Technical-Hunt

REMOVE ANNOYING DELETE CONFIRMATION MESSAGES

saurabhtechi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:05:17 +0000

I hate the annoying ‘are you sure?’ messages that XP displays, especially if I have to use a laptop touchpad to close them.

To remove these messages:

1. Right-click on the ‘Recycle Bin’ on the desktop and then click ‘Properties’

2. Clear the ‘Display Delete Confirmation Dialog’ check box and click ‘Ok’

If you do accidently delete a file don’t worry as all is not lost. Just go to your Recycle Bin and ‘Restore’ the file.

Boot your Computer Faster

saurabhtechi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:15:46 +0000

Click on 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). Note:- Don’t uncheck your antivirus software. Restart your Pc to and see for yourself, your pc will now boot faster….

SPEED UP UR ACROBAT READER

saurabhtechi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:08 +0000

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader

(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever) Or

(C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\plug_ins)

2. Cut all the files and folders from the “plugins” directory and paste them in the “Optional” directory.

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..

Make an icon to stop the shutdown mechanism

saurabhtechi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:23:45 +0000

Suppose that you double-click the power Windows XP shutdown icon and just a split second later you realize that there was one more thing you wanted to do before shutting down.

To create an anti-shutdown icon :

Right-click an empty space on your desktop
Select the option “new shortcut“
Type “shutdown -a” (Exactly as shown here, but without the quotes.)
Click next
Type a name for the shortcut (e.g. Anti shutdown) and click finish

You know now how to choose a better looking icon.

DISABLE INDEXING SERVICES

saurabhtechi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:59:54 +0000

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start

2. Click Settings

3. Click Control Panel

4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs

5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components

6. Uncheck the Indexing services

7. Click Next

DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

saurabhtechi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:34 +0000

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines:

Alerter

Clipbook

Computer Browser

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Fast User Switching

Help and Support – (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)

Human Interface Access Devices

Indexing Service

IPSEC Services

Messenger

Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)

Portable Media Serial Number

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)

Remote Procedure Call Locator

Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)

Remote Registry Service

Secondary Logon

Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)

Server

SSDP Discovery Service – (Unplug n’ Pray will disable this)

Telnet

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Upload Manager

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Windows Time

Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)

Workstation

To disable these services:

Go to Start and then Run and type “services.msc“

Doubleclick on the service you want to changeChange the startup type to ‘Disable“

OPTIMISE DISPLAY SETTINGS

saurabhtechi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:47:28 +0000

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources.

To optimize:

1.Go to Start

2. Click Settings

3. Click Control Panel

4. Click System

5. Click Advanced tab

6. In the Performance tab click Settings

7. Leave only the following ticked:

- Show shadows under menus

- Show shadows under mouse pointer

- Show translucent selection rectangle

- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop

- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

You Cannot Creat a folder named “CON”

saurabhtechi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:26:10 +0000

An indian discovered that nobody can create FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON“.this is something pretty cool… and unbelievable….At microsoft the whole team,couldn’t answer why this happend! TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE “CON” FOLDER

REMOVE THE DESKTOP PICTURE

saurabhtechi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:21:18 +0000

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties

2. Select the Desktop tab

3. In the Background window select None

4. Click Ok

SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

saurabhtechi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:16:06 +0000

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer

2. Click on Tools menu

3. Click on Folder Options

4. Click on the View tab.

5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box

6. Click Apply

7. Click Ok

8. Reboot your computer