18 Impressive Computer Shortcuts and tricks!

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
2.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-9F0
8-00AA002F954E}”
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 editionIt
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
<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
to be continued....