Speed up the startup and shutdown process in Windows XP : registry tweak

Let's try some trick for increasing the speed of booting and shutting down of Windows XP through the group policy editing. 

Open the RUN command using Windows+ R key combination or from the  start menu and type notepad.

In NOTEPAD, copy del C:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.*/q

And save it as ntosboot.bat in your computer

Again open the RUN command and type gpedit.msc 

Click on the COMPUTER CONFIGURATION in the left side pane , under that double click WINDOWS SETTINGS and then double click on the  scripts in the  right pane

 

Again Double Click on the SHUTDOWN in the right window. Then click the  ADD button and then BROWSE to select the saved file ntosboot.bat and open it. (shown in figure)

 

Choose OK and APPLY , Once again click OK and then exit.

Now open the device management window. Take the RUN prompt and type in as  devmgmt.msc

A new window will open under that double click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right Click on Primary IDE Channel to select properties

(Shown in the figure)

 

 

Choose the tab called ADVANCED SETTINGS then click on the device 0 or 1, The device contain device type which is not highlighted and chose none in the place of autodetect and Click OK


Now select Secondary IDE Channel and select properties and repeat the process as done above.

 

That's all  for the time being. Just restart your system to see the changes.

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Registry hack : Speed up internet in Windows

In Windows the Microsoft uses a good amount of your internet bandwidth for Windows Updates. Lets do the following registry edit to avoid this bandwidth sharing.

Follow the steps below :

Go to Start, open Run and type gpedit.msc, then enter. This will open the group policy editor.

Navigate to Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / QOS Packet Scheduler.

Now, Click QOS Packet Scheduler and then double click Limit Reservable Bandwidth. You will see that is not configured. But the truth is Under ‘Explain’ tab. By default, Microsoft reserves 20% of the bandwidth. But you can change this setting.

ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set the bandwidth limit to 0%.

Thatz all the hack. Now microsoft reserves 20% of 'nothing'

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How to hide a hard disk drive in Windows

Through this hack you can disable the display of local or networked drives when you open My Computer

To Do this Follow The Steps

1

Open the run dialog box from the start menu.

Open Registry editor by typing regedit in the run dialog box.

2

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
 

3

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is 

case sensitive).
 

4

Now modify its value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).
 

5

Now restart your computer.
 

Now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown.

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created. Restart the computer to see the changes happened.
  

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How to change the My Documents, Program Files location in Windows

 How to change the location of the 

My Documents  folder

 

By default the location of the my documents folder in Windows is C: drive (not alwys, usually the drive where you installed Windows)

Open the run dialog box from the start menu.

1 

Open Registry editor by typing regedit in the runn dialog box.

2 

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Shell Folders

3

Double click on the "Personal"  on the right pane to edit the location of the My Documents. Better copy paste the location from the windows explorer to avoid errors in the path names.

How to change the location of the Program Files folder

The Program Files folder is the default loocation preferred by the wondows on

installing the application softwares unless it is specified manually.

1

Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

2

Change the value of "ProgramFiles", or "ProgramFilesDir"

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