[Enable Auto-hide taskbar & Quick Launch IF YOU ARE LOGGED IN.]

It doesnt work here... (XP Pro)

I think the Taskbar key is not machine independent.

And u will loose all taskbar icons beside the clock if u kill explorer.

I suggest to run systray.exe at the end.

A delay is needed to wait until explorer has finished loading otherwise running systray will be useless.

: Kill explorer
TASKKILL /im EXPLORER.EXE /f >NUL 2>&1

: Restart explorer
START EXPLORER.EXE

: Delay 1,111 sec
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1111 > NUL 2>&1

: Restore taskbar icons
START SYSTRAY.EXE

[How to copy a screen from a pdf file?]

Press the PrintScreen key on ur keyboard and go to Start/Run.

Then type mspaint and hit Enter.

When Paint is opened press CTRL-V.

Cut the Picture to ur needs.

Save it as JPEG and youre done.

Hope that helps.

Best regards

Maze

[Booting of XP Pro SP3]

Hello,

I would like to know if u know how to boot xp pro sp3 faster.

With xp pro sp1 i could get this machine booting to the desktop in 5 to 7 seconds.

After slipstreaming sp3 unto the xp pro cd it takes now 25-30 secs.

I deleted/disabled any unneeded services and taskmanager shows 12-13 running processes after booting.

Windows drive is also defragmented using diskeeper 9 pro and i used every logon/network tweak i found and disabled the boot screen.

I disabled sfc... performance counters and dep and i tweaked windows thread handling/memory management and IO cache.

Prefetching is also set up.

Windows is now pretty fast apart from booting.

SP3 was booting in 5 seconds once right after installing vistamizer then it went back to the normal 25 seconds...

Is there a way to speed up booting xp sp3 without loosing (network) functionality?

If someone knows how to boot it faster please let me know.

Maze