Speeding Up Your Old Shit Pentium by 50%:
We
all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on
anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are
out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but
for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to
see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much
as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the system's performance is Windows
Media Player. Although it may look desirable and fancy
with it's rounded off edges and 3rd-Dimensional appearance,
the truth is, it takes up a large amount of that precious
processing power. All of these troubles however, lead to
one thing in particular with this 'new-look' over-rated music
and video player...the Visualizations. The look-great I'll admit but like a lot of software
these days, it has no purpose. If you run the task manager, and click the Performance
tab along the top, you'll see that when Windows Media Player
is running and nothing else is active, it takes up around
50% of the processors power. Once these visualizations are turned off, it barely
takes up 2-3% of the processors power, which leaves much more
room for other applications to work efficiently.
Here's
how to disable the feature:
Open
Media Player.
Make
sure the Now Playing tab on the left is selected.
Click
the View menu along the top.
Go
down to Now Playing Tools
Turn
Off System Restore to Save Space:
By
default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the
System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows to back up your
system files:
Open
the Control Panel.
Double-click
on System.
Click
the System Restore tab.
Check
"Turn off System Restore on all drives".
Hit
Apply.
You
may now delete the System Volume Information folder.
Shutdown Button on Desktop
Right
click on
ur
Desktop
and create new Shortcut and type “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Shutdown.exe
–s” without quotes in the popup box which will appear
asking for a path of shortcut . Now when u will double click
this shortcut it will give u shutdown message and
ur
computer will shutdown after some seconds. U can customize
ur shutdown button with same icon which original shutdown
have Just go to the properties of ur shortcut and click change
icon tab select any icon u like and click apply.
Similarly
u can also put restart button on
ur
desktop just replace –s in above line by –r
If
u don’t want shutdown button on
ur
desktop u can the go to start >run and type
Shutdown
–s or –r they will do the same job. If someone tries
to shutdown u remotely on the net then u can stop shutdown
process but typing shutdown –a in Run.
Shutdown
–s = Shutdown & restart
Shutdown
–r = Restart
Shutdown
–a = To abort shutdown
Cracking windows xp admin and user passwords.
I
hope u guys liked tip given for resetting passwords
in first part. If u have guest or limited user account on
PC than that control userpasswords2 tip does not help u much.
Windows will still ask u admin password for resetting users
passwords .
Ok
go and Download a tool called CIA COMMANDER this is
just what we want. This tool will create a copy protected
bootable floppy which will allow u to boot any computer and
also help u to get into any NTFS partition .First select floppy
as first bootable device from BIOS. CIA shows u every thing
to u in GUI.
After
booting CIA will allow u to reset any user password even administrator’s
password. It also includes a file manager, registry editor
and a text/hex editor. Present version of CIA does not support
FAT partitions but sooner its new version will even
support FAT partition based system.
I
have read on some tutorials about a tool called NTFS Pro which
looks almost like CIA .
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