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How to sort Menu alphabetically and Automatically using Regedit?

Start Registry editor: Start> Run>Regedit>[Enter]
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder

Right click on the MenuOrder folder. Choose Permissions ; go to Advanced in the new window that pops up, and uncheck the entry Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects,
Include these with entries explicitly defined here .A security dialog box will open up: Choose Copy. This will take you back to the Advanced security Settings for MenuOrder dialog. Click OK here. In the Permissions dialog, Uncheck Full Control in your account and security groups. Don’t change the Read permission Reboot the computer and all your menus will be alphabetically sorted

Fine-Tune Your Registry For Faster Startups:Windows speed up Tips

Over time, your Registry can turn bloated with unused entries, slowing down your system startup because
your system loads them every time you start up your PC.Get a Registry clean-up tool to delete unneeded Registry entries and speed up startup times. After you clean out your Registry, you might want to try compacting it to get rid of unused space.

Hack Your BIOS For Faster Startups:Windows Speedup Tips

 Most people don’t realise that you can also speed up the time your computers to get to Windows.
Quick Power On Self Test (POST)
When you choose this option,your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than the normal, lengthy one.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Disable this option. When it’s enabled, your system spends a few extra seconds looking for your floppy drive, a relatively pointless procedure, especially considering how infrequently you use your floppy drive.
Boot Delay
Some systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drive gets a chance to start
spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don ‘t need to have this boot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can always turn it back on again.

Place The Windows Kernel Into RAM to disable paging and run faster than before

Anything that runs in RAM will, of course, be faster than something that has to access the hard drive and virtual memory. Rather than have the kernel that is the foundation of XP using the slower Paging Executive functions, use this hack—but only if your system has 256 MB or more of RAM. Change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement\DisablePaging Executive   to “1” to disable paging and have the kernel
run in RAM. Set the value to “0” to undo the hack). Exit the Registry and reboot.

Change The Start Menu Speed through Registry hack:Xp Tips

You might want to change the delay you notice when you click the Start menu. The default  speed can be adjusted with a quick Registry hack.
Go to the Registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay.
The default value is 400. Set it to 0 to remove the delay completely, but if you do that, it will be nearly
impossible to move the mouse fast enough not to activate ‘All Programs’ if you mouse over it while going to
your selection. Pick a number that suits you, make the change, and test it until you find a good compromise
between speed and usability

Process taking nearly 100 percent of my CPU What i will do?

When windows slows down  to an unbearable crawl, a very strong possibility exists that one particular process is at fault—in some instances taking close to 100 percent of the CPU’s capabilities. In
such a case, your best recourse is to kill the process. For purposes of Windows troubleshooting, a process is a program or an independent piece of a program. as I write this, Seven applications, but 93 processes, are running on my computer.If the problem keeps reappearing after you’ve killed it, you may need to prevent the process from loading altogether.
To check your processes, right-click the taskbar and select Start
Task Manager. click the Processes tab, followed by the CPU column heading. Doing so will cause the performance-hampering culprit to show up at the top of the list.To kill a process, select it and click End Process. In the resulting, needlessly scary dialog box, click End Process again. some programs
may close down or freeze up when closed in this way, but you’ll have your computer back. If the problem continues to recur, you need to find out more about the process. Visit runscanner.net or ProcessLibrary.com to see whether they can help you learn more details about it. Don’t use either site’s options for scanning your drive, however; instead, simply enter the process’s name in the site’s search field.Once you’ve identified what process is launching the resource hog, check to see if an update or bug fix that addresses the problem
is available. If not, consider switching to a competing app.

Override system slowdowns by Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

Windows XP keeps shortcuts to recently launched programs in the \Windows\Prefetch\    directory, which can take up some space, but helps find and launch applications faster. After a while, however, some really old
programs which you may not even be using anymore can still be found in the Prefetch directory. Also, you
may experience system slowdowns when booting or when launching applications, because Windows is sifting through a large bunch of Prefetch files. So, as you can see, a large Prefetch can do more harm than good. It’s best that you delete all the files in here about once a month, or once in two months. The first time you
boot, or start applications after you delete all Prefetch files, it may be even slower than before, but this is normal: Windows is adding shortcuts and data into the Prefetch again. After the third of fourth time you boot up, things
should be back to normal speeds, because Windows will have finished rebuilding the Prefetch cache.
To delete your Prefetch files, just go to \Windows\Prefetch\, do a [Ctrl] +[A], and press [Shift] + [Delete].

How to hide thumbnails of all pictures in the current folder

Windows Explorer has a feature called thumbnail view, which shows you thumbnails of all pictures in the
current folder. Some people love it, others hate it. If you have pictures that you’d rather everyone around you not see, even by accident, you probably hate the thumbnail view. If so, instead of cursing at it under your breath, just get rid of it for good!
Start the Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
and change the value of the Classic ViewState key to “1”.

How to see the list of hidden devices that do not normally show up in the Device Manager

There is a list of hidden devices that do not normally show up in the Device Manager. You can get XP to
reveal these by either changing a Registry entry, or by creating a batch file to launch the Device Manager with
the correct options. If you’re comfortable with the Registry, open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment\.
Here, create a String Value called DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES,
and give it a value of 1. If you’d rather create a batch file, open Notepad, and type in the following:
@Echo Off
Prompt $p$g
set
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVIC
ES=1
start devmgmt.msc
exit
Then save it as “devmgmt.bat”. You can use any descriptive filename you like with the .bat extension.

Interesting troubleshooting tools that embedded in Windows XP CD

There are a few interesting troubleshooting tools that are not installed in the default installation of Windows XP. If you have the installation CD, you will find them in the \Support\Tools\ directory. Just run SETUP.EXE in this directory to install them.
Here are a few examples:
diruse: This utility shows you the disk usage of your drives
dupfinder: Identify duplicate files, so you can free up disk space
getmac: A simply utility that will tell you the MAC address of your NIC (network card)
netdiag: Tests and diagnoses your network components
pviewer: Shows you a list of processes, and allows you to see how much memory each process uses, and to kill
processes individually

Quick Access To Control Panel Applets ,simple keyboard shortcut keys

If you’re a keyboard warrior and don’t really like going to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, or the likes, you will love these shortcuts.
Just press [Windows] + [R], type in one of the following, and press [Enter].
appwiz.cpl will open the Add/Remove Programs dialog
desk.cpl will open the Display Properties dialog
firewall.cpl opens your Windows Firewall settings
inetcpl.cpl will take you straight to Internet Options
mmsys.cpl will open the Sound and Audio Devices controller
ncpa.cpl will open Network Connections
nusrmgr.cpl opens the User Accounts window
powercfg.cpl will take you to the Power Options Properties dialog
sysdm.cpl will open System Properties.
You can also just use [Windows] + [Pause/Break]!
wscui.cpl opens up the Security Center
wuaucpl.cpl opens up the Automatic Updates Configuration window

Simple steps to speed up network access in shared network

If you’re on a network and are tired of waiting for ages for all the network shares to load, this is a tip you’ll love. There are four basic things you need to do in order to speed up network access:
1. Remove all shortcuts in My Network Places. These are automatically generated, and if a few of them aren’t shared anymore, Windows will keep searching for them anyway. So just select them all and delete them.
2. Stop Windows from automatically adding these shortcuts to shared folders, otherwise you’ll just end up having to delete the shortcuts everytime you open My Network Places. This is a registry hack, so make sure
you backup your registry. First, go to
Start > Run, type in “regedit” and press [Enter]. Navigate to
HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\.
Here, create two new DWORD values (if they don’t already exist) called “NoRecentDocsNetHood” and “UseDesktopIniCache”, and setthem to “1”.
3. Have everyone on your network increase the send buffer for network data. Tell everyone who shares files or folder to go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\.
Create a DWORD value called “SizReqBuf”, and assign its Hex value to “FFFF”.
4. Just stop using My Network Places for folders you access on a regular basis, and instead, map the
drive by going to Tools > Map Network Drive in Windows Explorer.

How to connect two PCs to transfer data between them via crossover cable

If you wish to connect two PCs to each other,they both need to have network cards installed. You’ll also need what is called a crossover cable. Now, first make sure File and Printer Sharing is enabled: open Network Connections in the Control Panel, right-click on Local Area Connection, and select Properties. In
the General tab, look for “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” and make sure the checkbox next to it is selected. (If it isn’t in the list, go to Install > Services > Add and choose this service to add it.) Now return to the General tab, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and click on Properties. Enter an IP address such as “192.168.1.10” and a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0 for one computer, and the IP address “192.168.1.11” and the same Subnet Mask for the other. Now, for a particular folder that is to be shared, right-click on it and click on “Sharing and Security”. Enter the share name of the folder and click OK. Connect the two computers using the crossover cable. You should now be able to access the contents of the shared folders on one
computer from the other.

How to clean out the long list of junk programs from "Open With" context menu

When you right-click on a file, one of the options you see is “Open With”. These usually contain what Windows thinks are valid programs to open particular file types. Now, sometimes, when you have bad installers or uninstallers, some programs leave their mark on this context menu. Basically, if you want to clean out this long list of junk that accumulates here, you have to edit the Registry.Open the Registry Editor and
navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
Now, for example, if you have to remove programs from the Open With menu for AVI files, find the extension on the left that corresponds to AVI files and click on the “+” sign to expand it and find the “OpenWithList” key. In the right pane you should see a list of programs, such as “wmplayer.exe”, “notepad.exe”, “mspaint.exe”, etc. Select the ones you don’t want and delete them.
Next, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find the same extension.Again, navigate to “OpenWithList” and delete the unwanted programs. This key is where Windows reads from when using the All Users profile. Now you will only see the programs that youwant in the Open With list... well, most of the time; the problem is that Windows also reads the Open With list from another registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFile Associations\
Here’s where it reads the default Open With list from, but we strongly advise you against changing it because
it might affect multiple file types.

How to create a bootable CD that will allow us to read from and write to NTFS partitions?

You can use BartPE to create a bootable disc from your original Windows XP / 2003 CDs that will read from and write onto NTFS partitions. Get BartPE from www.nu2.nu/pebuilder, start it, and make it search for the source install files by clicking on Source and then on Search.Your Windows CD should be in the CD-ROM
drive when you’re searching. Then select to create an ISO file. After the ISO file is created, you can burn it on an empty CD using a CD recording software like Nero.

Enable Automatically Terminate Hung Programs to terminate hung programs

When programs lock up or stop responding, you are forced to [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] > End Process. This tweak lets Windows automatically shut down hung programs. In the Registry Editor, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop.
You will find a String Value called AutoEndTasks. Double-click on it and change the value to “1”. You can
also set the timeout value by doubleclicking on the WaitToKillAppTimeout String Value and changing its value to the time in milliseconds before Windows kills the task.

How to Add Safe Mode To Your Boot List

At times you might need to switch to Safe Mode to fix a problem such as a virus infection or uninstalling drivers.You can add an entry to the boot list. To do this, go to
Control Panel > System (or simply press [Windows] + [Pause/Break]).
Click on the Advanced tab. Then, click on the Settings button under the Startup and Recovery section.
Click on Edit under System Startup to indirectly edit the boot.ini file.
Add the following entry: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP - Safe Mode” /fastdetect /safeboot:minimal/sos /bootlog
You can add more entries if needed to boot any Windows installations on other disks or partitions.

How to enable Pin to Start menu for folder in windows xp

As it stands, it is only possible to pin programs or shortcuts to the Start Menu, but no folders. To add this, in
the Registry Editor, browse to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers.
Create a new key by right-clicking in the right pane and selecting New > Key.
Enter “{a2a9545da0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}” as the key name. Now that that’s done, rightclick
on any folder in Windows Explorer, and you will see a “Pin to Start menu” option.

Connect using a dialup connection and the Connect using a broadband connection options are disabled.

There are a number of reasons for this to happen. First, make sure that the Remote Access Connection Manager service is Started, and that its Startup Type is set to Manual. On XP, you can check this by going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools >Services.
If this doesn’t seem to work, one the following methods will do the trick.
Method 1
Open the Registry Editor. Locate and click the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Cards
Delete NextID in the right pane.
Exit the Registry Editor and restart the computer.
Start the New Connection Wizard, and then create a new dial-up modem or PPPoE connection. If the issue is not resolved, try this:
Method 2
Open the Registry Editor. Locate and click the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony
Delete the key. Exit the Registry Editor.
Perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP,that is, a repair installation of Windows XP as follows.
Boot using your Windows XP CD.When the system prompts you to press [R] to run the recovery console to repair Windows, do not do so. Choose to install a new version of Windows instead. The setup program will then proceed and detect the old copy of Windows. Now it will tell you to press [R] to repair it or [Esc] to install a new version. Press [R]; setup will then proceed to re-install Windows over the old version while retaining all programs, settings and data files. If this does not solve your problem, proceed to Method 3.
Method 3
Open the Control Panel and under Phone and Modem Options, set the area code and other desired settings. If the My Location item has not been created, the New Connection Wizard to create it should automatically
appear. You can use this Wizard to enter the area code and other settings. When you’re finished with the Wizard, restart the computer. The Connect using a dial-up modem option should now be available to you.

How to re-enable CD Autoplay feature in windows XP

Open the Group Policy Editor by typing in gpedit.msc in the Run dialog box. Go to
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System
and double on Turn Autoplay off in the right pane. The default is “Not configured”. Set it to Disabled. This only works with Windows XP Professional.
If you have XP Home Edition, open the Registry Editor and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom.
Double-click the DWORD “AutoRun” in the right pane and set its value to 1. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.
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