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 network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

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

Increase the Maximum Recording Time

In the Sound Recorder utility the maximum time of recording is 1 minute. You can increase it to any number of minutes of your choice by applying this trick. First make sure that your microphone is muted so it will not pick up sound. Click Record, and then let Sound Recorder run for 60 seconds. This will create a blank wave file of length 1 minute. After 60 seconds,click Save As on the File menu, and name the file loops.wav Click Insert File on the Edit menu, and then insert the loops.wav file. This increases the maximum recording time by 60 seconds. You can repeat this step once for each additional minute of recording time that you want to add. For example, for a 10-minute recording time, insert the loops.wav file 10 times.

Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown

Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut). You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.Use this path in "Type Location of the Item" SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 . If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace "C" with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the "Next" button. Name the shortcut and click the "Finish" button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you're done.

Automatically close non-responsive programs

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 of 1

Increasing the Folder Cache

1. To increase it:
2. Start --> Run --> Regedit.
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam
Change the vaule of BagMRU to whatever size you want (hex)
1000 - 3e8
2000 - 7d0
3000 - bb8
4000 - fa0
5000 - 1388