Tips for the Big Boys
iF YOU'RE A NEWBIE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!
1) Cracking Windows XP Login
Password
download the nice and easy Nt/2k/xp password cracker from
www.astalavista.com
or other way is if u 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 ComputerNormally 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
LargeSystemCache
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
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
Note!!!
Remember this are for the big boys! So please if you're a
newbie stay away from this!