Windows XP SP2 To XP3 Reg Hack

If you want to play game that require windows xp SP3 but you have installed an older version like windows xp  SP2 than this post is for you.

To upgrade windows Xp from SP2 to SP3 follow the steps given below:

• Goto “Start menu” and  type “regedit”
• To backup entire registry goto file menu and select Export..
• A window of Export Registry File will open, save it with name “_backup_” somewhere at safe place
• Now brows this path

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows

• Here modefy the value of “CSDVersion” from “200” to “300” and Exit.
• Reboot PC..
• Now check “My Computer properties” it is upgraded from SP2 to SP3

Enjoy win xp SP3..

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5 Security Tips

Security of pc is primary and very important factor. If your pc security is bad than virus  and hackers can easily get into your pc. In a result you can loss your important data but you can prevent to lose it… How?
To protect you  pc against the most common threats and viruses, following are the top 5 steps that you can follow to save your digital data and precious time…

1. First of all you need to enable updates of your operating syatem.
2. Install firewall or antivirus. I’ll preffer Eset Smart Security 4 because it has multiple features like firewall, Antivirus and antispyware scanner, Antispam, Self-defense and e-mail scanning etc.
3. Scan you pc enery week if not than atleast once in a month.
4. Install antiLoger this will protect your pc by encrypting text like, passwords etc.
5. Password protect your user accounts specially administrator because its very easy to login through administrator if its not has any kind of password.

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Increase Hard Disk Speed

Some times our pc slow down due to hard disk. This happens due to the poor performance or slow speed of hard disk. In other words slow speed means the read and write speed of hard disk. There are different methods to increase hard disk speed. Two of them are defined in this post…

Method 1

This method is easy to use and can be done in seconds

• Goto start menu and select run
• Type  “SYSEDIT.EXE” in run and press enter
• A window of “system configuration editor” will open
• In this window you will see multiple windows
• Here select “system.ini” and extend it
• In this window search this line [386enh]
• After this line type this “Irq14=4096”
• Now save this file and close this window
• Reboot pc to make changes

Method 2

This method is little bit longer than first one

• Goto “MyComputer” and right click on it to select properties
• Then select “Device Manager” under Hardware tab
• A window will open in this window goto “Disk Drives” and extend it
• Now right click on hard disk and select properties then select “Policies” tab

• There you will some options like “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable Advance performance”
• Here select “Enable Advance performance” and enable it
• Press ok ant close disk manager window
• After this goto start menuand type “regedit” in Run
• A window will open here search following location

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem”

• In right side of window search “NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation” and reight rlick on it
• Select modify and change the value to 1
• Then close this window
• This process will increase hars disk speed
• Reboot pc if necessary

Note: For better performane run defrigment test. This will also increase hard disk speed.

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Increase Your Internet Speed Up To 20%

By default our operation system doesn’t provide full bandwidth usage.  It reserves 20% of the available bandwidth for windows updates and for the interrogation of PC. This limitation can be disabled by using group policy editor…
To disable this limitation follow the steps given below:

• Go to “start menu” and type this  “gpedit.msc”  in run
• This will open up a window “Local Group policy Editor”
• In left panel go to “Local computer policy”
• Then go to “Administrative Templates” under “Computer Configuration”
• In right panel go to “Network” folder and open it
• Now double click on “QOS Packet Scheduler” to open it
• Here you’ll see file with name “Limit Reservable Bandwidth” double click on it
• A window will open with options like. Not Configured, Enable , and Disable
• By default “not configured” option is selected, but see detail it says “the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”
• To remove it select “Enable” option under “not configured” option
• When you enable it, another option of “Bandwidth Limit” will enable and its value is 20%
• Change this vale to 0% and press ok
• Close “Local Group policy Editor” and your internet speed will increase up to 20%

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How To Speed UP Firefox

To open a web site you need a browser. There are many web browsers like IE, Firefox, chrome, safari and opera etc. I mostly use Firefox as my default web browser. It has built-in features that make its browsing faster than other web browsers…
You can also speed up your Firefox  in just few seconds. So open Firefox and type “about:config” in Url without quotes. Press enter and here you’ll see a message “This might void your warranty”. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” to continue. After this you’ll see filter option. In Filter option search each of the following and then change their. You can change value by double click on it. So here are the steps:

• network.http.max-connections = 65
• network.http.max-connections-per-server = 48
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 32
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 16
• network.http.pipelining = true
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 400
• network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
• network.http.request.timeout = 300
• network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
• network.http.proxy.version = 1.0
• browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs = true
• nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0

Note:

If you didn’t find any of the above filter than you can add it manually. To do this simply right-click anywhere under the filter tab and select, New “Integer” for any vale and “Boolean” for true and false. Name it according to the filter which is missing and the set its value.

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Add Html Signature To Email

Signature with respect to e-mail doesn’t refer to your personal signature that you put on your cheques. An e-mail signature refers to your name, e-mail address, phone numbers, web site URL and other contact details that you want to add. You can also create multiple signatures to use them for different purposes like for office, for friends and family.

Generally when you e-mail to someone, it does not have any signature. But if you want to send e-mail with signature than you should use the following methods.

Set Up Your Gmail Signature

In gmail you can insert signature at the beginning and end of the message by following the steps given below:

• To enable signature, goto the Gmail navigation bar wthich is at the top and Select “Settings”.
• Now select the Labs category.
• In lab category goto “Canned Responses” and select  Enable.
• After  this  goto “Inserting images” and select Enable.
• Now save these changes.
• To create a signature goto “Compose Mail” .
• In plane text write your name, email , phone no, and other detail(like your website url or any link etc ).
• You can also insert images in signature.
• To save the signature goto “Canned Responses” which is shown at the right side of “ Attach a file” and click “new canned Responses”
• Write the “name” of  the signature and save it.
• Now to use the signature compose new mail and from the canned responses select the signature that you have saved.
• You can insert this signature before and after the message.

Set Up Your Yahoo! Mail Signature

In Yahoo! Mail you can insert signature by following the steps given below :

• To enable signature, goto Yahoo! Mail navigation bar and  select “Mail Options “
• Go to the “Signature” category.
• In  “Signature “  enter the desired signature in the text field.
• Make sure that “Show a signature on all outgoing messages” is selected.
• Enter the desired email signature
• Click Save Changes.

Set Up Your Windows Live Hotmail Signature

In Windows Live Hotmail you can insert signature by following the steps given below:

• Goto the Windows Live Hotmail toolbar and select “Options | More Options”… (or just Options).
• Click “Personal e-mail signature” which is under Customize your mail
• Here enter the desired signature.
• You can add any formatting  in you signature or images.
• Click Save.

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Convert FAT To NTFS Without Losing Data

When you want to formate your drive, a window comes up with option “file system” i.e is FAT, FAT32 or NTFS. This is because your operating system is installed on one of them. NTFS (New Technology File System) is mostly recommanded because its more secure and most of windows xp features work on it. NTFS allows you to access  File and folder permission, compression, encryption and privacy options.

If you are using FAT and want to convert it to NTFS than its very easy just follow the steps given below:

• Click on “Start” and in “Run” type “command” or “Cmd” and press ok.
• You will see a window of MSDOS prompt.
• In cmd prompt type this “convert c: /fs:ntfs” and press Enter.
• You can type any letter instead of “c”  because its drive name.
• When you press enter you’ll see this message

“the conversion will take place instead the next time Windows starts up”

• After restart pc, the Check Disk utility will run, the conversion will be performed automatically and you may find that your PC will reboot twice more.

You can check that the drive is converted to NTFS or not, by right click on drive and then properties.

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Remove Autorun.inf Virus Using Winrar

Autorun.inf is a virus that infects hard drive or usb drive. This gets into usb mostly, when you plug-in usb at public places like school or colleges etc and after that it infects pc if you don’t have any antivirus or firewall installed into your pc or if its (antivirus or firewall) not updated. When your pc is infected with Autorun.inf virus, you can’t access drive comletely and when you double click on drive it opened into new window. This virus also hide files in the drive and you can’t see those files even you have enabled “show hidden files” under Folder Options. So to solve this problem you can use winrar…

 Winrar allow you to remove the Autorun.inf virus and it also shows hidden files. To remove this virus using winrar, follow the steps given below:

• Firs of all you need to close the window of that specific drive
• Now open winrar.exe
• Here browse any drive that is infected
• In that drive you will see all hidden files and Autorun.inf
• Open Autorun.inf in notepad 
• In this you’ll see some .EXE file. This is the file that executes along with the Autorun.inf
• Now close notepad and delete Autorun.inf along with .EXE file that were written in notepad form winrar.
• After this restart pc, Now your pc is free from Autorun.inf Virus.

Note:

Repeat this process for other drives and if your Usb or Pendrives are infected with Autorun.inf virus.

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mostwanted tips.Improve XP Shutdown Speed

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Improve XP Shutdown Speed

This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.
Go to Start then select Run
Type 'Regedit' and click ok
Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\'
Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify'
Change the value to '1000'
Click 'OK'
Now select 'HungAppTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify'
Change the value to '1000'
Click 'OK'

Now find 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop'
Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify'
Change the value to '1000'
Click 'OK'
Now find 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\'
Select 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify'
Change the value to '1000'
Click 'OK'

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