18 Impressive Computer Shortcuts and tricks! Part 1 1. Set Processes Priority Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritization of processes using the CPU. CTRL-SHIFT-ESC1.Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option For example, your Run your CD writer program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Shutdown Trick ! Immediate rapid shut down window while shutting down window. open task manager(Ctr+Alt+Del), Select shut down tab. and press ‘ Ctrl ‘ key while select Turn Off from dis tab. Count 5 4 3 2 1 Voila!!! U r window will rapidly shut down. Speed Up Ur Shut down !! Start Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control. Click on the “Control” Folder. Select “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” Right click on it and select Modify. Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200). 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 then 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 can see some improvements when shutting down your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Hide your folders.. never known trick! Disguise them to “Recycle Bin” Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} eg, if u’ve a folder games press F2, then type, “games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}” c the magic…. then 2 get to original form, remove the extension using “ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games” in dos or as a bat file Now you are ready to roll! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. System information system up time only for xp professional edition It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type ‘systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type ‘systeminfo > info.txt’. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. lock PC just by double clicking mouse You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. SPEED UP UR ACROBAT READER (ALMOST LIKE NOTEPAD) Do u get irritated when acrobat reader takes 5/10 seconds to load when you want to open a pdf document. There is a way to speed up the loading. 1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader (C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever) 2. Move all the files and folders from the “plugins” directory to the “Optional” directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste). Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files). Now your acrobat reader will load very fast and almost as good as notepad.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Remove Stored username and Passwords ! To remove the Stored User Names and Passwords from your system, try this: Click Start, Run and type Control keymgr.dll Remove the entries from the list. The other ways to access this dialog are: Type Control Userpasswords2 in RUN box, click Advanced, Manage Passwords -or- From Control Panel, select your User Account, click Manage your network passwords It Works ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Remove the Username and picture from Windows XP New Start Menu The User account picture can be removed by turning off the Welcome Screen. Or, by switching to Windows Classic theme. Follow the method described in this article if you want to remove the username and picture from the Start Menu, without disabling the Welcome Screen and Windows XP Theme. For those who want to remove the user name and user account picture from Start Menu, in order to have a blank blue panel at the top, try this: Start Windows Explorer and go to this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures From that folder, rename the BMP file which corresponds to your user account. ( For example, if your username is Robert, rename Robert.bmp to old_Robert.bmp ) Next, rename the following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures to something else, say… C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\No_Default Pictures To remove the user name, follow these steps Start regedit.exe and navigate to the this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft\ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer In the right-pane, set NoUserNameInStartMenu value-data to 1 Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows. You’ll end up with a blue space at the top of the Start Menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. To get back the username and the picture, reverse the above procedure. For the New Start Menu, Windows XP looks for the .bmp file in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures If the file is not found, it takes a picture from the “Default Pictures” sub-folder. By renaming the .bmp and the “Default Pictures” folder, you’re giving no chance for Windows to fetch an image for the Start Menu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #paramsukhadia
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