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Set Processes Priority

Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritization of processes using the CPU.

CTRL-SHIFT-ESC1.Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option

2.For example, your Run your CD writer program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s

Shutdown Trick !

Immediate rapid shut down window  while shutting down window. open task manager(Ctr+Alt+Del),

Select shut down tab. and press ‘ Ctrl ‘ key while select Turn Off from dis tab.

Count 5 4 3 2 1 Voila!!! U r window will rapidly shut down.

Speed Up Ur Shut down !!

Start Regedit.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.

Click on the “Control” Folder.

Select “WaitToKillServiceTimeout”

Right click on it and select Modify.

Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows xp when the “Exit Windows” sound is enabled. to solve this problem you

must disable this useless sound. click start button then go to settings -> control panel -> Sound,Speech and Audio devices -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds, then under program events and windows menu click on “Exit Windows” sub-menu and highlight it.now from sounds you can select,choose “none” and then click apply and ok. now you can see some improvements when shutting down your system.

Hide your folders.. never known trick! Disguise them to “Recycle Bin”

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

eg,

if u’ve a folder games

press F2,

then type, “games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}”

c the magic….

then 2 get to original form,

remove the extension using

“ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games” in dos or as a bat file

Now you are ready to roll!

 

 

Thanks & Regards

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Mohammed Rahman Mecheri

 

System Analyst – Network & Infrastructure
Kamal Osman Jamjoom Group LLC.
Unit #422, Sultan Business Centre
P.O Box 27844, Dubai, UAE
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