How to Optimize Memory Speed (Paging File Tweak)

If you have issues with programs running with the default paging file size? Let's show you how to optimize the memory using paging file!

These are lists of numbers of page file if you want to copy into it.
For 1GB memory:
Initial size: 1024
Maximum size: 3072
For 1.5GB memory:
Initial size: 1536
Maximum size: 3584
For 2GB memory:
Initial size: 3072
Maximum size: 6144
For 3GB memory:
Initial size: 4096
Maximum size: 8192
For 4GB memory:
Initial size: 6144
Maximum size: 12288
For 6GB memory:
Initial size: 8192
Maximum size: 12288
For 8GB memory:
Initial size: 8192
Maximum size: 16384

Make sure you copy the size (both initial and maximum) if you have RAM like 1-8GB, this will speed up!

How to Tweak Internet Speed (Updated)

There is an updated version of optimizing network speed!

Step 1: Install SG TCP Optimizer
If your loading speed as well as downloads are taking too long? You have to get the program (SG TCP Optimizer).

Step 2: Using DNS Servers

There are three lists of DNSes to be optimized.

OpenDNS:

• Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222
• Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

Google DNS:

• Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8
• Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

Cloudflare DNS:

• Preferred DNS server: 1.1.1.1
• Alternate DNS server: 1.0.0.1

Step 3: Enable Parallel Downloading (Chromium)

If you want to tweak download speeds, you can just go into Chrome://flags and enable "Parallel downloading".

And you are all done! Internet should be optimized now!

How to Transform Chrome 69 and 70 (including 68) into Chrome 63-65!

If you dislike the Chrome 67+ interface and here is the steps to do this...

Step 1: Download links

• Chrome 69.0.3497.100 Standalone Installer (x86, x64)
• Chromium 71.0.3555.0 Offline Installer (x64 Only, Ver 591690)

Step 2: Apply flags to have it old look

• UI Layout for the browser's top chrome - Normal
• Material design in the rest of the browser's native UI - Disabled
• New style notification - Disabled
• Enable using the Google local NTP - Enabled
• New Tab Page Material Design Icons - Disabled
• New Tab Page Material Design UI - Disabled
• Simplify HTTPS indicator UI - Enabled (Show Secure chip for non-EV HTTPS pages)
• Mark non-secure origins as non-secure - Disabled
• Hyperlink auditing - Disabled
• Custom-drawn Windows 10 Titlebar - Disabled
• New media controls - Disabled
• Experimental fullscreen exit UI - Disabled
• Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains - Disabled
• Omnibox UI Show Suggestion Favicons - Disabled
• Omnibox UI Vertical Margin - Enabled 4px vertical margin
• Omnibox UI Swap Title and URL - Disabled
• Use all upcoming UI features - Disabled
• Display Autofill Dropdown Using Views - Disabled
• Sound content setting - Disabled
• Emoji Context Menu - Disabled

And we are all done! So you have a old Chrome 63-65 look for Chrome 69!

Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Transformation Pack (with download link - updated April 2021)

The Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Transformation Pack has been updated with stuff like Open-Shell and a updated visual style theme.

Windows 7 look for Windows 8.1 (Update 1)

Download link: Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 complete transformation

Note: It also works on Windows Embedded 8.1 and Server 2012 R2.

How Firefox Quantum looks like in Windows XP.

I installed the browser (Mypal) and installed the Photonic theme along with Toolbarize Menu Button and a style for it.

Firefox Quantum Look for Mypal (WinXP)

UPDATE 2020-Feb-18: Pale Moon now supports the new YouTube interface since they have announced killing the old version...

Modern Chrome Interface for Windows XP?

If you are on Windows XP and Chrome 49, You have to enable these flags to have the Material Design feel!

Flags listed here:
Material design in the browser's top chrome - Material
Extension toolbar redesign - Enabled
Enable Material Design downloads - Enabled
Enable Material Design extensions - Enabled

There is the result of Chrome 49 with Material features enabled (Windows XP).

Chrome 49 with Material Design UI enabled

Chrome 49 with Material Design UI and any theme

Also, you can override the user agent string to the current version of Chrome (link here: User-Agent Switcher and Manager).

If you are on YouTube, The layout site goes blank. So there is a way to fix this.
Tampermonkey: Install from Chrome Web Store
YouTube - Restore Classic: Install from Script here

Other than that, Some other Chromium-based browsers were based on v49 and v50, I tested Slimjet 10 on XP...

Slimjet 10 with Material Design UI Flag enabled

And also, It works on any Windows versions such as XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, 10, and Linux of course...

List of Chrome Flags to Improve the Browsing Speed (Versions 34-46)

There are some flags listed in older versions of Chrome (34-46).

• Fast tab/window close - Enabled
• Experimental QUIC protocol - Enabled
• Enable Pinch scale - Disabled
• Hardware-accelerated video decode - Disabled
• Stale-while-revalidate cache directive - Enabled
• Maximum tiles for interest area - 512 (any RAM)
• Offline Cache Mode - Enabled
• Simple Cache for HTTP - Enabled
• Number of raster threads - 2 or 4 (cores)
• Disables the new video rendering path for video elements - Enabled

How to Get the Upload Button Back on YouTube (Firefox)

If you don't like the new "Create" button and you should want the "Upload" button back? There is a way to do this!

New String: general.useragent.override.youtube.com
Modified String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.9.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9.1

Screenshot of latest Firefox with user-agented Firefox 52.9.1.

Windows 10 to Windows 7 Transformation Pack (with download link - updated April 2021)

If you have Windows 10 and if you want to make it look like Windows 7? So you can use the extracted .ZIP file to have the transformation pack...

Windows 7 look for Windows 10 (tested with build 1607)

Download link: Windows 10 to Windows 7 complete transformation

Note: It works almost completely on Windows 10 1607 (up until 1803), except for x86 versions since 1703 due to Aero Glass incompatibility...

How to Optimize Internet Speed (2019)

If you want to optimize a very slow Internet speed to make it faster, there is the step!

Step 1: Install TCPOptimizer
If your loading speed as well as downloads are taking too long? You have to get the program (SG TCP Optimizer).

Step 2: Using DNS Servers
There are 3 versions of DNSes to be optimized.
OpenDNS:
Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

Google DNS:

Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8
Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

Cloudflare DNS:

Preferred DNS server: 1.1.1.1
Alternate DNS server: 1.0.0.1

Step 3: Use uBlock Origin extension

If you want this extension for Chrome or Firefox, it makes the websites load 25% faster. Also, to boost the download speed in Chromium, you have to enable the "Parallel downloading" in chrome flags.

Remove "Get Reddit Premium" ad by using Ublock Origin.

Note: It only applies in the Old Reddit.

Selected Filters:
old.reddit.com##.premium-banner

Get rid of the "Reddit Premium" advert by using Stylus.

A way to get rid of Reddit Premium ad, You have to install Stylus for Chrome and Firefox.

Link: Remove Premium ad in Old Reddit (Note: It works only on the Old Reddit.)

How to Get the Old Reddit (Pre-2018 Design)

There is a way to revert back to the old pre-2018 Reddit design.

Extensions to install:
Tampermonkey (Chrome, Firefox)

Tampermonkey Scripts:
Reddit Favicon Revert
Reddit Old Layout

Note: We can get rid of the Premium Ad by installing this.

How to Get the Old 2014 YouTube Layout Design!

There is a way to get the old mid-2014 YouTube design.

Extensions to install:
Ublock Origin (Chrome, Firefox)
Tampermonkey (Chrome, Firefox)
Stylus (Chrome, Firefox)

Filter these in Ublock Origin:
www.youtube.com###trending-guide-item > .spf-link.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com###unlimited-guide-item > .spf-link.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com##.spf-nolink.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element

Tampermonkey Scripts:
YouTube - Restore Classic
YouTube - Autoplay Disabler

Get these styles here:
YouTube Arial Style Font
YouTube Mid-2014 Sidebar
YouTube Revert Mid-2014 Pages
YouTube 2014 Player
Disable autohide in YT player

A fix for the watch page on resolutions:
Fix Watch Sidebar: 639px or 853px
Fix Secondary Actions: 325px or 545px

Screenshots:
Homepage with not logged in
Homepage with logged in
Search results
Watch page
Channel page

Notes:

• There is a bug with a "Watch later" button not showing the icon.
• If you are on a watch page, They glitched up the watch sidebar along with secondary actions.
• Also, the sidebar code inculdes the early-2014 Subscribe button.

UPDATE 2020-Feb-18: YouTube will stop supporting the older version by March this year. So, things didn't work with the new design...