Is your computer running slow for no reason?

There were a few people who asked me to help them with their systems running slow even though they are positive it contains no malware of any kind. Thanx to the folks at DonationCoder there seems to be a logical explanation and a sorta fix.

Link:
http://.../how_do_i_fix_this_high_cpu_usage...

Clear the Internet Explorer Typed Address History

Did you know that in Internet Explorer the URL you type into the address bar are stored in the registry. Even if you clean your history these URL's will remain active in the IE address bar history.

How to clean:

1. Start menu -> Run -> Regedit
2. Navigate to the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs]
3. With the key highlighted in the left view pane you can see the typed in URLs in the right view pane
4. Delete values as required or remove the entire key (IE will recreate the key when needed)
   

I know there are tools that will automatically clean this history for you but I don't want a whole application for something I clean only every few months or so. What I did was create a registry hack that will delete the typed in URL key in the registry (it will be recreated by IE when you need it). Download it and double-click it the .reg file and your history will be cleaned.

Link to reg hack:
http://www.veign.com/registry-hacks.php

Relocate the menu bar in IE7 to the top of the window

Would you rather have the menu bar in IE7 to be more like IE6 in the sense that it will appear at the very top of the window? A simple reg hack will get that going for you.

1) Copy the bold text below into a text file (between the lines)
-----------------------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001
-----------------------------------------------------------
2) Save the text file with a REG extension (like toolbar.reg)
3) Double click the file and allow it to update your registry
4) Shut down IE7 (if open) and restart it.

or download this pre-made file

Before the change:

After the change: