Top Tricks & Cheats -(Microsoft
cheats)
Set Processes Priority
Follow this tip to increase the priority of
active processes, this will result in prioritisation of processes using the CPU.
CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
1.Go
to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes,
you will see the Set Priority option
2.For example, your Run your CDwriter program , set the priority higher, and
guess what, no crashed CD’s
Shutdown Trick !
Imidiate 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).
and !
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.
**new **
Crazy !!
Hide ur 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
n u are done..
~cheers~
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).
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.
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..
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
~ Cheers ~
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.
To get back the username and the
picture, reverse the above procedure.
For the New Start Menu, Windows XP looks
for the <username>.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 <username>.bmp and the "Default Pictures" folder,
you're giving no chance for Windows to fetch an image for the Start Menu
~ Cheers ~.
Notepad Trick ! for complete list
move to NOTEPAD TRICKS page !!
Well quite old but here is d complete
collection
Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Write following line in the notepad.
this app can break
Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt
Step 4: Close the notepad.
Step 5: Open the file again.
Voilla!!
or
1. Open Notepad
2.
Enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first word has 4 letters,
the next two have three letters, and the last word has five letters
3.
DON'T hit enter at the end of the line.
4.
Save the file.
5.
Close Notepad.
6. Reopen Notepad.
7. Open the file you just saved.
or
Open a note pad
type Bush hid the facts
save that file,
close it
again open and see...
NOTEPAD "world trade
centre trick".. :Fainted brain
Did you know that the flight number of
the plane that had hit WTC ...on
9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight
number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.
Log trick !! make ur Notepad a diary
!!
Sometimes we want to insert current data
and time, whenever we open the file in the notepad. If you are a lazy person
like me, who don’t like to press F5 whenever you open a notepad. Then here is a
trick to avoid this. Just add a .LOG in the first line of your text file and
close it.
Whenever you open the file with that text in the first line in the notepad, it
will insert the current date and time at the end of the file. You can start
entering your text after that.
WHY?
The reason this happens:
In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results.
It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode
UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a "Byte-Order Mark" (BOM),
which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is
encoded.
1.
You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding
format)
2.
You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As /
Encoding format)
This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not
supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters
~ cheers ~
SPEED UP MENU DISPLAY.!!
When using the start menu the you will notice a
delay between different tiers of the menu hierarchy. For the fastest computer
experience possible I recommend changing this value to zero. This will allow the
different tiers to appear instantly.
Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how
to get started.
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Select MenuShowDelay from the list on the right.
Right on it and select Modify.
Change the value to 0.
Reboot your computer.
CLICKING * .AVI FILES ON EXPLORER
CAUSING 100% CPU USAGE.!!
Well windows seem to have a REALLY big
problem when it comes to reading AVI files. It seems that when you click on an
AVI file in explorer, it'll try to read the entire AVI file to determine the
width,height, etc. of the AVI file (this is displayed in the Properties window).
Now the problem with Windows is that if you have a broken/not fully downloaded
AVI file that doesnt contain this info, Windows will scan the entire AVI file
trying to figure out all these properties which in the process will probably
cause 100% CPU usage and heavy memory usage. To solve this problem all you have
to do is the following:
1.
Open up regedit
2.
Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
3.
Delete the "Default" value which should be
"{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}"
Voila! Please not that this will no longer provide you with the windows
properties displaying the AVI file information such as width, height, bitrate
etc. But its a small price to pay for saving you resources.
NOTE: Please use caution when using regedit. Improper usage may cause windows to
behave imcorrectly. Also, I cannot be held resposible. Backup your registry
first.
CD ROM STOPS AUTOPLAYING/AUTORUN.!!
And the AutoPlay Tab has disappeared in My Computer, Devices With Removable
Storage, Right Click on CDROM, Properties.
Solution: The service: "Shell Hardware Detection" has been set to Manual or
Disabled. Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Return this
service to "Automatic".
How to make your Desktop Icons
Transparent
Go to Control Panel > System, > Advanced
> Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for
icon labels on the Desktop"
DISPLAY MESSAGE ON STARTUP.
Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar
with regedit please see our FAQ.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Modify the key legalnoticecaption with what you want to name the window.
Modify the key legalnoticetext with what you want the window to say. Restart
AUTO DELETE TEMPORARY FOLDER.!!
ll what i prefer is %temp% " without
quotes.. at Start -> Run..
this opens ur temp folder n den u cal erase it neatly// still try dis one too..
First go into gpedit.msc
Next select -> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows
Components/Terminal Services/Temporary Folder
Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
Go to properties and hit disable. Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that
folder it will automatically delete it when its done! Note from Forum Admin:
Remember, GPEDIT (Group Policy Editor) is only available in XP Pro.
Make ur pdf files to speak
make ur pdf files to speak
here r the shortcuts for hearing pdf files in abobe reader 6.0 or higher
ctrl+shift+b
---->to hear the whole topic
ctrl+shift+v
---->to hear the page
Enjoy