Intel Application Accelerator - Speed up Disk Access

It would be great to download drivers that sped up your hard-disk access by 10's of percent wouldn't it? Well perhaps you can, Intel has made their Application Accelerator (IAA) available since last September. It reduces storage sub-system bottlenecks apparently. If you have a compatible Intel chipset (810 to 860) and a Pentium Celeron, III , 4 or Xeo

Increase XP NTFS performance

Last access time stamps
XP automatically updates the date and time stamp with information about the last time you accessed a file. Not only does it mark the file, but it also updates the directory the file is located in as well as any directories above it. If you have a large hard drive with many subdirectories on it, this updating can slow down your system.

Increase speed by tweaking prefetcher settings

This is an unique technique for XP, which could improve the performance significantly by tweaking the prefetcher (which is a cache folder).

HDD slowdown when booting

If, like I had , you have a 3min+ or slower boot time where Windows XP seems to sit for 2+ or so minutes with the XP logo doing nothing before everything comes to life, then do the following. 

Download Bootvis from www.microsoft.com and run it the next time you boot. Do a 'Trace' 
If it shows a very long 'HDD init' time of minutes rather than seconds then this is how to fix it.

This example assumes you have 1 Hard drive on your primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM(or CD) 
and CD-R on your two secondary IDE channels.

Free-up Some More Disk Space

Windows XP uses a file called hiperfil.sys to save everything it needs when Windows XP goes into hibernation. If you are like me, and never use the hibernate function, you can turn it off. By turning hibernate off, Windows XP deletes the hiberfil.sys. This can free up the as much disk space as the amount of ram that you computer has.

Go to Control Panel/Power Options/Hibernation and untick the box. It's as easy as that. Now you will have plenty more disk space to install those mega programs!

Fix Broken and Slow Tab Issues in Internet Explorer 8

Some users that upgraded to Internet Explorer 8 experience issues with tabs not working properly or taking a very long time to load.  It seems for most users the issue can be attributed to a problem with actxprxy.dll not installing properly during the upgrade.  If you have a similar problem with IE8, fixing the issue is as simple as a running one command.

Just open up an administrative level command prompt and type in regsvr32 actxprxy.dll and hit Enter. Reboot your computer and your tab issue should be resolved.

Faster Boot-Up without tons of fonts

Many of the files that load during the boot-up process are fonts.  You probably only use a handful of them.  I suggest moving some you never use into another folder.  You won't be able to access the fonts in Word or Notepad.

1. Create a New Folder by right clicking on desktop.  New>Folder.
2. Open "Fonts" in Control Panel.  Switch to Classic View to find them easier.
3. Highlight a group of fonts younever use and move them to the other folder. Repeat if you have tons of fonts.
4. Put the folder into My Documents for easy access.
5. Reboot and see if it starts any faster for you.  If not, just copy the fonts back to the original font folder.

Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache

Normally, the tweak I've seen asks you to go into HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the
LargeSystemCache.

However, in Windows XP, all you have to do is:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Select Properties
3. Click Advanced
4. Choose Performance
5. Click Advanced again
6. Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage.

Programs = 0 for the registry tweak equilavent
System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak equilavent

From arstechnica.com:
On NT Server (in this case XP), the Large System Cache option is enabled, but disabled on Workstation. The two different settings effect how the cache manager allocates free memory. If the Large Cache option is on, the manager marks all the free memory, which isn't being used by the system and/or applications, as freely available for disk caching. On the flip-side (with a small cache), the manager instead only sets aside 4MB of memory for disk caching in an attempt to accelerate the launch of applications. Or in a more technical approach, if enabled the system will favor system-cache working sets over process working sets (with a working set basically being the memory used by components of a process). 

Disable Unnecessary Programs

When you install some programs they will insert themselves into an area of your registry that will cause them to load when your computer starts up. Obviously this will use memory and slow down your system.

1. Start Regedit. 
2. Navigate toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Run
3. Once there, locate any entry's on the right.  You can identify the program by the path to the executable.  Find programs that you can live without starting up from the list.
4. Right click on them and select Delete
5. You may also want to navigate toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Runonce andHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Run.
6. Delete unnecessary programs.
7. Also go to START - PROGRAMS - STARTUP and see if there is anything there you wish to remove.
8. Reboot your computer.

Disable Recent Documents History

Normally when you open or access a document or file it is added to the list of recent documents on the Start Menu. This tweak will stop files from being added to the list.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'NoRecentDocsHistory' set the value to equal '1' to enable the restriction.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart for the changes to take effect.

Disable Prefetch for low memory systems

If you're like me your system only has about 128megs of RAM.  The Windows XP Prefetch can take a lot of this up by preloading programs at boot as well as preloading programs you often use thus sucking away your available RAM.

On my system, a Dell PIII 866 with 128 megs of RAM, I was able to greatly boast my system performance by disabling Prefetch all together.  It used to take a half hour for the disk to stop thrashing after stopping Nortons SpeeDisk,  Now it stops instantly.

Note:  This tweak worked for this user and their system configuration but disabling prefetch on other systems may have a bad effect as it might free up ram but it also could increase program start up time.

Here's how to disable Prefetch.

1. run "regedit";
2. goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher];
3. Set the value to either 0-Disable.
4. reboot.

Disable auto-reboot

When Running windows and it crashes you will get a blue screen and it will automatically restart, ofter it will restart too fast for you to see the error message. You could check the error log in this case but that is too easy. We are going to disable auto restart on system failure.

1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System (Windows+Pause works, too) 
2. Go to Advanced 
3. Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings... 
4. Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart" 

Disable automatic updating

To save memory and CPU time turn off the automatic update system in windows.  You can always check manually for updates and most users have no problem with that.  For those of you lazy bums out there you can leave this feature on but I warned you.

1. Open control panel.
2. (if using XPstyle control panel, click on performance and maintenance.)
3. Click on System.
4. Then click on the automatic updates tab and select Turn off automatic updating. If Service Pack 1 is installed uncheck Keep my computer up to date.
5. Click Ok.

Decrease your Applications startup time

By default, Microsoft includes the /prefetch:1 switch to speed up it's Windows Media Player application start time.  This switch can be used for other Windows applications and also many third party programs.

Example #1

You have AOL 8.0 installed on the computer. Complete the steps outlined bewlo to add the /prefetch:1 switch to AOL's Target path.

1. Right click on the AOL shortcut and select properties from the menu.

2. In the Target: Field add the /prefetch:1 switch to the very end of the path, like this:  "C:\Program Files\America Online 8.0\aol.exe" /prefetch:1 and then click ok.

Now start AOL. It would load at least 50 times faster than ever before.

Example #2

1, Go to the Start button/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools

2. Right click on System Restore and select properties from the menu that appears. Add the /prefetch:1 to the Target Path entry so it looks like this %ystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe /prefetch:1 and click ok.

Now System Restore will start immediately when executed.

Note: This switch will only work with some programs. Others will return a message saying the program in the target box is invalid. Just remove the switch 

Decrease System Loading Time by Changing Network Settings

When you start up your computer and you are connected to a LAN and your computer is set to DHCP and your computer has to search for the DHCP server and then request and IP address and all other configuration.  This process takes up some time and slows down the time it takes to boot the computer up.   Following the directions below will help your set a static IP address.  Even if your ISP says to use DHCP this tweak may still work for you, but you are warnned!

1. Click Start and click on Run.
2. Type command in the text box and click OK.
3. In DOS, type ipconfig and hit enter.
4. This will show you your current IPs that your NIC and PPPoE adapters have. Only pay attention to your Ethernet Card Adapter, not to the PPP adapter.
5. Next, right click My Network Places and select Properties from the drop down menu. This will open up the Network Connections window. In here, locate your Local Area Network connection and right click it, select Properties from the drop down menu.
6. When the next Window that opens up, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties at the bottom.
7. In the next window, click 'Use the following IP Address'.  This is where that DOS window comes in handy. Copy the same exact IP Address from your Ethernet card (in the dos window) and place it where it says IP Address. Same goes for the Subnet Mask and Default Gateway. If your Default Gateway is blank, then just leave it blank. Click Ok, then Ok again.
8. In the DOS window type exit dos then enter. Reboot your machine.

Now there is absolutely NO loading. You can connect as soon as you see your desktop.

Quick Note: If you use DHCP (Dynamic IP Address) to connect to the net, you may find that your net connection does not work after this. So if some day your network connection stops working, just go back into the NIC card properties and select automatically get IP address and reboot.

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 the Taskbar, 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:

1. Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.
2. Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service, disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

This problem with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service should have been corrected in Windows update Q 314862, part of Service Pack 1.

Convert FAT32 To NTFS

To change from FAT 32 to NTFS file system for more stability, security and less fragmentation, open the command prompt and type:

 Convert C: /FS:NTFS

 "C" being the drive you wish to convert. Make sure there is a space between the C: and the foward slash (/). Once you press enter it will ask you for confirmation and press Y. Then press Y and enter once more to reboot.. This also works for windows XP Home.

Clean Your Prefetch to Improve Performance

This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch folder can get full of rarely used or obsolete links which can slow down your computer noticeably. My suggestion is: open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete all files (or at least those more than 3 weeks old), reboot. I recommended that you do this every month.

Classic Start Menu Mode (Browsing Boost)

WARNING: Keep in mind that this tweak is intended for people using the "Classic Start Menu" mode to browse trough the Start Menu.

If your Start Menu loads right away when you click on it, but goes slow while you browse trough it, this will certainly solve your problem. It's quite simple actually, just follow these steps:

1. Right Click on your taskbar and choose "Properties"
2. Choose the "Start Menu" Tab and then click on "Customize"(Classic Start Menu :) Obviously)
3. Scroll Down the "Advanced Start Menu Options" list and uncheck the "Use Personalized Menus" option, click "OK", then "Apply" and "OK" to finish.

There's no need to reboot, you'll see the difference right away. Another good advice to keep you start menu working smooth is to restrict the number of programs and icons listed as much as possible, keep in mind that it works just like any other regular folder, the less you index, the faster it gets. 

CD ROM Stops AutoPlaying...

...and the AutoPlay Tab has disappeared in My Computer, Devices With Removable Storage, Right Click on CDROM, Properties.

Solution:
The service: "Shell Hardware Detection" has been set to Manual or Disabled. Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Return this service to "Automatic".

Hope this helps!

Backup - The Easy Way

NT Backup is, by default, installed only with XP Pro
 (To install it in XP Home Editon doubleclick this file on your XP cd:\VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP\NTBACKUP.MSI)
Start>run>NTBACKUP

Automate Disk Cleanup

Cleanmgr.exe is designed to clear unnecessary files from your computer's hard disk. You can use command-line options to specify that Cleanmgr.exe cleans up certain files. You can then schedule the task to run at a specific time by using the Scheduled Tasks tool.

To start the Disk Cleanup tool, either run the Cleanmgr.exe command, or click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup. 

Disk Cleanup supports the following command-line options:

• /d driveletter: - This option specifies the drive that you want Disk Cleanup to clean.
• /sageset: n - This option displays the Disk Cleanup Settings dialog box and also creates a registry key to store the settings that you select. The n value, which is stored in the registry, allows you to specify tasks for Disk Cleanup to run. The n value can be any integer value from 0 to 65535. To have all of the options available when you use the /sageset option, you might need to specify the drive where Windows is installed.
• /sagerun: n - This option runs the specified tasks that are assigned to the n value if you use the \sageset option.
  
  For example, in Scheduled Tasks, you could run the following command after you run the cleanmgr /sageset:11 command:
  cleanmgr /sagerun:11
  This command runs Disk Cleanup and includes the options that you specified with the cleanmgr /sageset:11 command.

Adjust Graphics for Speed

Windows XP has a lot of new cool looking visual elements, however, those new elements take up more RAM and cause your computer to be less responsive. By tweaking your graphics settings, you can increase the performance of your computer.

To get started, Let's reduce the color quality.  This setting determines how many colors are displayed on your screen. 

1. Right click on your desktop and select properties.
2. Click on the settings tab and adjust the color quality drop down box to Medium (16 Bit).
3. Click OK.

Next, let's use the windows performance settings to optimize your computer for performance.  This will revert back to the old Windows 2000 look as well as take away a lot of the fancy graphics effects.  However, if you are really into performance, this is the price you have to pay.

1. Right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop or in your start panel and select properties.
2. Next, Click on the Advanced tab and hit the setting button under performance.
3. On the visual effects tab, select Adjust for Best Performance and hit OK.
4. Hit OK once more to exit system properties.

Now your computer will run slightly faster!

How to DISABLE/ENABLE BALLON TIPS IN WINDOWS XP

First, You Must BAckup Registry Editor.

And THIS WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO ENABLE/DISABLE BALLON TIPS

THIS WILL TO ENABLE BALLON TIPS FOLLOW THE STEPS

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate the following subkey:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Right-click the right side pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 1.
5. Close Registry Editor.
6. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

 To DISABLE balloon tips in the notification area, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate the following subkey:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Right-click the right side pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0.
5. Close Registry Editor.
6. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

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Shutdown Computer With Command Prompt or Shortcut for Shutdown

Here is a trick to shutdown your computer  at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it, well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in

Start=>Run

Type Code:        at 11:35 shutdown -s

To cancel or Abort the shutdown:

Type Code:                   shutdown -a

Type  Code:  “shutdown –s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on network if you have administrative access.  Here computername needs to be replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.

Alternative method to create a shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut

Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts”.
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.

Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours etc.,

Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.

Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse

To abort or cancel the shutdown:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to ” shutdown -a” without the quotes.

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Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed

Recommended for any system. It doesn’t matter if you have 256mb RAM or 2 GB RAM.
Check the below tips to remove the memory junk and speedup windows os.

   

1. Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

2. Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.

3. Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).

4. Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM

5. Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.

6. Delete the temporary internet files regularly.

7. Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.

8. Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.

9. When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.

10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.

RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!

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How To Hide Folders Using Command Prompt (CMD)

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I Have Some Trick To Hide Folder Using CMD (Command Prompt) Without SOFTWARE


First,Click Start >>> Run >>>  Type "cmd" (Without Qoutes)


Now type the command given below hide or unhide the folders..

The command to hide the files is

Attrib +s +h drive:\folder name

To retrive your file use this command
 
 Attrib –s –h drive:\folder name

For example: Lets assume that there is a folder called ‘X’ in drive ‘D’

I will hide it by use the command

Attrib +s +h D:\x (press enter)

That’s it you done it.If you want it back

Use this command

Attrib –s –h D:\x (press enter)

That's All For Little Tips To Make It Hide Folder.

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How To Deleting The Prefetch Automatically

Hello !!!

I will Show you How To Delete Prefetch Automatically or Just one Click.

1. Go into My Computer and go into your hard drive.

2. Right-click anywhere that a file is not and select the 'New' submenu and click 'Text Document'

3. Name it "deleteprefetch"

4. Double-click on the text file you just created.

5. Type "del C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /Q" (without the quotes).

6. Go to File > Save As... and choose "All Files" from the "Save as Type" box and save it as "deleteprefetch.bat"

7. You just created a batch file that will automatically delete all the files in your Prefetch folder. 

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How To Make Copy And Move Faster

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I Will Show you How To Make Copy And Move Faster,Using SuperCopier 2.2 BETA.


SuperCopier replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features:

• Transfer resuming
• Copy speed control
• No bugs if You copy more than 2GB at once
• Copy speed computation
• Better copy progress display
• A little faster
• Copy list editable while copying
• Error log
• Copy list saving/loading 

 

Download Here :  SuperCopier 2.2 BETA

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How to Solve Generic Host Win32 Error

A few days ago I often get "Generic Host For Win32 error" and then the internet connection is lost and the guns' can reconnect again, the only road must restart the computer.But it happens every few hours like that happen again, I think the system crashes. Then I do the repairs by using norton utilities (win doctor) and scan with norton corporate antivirus and anti spyware xoftspy. It turned guns' no effect at all and still too often out of his svchost.exe error.
Finally after Looking for google see a solution and until now never come out again the error message Generic Host For Win32

The way the manual as follows:

    Open the registry editor, start - run - type regedit - ok
    go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ NetBT \ Parameters, then on the right hand column and click search TransportBindName 2x
    After that the parameters in the Value data blank and click OK

    Last entry to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ OLE, search EnableDCOM on the right hand column and click 2x. In the Value data field by default parameter will be filled in Y, change Y to N and then click OK.

    Close the registry editor and other applications and then restart


Way above when used for local network will meet some obstacles, because port 445 and 135 closed.
The second way that I have not tried is with his patch windows with KB89439 and KB921883
Update (12-2-2009): KB958644

Note:
After that scan and remove "illness" to clean it with MalwareByte
Additional Info: go to microsoft help and support about the problem Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Error
Update 29-3-2010: Want to add about how the initial installation I usually do, the installation using XP Pro SP2 (because guns' have distinguished SP3) and then after they finish the patch with SP3 (SP3 for XP can be downloaded here). Was coupled with the security patch KB958644, Well after the patch process is completed a new driver for your PC / laptop I installed, After That anti-virus and anti malware. The next step I installed the modem and connected to the Internet to update anti-virus and anti malware. The latter lived to install the necessary software. 

How To Increase Virtual Memory

Hello Guy's !!!
This Article Will Help You Make Your Computer Fast,And Increase Your Virtual Memory.

Follow My Step :
1.Click Right on My Computer And Select Properties.
2. Select Advanced in TAB

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3. Select Settings Under Performance.

4. Select Advanced in TAB.

5. Select CHANGE.
6.SET Initial Size (MB) = 4000 MB
   SET Maximum Size (MB) = 6000 MB
   And Click SET

BEFORE

AFTER

7. And Click OK 

8.RESTART YOUR COMPUTER

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How To Increase Torrent Download Speed

Hello Guys !! 
This Article Will Show You , How To Increase Torrent Download Speed 
This is True And 100 % Working And This is NOT FAKE !!!

* Download Any Version Of Torrent Client 
Click Here To Download The Utorrent Client 

* Downlod The CheatEngine 5.6
Click Here To Download  CheatEngine 5.6 _ Recommonded

*Just Click The Tab In Speed Hack To 0.1

*You Should Minimize Your Cheat Engine (Do Not Close)
* After That Go to Option > preferance > Tools (in Utorrent)
Maximum Number of connected peers per torrent: 70
Number of upload slots per torrent: 3

1. Enable DHT for new torrents: CHECKED
2. Enable Peer Exchange: CHECKED
3. Enable scrapping: CHECKED
4. Pre-allocate all files: CHECKED
5. Append .!ut to incomplete files: UNCHECKED

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