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Suhail Chauhan
Tips & Trix
TIPS AND TRIX
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.
Turn Off System Restore to Save Space By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Informationfolder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows toback 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.Warning! If you turn this off you will not be able to use Windows System Restore torestore your system in case of failure.
Disable XP Boot Logo It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up theoverall boot process. Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you notto see any boot-up messages that might come up (chkdsk, convert ... ), but if your systemruns 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 thenew switch
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 thehard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the computer has toindex all files, it will slow down normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you donot do a whole lot of searches on your hard drive then you may want to turn this featureoff:· 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 diskfor 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 enjoyslightly faster performance.
Clean Your Prefetch to Improve Performance This is a unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to scrub registryand TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically. Prefetch is a new and very usefultechnique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory canget full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down yourcomputer noticeably.· Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files,reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month.
Remove Hibernation File If you do not use hibernation, make sure you do not have it enabled, which reservesdisk space equal to your RAM. If you have a hidden file on the root directory of yourC-drive called hiberfil.sys, hibernation is enabled. To remove that file:· Go to Control Panel, select Performance and Maintenance, Power Options, Hibernatetab, and uncheck the Enable hibernation box.
Performance Increase Through My Computer Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of usstill 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 viewFade or slide ToolTips into viewFade out menu items after clickingShow Shadows under menusSlide open combo boxesSlide taskbar buttonsUse a background image for each folder typeUse common tasks in foldersThere, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster.
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 in seconds.
Remove Messenger
· Go to Start/Run, and type: "rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection BLC.Remove 128 %SystemRoot%\INF\msmsgs.inf" Auto Login
· Go to Start/Run, and type 'control userpasswords2'. · From Users Tab, Uncheck "Users must enter ...."· A dialog will allow setting a user and password to be used automatically. Change Drive Letters in Windows XP
When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive. When you want to change drive letters, follow these steps: · Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.· Under Computer Management, click Disk Management. In the right pane, you'll see your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the pane. · Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.· Click Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK. You Can Bypass the Recycle Bin On the Fly.
To bypass the Recycle Bin on a one-time basis, when you are deleting a file (or a group of selected files):· Press and hold down the shift-key while you press the del-key (or use the delete command). You receive the following confirmation-request message: Are you sure you want to send <filename> to the Recycle Bin? 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. Close Multiple WindowsIf you just opened a number of separate, related windows (a folder inside a folder, and so on), there's an easier way to close them all than one-at-a-time:
· Hold down the shift-key as you click the X caption button in the upper-right corner of the last window opened. Doing so closes that window and all windows that came before it. Renaming Recycle binGo to Registry:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\(Standard) [String] = "Recycle bin" [default]InfoTip [String] = "Stores deleted objects..."LocalizedString [String] = stores path to shell32.dllSortOrderIndex [DWord] = "0x00000060" ListSubfolder ShellFolder contains value:Attributes [binary] = 40 01 00 20 [default]Change to:50 01 00 20 (Renaming allowed and context menu contains 'Rename')70 01 00 20 (Renaming allowed)
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