Essential Guides

Here you'll find our member-submitted guides.

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This is Neowin's 'A' Forum. If you came here looking for help when no-one else could help you, chances are you need the 'A' Forum *cue music* 'A Collection of Essential Guides' are member and staff submitted articles or guides that cover most areas and have been deemed both accurate and helpful to our community.

If you are willing to contribute a guide, Neowin requests that you post the entire guide in the first post of the thread (or at least as much as possible). Threads that post little more than a brief description and a link to an external guide will be closed. All posts started here must contain guides only, all other topics will be deleted, misuse of this forum will result in account moderation.

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  1. The ultimate tweaker's guide to Windows

    By mlauzon76,
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    • ZappBrannigan

  3. [Guide] Pentium 4 (S478/LGA775) Overclocking

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  5. [REQ] Dual Boot Vista and Leopard

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  6. plz help

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    • shah888

  7. A guide to make Windows XP look like Vista

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    • 1 reply
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  8. Folder Locking Without Software

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    • 19 replies
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  9. How to: Get an elevated/admin explorer window in Vista

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    • HeadHunter 5

  10. Running Windows Vista Applications in Windows XP 1 2

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    • 48 replies
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  11. Complete Right Click Custimization in Windows 1 2 3 4

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    • daxleet

  12. Glass Tutorial

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    • Leoboy

  13. How to make the computer boot from a CD 1 2

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    • 29 replies
    • 18.2k views
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  14. A simple guide to optimizing Oblivion

    By Andre S.,
    • 8 replies
    • 16.9k views
    • Andre S.

  15. Setting up two D-Link cards with home networking

    By someware,
    • 7 replies
    • 18.1k views
    • mlazatin

  16. [Mac] Shutting your laptop lid without going into to sleep mode

    By -Alex-,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.8k views
    • -Alex-

  17. UnDeleting Shift + Del Files 1 2

    By Liger,
    • 38 replies
    • 11k views
    • Guest

  18. How to set up XChat (Windows) to connect to Neowin I.R.C

    By p858snake,
    • 17 replies
    • 6.3k views
    • Quad Master

  19. Speeding Up Firefox and IE Loading Times 1 2

    By Dearster,
    • 25 replies
    • 8.9k views
    • Colin-uk

  20. Guide to Resume NFS Carbon Savegame

    By Quad Master,
    • 0 replies
    • 26k views
    • Quad Master

  21. File sharing between Vista and OS X

    By Southern Patriot,
    • 7 replies
    • 23.8k views
    • Unholy Moley!

  22. How to host games

    By Unholy Moley!,
    • 9 replies
    • 4.5k views
    • Unholy Moley!

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    By devyant,
    • 16 replies
    • 7.7k views
    • ViperAFK

  24. A guide to Athlon overclocking! 1 2

    By +dave164,
    • 29 replies
    • 25.2k views
    • TheRPG

  25. Youtube video. How to clone computers across the network.

    By cbayadmin,
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    • 2.5k views
    • cbayadmin

  26. [Guide] Remove 'My Sharing Folders' 1 2 3 4 6

    By filter04,
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