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Windows XP Twenty Useful Tips and Tweaks
1) Cracking
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get acess to the computer then go to Start>Run and type “control
userpasswords2” without Quotes and a new pop up windows will open
and u will reach to user account properties. Here u can Reset the
Administrator and any Users password so anytime when u Want to use
the Computer start it in safemode pressing F8 at Booting get into
the xp as u have Administrator password and go to Controlpanel>Useraccounts
and create a New Account .Start Computer Normally and get into WinXP
with ur newely made account and do ur job. (Don’t forget to Delete
ur newely made account Otherwise u will be in trouble) Delete ur
account again starting the computer in Safemode as Administrator and
Delete ur Account.
2) Disable XP Boot Logo It is possible to disable the XP
splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot
process. Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause
you not to see any boot-up messages that might come up (chkdsk,
convert ... ), but if your system runs without any problems then it
should not matter. Edit boot.ini. Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect".
Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be
re-enabled by removing the new switch.
3) Turn Off Indexing to Speed Up XP Windows XP keeps a record
of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard
drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the
computer has to index all files, it will slow down normal file
commands like open, close, etc. If you do not do a whole lot of
searches on your hard drive then you may want to turn this feature
off: Open My Computer. Right-click your hard drive icon and select
Properties. At the bottom of the window you'll see "Allow indexing
service to index this disk for faster searches," uncheck this and
click ok. A new window will pop up and select Apply to all folders
and subfolders. It will take a minute or two for the changes to take
affect but then you should enjoy slightly faster performance.
4) Clean Your Prefetch to Improve Performance This is a
unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to scrub
registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically. Prefetch is
a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using
XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and
obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your
computer noticeably. Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete
those junk and obsolete files, reboot. It is recommended that you do
this every month.
5) Performance Increase Through My Computer Easy enough tweak
to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of us
still don't find it right away. So here it is: Start > right-click
on My Computer and select Properties. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings". Disable the
following: Fade or slide menus into view Fade or slide ToolTips into
view Fade out menu items after clicking Show Shadows under menus
Slide open combo boxes Slide taskbar buttons Use a background image
for each folder type Use common tasks in folders There, now Windows
will still look nice and perform faster.
6) Reduce 10 Second Scandisk Wait Time Start MS Dos Prompt
(Start run CMD), and type: CHKNTFS /T:4 where 4 is the amount of
wait time. CHKNTFS /? for more info.
7) DMA Mode on IDE Devices Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP
still fails to set the DMA mode correctly for the IDE device
designated as the slaves on the primary IDE and secondary IDE
channels. Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the
default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won't make your CD-ROM
faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. Here's how: Open the
Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click on "My
Computer", select the Hardware tab, and select Device Manager.
Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE
Channel". Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1"
setting. More than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.
Set it to "DMA if available". Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE
Channel" if you have devices attached to it. Reboot.
8) Load Internet Explorer the Fastest Way Possible Edit your
link to start Internet Explorer to have -nohome after it. For
Example: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
This will load internet explorer very fast because it does not load
a web page while it is loading. If you want to go to your homepage
after it is loaded, just click on the home button.
9) Easy Way to Adjust Large SystemCache Normally, the tweak
I've seen asks you to go into HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management and change the value to either O or 1 to
the adjustment the LargeSystemCache. However, in Windows XP, all you
have to do is: Right-click My Computer. Select Properties. Click
Advanced. Choose Performance. Click Advanced again. Select either
Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage. Programs = 0 for the
registry tweak equivalent System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak
equivalent
10) Shutdown XP Faster Like previous versions of windows, it
takes long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the "Exit
Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable
this useless sound. Click Start button. Go to settings > Control
Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices >
Sounds. Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit
Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds you can select,
choose "none" and then click Apply and OK. Now you should see some
improvements when shutting down your system.
11)Easily Disable Messenger Go into: C:/Program
Files/Messenger. Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF". This
does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.
12) Turn Off Autoplay for Program CDs How can you stop
Windows XP from launching program CDs? Click Start, click Run, type
GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in the Microsoft Management Console.
Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative
templates, double-click System, and then click Turn off autoplay.
The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this
setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog. Click
Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives, then click OK, to stop CD
autoplay. This setting does not prevent Autoplay for music CDs.
13) Synchronize Your Computer Clock with an Internet Time
Server Does your computer have the right time? If your computer is
not part of a domain, you can synchronize your computer clock with
an Internet time server. To do so: Double–click the time on your
task bar. Click the Internet Time tab. Select the time server you
want to use and make sure to select the Automatically synchronize
with an Internet time server check box.
14) Win XP Won’t Completely Shutdown Go to Control Panel, then go to
Power Options. Click on the APM tab, then check the "Enable Advanced
Power Management support." Shut down your PC. It should now
successfully complete the Shut Down process.
15) Adjust Various Visual Effects Open up the Control Panel.
Go under System and click on the Advanced tab. Click settings under
Performance options. You can now change various graphical effects
(mainly animations and shadows).
16) Disable Error Reporting Open Control Panel. Click on
Performance and Maintenance. Click on System. Then click on the
Advanced tab. Click on the error-reporting button on the bottom of
the windows. Select Disable error reporting. Click OK. Click OK.
17) Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP This tweak
is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with
WinXP professional version - might work on Home version also. It may
also work with networked machines as well. This tweak assumes that
you have let WinXP create a connection on install for your cable
modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS -
file and print sharing - and client for Microsoft networks , only,
installed. It also assumes that WinXP will detect your NIC and has
in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try this. In the "My
Network Places" properties (right-click on the desktop icon and
choose properties), highlight the connection then at the menu bar
choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in
the lower half for the bindings for File and Printer sharing and
Client for MS networks. Click OK.
18) Stop Jerkey Graphics If you are connected to a LAN and
have problems with jerkey graphics, this might be the solution:
Right-click "MyComputer". Select "Manage". Click on "Device
Manager". Double-click on your NIC under "Network Adapters". In the
new window, select the "Advanced" tab. Select "Connection Type" and
manually set the value of your NIC. (Not "Auto Sense" which is
default.). You should reboot.
19) Speeding Up Your Old Shit Pentium by 50% We all know that
you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that
about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations
and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old
Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to
tweak as much as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the
system's performance is Windows Media Player. Although it may look
desirable and fancy with it's rounded off edges and 3rd-Dimensional
appearance, the truth is, it takes up a large amount of that
precious processing power. All of these troubles however, lead to
one thing in particular with this 'new-look' over-rated music and
video player...the Visualizations. The look-great I'll admit but
like a lot of software these days, it has no purpose. If you run the
task manager, and click the Performance tab along the top, you'll
see that when Windows Media Player is running and nothing else is
active, it takes up around 50% of the processors power. Once these
visualizations are turned off, it barely takes up 2-3% of the
processors power, which leaves much more room for other applications
to work efficiently. Here's how to disable the feature: Open Media
Player. Make sure the Now Playing tab on the left is selected. Click
the View menu along the top. Go down to Now Playing Tools
20) Turn Off
System Restore to Save Space By default, Windows XP keeps a
backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This
can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want
Windows to back up your system files: Open the Control Panel.
Double-click on System. Click the System Restore tab. Check "Turn
off System Restore on all drives". Hit Apply. You may now delete the
System Volume Information folder. ............................
