.myfreeforum.org/about31.html
Understanding the overall_header.tpl. _________________ "Great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about current events, small minds talk about other peoples"
You may use it.
And if you could add more information please do so.
Spoiler:
Code:
If you want to fully understand you overall_header.tpl line for line, this is your guide.
However I will only be covering the basics. Other then that you still will have to learn HTML and maybe CSS if you want to change the look of your forum so here we go. (note: there is no edits, sub portals aren't added.)
Here is my full overall_header.tpl of a freshly installed 'subsilver'.
[spoiler][code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
{META}
{NAV_LINKS}
<title>{SITENAME} :: {PAGE_TITLE}</title>
<!-- link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/myff_templatetester3/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css" -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
/*
The original subSilver Theme for phpBB version 2+
Created by subBlue design
http://www.subBlue.com
NOTE: These CSS definitions are stored within the main page body so that you can use the phpBB2
theme administration centre. When you have finalised your style you could cut the final CSS code
and place it in an external file, deleting this section to save bandwidth.
*/
/* General page style. The scroll bar colours only visible in IE5.5+ */
body {
background-color: {T_BODY_BGCOLOR};
scrollbar-face-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
scrollbar-highlight-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
scrollbar-shadow-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
scrollbar-3dlight-color: {T_TR_COLOR3};
scrollbar-arrow-color: {T_BODY_LINK};
scrollbar-track-color: {T_TR_COLOR1};
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: {T_TH_COLOR1};
}
/* General font families for common tags */
font,th,td,p { font-family: {T_FONTFACE1} }
a:link,a:active,a:visited { color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
hr { height: 0px; border: solid {T_TR_COLOR3} 0px; border-top-width: 1px;}
/* This is the border line & background colour round the entire page */
.bodyline { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 1px {T_TH_COLOR1} solid; }
/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 2px {T_TH_COLOR2} solid; }
/*
This is for the table cell above the Topics, Post & Last posts on the index.php page
By default this is the fading out gradiated silver background.
However, you could replace this with a bitmap specific for each forum
*/
td.rowpic {
background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
background-image: url(templates/myff_templatetester3/images/{T_TH_CLASS3});
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
/* Header cells - the blue and silver gradient backgrounds */
th {
color: {T_FONTCOLOR3}; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-weight : bold;
background-color: {T_BODY_LINK}; height: 25px;
background-image: url(templates/myff_templatetester3/images/{T_TH_CLASS2});
}
/*
Setting additional nice inner borders for the main table cells.
The names indicate which sides the border will be on.
Don't worry if you don't understand this, just ignore it :-)
*/
td.cat,td.catHead,td.catBottom {
height: 29px;
border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
th.thHead,th.thSides,th.thTop,th.thLeft,th.thRight,th.thBottom,th.thCornerL,th.thCornerR {
font-weight: bold; border: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border-style: solid; height: 28px;
}
td.row3Right,td.spaceRow {
background-color: {T_TR_COLOR3}; border: {T_TH_COLOR3}; border-style: solid;
}
/* The largest text used in the index page title and toptic title etc. */
.maintitle {
font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "{T_FONTFACE2}",{T_FONTFACE1};
text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}
/* The register, login, search etc links at the top of the page */
.mainmenu { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT} }
a.mainmenu { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Forum category titles */
.cattitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px ; letter-spacing: 1px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}}
a.cattitle { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: underline; }
/* Forum title: Text and link to the forums used in: index.php */
.forumlink { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */
.nav { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}
a.nav { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.nav:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
/* titles for the topics: could specify viewed link colour too */
.topictitle,h1,h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
a.topictitle:link { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.topictitle:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Name of poster in viewmsg.php and viewtopic.php and other places */
.name { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}
/* Location, number of posts, post date etc */
.postdetails { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE1}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
/* The content of the posts (body of text) */
.postbody { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE3}px; line-height: 18px}
a.postlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK} }
a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}}
/* Form elements */
input,textarea, select {
color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
font: normal {T_FONTSIZE2}px {T_FONTFACE1};
border-color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}
/* The text input fields background colour */
input.post, textarea.post, select {
background-color : {T_TD_COLOR2};
}
input { text-indent : 2px; }
/* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */
input.button {
background-color : {T_TR_COLOR1};
color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-family: {T_FONTFACE1};
}
/* The main submit button option */
input.mainoption {
background-color : {T_TD_COLOR1};
font-weight : bold;
}
/* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover
help line. This is actually a text box, but if set to be the same
colour as the background no one will know ;)
*/
.helpline { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR2}; border-style: none; }
/* Import the fancy styles for IE only (NS4.x doesn't use the @import function) */
@import url("templates/myff_templatetester3/formIE.css");
-->
</style>
<!-- BEGIN switch_enable_pm_popup -->
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if ( {PRIVATE_MESSAGE_NEW_FLAG} )
{
window.open('{U_PRIVATEMSGS_POPUP}', '_phpbbprivmsg', 'HEIGHT=225,resizable=yes,WIDTH=400');;
}
//-->
</script>
<!-- END switch_enable_pm_popup -->
</head>
<body bgcolor="{T_BODY_BGCOLOR}" text="{T_BODY_TEXT}" link="{T_BODY_LINK}" vlink="{T_BODY_VLINK}">
Quite lengthy yes, but I will make it simple to understand
First line of code.
[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">[/code]
That is called a "Doctype" or document type. As you know most web pages are created using HTML, but did you know their are other variants?
HTML 4.01 Transitional
HTML 4.01 Strict
HTML 4.01 Frameset
The transitional is what most templates use. Basic html. However their is some html code that was 'depreciated' meaning no longer used. That version contains them.
Strict is basically the same except it doesn't include depreciated elements
Frame set is for sites that use frames. The adminstrational control panel is an example of a page that uses frames.
XHTML 1 Is the 'new' html. Which is a lot cleaner version of html and soon will be standard.
It has the same variants as above
Also the doctype is needed when you validate HTML using a validator.
Next line
[code]<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">[/code]
Basically means 'start of the html' document. the dir= stuff I really don't know but you shouldn't ever be needing to edit it, so leave it the way it is.
[code]<head>[/code]
The head of an html document. Their is code that is excecuted in the head part, but you don't see the actually outcome of the code on the page. Unless its javascript. This is also the place to add "META" tags.
[code]<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
{META}
{NAV_LINKS}[/code]
Are Meta tags, sorry I couldn't explain more, but you shouldn't need to edit that.
[code]<title>{SITENAME} :: {PAGE_TITLE}</title>[/code]
Is the text that shows at the top of your web browser window.
Page name- Internet Explorer [_][[]][X]
A rough drawing but you should understand.
Now a long line of code!
[spoiler][code]<!-- link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/myff_templatetester3/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css" -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
/*
The original subSilver Theme for phpBB version 2+
Created by subBlue design
http://www.subBlue.com
NOTE: These CSS definitions are stored within the main page body so that you can use the phpBB2
theme administration centre. When you have finalised your style you could cut the final CSS code
and place it in an external file, deleting this section to save bandwidth.
*/
/* General page style. The scroll bar colours only visible in IE5.5+ */
body {
background-color: {T_BODY_BGCOLOR};
scrollbar-face-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
scrollbar-highlight-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
scrollbar-shadow-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
scrollbar-3dlight-color: {T_TR_COLOR3};
scrollbar-arrow-color: {T_BODY_LINK};
scrollbar-track-color: {T_TR_COLOR1};
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: {T_TH_COLOR1};
}
/* General font families for common tags */
font,th,td,p { font-family: {T_FONTFACE1} }
a:link,a:active,a:visited { color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
hr { height: 0px; border: solid {T_TR_COLOR3} 0px; border-top-width: 1px;}
/* This is the border line & background colour round the entire page */
.bodyline { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 1px {T_TH_COLOR1} solid; }
/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 2px {T_TH_COLOR2} solid; }
/*
This is for the table cell above the Topics, Post & Last posts on the index.php page
By default this is the fading out gradiated silver background.
However, you could replace this with a bitmap specific for each forum
*/
td.rowpic {
background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
background-image: url(templates/myff_templatetester3/images/{T_TH_CLASS3});
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
/* Header cells - the blue and silver gradient backgrounds */
th {
color: {T_FONTCOLOR3}; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-weight : bold;
background-color: {T_BODY_LINK}; height: 25px;
background-image: url(templates/myff_templatetester3/images/{T_TH_CLASS2});
}
/*
Setting additional nice inner borders for the main table cells.
The names indicate which sides the border will be on.
Don't worry if you don't understand this, just ignore it :-)
*/
td.cat,td.catHead,td.catBottom {
height: 29px;
border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
th.thHead,th.thSides,th.thTop,th.thLeft,th.thRight,th.thBottom,th.thCornerL,th.thCornerR {
font-weight: bold; border: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border-style: solid; height: 28px;
}
td.row3Right,td.spaceRow {
background-color: {T_TR_COLOR3}; border: {T_TH_COLOR3}; border-style: solid;
}
/* The largest text used in the index page title and toptic title etc. */
.maintitle {
font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "{T_FONTFACE2}",{T_FONTFACE1};
text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}
/* The register, login, search etc links at the top of the page */
.mainmenu { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT} }
a.mainmenu { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Forum category titles */
.cattitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px ; letter-spacing: 1px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}}
a.cattitle { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: underline; }
/* Forum title: Text and link to the forums used in: index.php */
.forumlink { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */
.nav { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}
a.nav { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.nav:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
/* titles for the topics: could specify viewed link colour too */
.topictitle,h1,h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
a.topictitle:link { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.topictitle:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
/* Name of poster in viewmsg.php and viewtopic.php and other places */
.name { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}
/* Location, number of posts, post date etc */
.postdetails { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE1}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
/* The content of the posts (body of text) */
.postbody { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE3}px; line-height: 18px}
a.postlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK} }
a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}}
/* Form elements */
input,textarea, select {
color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
font: normal {T_FONTSIZE2}px {T_FONTFACE1};
border-color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}
/* The text input fields background colour */
input.post, textarea.post, select {
background-color : {T_TD_COLOR2};
}
input { text-indent : 2px; }
/* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */
input.button {
background-color : {T_TR_COLOR1};
color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-family: {T_FONTFACE1};
}
/* The main submit button option */
input.mainoption {
background-color : {T_TD_COLOR1};
font-weight : bold;
}
/* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover
help line. This is actually a text box, but if set to be the same
colour as the background no one will know ;)
*/
.helpline { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR2}; border-style: none; }
/* Import the fancy styles for IE only (NS4.x doesn't use the @import function) */
@import url("templates/myff_templatetester3/formIE.css");
-->
</style>[/code][/spoiler]
That is CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. That simple controls how your forum looks.
[code]<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if ( {PRIVATE_MESSAGE_NEW_FLAG} )
{
window.open('{U_PRIVATEMSGS_POPUP}', '_phpbbprivmsg', 'HEIGHT=225,resizable=yes,WIDTH=400');;
}
//-->
</script>
<!-- END switch_enable_pm_popup -->[/code]
That is Javascript. You know those usually annoying alert boxes that show up sometimes on web pages? That is what tells the browser to do so. Except that code is above is set to only execute if you have a private message.
[code]</head>[/code]
The end of the head part of the web page. Now time for the part that you see.
[code]<body bgcolor="{T_BODY_BGCOLOR}" text="{T_BODY_TEXT}" link="{T_BODY_LINK}" vlink="{T_BODY_VLINK}">
[/code]
That starts the "body" of your document that you see. Its usually just <body> but the rest is some added CSS.
[code]<a name="top"></a>[/code]
I personally don't know what that does. If anyone knows tell me so I may add it.
Now time for another long line of code!
[spoiler][code]<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="bodyline"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><a href="{U_INDEX}"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/logo_phpBB.gif" border="0" alt="{L_INDEX}" vspace="1" /></a></td>
<td align="center" width="100%" valign="middle"><span class="maintitle">{SITENAME}</span><br /><span class="gen">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}<br /> </span>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="mainmenu"> <a href="{U_FAQ}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_faq.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_FAQ}" hspace="3" />{L_FAQ}</a> <a href="{U_SEARCH}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_search.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_SEARCH}" hspace="3" />{L_SEARCH}</a> <a href="{U_MEMBERLIST}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_members.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_MEMBERLIST}" hspace="3" />{L_MEMBERLIST}</a> <a href="{U_GROUP_CP}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_groups.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_USERGROUPS}" hspace="3" />{L_USERGROUPS}</a>
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_out -->
<a href="{U_REGISTER}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_register.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_REGISTER}" hspace="3" />{L_REGISTER}</a>>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_out -->
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="25" align="center" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="mainmenu"> <a href="{U_PROFILE}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_profile.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_PROFILE}" hspace="3" />{L_PROFILE}</a> <a href="{U_PRIVATEMSGS}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_message.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}" hspace="3" />{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}</a> <a href="{U_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myff_templatetester3/images/icon_mini_login.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" hspace="3" />{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}</a> </span></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>[/code][/spoiler]
That controls the links, the logo, and displays the site description and site name.
That is mostly table driven and if you know HTML tables that should be easy to edit. If you don't, don't worry forums are about posts and topics and not cosmetic features.
and at the end
[code]<br />[/code]
Which is a line break, example a new line of the page.
[b]FAQ[/b]
What does HTML and XHTML stand for?
HTML- Hyper Text Markup Language
XHTML- eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language
Is their a difference between <br> and <br />
Nope, they do the same except <br> is HTML and <br /> is XHTML.
What are these {CODEHERE} thingies? No HTML guide I seen has them!
Those are called 'Macros". The web is devided between 'server' side and 'client' (you) side. Before you view the page, the server scans that page and when it sees those Macros, it searches a database and replaces those with HTML code.
Thats it! Any suggestions contact me
_________________ "Great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about current events, small minds talk about other peoples"
I noticed the
{NAMEHERE} thing didn't show, could you put it in [code] formate? _________________ "Great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about current events, small minds talk about other peoples"
All right, this world is driven by speed and heres some way you can keep your machine in shape.<p> </p>
<p>The computer I am using is a custom built one (by me) with a 950 Mhz AMD Processor, 512 MB RAM, Pc Chips FSB333 Motherboard, </p><p>and a 80 Gig Hard drive. Running Windows XP Home Edition.</p><p>Even if your a techy or a noobie at computers, I will make this guide easy to follow/ </p><p> </p><p><strong>First off, know what programs are hogging speed.</strong><br />Some programs can cause an Operating systems to slow down a lot. Can you spot the bad program on my desktop thats </p>
<p>causing trouble?<br /> <a href="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/desktop.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/icons/desktop.jpg" alt="Desktop" title="Desktop" /><br /></a></p><p><em>Click Image for a larger view </em></p><p>If you guessed "AOL" you are correct!</p><p>Soon it'll be leaving, but some programs can slow down your computer badly. Most noticeable McAfee and Norton.Getting rid of slow programs and replacing with better faster ones that do the same is always recommended. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Kiss Internet Explorer Goodbye.... </strong><br />Internet is a menace. Extremely slow and not user friendly at all. Everyone who uses the computer for more then a month will <em>strongly</em> recommend <a href="http://mozilla.com" title="Mozilla Firefox/ ThunderBird">FireFox</a>. A safer, faster, and more user friendly web browser. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Use Tools Windows Has...</strong><br />Windows does give you some useful tools to rearrange and clean up your Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the HDD is where all you information is stored. </p><p><strong><em>Disk Cleanup. </em></strong><br />Easily accessible by clicking "Start" in the lower left hand screen and highlight "Settings" then click "Control" Panel.</p><p><a href="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/controlpanel.png" target="_blank" title="Control Panel"><img src="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/icons/controlpanel.jpg" alt="Control Panel" title="Control Panel" width="505" height="366" /></a> </p><p><em>Click Image for Larger View </em></p><p>Once you click on it, you'll get several options. Click "Performance And Maintenance"</p><p> <a href="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/controlpanel2.png" target="_blank" title="Control Panel 2"><img src="http://codyt07.com/images/speedupwindows/icons/controlpanel2.jpg" alt="Control Panel2" title="Control Panel2" /></a></p><p><em>Click Image for a Larger View </em></p><p> </p><p>Now click it and we can do some work in there. </p><p>Now we have two options to work with. "Free Up Space on Hard Disk" and "Rearrange Items on Your Hard Disk to Make Programs Run Faster".</p><p>When you click on the Free up space one, it will come up with a little dialog and tell you what all you can clear to free up space. And the"Rearrange Items" will come up with a Disk Defrager, Click "Analyze" and if need be click "Defrag" and sit back and let it defrag you disk. Due note it can take a while</p><p> </p><p><strong>Clear the Cache.. </strong></p><p>When you browse the internet, you web browser (either be Internet Explorer or Firefox) stores images and the sites CSS (Cascading Style Sheets, basically controls how the site looks) onto your computer. So when you revisit that webpage, the browser can call that information from your computer instead of the server which can speed things up. But every now and then you should clear it. Steps are as follows</p><p><strong><em>Inter Explorer 7</em></strong></p><p>Click on "tools" in the upper right hand corner, then click "Internet Options". A new screen should appear. You should be on the "general tab, look a little ways down and you will see "Browsing History" and click on the "delete" icon to the left then click "Delete All" and wait a second. Now you will have to relog into sites when you do this, but things should be a tad bit faster.</p><p><em><strong>FireFox </strong></em></p><p>Click "Tools" at the top then click "Clear Private Date" then click "Clear Private Data Now".</p><p><em><strong>Both Web Browsers </strong></em></p><p>Let you select what to clear, best to clear everything for a noticeable difference. </p><p><strong>Get That Scanner Scanning!..</strong><em><strong> </strong></em></p><p>If you have an antispyware scanner or an Antivirus or both USE them. Spyware can DRASTICALLY slow down your PC. If you don't have an Anti Spyware check out <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/" title="Spy Bot">Spybot</a>, a free anti spyware scanner. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Other Methods. </strong> </p>This guide will just cover the basics, their are more ways for advance users to make their computer go faster. Such as partioning you hard disk (dividing it up into different sections), cleaning the resgistry, and setting what programs can start at boot up. And outright reinstalling you Operating System. More will be added if requested. <br /><p><strong>Inexpensive way for performance. </strong></p><p>An inexpensive way is to buy RAM, Its cheap and it does a noticeble amount</p><p>VISTA Users, buy a 1GB thumb drive and use Vistas Ready Boost for a noticeable difference.</p><p> Well thats it for the guide, suggestions or comments contact me at codyt07@codyt07.com</p><p>Date- 2007-09-01</p><p>Time- 22:02:31</p>
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