Not all hacking is bad, despite what the media says. When you tweak your computer, you're hacking. Now if you are actually breaking into a computer to do something malicious or illegal, I'd call that cracking.
Why isn't that post edited? I don't see anything that needs removing from it. Feel free to edit your memory settings all you want. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I'm not completely sure, but that reg hack looks like it disables your paging/swap file. That isn't really a good idea, especially if you usually end up using more memory than you have installed. Having a very small paging file and a good amount of physical memory would help your computer work faster though.
My personal advice. Never buy extended warranty's, well for most things. Epecially computers. They're the biggest waste of money you can spend on a computer.
I just got an upgrade e-mail today. The e-mail was more than 2 months late! I was so excited when I saw Comcast High-Speed Internet - now even faster, I thought there was yet another upgrade. Oh well. I've had the upgraded speeds for months now.
One thing that could help some people. XP home contains a build in user name, Administrator, with no password that can only be accessed via safe mode. You can reset user passwords through there. I'm not sure if XP Pro has the same user setup.
I kind of agree with Cal3e on the counter thing. It's so 1999, lol. Of corse if he wanted to, he could put a plain text link or image (no stats on it)to a page with stats like people do with some of those free counters. But, whatever.