10. Customize logon prompt with your own word
This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your computer experience.
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\ Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ Winlogon].
In right pane, look for key by the name "LogonPrompt". Set its value to whatever text you want to see displayed at login screen.
11. Where does Window's ProductId get stored ?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\ Windows NT\\CurrentVersion].
In right pane, look for key by the name "ProductId". This is your Windows Product Id. Alternatively you can navigate
to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion] and still find same field with the name ProductId.
12. Using third part defrag utility ? Make it defrag all files
I read about this tip on web. If you are using a third party defrag utility, you can make it defrag all files.
Go to C:\\Windows\\Prefetch directory and removing/deleting layout.ini file.
13. Speedup boot time by improving NTFS check
CHKNTFS is the command used to set the AUTOCHK initiation count down time. You can reduce it from default 9 seconds to a much lower value say 4 seconds.
Go to command prompt and type CHKNTFS/T:4 This command would set the AUTOCHK initiation count time down to 4.
14. How to kill the IE About windows that popup from time to time
There is an Internet Explorer vulnerability to which allows some web sites to open a hidden popup tracking minimized window either upon your first visit or when you leave their web site or even when you close your browser while one of their web pages is still displayed.
They do this by using the little known "about:" browser built-in command into their HTML/DHTML/XML code. Sometimes this window Go undetected as these are not resizable as you come to expect of a typical window app.
If you do not have anything specific with www.about.com, there could be a registry tweak that you can do.
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) by going to START-RUN and type regedit and navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\ Internet
Settings\\ZoneMap\\ProtocolDefaults]
Settings\\ZoneMap\\ProtocolDefaults]
and add two DWORD keys"about" and "about:" and set its value to 4.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Doing this tweak would mean that you would not be able to use the blank about page as your startup page. There is a workaround for this by adding it to your zone ...but I do not like it and hence not mentioning it here.
15. How to fix problems with master boot record
So what is Master Boot Record (MBR)? Master boot record is the first sector of the disk that is
accessed by you computer BIOS as soon as it boots up.
So what does it mean ? It means that your ability to boot to a particular operating system depends upon the correctness of Master Bood Record.
If you have ever installed two or more operating system, your ability to select an operating system is controlled by master boot record. Assume if you are not able to boot due to your dislike of the changes in boot loader process or corruption in MBR (btw, this could happen for a variety of reasons, right from virus to your own experiments with multi boot process.. I have seen this happening a lot on my PC since I have a dual cpu system with Mandrake 8.1 on one partition and Windows XP on another with Mandrake graphical Master Boot Menu ) you have to correct the master boot record.
Assuming you are in Windows XP, you have to put WINDOWS XP CD in your drive and make it
reboot next time in recovery console.
1. Simplest way to do this would be to would be to navigate to START-RUN and type D:\\i386\\winnt/cmdcons (D: is the CDROM drive in my computer) and let the process finish and reboot.
2. Once rebooted, system would prompt you to choose recovery console and chose it by entering
proper menu id number (by default should be 1). Once console is loaded do enter this command
FIXMBR /device/harddisk0 (where harddisk0 refers to C: drive where WINDOWS XP is installed by default).
proper menu id number (by default should be 1). Once console is loaded do enter this command
FIXMBR /device/harddisk0 (where harddisk0 refers to C: drive where WINDOWS XP is installed by default).
This would fix your master boot record to default XP boot. By the way FIXMBR command is
only available from recovery console. What to know more about FIXMBR, visit Microsoft TechNet site If you have followed the instructions correctly, you are done.
only available from recovery console. What to know more about FIXMBR, visit Microsoft TechNet site If you have followed the instructions correctly, you are done.
16. Write a new partition boot sector to the system partition
Are you look for a way to correct the partition boot sector, here is a quick fix. You have to put
WINDOWS XP CD in your reboot the computer next time in recovery console. Here are the steps after you put your XP CD and boot into recovery console (Choose R for Recovery console when Windows XP setup disk starts)
1. Once console is loaded do enter this command FIXBOOT C:(where C: is the hard disk drive where WINDOWS XP is installed by default). To know more about FIXBOOT options, click here to visit Microsoft Technet site
If you have followed the instructions correctly, you are done.
warning :
All the Tricks which had shown in this site is just for Teaching and Learning purpose.use all tricks on your personal risk.
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