[akash47]

Originally Posted by ILLUMINATUS

but formattin the comp every 3 to 4 months aint practical, is it?

nope... no point of that unless ur one of those chronic formatters types
though... it does help if you have a partation.
then you can format the windows drive w/o deleting your mp3's etc (which should be on the other drive).

though it un-registers all ur progs.... very irritating loading everything again

[anuragxp]

Originally Posted by eddy

hi junta...
any idea how to speed up the boot process of my comp ?

PIII 600 Mhz
128 RAM

and it takes five - six minutes to boot... any way by which i can spped up the process ?

Hey Neighbour , you can try these:

• Uninstall s/w that u no longer use.
• Install some good quality Anti-spyware s/w (Microsoft's / Adware), remove all spyware and adware programs
• Free some space on your main drive (where Windows is installed)
• Remove unnecessary programs from the Startup (by running msconfig)
• If the problem still persists, FORMAT the damn thing

but formattin the comp every 3 to 4 months aint practical, is it?

Yes, it is absolutely practical! I used to format my comp. every month (Ab thoda sudhar gaya hoon, ab 2 months mein ek baar only )

[cat_set_go]

Originally Posted by eddy

hi junta...
any idea how to speed up the boot process of my comp ?

PIII 600 Mhz
128 RAM

and it takes five - six minutes to boot... any way by which i can spped up the process ?

it also depends on which OS u use !!! if u use windows Xp then there is no way to decrease boot...u hv to upgrade ur PC otherwise msconfig is good as somebody told here.....

Sourabh

[cat_set_go]

There are quite a few services you can disable from starting
automatically.
This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.
They are only suggestions so I suggest you read the description
of each one when you run Services
and that you turn them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:
Alerter
Application Management
Clipbook
Fast UserSwitching
Human Interface Devices
Indexing Service
Messenger
Net Logon
NetMeeting
QOS RSVP
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Routing & Remote Access
SSDP Discovery Service
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Web Client


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Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut
to recently used programs.
However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs.

To clean this periodically go to:

Star / Run / Prefetch
Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts
Delete them

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Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages

To turn these off:

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\policies\system

If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named
DisableStatusMessages
Give it a value of 1

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Clearing the Page File on Shutdown

Click on the Start button
Go to the Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Local Security Policy
Local Policies
Click on Security Options
Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory
Pagefile"
Select "Enable"
Reboot

For regedit users.....
If you want to clear the page file on each shutdown:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Set the value to 1

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No GUI Boot

If you don't need to see the XP boot logo,

Run MSCONFIG
Click on the BOOT.INI tab
Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT

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Speeding the Startup of Some CD Burner Programs

If you use program other than the native WindowsXP CD Burner
software,
you might be able to increase the speed that it loads.

Go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services
Double-click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
For the Startup Type, select Disabled
Click on the OK button and then close the Services window
If you dont You should notice

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Getting Rid of Unread Email Messages

To remove the Unread Email message by user's login names:

Start Regedit
For a single user: Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\UnreadMail

For all users: Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\UnreadMail

Create a DWORD key called MessageExpiryDays
Give it a value of 0

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Decreasing Boot Time

Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the
time it takes to boot to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis

Uncompress the file.
Run BOOTVIS.EXE
For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs
of your system startup.
Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the
red vertical line)
Then run Trace / Optimize System
Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.

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Increasing Graphics Performance

By default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc
to menu items.
Most simply slow down their display.

To turn these off selectively:

Right click on the My Computer icon
Select Properties
Click on the Advanced tab
Under Performance, click on the Settings button
To turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance
My preference is to leave them all off except for Show shadows under
mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging

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Increasing System Performance

If you have 512 megs or more of memory, you can increase system
performance
by having the core system kept in memory.

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
Set the value to be 1
Reboot the computer

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Increasing File System Caching

To increase the amount of memory Windows will locked for I/O
operations:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Memory Management
Edit the key IoPageLockLimit

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Resolving Inability to Add or Remove Programs

If a particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a
simple registry edit neeed.

Go to
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Uninstall
Change the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it

4096 - 32megs of memory or less
8192 - 32+ megs of memory
16384 - 64+ megs of memory
32768 - 128+ megs of memory
65536 - 256+ megs of memory

[maddevil]

hey guys,

if i want to upgrade my OS from win XP Home to Prof will i have to format my comp or just upgrade to the higher version without losing info????
plz solve my query guys asap

thanks in advance.

D.M.

[cat_set_go]

Originally Posted by maddevil

hey guys,

if i want to upgrade my OS from win XP Home to Prof will i have to format my comp or just upgrade to the higher version without losing info????
plz solve my query guys asap

thanks in advance.

D.M.

i dnt think u can upgrade frm XP to XP u can only upgrade from older version like win 9x or me or likewise

format it and then install

Sourabh

[maddevil]

Originally Posted by cat_set_go

i dnt think u can upgrade frm XP to XP u can only upgrade from older version like win 9x or me or likewise

format it and then install

Sourabh

is there some way to backup my programs so that i can retain them after formatting?

D.M.

[jas_maverick]

Originally Posted by maddevil

is there some way to backup my programs so that i can retain them after formatting?

D.M.

try one thing, run the installer of proff on ur present home edition, if it allows ur job is done. actually that is the way to keep ur installed prog data intact when ur OS breaks down.
Try it, else what u can do is to take backup of ur Program Files folder & copy it cak in ur new folder after new OS installation, abt 60% of ur apps will work (non sys ones)

[ILLUMINATUS]

Originally Posted by cat_set_go

Decreasing Boot Time

Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the
time it takes to boot to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis

Uncompress the file.
Run BOOTVIS.EXE
For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs
of your system startup.
Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the
red vertical line)
Then run Trace / Optimize System
Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.

buddy.. check out this link.. it says BOOTVIS doesnt help in quickenin the boot process, its just an analysing software.. moreover i cant check out which version of the story is rite cos it aint available online.. thats also mentioned in that link.. check it out..

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...t/bootvis.mspx

[rajsher]

Hi,

My PC is giving a problem
I have windows 98(in C drive) and windows XP (in E drive).

When i m working in windows XP, then my computer shuts down after some time and a blue screen appears with some data etc, and it is written

beginning dump of physical memory......


I have tried removing all my games from the PC and also removing soma data from the E drive but it is to no avail.

Can some1 tell me what is the problem and what shud i do to rectify it?
I have gone thru the google search,as suggested by sm1 but i cud not find the exact solution.