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[Vishal Gupta]

U can put the logo in Login screen using Resource Hacker, for more information pls visit the Resource Hacker tutorial in "Tutorials" section

And to put clock in place of Start button, u can use many 3rd party utilities Just google for them!

 

[ashisharya]

U can put the logo in Login screen using Resource Hacker, for more information pls visit the Resource Hacker tutorial in "Tutorials" section

And to put clock in place of Start button, u can use many 3rd party utilities Just google for them!

its gr8 2 use 3rd party s/w but more pleasurable to do it manually

 

[Amey_Techgeek]

I have posted this before in my first thread,but just in case for somebody who has'nt read it:

How to end Megaupload slot limitations:

For firefox:

Type: about:config in the Firefox address bar
-Search for general.useragent.extra.firefox
-Double click on it
-Change the default text with this: Firefox/2.0 MEGAUPLOAD 1.0
Rapidshare:
If someone already knows this i am sorry but its not what everyone must be knowin. so i m here to share..
rapidleech, is a script which u put in ur webhost(supports php) u load the index.php from the webhost, and it asks for a link for the download, u put in the link e.g. *rapidshare.com/files/616734/whatever.rar and u click on download, the file will get downloaded to ur host, and then u can download it of ur host with pause enabled, which normal rapidshare users wont be able to do. i hope u understood.. i am using it..

heres the original forum for rapidleech
*www.rapidleech.com/index.php?*smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_17_209.gif

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

does anyone know how to put a logo on the login screen of windows XP and how to change the start option to make it a clock?

Edit logonui.exe in resource hacker
goto bitmap 127->1003
Replace the bitmap there by going on action and replace bitmap.
Choose a bitmap file of ur choice.
Save logonui.exe
and restart ur pc
See the magic

 

[deshabhishek007]

56K modem Tweaks

One of the most frustrating things to have with a computer is a slow internet connection and 56K is about as slow as it gets these days. I feel the pain that 56K users have and hope that by following this thread they can experience a faster more reliable internet connection. There are a few things that one must understand prior to tweaking their 56K connections. The first is that it is actually a 53.3K connection since that is the speed that the FCC limits you to, on top of that most dialup users actually connect in the 40,000 ? 50,000K range, which is excellent by dialup standards. Being that you actually connect in the 40-50K range you need to understand that your maximum throughput is only going to be around 6 kilobytes per second.

First and most important is for you to download the latest drivers for your modem from the manufacturer?s website.

Make sure you have a ?clean? phone line, no static on your line. If you have static you will have a very low connect speed and no tweak will fix that.

You need to download CableNut, it is the most comprehensive internet connection tweaking app available.

Setting your TCP/IP and AFD registry parameters for optimum performance.

Use the following settings in CableNut:

DefaultReceiveWindow = 8192
DefaultSendWindow = 4096
DisableAddressSharing = 1
InitialLargeBufferCount = 20
InitialMediumBufferCount = 48
InitialSmallBufferCount = 64
LargeBufferSize = 40960
MaxFastTransmit = 6400
MediumBufferSize = 15040
PriorityBoost = 0
SmallBufferSize = 1280
TransmitWorker = 32
FastSendDatagramThreshold = 1024
EnableFastRouteLookup = 1
EnablePMTUDiscovery = 1
IgnorePushBitOnReceives = 0
GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize = 8760
MaxFreeTcbs = 4000
MaxHashTableSize = 8192
MaxNormLookupMemory = 1500000
SackOpts = 1
SynAttackProtect = 1
Tcp1323Opts = 0
TcpLogLevel = 1
MaxDupAcks = 3
TcpMaxHalfOpen = 100
TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried = 80
TcpRecvSegmentSize = 1460
TcpSendSegmentSize = 1460
TcpTimedWaitDelay = 30
TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer = 0
TcpWindowSize = 8760
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 8
MaxConnectionsPerServer = 4
DefaultTTL = 128
DisableUserTOSSetting = 0
TcpMaxDataRetransmissions = 6
DefaultTOSValue = 90


Other important tweaks to improve your connection.

Open your control panel and select the phone and modem properties icon ? select the modems tab, under the modems tab highlight your modem and select properties

? General tab:

Set your speaker volume to your preference
Maximum port speed ? 115,200

? Advanced tab:

? Extra Settings ? this is where you put in initialization strings, they can help stabilize your connection. Try the following websites for init strings for your modem.

Spy.net
56K.com
West.net
ModemHelp.org
? Advanced port settings ? check ?use FIFO buffers? then slide both bars to the far right.
? Change default preferences:
Port Speed - 115,200
Data Protocol - Standard EC
Compression - enabled
Flow Control ? hardware

? Advanced:

Data bits ? 8
Parity ? None
Stop Bits - 1
Modulation ? Standard

Now select the Network and Dialup Connections and right click on your ISP?s icon and select properties.

? General tab:

Highlight your modem and select ?configure?, set the maximum speed to 921,600 and under ?hardware features? all the boxes are checked.

? Networking tab:

Uninstall all the protocols you don?t need. If this is a stand alone pc then all you need is Internet Protocol TCP/IP.

Select the settings button and make sure all the boxes are checked.

Setting your COM port speed properly:

Right click on My Computer and select properties ? hardware ? device manager ? select your COM port ? port settings tab ? bits per second 128000 (you may need to set this a few times to make it stick).

Other important registry tweaks:

? Speeding up network browsing.

Open regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Delete the key: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

? Faster webpage tweak by giving priority to DNS lookup.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]

"DnsPriority"=dword:00000001
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000001
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000001
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000001

? Forward buffer memory tweak, this controls how much RAM TCP/IP uses for storing packet data in the router packet queue.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters]

"ForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024a00
"NumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024a
"MaxForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024a00
"MaxNumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024a

? By default Windows 2K & XP cache everything in the DNS cache service, both correct and faulty DNS lookups. To increase performance by eliminating the caching of faulty DNS lookups, copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Dnscache\Parameters]

"NegativeCacheTime"=dword:00000000
"NetFailureCacheTime"=dword:00000000
"NegativeSOACacheTime"=dword:00000000

Internet Explorer important settings:

Open Internet Explorer and select Tools - Internet Options - under the General tab in the Temporary Internet files section select the Settings button.

Select "Every visit to the page" and set the amount of disk space to use: to no more than 80MB. Now select the Connections tab and select LAN Settings make sure EVERYTHING there is unchecked and select OK.

Select the Privacy tab and choose Advanced check the box "Override automatic cookie handling" and for First-party Cookies - Accept, Third-party Cookies - Block and check "Always allow session cookies. Now NO MORE SPYWARE COOKIES.

Open Internet Options and under temp internet files - settings select ? every visit to page.

If you have a dial up connection I HIGHLY recommend using a download manager, it will help maximize your download speed, resume downloads if you are disconnected and you can even schedule downloads for the middle of the night (it will automatically dial up and download the desired file and hang up when done) when you aren't using your pc.

Reply guys
its my first post to think digit.

 

[Josan]

Good Tweaks

 

[Josan]

Use This
Desktop Gone Forever
If you can do without the regular NT 4.0 desktop permanently, it's possible to start with just the Task Manager even without Command Prompt. Launch the Registry Editor and locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/ CurrentVersion/WinLogon. Double-click on value named Shell (set by default to Explorer.exe). Enter Taskmgr.exe for the NT Task Manager. For a command prompt, enter Cmd.exe. Close the Registry Editor and log off.

 

[Goten]

Yeah its all gud to tweak up xp.
Its sux neways.

 

[vnl5486]

There should be huge pdf file with all the tweaks mentioned...and people....who know..it

 

[topgear]

Vista Tweaking Tips:

1. For Vista service tweaks visit this website: *speedyvista.com/index.html

In this website site you will find which vista service should be enabled or which one should
be disabled. Also if you don't want to manually set the service behavior-- their is reg files
and bat files available in four modes 1.Default 2.Safe 3.Tweaked 4.Minimal which will do the
job for you.

2. A freeware utility with no restrictions called "DTweak" --*www.daoisoft.com/index.html

3. My own hack-- I think the superfetch feature in vista is hogging a large amount of ram.
If you want to disable this just copy the following words to reg file and execute it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
"EnableSuperfetch"=dword:00000000
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000001

Note: Modifying registry is a risky task. I will not be responsible for any kind of damage for the above procedure.

 

[topgear]

Some usefull Windows XP run Commands:
shrpubw.exe

Sound recoder:
sndrec32.exe

Volume control:
sndvol32.exe

Secure winxp account database tool
syskey.exe

Telnet:
telnet.exe

Winxp tour:
tourstart.exe

Driver Verifier:
verifier.exe

chat:
winchat.exe

Wordpad:
write.exe

 

[solomon_paulraj]

add this..
winword - ms word
excel - ms excel
powerpnt - ms powerpoint
msaccess - ms access
pbrush - paintbrush
mspaint - paintbrush
mplayer2 - old media player

most of you already no this.. just added to the list for newbies..

 

[sabret00the]

add this..
winword - ms word
excel - ms excel
powerpnt - ms powerpoint
msaccess - ms access
pbrush - paintbrush
mspaint - paintbrush
mplayer2 - old media player

most of you already no this.. just added to the list for newbies..

 

[prem4u]

i wanna add RUN command in my taskbar same like in linux for winxp..
do u guys have any idea for doing this..

 

[iceeeeman]

i wanna add RUN command in my taskbar same like in linux for winxp..
do u guys have any idea for doing this..

Heres how to do it dude :-
1.Right click on the taskbar and then go to toolbars
2.A new small window will open ,tick address there .You will get a new small Address tool in the taskbar .
3.Now unlock the taskbar and then adjust the length of the new address toobar .Type all ur commands in the address bar all will open up as it did it run ,Ur r done man..

 

[xlnt123]

The already tweaked version of winxp is winXP3 I think we had an iso file floating around the net and I installed it and runs fine with me......
I like it.....

 

[nutpam]

nice

 

[nikkyan]

Open My computer/windows explorer and run menu by using shortcut keys

To open windows explorer press startkey and E simultaneously.
To open RUN press startkey and R simultaneously.
nikkyan

 

[trublu]

I got this from techreviewer.com,it has got loads of information oc tweaking ur sytem. So,if u want to decrease ur booting time by a bit,open services.msc and disable the following services:
1. Disabled - Alerter
2. Disabled - Application Layer Gateway Service
3. Manual - Application Management
4. Disabled - Automatic Updates
5. Disabled - Background Intelligent Transfer Service
7. Disabled - Clipbook
8. Manual - COM+ Event System
9. Manual - COM+ System Application
10. Disabled - Computer Browser *1
11. Enabled - Cryptographic Services *1b
12. Disabled - DHCP Client *2
13. Disabled - Distributed Link Tracking Client
14. Disabled - Distributed Transaction Coordinator
15. Automatic - DNS Client
16. Disabled - Error Reporting Service
17. Automatic - Fast User Switching Compatibility *3
18. Disabled - Help and Support *4
19. Manual - Human Interface Device Access
20. Disabled - IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service *5
21. Disabled - Indexing service
22. Disabled - ICF/ICS *6
23. Disabled - IPSEC Service
24. Manual - Logical Disk Manager
25. Manual - Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
26. Disabled - Messanger
27. Disabled - MS Software Shadow Copy Provider
28. Disabled - Net Logon
29. Disabled - NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
30. Manual - Network Connections
31. Disabled - Network DDE
32. Disabled - Network DDE DSDM
33. Disabled - Network Location Awareness
34. Disabled - NT LM Security Support Provider
35. Manual - Performance Logs and Alerts
36. Automatic - Plug and Play
37. Disabled - Portable Media Serial Number
38. Disabled - Print Spooler *7
39. Automatic - Protected Storage
40. Disabled - QoS RSVP
41. Disabled - Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
42. Disabled - Remote Access Connection Manager
43. Disabled - Remote Desktop Help Session
44. Automatic - Remote Procedure Call
45. Manual - Remote Procedure Call Locator
46. Disabled - Remote Registry
47. Disabled - Removable Storage *8
48. Disabled - Routing and Remote Access
49. Disabled - Secondary Logon
50. Automatic - Security Accounts Mangaer
51. Automatic - Server
52. Disabled - Shell Hardware Detection
53. Disabled - Smart Card *9
54. Disabled - Smart Card Helper *9
55. Disabled - SSDP Discovery Service
56. Manual - System Event Notification
57. Disabled - System Restore Service *10
58. Disabled - Tast Scheduler
59. Disabled - TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
60. Manual - Telephony
61. Disabled - Telnet
62. Disabled - Terminal Services *11
63. Disabled - Themes
64. Disabled - Uninterruptible Power Supply *12
65. Disabled - Universal Plug and Play Device Host
66. Disabled - Upload Manager
67. Disabled - Volume Shadow Copy
68. Disabled - WebClient
69. Automatic - Windows Audio
70. Disabled - Windows Image Acquisition *13
71. Manual - Windows Insatller
72. Manual - Windows Management Instrumentation
73. Manual - Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions
74. Disabled - Windows Time
75. Disabled - Wireless Zero Configuration
76. Disabled - WMI Performance Adapter
77. Automatic - Workstation




*1 = If you only have one computer in your network you can leave this service disabled. If you have more than one computer in your network, at least ONE of the computers in your network must be running this service in order for computers to show up when you go into My Network Places --> Entire Network --> Microsoft Windows Network --> Name of workgroup.

*1b = Needed for verifying updates downloaded from Microsoft (Windows Update, DirectX, Service Packs, etc...)

*2 = If you're using DHCP in your network, leave this service at Automatic.

*3 = If you have more that one person (e.g. family computer) using the computer you'll be tweaking leave this service on automatic.

*4 = Need lots of help? Leave this service on automatic instead of disabled.

*5 = Leave this service on automatic if you like XP's integrated CD burning feature.

*6 = Leave on automatic if you use ICS to share a connection with other computers on your network

*7 = Have a printer? If you do leave this service on automatic or else you won't be able to use your printer at all.

*8 = If you have a removable device in your computer leave this service on automatic.

*9 = Use Smartcards? If so leave both on automatic?

*10 = The psychotic paranoid type who thinks his/her computer is going to die at any minute people should leave this service on automatic.

*11 = If you use Remote Desktop leave at Automatic.

*12 = Leave at automatic if you use a UPS.

*13 = If you have a scanner attached to the computer and use it, leave at automatic.



At the end,reboot ur system to see the changes.

does anyone know how to put a logo on the login screen of windows XP and how to change the start option to make it a clock?

visit www.startclock.osnn.net
download the start clock utility

 

[topgear]

Nice compilation