Saturday, December 16, 2006

Windows XP Tweaks

How to decrease scandisk delay time ?
Sick of waiting for disk check after a sudden shut down
of windows.
Change the scan-disk delay time-out by using this method :
Click start, type in "cmd" and click ok.
Type CHKNTFS/T:3
This will reduce the time-out to 3 seconds.
You can change the value as desired.


Windows XP Faster Start-up
Click Start.
Click Run.
Type "msconfig" and press enter key.
On the Startup tab click Disable All and on the Services tab check the Hide All Microsoft Service box and then click Disable All. Click Restart and Windows XP will restart with only the system services and applications running resulting in a vey fast startup.


How to change first desktop icon ?
Open your registry editor and create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, called "SortOrderIndex" and set it according to the value data below.

System Key
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}]
Value Name
SortOrderIndex
Data Type
REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data
(0x48 = My Documents, 0x54 = My Computer)
Exit registry editor, restart Windows.


Change Start Menu Speed
Open registry Editor
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Contro Panel\desktop
Look for "MenuShowDelay".
Change the Delay value default 400 as you like.
The value is delay in milliseconds.
Lesser is the value faster is the start menu display.
Exit and restart windows.

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Yahoo Messenger ! Registry Tweaks

FED up with those banners at the bottom of Yahoo Messenger 7.5 and 8 ?
Here is a tweak how to get rid of it. What's this an advertising tool or instant messenger ?
Fire up Notepad and paste following lines there:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\YUrl]
"First Login Beacon"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Tutorials"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Messenger Help"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Voice General Help"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Chat Adurl"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Calendar Alert Ad URL"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Change Room Banner"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Conf Adurl"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Mail Alert Ad URL"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"News Alert Ad URL"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Personals Alert Ad URL"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Stock Alert Ad URL"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Webcam Upload Ad"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Webcam Viewer Ad"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Webcam Viewer Ad Big"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Webcam Viewer Ad Medium"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Chat Transition Ad"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"
"Messenger Ad"="http://www.yahoo-sucks-a-lot.com"


Now save the file as you wish and rename it "ymnoads.reg". Then double click it to import and answer YES on the popup window that appear. Exit Yahoo Messenger Completely, not just sign off and start it again and watch: All Banners are Gone !

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Create a Secret User account in Windows XP

Dont wan't people to mess up with your user account, admin a/c. Here is a tweak, that might work for you.

The welcome screen displays all of the local users on the system, except the built-in administrator account that was created during setup.

Start> Run> Regedit:

(Warning: Editing registry is dangerous. If you don't know how to work in registy please donot mess around, as you system might become unstable and carsh)

For Others please back up your registry before editing:
Start >Run > Regedit>Ok> Registry>Export Registry file>type a name > save

If we want to hide a specific user from the list, we need to create a special value under this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Under this key you simply create a new DWORD value - the name matches the users name exactly, and the value is one of the following (Decimal format)

0 - Hides the user just from the welcome screen
1 - The user is shown
Close the registry editor > Reboot.
If you want screenShots >>See Here.

A program is also available that will do this for you, eazzy!

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