celldweller1591
Linoob
a lot of the things were missing thats why i reposted it . Actually this one was originally posted on my blog 
Share your Tweaking Tips here
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celldweller1591
Linoob
Decreasing Boot Time
Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis
Uncompress the file.
Run BOOTVIS.EXE
For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.
Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)
Then run Trace / Optimize System
Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.
I forgot the source but the trick works
Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis
Uncompress the file.
Run BOOTVIS.EXE
For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.
Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)
Then run Trace / Optimize System
Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.
I forgot the source but the trick works
Hey icecoolz, I loved your post, I had this cool backup software (Genie Timeline) and it does the same thing, when I right click on any file or folder I can simply add it to the list of files to be backed up, I was wondering how they did it, I liked the feature alot, thanks for the info
Cheers
Cheers
CA50
Cyborg Agent
Good morning trick :
To change password in windows platform, start command prompt. type "net user <user name> <new password>" without the quotes. It will not ask for the previous password.
Using this you can change your friends password without their knowledge. Just remember that in windows vista and se7en, you will have to invoke command prompt using administrative right.
To change password in windows platform, start command prompt. type "net user <user name> <new password>" without the quotes. It will not ask for the previous password.
Using this you can change your friends password without their knowledge. Just remember that in windows vista and se7en, you will have to invoke command prompt using administrative right.
ritvij
rated R
Hey raboo that's a cool thread...
i dunno wether its a tip or not but here it is
Try This for "you may be a victim of software counterfeiting"
C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files
* Within that folder, remove any files or folders associated with .WGA
2. Safe Mode
* Reboot your computer and as soon as Windows logs off, start repeatively tapping the F8 Key on your keyboard.
* As soon as you see the Windows Advanced Startup options select Safe Modewithin Safe Mode get yourself into these folders…
* C:\Windows\System32 (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
* C:\Windows\System32\dllcache (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
Note: Dllcache is a hidden folder, to view hidden folders do the following, go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
Select the view Tab and under the Hidden Files option, select Show hidden files and folders
Safe Mode Registry
* Click on Start, Run and within the open dialog box type regedit and click OK.
* Within the Registry Editor navigate your self to
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WGALOGON
* Right Click and Export the WGALOGON Folder (this should be saved onto your machine for backup purposes)
* After Exporting the folder, DELETE the WGALOGON folder
* After deleting close all applications and Restart your machine back to Normal Mode
i dunno wether its a tip or not but here it is
Try This for "you may be a victim of software counterfeiting"
C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files
* Within that folder, remove any files or folders associated with .WGA
2. Safe Mode
* Reboot your computer and as soon as Windows logs off, start repeatively tapping the F8 Key on your keyboard.
* As soon as you see the Windows Advanced Startup options select Safe Modewithin Safe Mode get yourself into these folders…
* C:\Windows\System32 (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
* C:\Windows\System32\dllcache (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
Note: Dllcache is a hidden folder, to view hidden folders do the following, go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
Select the view Tab and under the Hidden Files option, select Show hidden files and folders
Safe Mode Registry
* Click on Start, Run and within the open dialog box type regedit and click OK.
* Within the Registry Editor navigate your self to
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WGALOGON
* Right Click and Export the WGALOGON Folder (this should be saved onto your machine for backup purposes)
* After Exporting the folder, DELETE the WGALOGON folder
* After deleting close all applications and Restart your machine back to Normal Mode
celldweller1591
Linoob
Increase System Speed :-
Disable Indexing -
Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. This can lead to multiple small writes when creating/deleting/modifying files. Searching for files will still work.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Windows Search -> Startup type: Disabled -> OK
Disable defragmentation
Description: Defragmenting a hard disk's used space is only useful on mechanical disks with multi-millisecond latencies. Free-space defragmentation may be useful to SSDs, but this feature is not available in the default Windows Defragmenter.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Disk Defragmenter -> Startup type: Disabled -> OK
Disable Write Caching
Description: There is no cache on the SSD, so there are no benefits to write caching. There are conflicting reports on whether this gains speed or not.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Disk drives -> Right-Click STEC PATA -> Properties -> Policies Tab -> Uncheck Enable write caching -> OK
Configure Superfetch
Description: Frees up RAM by not preloading program files.
Instructions: On second glance, I would recommend leaving this one alone. However, there are some customizations that you can follow in the post below.
Firefox - Use memory cache instead of disk cache
Description: If you use Firefox, there's a way to write cached files to RAM instead of the hard disk. This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser.
Instructions: Open Firefox -> Type about:config into the address bar -> Enter -> double-click browser.cache.disk.enable to set the value to False -> Right-Click anywhere -> New -> Integer -> Preference Name "disk.cache.memory.capacity" -> value memory size in KB. Enter 32768 for 32MB, 65536 for 64MB, 131072 for 128MB, etc. -> restart Firefox
Free up extra drive space
Disable the Page File
Description: Eliminate writing memory to the SSD, free over 2GB of disk space. Warning - If you run out of memory the program you're using will crash.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Settings (Performance) -> Advanced Tab -> Change -> Uncheck Automatically manage -> No paging file -> Set -> OK -> Restart your computer
Alternatively, if you want to play it safer, you can set a custom size of 200MB min and max.
Disable System Restore
Description: Don't write backup copies of files when installing new programs or making system changes. Can free up between a few hundred MB to a couple GB. Warning - Although unlikely, if a driver installation corrupts your system, there won't be an automatic way to recover.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> System Protection Tab -> Configure -> Turn off system protection -> Delete -> OK
Disable Hibernate
Description: You may free up 1GB of space on the SSD if you have 1GB of memory, 2GB of space if you have 2GB memory. You will lose the hibernation feature which allows the equivalent of quick boots and shutdowns.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Type cmd -> Right-Click the cmd Icon -> Run as Administrator -> Type powercfg -h off -> Type exit
Disable Indexing -
Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. This can lead to multiple small writes when creating/deleting/modifying files. Searching for files will still work.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Windows Search -> Startup type: Disabled -> OK
Disable defragmentation
Description: Defragmenting a hard disk's used space is only useful on mechanical disks with multi-millisecond latencies. Free-space defragmentation may be useful to SSDs, but this feature is not available in the default Windows Defragmenter.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Disk Defragmenter -> Startup type: Disabled -> OK
Disable Write Caching
Description: There is no cache on the SSD, so there are no benefits to write caching. There are conflicting reports on whether this gains speed or not.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Disk drives -> Right-Click STEC PATA -> Properties -> Policies Tab -> Uncheck Enable write caching -> OK
Configure Superfetch
Description: Frees up RAM by not preloading program files.
Instructions: On second glance, I would recommend leaving this one alone. However, there are some customizations that you can follow in the post below.
Firefox - Use memory cache instead of disk cache
Description: If you use Firefox, there's a way to write cached files to RAM instead of the hard disk. This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser.
Instructions: Open Firefox -> Type about:config into the address bar -> Enter -> double-click browser.cache.disk.enable to set the value to False -> Right-Click anywhere -> New -> Integer -> Preference Name "disk.cache.memory.capacity" -> value memory size in KB. Enter 32768 for 32MB, 65536 for 64MB, 131072 for 128MB, etc. -> restart Firefox
Free up extra drive space
Disable the Page File
Description: Eliminate writing memory to the SSD, free over 2GB of disk space. Warning - If you run out of memory the program you're using will crash.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Settings (Performance) -> Advanced Tab -> Change -> Uncheck Automatically manage -> No paging file -> Set -> OK -> Restart your computer
Alternatively, if you want to play it safer, you can set a custom size of 200MB min and max.
Disable System Restore
Description: Don't write backup copies of files when installing new programs or making system changes. Can free up between a few hundred MB to a couple GB. Warning - Although unlikely, if a driver installation corrupts your system, there won't be an automatic way to recover.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> System Protection Tab -> Configure -> Turn off system protection -> Delete -> OK
Disable Hibernate
Description: You may free up 1GB of space on the SSD if you have 1GB of memory, 2GB of space if you have 2GB memory. You will lose the hibernation feature which allows the equivalent of quick boots and shutdowns.
Instructions: Start Menu -> Type cmd -> Right-Click the cmd Icon -> Run as Administrator -> Type powercfg -h off -> Type exit
celldweller1591
Linoob
Reduce Size of Hibernate Files (hiberfil.sys)
When you enable hibernate feature, Windows creates a new file named hiberfil.sys in the root of your system drive to save the system state.
Now, if you have a hiberfil.sys with a huge size, you might want to reduce its size to free-up some disk space. The default size of hiberfil.sys varies depending on the amount of RAM installed on your PC. For instance, it’s taking 1.99 GB of disk space on my PC with 2 GB of RAM.
You can reduce the hiberfil.sys file size by executing a simple command in the elevated Command Prompt. Here is how to do it:
1. Goto Windows menu and type cmd in search box to open CMD .
2. In the command prompt, type the following command and hit enter.
" Powercfg –h –size 60 "
In the above command, replace percentsize with your value (for example, 60%), but it cannot be smaller than 50.
3. Exit & done!
When you enable hibernate feature, Windows creates a new file named hiberfil.sys in the root of your system drive to save the system state.
Now, if you have a hiberfil.sys with a huge size, you might want to reduce its size to free-up some disk space. The default size of hiberfil.sys varies depending on the amount of RAM installed on your PC. For instance, it’s taking 1.99 GB of disk space on my PC with 2 GB of RAM.
You can reduce the hiberfil.sys file size by executing a simple command in the elevated Command Prompt. Here is how to do it:
1. Goto Windows menu and type cmd in search box to open CMD .
2. In the command prompt, type the following command and hit enter.
" Powercfg –h –size 60 "
In the above command, replace percentsize with your value (for example, 60%), but it cannot be smaller than 50.
3. Exit & done!
celldweller1591
Linoob
Thanks.. that 2 gb file was really a headache. Atlast now i have a way to reduce it to 50 %
CA50
Cyborg Agent
Thats a good one. this will be a boon to all those you have more ram. Thanks buddy
celldweller1591
Linoob
. i recently upgraded to 3 gb ram and now deleted that file named hiberfile.sys and saved my 3gb ram on my primary windows 7 partition and installed office 2010 rtm instead !
celldweller1591
Linoob
Registry Mechanic is the best. Just give it a try !
celldweller1591
Linoob
^^ affirmative !Yep, RM is best but it's not freeware
but that does not really matters if one really knows the way
digit_tracker
Right off the assembly line
All Latest Tips and Tricks I have Found are Here
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www.TricksForWindow.blogspot.com
*gnoted.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/70-tips-and-tricks-for-windows-7.jpg
www.TricksForWindow.blogspot.com
Yep that a good site but the link should be fixed on the post
Correct one : Tricks For Window
BTW, I was not able to find anything related to windows 7 as posted in the pic - the site has only tips and tricks upto windows Vista so the information provided on the post with the pic is just misleading.
Another thought came in my mind now - is it for advertising the blog or something like that ??
Correct one : Tricks For Window
BTW, I was not able to find anything related to windows 7 as posted in the pic - the site has only tips and tricks upto windows Vista so the information provided on the post with the pic is just misleading.
Another thought came in my mind now - is it for advertising the blog or something like that ??