Shutdown Button on Desktop

Shutdown Button on Desktop

Right click on ur Desktop and create new Shortcut and type "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Shutdown.exe –s" without quotes in the popup box which will appear asking for a path of shortcut . Now when u will double click this shortcut it will give u shutdown message and ur computer will shutdown after some seconds. U can customize ur shutdown button with same icon which original shutdown have Just go to the properties of ur shortcut and click change icon tab select any icon u like and click apply.

Similarly u can also put restart button on ur desktop just replace –s in above line by –r

If u don’t want shutdown button on ur desktop u can the go to start >run and type

Shutdown –s or –r they will do the same job. If someone tries to shutdown u remotely on the net then u can stop shutdown process but typing shutdown –a in Run.

Shutdown –s = Shutdown & restart

Shutdown –r = Restart

Shutdown –a = To abort shutdown

Turn Off Autoplay for Program CDs

Turn Off Autoplay for Program CDs:

How can you stop Windows XP from launching program CDs?
Click Start, click Run, type GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in the Microsoft Management Console.

Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative templates, double-click System, and then click Turn off autoplay.

The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog.

Click Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives, then click OK, to stop CD autoplay.

This setting does not prevent Autoplay for music CDs.

Shutdown XP Faster

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.

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 should see some improvements when shutting down your system.

Use Notepad As A Diary !

Use Notepad As A Diary !

Ever wanted to maintain a diary on your PC ?

Now, you can do it without the use of a software !

USE NOTEPAD !

Do The Following :

1. Open Notepad

2. Type : .LOG

3. Save it with any name say 'Diary'

4. Open Diary.txt again.

Wow you see today's date and time, so start writing your Diary !

Clean Your Memory Without Restarting

Clean Your Memory Without Restarting

If you run a windows computer you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time windows decides it doesn’t like you today?

1. Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New - Shortcut.

2. Type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.

3. Click Next.

4. Give your shortcut a nice name like “Clear Memory”.

5. Click Finish and you’re done.

Now whenever your computer starts running slow click this shortcut to clear out your memory and get your computer running at a normal pace again

Turn On Ur Pc In Just 10 Seconds

Turn On Ur Pc In Just 10 Seconds

Click on the start button then press R it will take you to Run, here type Regedit and enter,this will open Registery Editor,now look for the key HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex, now there find the Key Called "Startup Delay"

Double Click On It, Now where its Base

Click Decimal, Now its Default Value Is 4800000 (75300:hexadecimal)Change The Value To 40000

here u go u have done it, now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer.

Speed up Your Computer Start Menu

Speed up Your Computer Start Menu

Do you want to speed up your start menu? Follow the given steps to change the speed of Start Menu.

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

In Registry Editor panel go to the path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay

By default the value "MenuShowDelay=400", but you can set value between 0 to 400. Now put the value "MenuShowDelay"=0 to speed up.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Leave about 5 percent of free space on your hard disk

Leave about 5 percent of free space on your hard disk

It seems odd to have space on a hard disk that you should not use, but free space is used for temporary files, setup files, expanding your swap file, etc.... Space that is usually freed up again automatically, but it has to be there. With a hard disk of 10 GB and 5 MB of free space, a standalone Windows computer will not run well.

If you have more than one partition, the 5% rule goes for the partition with the operating system and potentially for partitions with programs and applications. A pure data partition can do without this rule, but you can prevent space problems by not saving anything, or not much, in the root of the partition. (This means that if you have a D:\ partition for saving data, you should not save your document to just D:\, but to a folder on D:\. The advice, by the way, goes for your C:\ drive.)

Delete the Recycle Bin from the Desktop

Delete the Recycle Bin from the Desktop

Open Registry Editor.

Navigate to this registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

Delete this key

Scroll Wheel Mouse Trick

Scroll Wheel Mouse Trick

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, hold down the Ctrl key and at the same time, by scrolling up or down with the little scroll wheel, you can alter the size of the text of the website.