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Speed Up Boot Times in Windows XP

Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin | No Comments

This tweak works by creating a batch file to clear the history and temp folders everytime you shutdown so that your PC does not waste time checking these folders the next time it boots. It’s quite simple to implement:

       1. Open Notepad and create a new file with the following entries:

     * RD / S / q “C: \ Documents and Settings” username without quotes “\ Local Settings \ History”
     * RD / S / q “C: \ Documents and Settings \ Default User \ Local Settings \ History”
     * RD / S / q “D: \ Temp” <- “Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder”

       2. Save the new as anything you like but it has to be a ‘. Bat’ files eg fastboot.bat or deltemp.bat

       3. Click ‘Start’ then ‘Run’

       4. Type in ‘gpedit.msc’ and hit ‘ok’

       5. Click on ‘Computer Configuration’ then ‘Windows Settings’

       6. Double-click on ‘Scripts’ and then on’ Shutdown ‘

       7. Click ‘Add’ and find the batch file that you created and then press’ Ok ‘

When your PC starts it usually looks for any media in any bootable floppy or CD-ROM drives you have installed before it gets around to loading the Operating System from the HDD. This can waste valuable time. To fix this we need to make some changes to the Bios.

    1. To enter the bios you usually press’ F2 ‘or’ delete ‘when your PC starts
    2. Navigate to the ‘Boot’ menu
    3. Select ‘Boot sequence’
    4. Then either move your Hard drive to the top position or set it as the ‘First Device’
    5. Press the ‘escape’ key to leave the bios. Do not forget to save your settings before exiting

Note: Once this change has been made, you will not be able to boot from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM. If for some strange reason you need to do this in the future, just go back into your bios, repeat the steps above and put your floppy or CD-ROM back as the ‘First Device’

When your computer boots up it usually has to check with the network to see what IP addresses are free and then it grabs one of these. By configuring a manually assigned IP address your boot time will improve. To do this do the following:

  1. Click on ‘Start’ and then ”Connect To/Show All Connections’
  2. Right-click your network adapter card and click ‘Properties’
  3. On the ‘General’ tab, select ‘TCP/IP’ in the list of services and click ‘Properties’
  4. In the TCP/IP properties, click ‘Use the following address’ and enter an IP address for your PC. If you are using a router this is usually 192.168.0.xx or 192.168.1.xx. If you are not sure what address you could check with your ISP or go to ‘Start/run’ and type ‘cmd’ and then ‘ipconfig/all’. This will show your current IP settings which you will need to copy
  5. Enter the correct details for ‘Subnet mask’, ‘Default gateway’ and ‘DNS Server’. Again if you are not sure what figures to enter use ‘ipconfig/all’ as in stage 4.

Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they come at all in price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably).

Before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your base operating system, check out these Simple Ways To Speedup Windows Vista tips to lighten the load. This is just the first in the series, so many of them may be very apparent to those experienced in tweaking.

1. Turn off UAC, or at least make it less annoying

Now, there € ™ sa lot of talk about the new user account control policy in Vista, and all I can say is: as it is, it annoys the hell out of me and slow down my normal computer usage. Just why, oh why, does it have to flash my video card to a black screen, take 5 seconds and really just make itself a royal pain in the arse?

To turn it off, the easiest way is to go into the Control Panel and type in ‘UAC’ into the search bar. Ita € ™ ll bring up a search result of â € ~ Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or Offa € ™. Just follow the prompts from there.

To keep some of the security of the UAC, Leta € ™ s just turn off the crazy annoying blacking out screen bit. To do this:

     * Open group policy (start | run | gpedit.msc)
     * Then navigate to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options
     * Find the policy named â € ~ User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation € ™. Set this to disabled.

Much better, eh? You might say â € ~ But what € ™ s that got to do with speed? Â € ™ Well, as I mentioned, it prompts me a couple times at least an hour and then takes several seconds to figure itself out. My productivity goes up, so ita € ™ sa speed enhancer;)
2. Disable Aero

I personally do not do this, as I am a fan of the graphical styles, but I realize it comes at a cost. It does tend to eat up both RAM and CPU usage (as well as video card usage). While it is turned off during gaming, you can still notice its effects during normal computer usage. When it is really cranking, it can use 15% of your CPU. Ouch. Vanity comes at a cost.

If you do like it, at least turn it down a notch couple. Some performance increases have nothing to do with strain on hardware, or amount of processing. Sometimes, things are designed to take longer than they should, though maybe only a fraction of a second, but the end result to the user is a faster machine. Minimizing and maximizing does an animation. Watch closely. Pretty quick eh? Still, it does slow you down, and, really, what does it add to your experience? I am all about vanity and aesthetics, but this feature has got to go.

Relish in the fact you will be increasing your productivity by 0.2 seconds to Minimize / Maximize. :)

     * Open your start menu, go to Run, and type in ‘systempropertiesperformance’
     * From the Visual Effects tab, uncheck “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing ‘
     * While you are here, might as well check out the other goodies you can disable.

3. ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost is one of the more innovative features of Vista. The idea behind it is to use solid state memory as a secondary memory cache (before hard drive caching.) It does require a certain level of speed from your USB (or other) flash drive. Do a quick search on google for just the fastest USB flash drive you can get your hands on (women € ™ t worry they are cheap) and buy one.

To enable ReadyBoost, just plug in a fast flash drive, and autoplay should come up with a dialog stating that you can use it for readyboost. If you have disabled it, you can just go to the properties for the drive and select it under the readyboost tab. Easy as cake. It is no substitution for RAM, but one can get a several GB flash drive for very little. Some sites have stated that the improvements are not as much as MS says they are, but even a minor improvement for such a low investment makes this worth your while. Do find the best drive you can for random reads / writes (the drive speed is usually rated for sequential reads which wonâ € ™ t help you much).

     * What speed drive do I need? 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes.

     * What size drive do I need? 256MB to 4GB, where as best performance is gotten at around a 1:1 to 2:1 in flash to ram ratio. So really, you should never try this with a flash drive smaller than 1GB-2GB
 4. Tweaked Indexing Service

I personally woman € ™ t the new research, too. Although pigs a large amount of resources, though. If you completely out:

       * Go to My Computer, right-click the folder C: drive, go to the General tab and uncheck Index this drive to speed up the search, select Include subfolders and files.
       * You can use any additional areas of research, so you can quickly your search to certain areas.

Personally I think the indexing of the options in the control panel and menu items to start as a blessing, so let alone. Only to find items in the tree that women actually € ™ t want to be indexed (including documents).
5. While you are in this solution the rest of your search

Often it is for me to do research in text files, as a method for use in a PHP file, or perhaps something in a file java. Whatever the situation, Windows Vista has a very limited number of extensions scored for the full-text search, which gives rise to “no results” when we know there are some.

       * Open Control Panel and type of “indexing” in the search field (or you can do in the Start menu, but many people off).
       * Select Options for indexing ”
       * Select the Advanced button
       * Select “File Types” tab
       * On this list you’ll see a list of extensions. If you click on the majority of them, the bottom button from the index only properties or properties and index the contents of a file ‘
       * Frankly, index-only properties is fairly useless so most people use for research (which is to say, actually just a search by date).
       * Remove an image that you removed from the search. This can be done for a series of extensions that honestly, issued € ™ t want to know anyway. Is it really help your score.
       * Change button in the index of the properties and contents of a file “because these types of files included in the research (should be established for Word documents, and any other text-based search in the archives)

6. So the sidebar

On declares itself. Ita € ™ s a heavy and ugly. If you use it, great, if you are a woman € ™ t something desktop space. Setting the google. Or Yahoo.
7. Ombudsman has a use?

Yes, Windows Defender actually has a purpose!

       * Opens
       * Click on Tools
       * Click Explorer software
       * This will allow you to select groups of items, the default is to start programs. Now you see that oh, OpenOffice is fast, and you can just turn off.

The items on this list is very likely that the programs that run at 100% of the time that your computer is on, so if you can live without them, kill them.

8. Fine-tune their services

Well, this is a debatable. Many sites preach the service information to adjust the end of all institutions, and Vista has a lot of services (like 130). However, a good portion of them are configured for manual or default. Manual only started the service when the operating system thinks it needs to use this program. However, Vista has a lot of services set to Auto by default, which are not necessary for many people. Of course, which normally for sleeping, that does not use CPU, and whether the use of space, usually in paged to disk very quickly. But, regardless, it is reasonable to make fast, and gain some improvements.

Firstly, how to say what should be really worried. A new feature in Vista is the â € ~ Go to Service € ™ feature in Task Manager (or at least I’ve never noticed that before). Open Task Manager, Processes tab, right-click a particularly heavy and select a € ~ Go to Service (s) â € ™. This instead of the Services tab and select all services carried out under this process (which are usually multiple svchost.exe runs, many of the other only on a map service).

It also works the other way (select service, right click and go to trial) I have something to 75 servers working at the moment. Most of them are exactly zero for use. I do not have a printer, but print queue is implemented and the use of a huge range of my 1 MB RAM at the time. There are more examples, but even if you get 20 of these, it’s your time worth? Well, yes and no. As I said, many of them are already paged, so really scenario € ™ t that affect their system € ™ s memory. Do not include overhead costs, because the developer has yet to master, but I can not for the life of my record the way it does in Windows.

In general, perhaps minimal, but if you go for every ounce of change Ness, give it a chance. IA € ™ d recommend looking Tips Speedy Vista registration pages or files, so you can keep a copy of the standard services around when / if the current rail systems and the need to return to the default page.
9. How can you find out what the area of improving â € “tweaked their programs

Well, youâ € ™ s received the operating system to some extent, what € ™ s next? Well, guess where the bottlenecks still! There € ™ s probably a kind of software on the computer and only kills the implementation (or 6.7 of them). Mrs. € ™ t really blame MS yet. But fortunately for Windows Vista has a simple device, including to help identify and resolve the problem quickly.

       * Open Task Manager (many ways to achieve, the easier it is CTRL + ALT + DELETE and select Start Task Manager)
       * Click the Performance tab
       * Click Monitor Resource
       * Expansion of the disc and order by a read or write the column.

You can also take a look at the CPU, memory and network usage in the same way. Now you have probably noticed that your virus scanner is the use of resources 20x Aero, as it insists on the exploration of its RAM all the time, and cursed scans every file that read, write or run. But what can you do? Looking for a few programs that are coveted, or run when they have no reason to take action (for example, iTunes has a couple of installation canceled services that run constantly. Why? IA € ™ ve no idea to which services 2.3 and multiple threads just looking for himself could connect your iPod, because the functionality is already included in Windows). Office also has a preloader € ~ â € ™ fast start services (such as OpenOffice) to make sure things work € ~ â € ™ bettered for you. Even though you get super it should do so automatically, without the need for additional memory.
10. In fact, nobody, but tune …

Ok, # 10 ISNA € ™ t really a speed of the story, but Italian € ™ s € ™ IA something I’ve always found annoying on many operating systems. Many of us have 2 LCD monitors, and oh € ™ t would be nice to be able to make various sources of both? There are programs here do, but here € ™ sa way to do this only within the windows.

       * Right-click the background and select Customize.
       * Click on the desktop background
       * Choose a background image that is at least as wide as the whole of the resolution of the two monitors (or the scale of the image until it is large enough, what you get .. tiling to be an adjustment in order to let your photo editor for your choice.
       * Select the image tile positioning option as shown below. This is the only option for the background image for multiple monitors

Simple Ways of Speeding Up Windows XP

Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin | No Comments

I just finished setting up a new PC for a friend and I think some of you will be interested in some of the adjustments can I make all my computers to make them faster. I’m here focused on those that are simple to make and will not cause problems if you get ill, instead of registry settings etc. Quoting

1. Disable indexing services

Services Index is a bit small program that uses a large amount of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This process of system updates and lists of indexes all files on your computer. He does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will look for faster scanning the index lists. If you do not search your computer frequently, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

      * Go to Start
      * Click Settings
      * Click Control Panel
      * Double-click Add / Remove Programs
      * Click Add / Remove Window Components
      * Clear the indexing service
      * Click Next

2. Optimizing display settings

Windows XP can look sexy, but displaying all the visual elements can waste system resources. To optimize:

      * Go to Start
      * Click Settings
      * Click Control Panel
      * Click System
      * Click the Advanced tab
      * In the Performance tab, click Settings
      * Leave only noted the following:

      * Show shadows under menus
      * Show shadows under mouse pointer
      * Show translucent selection rectangle
      * Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop
      * Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Speedup folder browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for files and network printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To correct this and to significantly increase navigation:

      * Open My Computer
      * Click on the Tools menu
      * Click on the Folder Options
      * Click the View tab.
      * Clear the Automatically search for network folders and printers on the box
      * Click Apply
      * Click OK
      * Reboot the computer
4. Disable Performance Counters

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility Monitors which several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

To disable:

     * Download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
     * Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the’ performance counters enabled ‘below bottom.button checkbox at the

5. Improve Memory Usage

Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.

Once installed:

     * Go to Show Wizard and select All
     * Run all the wizards by Selecting Next Finished or until you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what you are doing
     * Exit and Save Cacheman
     * Restart Windows

6. Optimizing your internet connection

There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP / IP Optimizer.

     * Download and install
     * Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
     * Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
     * Check Optimal Settings then Apply
     * Reboot

7. Optimizing Your Pagefile

If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from Needing to resize the page file.

     * Right click on My Computer and select Properties
     * Select the Advanced tab
     * Under Performance choose the Settings button
     * Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
     * Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the current amount of physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512 or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.
8th Run BootVis – Improve Boot Times

BootVis will significantly improve boot times

     * Download and Run
     * Select Trace
     * Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
     * A Trace repetitions screen will appear, select OK and Reboot
     * Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log your system’s boot process. When it’s done, in the menu, go to Trace and select Optimize System
     * Reboot.
     When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete

9th Remove the Desktop Picture

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

     * Right click on desktop and select Properties
     * Select the Desktop tab
     * In the Background window select None
     * Click OK

10th Remove Fonts for Speed

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

     * Open Control Panel
     * Open Fonts folder
     * Move fonts you do not need to a temporary directory (eg C: \ FONTBKUP?) Just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

Hope you find these 10 tips useful please leave a comment below and please share any other tips you may have with other readers.

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is aloof a adorned way of adage it’s a agreement (a language, in a address of speaking) for advice to be anesthetized aback and alternating amid web servers and clients.

The important affair is the letter S which makes the aberration amid HTTP and HTTPS.
The S (big surprise) stands for “Secure”.
If you appointment a website or webpage, and attending at the abode in the web browser, it will acceptable activate with the following: http://.
This agency that the website is talking to your browser application the approved ‘unsecure’ language. In added words, it is accessible for addition to “eavesdrop” on your computer’s chat with the website. If you ample out a anatomy on the website, addition ability see the advice you accelerate to that site.This is why you never anytime access your acclaim agenda cardinal in an http website! But if the web abode begins with https://, that basically agency your computer is talking to the website in a defended cipher that no one can eavesdrop on. You accept why this is so important, right? If a website anytime asks you to access your acclaim agenda information, you should automatically attending to see if the web abode begins with https://. If it doesn’t, there’s no way you’re activity to access acute advice like a acclaim agenda number!

Mobile phone viruses

Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin | No Comments

A adaptable mobile virus or adaptable malware – awful adaptable software – is a computer virus accurately acclimatized for the adaptable mobile ambiance and advised to advance from one accessible buzz to another.

A virus is a affairs cipher that replicates by actuality affected to addition program. Bacilli can be transmitted as accessories to an email or in a download file. Some bacilli booty aftereffect as anon as their cipher is executed; added bacilli can lie dormant. A virus that replicates by resending itself as an email adapter or as a allotment of a arrangement bulletin is accepted as a worm.
Viruses can ambit from amiable to absolutely harmful; they can abolish abstracts from the adulterated buzz or accelerate affected letters purporting to be from the phones owner. How accustomed are adaptable buzz viruses? The accepted aegis accident from adaptable buzz bacilli and worms is low.
Until abounding added acute phones or PDAs are in use, and users of these phones are consistently exchanging executable files, the accident will abide low.
The adaptable industry takes the blackmail of bacilli actual actively and is always ecology its networks and alive to assure users from any approaching accident from adaptable buzz viruses. There are additionally some simple measures that alone users can apparatus to assure themselves.What can I do to assure my phone?
The afterward tips can advice anticipate problems with bacilli on your phone:
1. Switch to Bluetooth hidden mode. If your buzz has Bluetooth capability, ensure that the Bluetooth adequacy is switched to hidden or airy approach unless you accurately charge it to be visible.This will advice anticipate added Bluetooth-enabled accessories from award your buzz (unless you admission them the all-important permission) and will accordingly advice assure your buzz from worms that advance appliance the Bluetooth wireless technology.
2. Exercise attention afore aperture attachments. Back accepting applications beatific via Bluetooth, or aperture MMS attachments, exercise caution, aloof as you would back aperture an email adapter on your PC, because they may accommodate adverse software.
Ensure the appliance or adapter comes from a accepted source, and is alert of aperture files that accept alien argument absorbed to them, alike if they appear from addition you know.
3. Only download agreeable from a trusted source. Trusted sources may accommodate abettor portals and added acclaimed brands that action able aegis adjoin bacilli and added adverse software. Be acquainted admitting that, as with emails, awful or counterfeit users may be able to affected the actualization of a trusted source.
4. Accede anti-virus software. Some software is accessible to anticipate buzz viruses. You may ambition to accede downloading this software.
5. Contact your buzz architect if concerned. If you anticipate you accept a virus, alarm the buzz manufacturer’s affliction line. They can abetment you affirm if it is a virus, and advice fix the problem.

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Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar!
Hey its a very cool trick u can amaze u r freinds and relatives by insertng ur name on the bottom right taskbar. Follow the instructions bellow:
Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here u can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name or anything you like

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Download Shutdown BMP: http://www.mediafire.com/?mzjljndgjzm

Extract the file and you’ll get 4 BMPs with the name:

1.bmp
2.bmp
3.bmp
4.bmp

Now open “%windir%System32Shell32.dll” file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 14351 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 14353 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 14354 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 14355 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 14356 -> 1033 with 3.bmp

now save the file and open %windir%System32msgina.dll file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 20140 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 20141 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 20142 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 20143 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 20150 -> 1033 with 4.bmp

Now save the file.

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Pdf password remover

Posted on December 15, 2008 by admin | No Comments


PDF Password Remover can be used to decrypt Protected Adobe Acrobat PDF
files, which have “owner” password set, preventing the file from editing
(changing), printing, selecting text and graphics (and copying them into the
Clipboard), or adding/changing annotations and form fields. Decryption is
being done instantly. Decrypted file can be opened in any PDF viewer (e.g.
Adobe Acrobat Reader) without any restrictions — i.e. with edit/copy/print
functions enabled. All versions of Adobe Acrobat (including 7.x, which
features 128-bit encryption) are supported.

The standard security provided by PDF consists of two different methods and
two different passwords, ‘user password’ and ‘owner password’. A PDF
document may be protected by password for opening (’user’ password) and the
document may also specify operations that should be restricted even when the
document is decrypted: printing; copying text and graphics out of the
document; modifying the document; and adding or modifying text notes and
AcroForm fields (using ‘owner’ password).

What we do:

1. Decrypt PDF files protected with owner passwords.

2. Removing restrictions of PDF files, Restrictions usually include the
impossibility to print or edit or modify the PDF file.

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1. Decrypt PDF files protected with user passwords which you are asked for
opening the file.

PDF Password Remover features

* Easy to use;

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