Computer and Cell tricks: Windows XP Tips and Tricks

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Windows tweak to speed up your hard disk speed

speed up your hard disk speed means, its read and write speed.

For this we need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Follow these steps:
1. Open Run Command –> Start –>RUN
2. Type SYSEDIT.EXE

This will open system editor window

Expand the system.ini file window.

Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].

Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

Irq14=4096

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!

Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.
Extra Points: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won’t harm your system, so don’t worry to try it and post any comments here

Notepad Trick to Open notepad continuously

This simple computer prank consists of a code below that will drive your friend crazy as it opens notepad continuously.

Open multiple= When you type the below code and rename it as *.bat it take the above showed icon shape.

To Open Notepad continuously in your friend’s computer:

Type the code in notepad as :

@ECHO off
:top
START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe
GOTO top

Save it as “notepad.BAT” and send it.

Note: If you want to try it, then go ahead and when you built this file double click to open it. But beware it slows your system and you will be left with no other option than to restart, as this script opens 100’s of notepad window. So, If you want to try this than save all your work and then run this file.

How to Recover Windows XP Administrator Password

Have you forgotten Windows xp Administrator login password or do you want to hack or change the Administrator password of the windows system at your School, College or office, then this Trick is just for you.

Follow the steps below

1. Restart your computer

2. Press F8 key continuously until you get a black screen where you have many options to start you operating system

3. From the options “Select the Safe mode with Command Prompt”

4. When your computer starts in DOS mode, type the following commands

net user

This command displays the list of users on this OS in ROWS

5. Now type the following commands to reset the windows Administrator password

net user username password

Note: Enter your username above and space then password.

Then it asks the new password without the last password.
Now type your new password ******
Again retype your new password********
Note: When you type the password, it will not be displayed

Install Windows xp in less than 15 minutes

Now, this tip will be very helpful for those who frequently install windows xp operating system. Normally OS installation takes around 40 minutes to complete, but through this trick you can now save 10-15 minutes. This simple tricks goes this way.

1. Boot through Windows XP CD.

2. After all the files are completely loaded, you get the option to select the partition. Select “c”.

3. Now Format the partition, whether it is normal or quick with NTFS or FAT

4. Once the formatting is completed, All the setup files required for installation are copied. Restart your system by pressing Enter.

Now, here begins the Simple trick to save 10-15 minutes.

5. After rebooting, you get a screen where it takes 40 minutes to complete or finalize the OS installation.

6. Now, Press SHIFT + F10 Key -> This opens command prompt.

7. Enter “Taskmgr” at the command prompt window. This will open Task Manager.

8. Click the Process Tab, here we find a process called Setup.exe -> Right Click on Setup.exe -> Set Priority -> Select High or Above Normal. Initially it will be Normal.

Thats it, no more work to do. Relax your self and see how fast the installation process completes

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How to Rename The Start Button in Windows XP to your desired name

I am not going to show you any complex methods to Rename the Start button in windows xp. Earlier we used Resource hacker tool to Rename the Start Button manually. This involved complex steps that was a way difficult for beginners. If you want to do it manually follow this link

Rename Windows Xp Start button using Resource Hacker

In this post I am going to show you a simple tool that will do all the work. Its called as “Start Button Renamer”.
This tool looks this way. Simply enter your desired word in New Label Text box and Click Rename It! . Hurreee. Your Start button text is changed to your desired text.

Description:

“Start Button Renamer” is a simple utility for renaming the [Start] button under Windows XP. With this freeware tool, you can change default label of the [Start] button with your own text. This is great when you want to tease your friends or when you intend to have a greater variety in Windows.
“Start Button Renamer” also is Open Source. This means that the source code of the program is presented with it, so that you could change it according to your own taste and wish, therefore you can add more possibilities on it

Download Start Button Renamer

How to delete files that are used by other programs in windows XP/Vista? Vista Tips and Tricks

Today tip will help you to delete the files and folders that are being used by another programs and applications, for example a virus affected file. You have tried to delete such kind of files or folders and received the any following messages.

Cannot delete file: the file is in use by the other program

Cannot delete file: There has been a sharing violation

Cannot delete file: The file is in use by another program or user

Cannot delete file: Disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

Cannot delete file: The source or destination file may be in use

Normally, a windows restart will allow you to delete such files or folders that are being used by other program, but if you want to manage it without restart your computer then simply you need to download a freeware tool called Unlocker.

You can download this tool for any windows version using Unlocker link. Download it and run the easy setup.

After installation, right click on file or folder that you want to delete and select the option Unlocker.

If your requested file or folder is used or locked by other application then a small window listing of lockers will appear.

Here simply click on “Unlock All” button and now you can easily delete this file.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Windows XP Tips and Tricks

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Hibernate Your XP The Great Trick

Hey your Windows XP has a very good but hidden feature !

Trick Advantage :
You can leave your work in between and shutdown the PC and resume it next time as it is !
Even I switched off my PC while writing this article and when I reopened it I resumed my article from where i left !

When you want to stop your work and shutdown(Keeping your programs open)
Do The Following :
1. Click start>Turn Off Computer
2. As the Turn Off menu comes up press 'Shift' and 'Stand By' changes to 'Hibernate'
3. Click Hibernate (Shift Kept Pressed)

Your xp will save the work and shutdown !

Now, when you switch it on again it will resume it again !

No loading of windows will take place and you will be resumed to your work as if you had just switched your monitor off and now on again !

Its Amazing !

Make mp3 files smaller without losing clarity.

If you don't already have a copy of MusicMatch Jukebox, download one from musicmatch.com. The "Plus" version has more features and burns CDs faster, but the free version works just fine for converting files

1. Install music match box and then restart your computer if it asks
2. open music matchbox and click file convert files
3. in the bottom right hand corner called 'destination type' change it to mp3 pro.
4.you can edit the bitrate but the higher the bitrate the bigger the size
5. choose the songs you want to convert and click start

If you want to try something different repeat step one and 2 and instead of making the destintion type mp3 pro make it 'mp3pro vbr'

again the lower the setting the smaller the size.

Recover a Corrupted System File.

If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it's found, open a command prompt and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:\SETUP\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.

If the file isn't found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:\Windows D:\I386\Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Again, if the destination or CAB file pathname contains spaces, surround it with double quotes.

How To Speed Up A Slow Computer

First of all in the bottom right hand corner of your computer if you see alot of icons start up there when you first start your computer then this is for you if you don't know already how to get rid of em.

Press your Start Button (bottom left) and go to "run"
now type in: msconfig
now you will get a box that pops up and will tell you bunch of stuff don't mess with anything else other than what I tell you otherwise you could do something really bad (possible) go to your "startup" tab on the top right of the screen where it usually is and click it.

Now you will have a closed in box with bunch of file names n addresses and more boxes with checks in them. Now if your like me you don't want anything starting up when you start you computer up or while your even doing anything cause it slows you down. Now unless your like me right now 1 have 1 thing starting up when my computer starts up and thats my setting for my overclocked vid card. But other than that uncheck every box and then hit apply and ok. Then window you were jus in will now close and ask you if you want to restart or wait till later to restart.

Either way when you shut it off and then turn it back on the settins will kick in

How to Speedup Browsing Folders

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 network files and printers when you open Windows explorer. To stop XP from doing this follow the instructions below.

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

Try it now, you will see a significant increase in speed.

Lost your Windows password? Here’s what you can do to get around

Due to the security features built into Windows XP, it is virtually impossible to get back into the system without the password.

You have several options to try and get around this problem.

If you have access to another user account with administrator rights, you can use that account to change the password of the account that is locked out. You can also use the default Administrator account that is built into Windows XP.

First you need to boot the system into Safe Mode.

Restart your system.
When you see the blue screen, press the ( F8 ) key about 3 times a second.
You should get the Windows startup menu. Use the (Up or Down) arrow keys to highlight (SafeMode).
Press (Enter) on (Safe Mode), then press (Enter) on (Windows XP).
The system should boot to Safe Mode.

Once you are at the Account Log on Screen, click on the icon for the user account with administrator rights, or click on the icon for the administrators account.

Note: For Home the Administrator account isn’t normally shown & in Safe Mode you have to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys twice to show. For PRO you can do this in normal mode

When the system has booted to the desktop, use the following steps to change the accounts password.

Click Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools.
Click Computer Management.
Double click Local Users and Groups, double click the folder Users.
Right click on the account name that is locked out, and click on Set Password.
You may get a warning message about changing the password, simply click proceed.
Leave the New Password box blank, also leave the Confirm Password box blank.
Click OK, and OK again.
Then close all Windows, reboot the system and try to log in.

There are also applications that can recover the password for you.

If the above information does not help in recovering the password, the only option left is to format the hard drive then reinstall Windows and the system software

Sunday, May 9, 2010

View Or Kill Any Running Process In Windows XP

It happens sometimes when we try to delete any file an error comes saying that the file is currently is used and cannot be deleted. To overcome this problem here is a simple tool known as Process Explorer.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

Have a look :

If you want to delete any file that is currently in use, you can stop it easily with this tool and can delete or replace it.

Download Instructions : Click here to download

Runs on :

Client : Windows XP and higher (Including IA64)
Server : Windows Server 2003 and higher (Including IA64)

Restart Crashed Applications Automatically With Application Monitor

You might have fall in a situation where applications crashes suddenly. Here is an application known as Application Monitor that constantly checks the processes previously chosen by the user, and when it detects that one of those processes has stopped working it will start it again.

Have a look :

With Application Monitor you will always be sure that your important processes are running. AppMonitor has been developed keeping in mind all those admin and power users who use programs that must always been running (such as webserver, database, mailserver, p2p) and that don’t have a built-in restart function.

System Requirements :

Operating System : Windows 98 – ME – NT 4(service pack5) – 2000 – WindowsXP
Libraries : You must have installed the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or higher, freely available on Microsoft site.

Download Instructions : Click here to visit the download link from the official website.

Download All Windows XP And Vista DLL Files For Free

Sometimes, it happens that some dll file gets curropted and we are not able to use Internet Browsers, to overcome that situation I am giving you all the .dll files for Windows XP and Windows Vista, so that you can use fix system errors without Internet connection also.

Download Instructions : Click here to download.

How to use it : If any .dll file gets curropted, simply run the setup and you are done.

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