Correcting System Hang at Startup

# If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start
# button or theTaskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent
# Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't
# work for me. Here's what you do
# Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.
# Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service.
# Disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

Cracking windows xp admin and user passwords

I hope u guys liked tip given for resetting passwords in first part. If u have guest or limited user account on PC than that control userpasswords2 tip does not help u much. Windows will still ask u admin password for resetting users passwords .

Ok go and Download a tool called CIA COMMANDER this is just what we want. This tool will create a copy protected bootable floppy which will allow u to boot any computer and also help u to get into any NTFS partition .First select floppy as first bootable device from BIOS. CIA shows u every thing to u in GUI.

After booting CIA will allow u to reset any user password even administrator’s password. It also includes a file manager, registry editor and a text/hex editor. Present version of CIA does not support FAT partitions but sooner it

new version will even support FAT partition based system.

I have read on some tutorials about a tool called NTFS Pro which looks almost like CIA .

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 System Restore to Save Space

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

* Open the Control Panel.
* Double-click on System.
* Click the System Restore tab.
* Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives".
* Hit Apply.
* You may now delete the System Volume Information folder

Turn Off System Restore to Save Space

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

* Open the Control Panel.
* Double-click on System.
* Click the System Restore tab.
* Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives".
* Hit Apply.
* You may now delete the System Volume Information folder

Speeding Up Your Old Shit Pentium by 50%

We all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the system's performance is Windows Media Player. Although it may look desirable and fancy with it's rounded off edges and 3rd-Dimensional appearance, the truth is, it takes up a large amount of that precious processing power. All of these troubles however, lead to one thing in particular with this 'new-look' over-rated music and video player...the Visualizations. The look-great I'll admit but like a lot of software these days, it has no purpose. If you run the task manager, and click the Performance tab along the top, you'll see that when Windows Media Player is running and nothing else is active, it takes up around 50% of the processors power. Once these visualizations are turned off, it barely takes up 2-3% of the processors power, which leaves much more room for other applications to work efficiently.

* Here's how to disable the feature:
* Open Media Player.
* Make sure the Now Playing tab on the left is selected.
* Click the View menu along the top.
* Go down to Now Playing Tools

Stop Jerkey Graphics

If you are connected to a LAN and have problems with jerkey graphics, this might be the solution:

* Right-click "MyComputer".
* Select "Manage".
* Click on "Device Manager".
* Double-click on your NIC under "Network Adapters".
* In the new window, select the "Advanced" tab.
* Select "Connection Type" and manually set the value of your NIC. (Not "Auto Sense" which is default.).
* You should reboot.