Computer Tips

Computer Tips

MAKE YOUR MENUS LOAD FASTER

This is one of my favorite tweaks as it makes a huge difference to how fast your machine will 'feel'. What this tweak does is remove the slight delay between clicking on a menu and XP displaying the menu.

--> Go to Start then Run
Type 'Regedit' then click 'Ok'
Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\"
Select "MenuShowDelay"
Right click and select "Modify'
Reduce the number to around "100"
This is the delay time before a menu is opened. You can set it to "0" but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open if you just look at them - well move your mouse over them anyway. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on my mood.

Boot Or Start Computer Faster

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start ).This is due to many reasons. Some slight changes can do wonders for your system: 1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter. Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.                                  So uncheck all the unwanted items like ms-office, messengers other utilities that u may not need at startup). Don't uncheck your antivirus software. Restart your Pc to and see for yourself, your pc will now boot faster....    2. A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled, but on some systems it is not, so below is the information on how to turn it on: Go to Start Menu and Click Run Type in regedit then click ok Find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOpt imizeFunction" Select "Enable" from the list on the right Right on it and select "Modify" Change the value to Y . Reboot your Pc and see the change yourself. 3.SPEED UP BOOT BY DISABLING UNUSED PORTS.!! You may have tried many tweaks like modifying windows XP start-up applications, prefetches, unload DLLs method, etc. And yes those methods do work for me.                     I have just accidentally found out another way to give you an extra boost in windows XP's boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices in Device Manager. for example, if you don't have input devices that are connected to one of your USB's or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra performance boost in booting. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> device manager Disable devices that you don't use for your PC and then restart.

Trick to lock your private folder

Do you worry about privacy or do you maintain some personal files on the office system or at Friends pc, then you must lock that folder. I know many software's that most people use to lock their Personal files. But this trick is the safest and locks files or folders without use of any software's.              Suppose you want to lock the folder movies in d: which has the path D:\movies. In the same drive create a text file and type ren movies movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Now save this text file as loc.bat Create another text file and type in it ren movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} movies

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Now save this text file as key.bat
     Now you can see 2 batch files loc and key. Press loc and the folder movies will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents. Press key and you will get back your original folder.
try it out!!!!!!!

Note: It is safe as in case if you loose the key file, you can create it again but the folder name must be correct.

Create nameless files and folders in windows

This trick will allow you to create files and folders without any name. Just follow the following steps: 1. Select any file or folder. 2. Right click on it, press rename or simply press F2. 3. Press and hold the alt key. While holding the Alt key, type numbers 0160 from the numpad. Note: Type the numbers 0160 from the numpad, that is, the numbers present on the right side of the keyboard. Don't type the numbers which are present on top of the character keys.         4. Press Enter and the nameless file or folder will be created. Reason: The file or folder that seems nameless is actually named with a single space. But what if you want to create another nameless file or folder in the same directory ? For this you will have to rename the file with 2 spaces. Just follow these steps below: 1. Select file, press F2. 2. Hold alt key and type 0160 from the numpad. 3. Release the alt key. Now without doing anything else, again hold alt key and press 0160. 4. Press enter and you will have second nameless file in the same directory. 5. Repeat step 3 to create as many nameless files or folders in the same directory.

Make Undeletable Or Unreadable Folders

Make Undeletable Or Unreadable Folders By holding down alt, then typing numbers on the number pad (right of the keyboard) you can create special characters. If you hold down alt, then press 1, then let go, you got the ascii character 1. You try some randomn numbers. This goes all the way up to 255. Open a dos prompt, and type md (alt+1+9+4)someword. md is the dos command to make a directoy, now try and open the directory in Windows, you can't. To open it, type ren (alt+1+9+4)someword someword (ren is the dos command to rename).

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                          Nipul Prajapati