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[LeMartin]

HotKey in XP

Windows: Display the Start Menu

Windows + D: Minimize or restore all windows

Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer

Windows + F: Display Search for files

Windows + Ctrl + F: Display Search for computer

Windows + F1: Display Help and Support Center

Windows + R: Display Run dialog box

Windows + break: Display System Properties dialog box

Windows + shift + M: Undo minimize all windows

Windows + L: Lock the workstation

Windows + U: Open Utility Manager

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Speed up the Start Menu

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 1, to speed it up

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Havin' troubles with timeout ?

Open "RegEdit" and search for "AutoEndTask" and put it to "1"

(Default is set to "0", and it should apear at least 3 times!)

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In StartUp create a batch file (like go.bat) and insert what U whant:

copy /y C:Docume~1Admini~1LocalS~1Applic~1Micros~1Outlook*.* x:MesDoc~1Outlook >nul

del /f /q c:*.tmp

del /f /q c:windowsminidump*.*

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Havin' troubles with mIRC connection and XP FireWall

Go to your internet connection

On advance tabs click setting

On sercices tabs click Add

In description service write "Identd"

In Name or IP write your PCname of IP (Best is the name of your pc)

External port write 113 internal too and leave TCP marked

Click OK

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Use the ultimate configuration tool

Start and then Run, then type the following:

gpedit.msc

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Remove the Shared Documents folders from My Computer

Simply fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My Computer NameSpace

DelegateFolders

You'll see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If you delete this, all of the Shared Documents

folders (which are normally under the group called "Other Files Stored on This Computer") will be gone.

You do not need to reboot your system to see the change

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Close Pc automaticly

Go in bios to enable the power management.

Control Panel -> Power Options -> onglet APM and Enable Advanced Power.

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To get Admin account on the "Welcome Screen", make sure that there are no accounts logged in.

Press "ctrl-alt-del" twice and you should be able to login as administrator!

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WinXP Clear Page file on shutdown

Go to Control panel Administartative tools, local security policy. then goto local policies ---> security options.

Then change the option for "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"

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MASSIVE FILE RENAMING

A new, small, neat feature for winXP deals with renaming files. Select several files in Explorer, press F2 and

rename one of those files to something else. All the selected files get renamed to the new file name (plus a number

added to the end).

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CD Burning problem whit WinXP (ASPI LAYER)

WinXP does not come with an aspi layer. So far almost 90% of the problems with winXP and CD burning software are

aspi layer problems. After installing winXP, before installing any CD burning software do a few things first:

1. Open up "My computer" and right click on the CD Recorder. If your CD recorder was detected as a CD recorder there

will be a tab called "Recording". On this tab uncheck ALL of the boxes. apply or OK out of it and close my computer.

2. Next install the standard aspi layer for NT. Reboot when asked.

[Guest LouCypher]

Also attached (drop .TXT and run), but here's a few regedit tweaks:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

// When you import this file into your registry, the Norton AntiVirus

// Scanner startup logo is not displayed.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARESymantecNorton AntiVirus NTClinic]

"DisableSplashScreen"=dword:00000001

// Disable automatic shares

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanserverparameters]

"AutoShareWks"=dword:00000000

"AutoShareServer"=dword:00000000

// Change logon background to black

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelColors]

"Background"="0 0 0"

// Turn off logon screen saver

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop]

"ScreenSaveActive"="0"

// No "shortcut to" on shortcuts

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer]

"link"=hex:00,00,00,00

[jrichard326]

Here is my list. I am sorry for the duplicates...lazy at the moment

Speed up the Start Menu

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 1, to speed it up

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Use the ultimate configuration tool

Start and then Run, then type the following:

gpedit.msc

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Remove the Shared Documents folders from My Computer

Simply fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My Computer NameSpace

DelegateFolders

You'll see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If you delete this, all of the Shared Documents

folders (which are normally under the group called "Other Files Stored on This Computer") will be gone.

You do not need to reboot your system to see the change

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WinXP Clear Page file on shutdown

Go to Control panel Administartative tools, local security policy. then goto local policies ---> security options.

Then change the option for "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"

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Unhiding Add/Remove Items

This is VERY usefull in taking out those annoying programs that the install didn't allow you to select NOT to install. Messenger and MSN Explorer for example. In your c:windowsinf is a file called sysoc.inf edit this file with Notepad. If you can't find that file... I suggest you show all files.

You should see lines that look something like this:

msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

Isn't it interesting how that word hide is in there? Yep you guessed it. Hit CTRL + H to Replace. In the "Find what" box type hide and then hit the "Replace All" button. Save, exit and go check your add/remove programs. Nice huh? A very clean way to un-install crap you don't need.

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Turn off hibernation(removes hiberfil.sys) Control Panel-Screen Saver Power-Hibernate Tab-uncheck hibernation box-reboot and hiberfil.sys is no more.

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Turn off Error Reporting Automatic updates etc. Control Panel-System or Right click on My computer icon and choose properties....

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If you have a piece of software that refuses to install because it

says that you are not running Windows 2000 (such as the Win2K drivers

for a Mustek scanner!!) you can simply edit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/ProductName

to say Microsoft Windows 2000 instead of XP and it will install. You

may also have to edit the version number or build number, depending on

how hard the program tries to verify that you are installing on the

correct OS. I had to do this for my Mustek 600 CP scanner

(compatibility mode didn't help!!!) and it worked great, so I now have

my scanner working with XP (and a tech at Mustek can now eat his

words).

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Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug  installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for

any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only

those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that  the actual browsing

speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after

applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Under that branch, select the key :

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

and delete it.

This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

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[jrichard326]

I came across this one for BROADBAND:

this ones simple:

this is for broad band connections. I did'nt try it on dial up but might work for dial up.

1.make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator priviliges.

2. start - run - type gpedit.msc

3. expand the "local computer policy" branch

4. expand the "administrative templates" branch

5. expand the "network branch"

6. Hilight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window

7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting

8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item

9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0

reboot if you want to but not necessary on some systems

your all done. Effect is immediate on some systems. some need re-boot. I have one machine that needs to reboot first, the others didn't. Don't know why this is.

This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In other words, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the bandwidth for its self. Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your advantage. To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines start up a big download from a server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that doesn't max out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this. Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. The start up another download from the same server with another instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of the clients download will be very slow or both will slow down when they should both be using the available bandwidth. Using this "tweak" both clients will have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth.

[piaqt]

Try running gpedit [i:0e7903f39d](C:WINDOWSsystem32gpedit.msc)[/i:0e7903f39d]. Some of the settings are for MMC, and may determine which plugins you see.

LOL.

[XPerties]

Thread has been closed. If you have any great tweaks you like to add Please e-mail me the tweaks and I will be happy to post them in here for you. The credit will be given to those who send me the e-mail. Thanks

-Chris:D

[XPerties]

How To : Add Custom Folder to My Computer or the Desktop

Create the following series of keys and values in the registry at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID] or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID]. The GUID, globally unique identifier, can be a random number, in this example "FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345" is used. See this article for more GUID examples.

1. Create a new key called [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345}] and set (Default) to equal the name of the folder e.g. "My Folder".

2. Create a new sub-key under the main key called "DefaultIcon" (i.e. [HKEY_CLASSES...ABCD1DE12345}DefaultIcon]) and set (Default) to equal the filename for the icon you want to display e.g. "c:windowsmyicon.ico".

3. Create a new sub-key under the main key called "InProcServer32" (i.e. [HKEY_CLASSES...ABCD1DE12345}InProcServer32]) and set (Default) to equal "shell32.dll", also create a new String value called "ThreadingModel" and set it to "Apartment".

4. Create a set of sub-keys starting at the main key "ShellOpen My MenuCommand" (i.e. [HKEY_CLASSES...ABCD1DE12345}ShellOpen My FolderCommand]) and set (Default) to equal the command to execute when clicked, in this case explorer, e.g. "explorer /root,c:MyFolder". Change "Open My Folder" to command to display and "c:MyFolder" to the directory you want to use.

5. Create a set of sub-keys starting at the main key "ShellExPropertySheetHandlers{FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345}" (i.e. [HKEY_CLASSES... ABCD1DE12345}ShellExPropertySheetHandlers{FD4DF

9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345}])

6. Create a new sub-key under the main key called "ShellFolder" (i.e. [HKEY_CLASSES...ABCD1DE12345}ShellFolder]) and create a new Binary value called "Attributes" and set it to "00 00 00 00".

7. To place the folder (which is now a system folder) on the desktop add the following key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCur

rentVersion

ExplorerDesktopNameSpace{FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345}]

8. To also place it in My Computer create this key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCur

rentVersion

ExplorerMyComputerNameSpace{FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345}]

Now the folder cannot be deleted from the desktop or My Computer, nor can it be renamed other than removing the CLSID and the entries under NAMESPACE.

This beats TweakUI's "Remove Shortcut Arrows" any day....

[b:c13d05e693]This post was submited by Cyborg_Dell[/color:c13d05e693] on Nov 5th. Thank you for the post.[/b:c13d05e693]