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Start | Run, type : regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer | Advanced

double click at entry "TaskbarGlomming" give value 1 in column "value". Ok

After
that, determine in which grouping window program will do in taskbar. In
order to make it, make a new value by clicking on menu "Edit | New | DWORD Value" and name as "TaskbarGroupSize".

Afterward, double click at this new value and at column "value" give maximum value that you wanted.

for example 4, so after 4 same window program opened, Windows combined onto one taskbar

Restart PC

This is a simple trick to speed up your windows. The effectiveness of
these tricks possibly will be differed. These trick could make your PC
unstable so PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Also don forget to backup registry
before starts tweaking

How to backup registry
Start>Run>Regedit>File>Export
put ".reg" extension on your backup file
done

1. Disable unnecessary Service Windows
Because
Windows is aimed to many user & task, so windows made a service
which is actually unnecessary. The service along with this often ate
quite a bit of resources. With disable it then your computer will have
a little boost

* Alerter
* Clipbook
* Computer Browser
* Distributed Link Tracking Client
* Fast User Switching
* Help and Support
* Human Interface Access Devices
* Indexing Service
* IPSEC Services
* Messenger
* Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
* Portable Media Serial Number
* Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
* Remote Procedure Call Locator
* Remote Registry
* Remote Registry Service
* Secondary Logon
* Routing & Remote Access
* Server
* Telnet
* TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
* Upload Manager
* Universal Plug and Play Device Host
* Wireless Zero Configuration - (Do not disable if you are using Wireless)
* Workstation

How to disable this service :

1. Start>Run>type "services.msc"
2. Double click on the service that you want to edit
3. Change startup type into ‘Disable"

2. Turn off System restore
System
restore can be useful if your computer had problem, but all the restore
point can takes a lot of resource in Hard Drive. System restore is
loaded because it’s always monitoring system, with disable system
restore then half of your resource can be allocated to other thing.

1. Open Control Panel
2. Click Performance and Maintenance
3. Click System
4. Click System Restore tab
5. Click ‘Turn off System Restore on All Drives’
6. Click ‘Ok’

3. Defrag Pagefile
Keeping
your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One
of the best ways of doing this is to create a separate partition on
your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get
impacted by normal disk usage. Another way of keeping your pagefile
defragmented is to run PageDefrag. This cool little app can be used to
defrag your pagefile, and can also be set to defrag the pagefile
everytime your PC starts. To install:

1. Download and Run PageDefrag,
2. Choose "Defrag at next Reboot",
3. Click OK
4. Reboot

4. Speed up Folder access - by disable Last Access Update.
If
you had a lot of folder and subdirectories, then you will notice that
when you access to Windows XP Directory, it will feel so heavy and
waste so much time. By updating time stamp in registry, which is last
access update to all sub directory. Proceed with caution:

1. Start>Run>regedit
2. "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
3. Right click at right side (find empty area), then choose ‘DWORD Value’
4. Make new DWORD Value with the name ‘NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate’
5. Right click at new value then choose ‘Modify’
6. Change data into ‘1′
7. Click ‘OK’

5. Deactivated Microsoft System Sounds
As
default MS sound systems makes your computer sound so noisy when
booting early, shutdown, error, dll. Obviously, Sound script windows
makes your computer running slowly (especially during shutdown time and
booting early), to deactivated, follow these steps :
1. Oopen Control Panel
2. Click Sounds and Audio Devices
3. Click Sounds tab
4. Choose "No Sounds" from Sound Scheme
5. Click "No"
7. Click "Apply"
8. Click "OK"

6. Speed up Boot Time
Ability
to defrag while in booting process is a nice feature from Windows XP
when you are in booting process. Boot Defrag is the principle of
organised file-file that relevant with booting in order. At default
these feature has been activated in several Build Windows, but in other
case is not, It would be better

if we cross check to this feature one.
1. Start Menu>Run
2. Regedit
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
4. Find "Enable" in the right part of regedit
5. Click "Modify"
6. Choose "Y to enable"
7. Reboot

Note:
Bootvis also could be tried, to cut boot time with sweet manufer.

7. Speed up Performa Swapfile
If
you have bigger ram than 256MB i can really tell that these tweaking
will makes your system ran more fast. Basically our PC using every byte
from physical memory that store in our Computer, BEFORE using swap file.
1. Start>Run
2. "msconfig.exe">ok
3. Click System.ini tab
4. Click plus mark at 386enh tab
5. Click new & then type "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1"
6. Click OK
7. Restart

8. Speed up Loading Windows Menu
These
Tweaking is my fav one, because your computer will feels so fast. These
Tweaking wasted of delay time when you clicking on the menu and then
windows XP showed the menu.
1. Start>Run
2. Regedit>Ok
3. "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\"
4. Choose/sort "MenuShowDelay"
5. Right click and choose "Modify’
6. Type digit "100"
The number 50-150 is a good range, could be adapted with your Mood

9. Speed up Loading Program.
These
Tweaking can be ran to mostly program. If the program doesn’t want to
loading as expected before, turn back to default setting.
1. Right click at icon/shortcut that related with program.
2. properties
3. At ‘target’ box, add ‘ /prefetch:1′ at the end of line.
4. Click "Ok"
Program will loading more fast than before.

10. Speed up Shutdown Windows XP.
These tweaking will reduced the waiting period automatically when windows has accepted the instruction to shutdown.

1. Start>Run
2. ‘Regedit’>OK
3. ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
4. Point at ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
5. Right click and choose modify
6. Change the value into ‘1000′
7. Click ‘OK’
8. Point at ‘HungAppTimeout’
9. Right click and choose modify
10. Change the value into ‘1000′
11. Click ‘OK’
12. ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop’ point at WaitToKillAppTimeout’
13. Right click and choose modify
15. Change the value into ‘1000′
16. Click ‘OK’
17. ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\’ point at ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’
19. Right click and choose modify
20. Change the value into ‘1000′
21. Click ‘OK’

The
Following tips are related on how to "set free" Windows from the burden
that resulted in the system becoming slow and more unresponsive

Cleaning Prefetch File to increasing Performa Windows.

These feature much efficient to increasing aggresiveness of windows but no need to play with registry.

What you need is deleting directory/folder prefetch content. Prefetch is a directory that store old link.

Link
that increasingly heaped can causing your computer slow significantly.
Prefetch Directory is on c:windows/prefetch, cleaned prefetch around
2-3 weeks were enough for the use of the standard

Disable Prefetch for System with less memory (under 256MB)

If
your system only have 128MB. Windows prefetch will paralyze your system
because the prefetch attempt to load old link with the purpose of speed
up computer, but the prefetch was did too many loaded & it’s not
making your computer ran faster instead more slowly than normally.

How to disable Prefetch

1. start>run>regedit
2. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher];
3. Double click, type 0 to Disable.
4. reboot.

Booting more faster by decreasing Font burden.

Everytime
windows booting, they always did loading font2 that was registered in
windows. If you are not graphic design, of course not all of those font
are needed. My Suggestion is move all font to another folder.

1. Makes new folder
2. Go to "Fonts" in Control Panel.
3. Point to group font that would be moved.
4. Move to new folder, or for more easier right click then move to My Documents.
5. Reboot, If you need those font that have been moved already, copy and paste back to old directory font.

Speed Up by re-setting Prefetcher.

These
feature in Windows XP is quite unique, and if you do properly, the
result will absolutely amazing, what we going to do is re-setting cache
folder in our windows.

1. start>run>regedit
2. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher]
3. There are 3 option : 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3-Both ("3" is the one i recommended).
4. reboot.
Re-Setting this will reduced booting time and Time that was needed to loading the program.

Tweaking memory.

Not only overclock in BIOS that can speed up your PC Works, but these tweaking can’t be missed.

These Tweaking is suggested for them who owned larger memory capacity up to 512MB.

1. start>run>regedit
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click, insert decimal 1 -
this point causing windows XP to store data in memory, rather than accessing page file in harddrive.
2.LargeSystemCache -double click, insert decimal 1- - these tweak allowed kernel windows running in memory. so be careful.

1. Backup file to c:\windows\explorer.exe or elsewhere

2. Copy c:\windows\explorer.exe to c:\ (explorer.exe is a file with computer icon)

3. Open CMD (command prompt), type edit /70 c:\explorer.exe

4. Find ’start’ in line 3864-3865, find Start word which located before There was an internal error……….. sentence

5.
Change the word Start, after you find Start word which suit to step
no.4, we try to change thoseword, example: to change to ‘Begin’, -click
S, press delete, then press B.
click t, press delete, press e
click a, press delete, press g
click r, press delete, press i .. and so on

Remember, only 5 word max at the time
If the desire word less than 5 word, example ‘OOT’ :
-click S, press delete, press O
click t, press delete,press O
click a, press delete, press T
click r, press delete, press space
click t, press delete press space
If you done, save the explore file into c:
6.
Copying file progress: restart computer, before windows booting press
F8, choose ‘Safe Mode With Command Prompt’. logon as Administrator. At
command prompt type ‘copy c:\explorer.exe c:\windows. choose y(yes).
then restart PC (Ctrl+Alt+Del, at Shutdown tab choose restart).. look
the result

The most hard part in this is finding Start word at cmd mode, so you gotta have to be patient

Or you can use Resource Hacker program :

1. Run ResHacker.exe

2. Click file menu —> open

3. Choose Explorer.exe in C:
4. Click String Table —> 37 —> 1033

5. Change the word "start" at no 578 into your desired name

6. Click "Compile Script"

7. Save
(Note: This program automatically making backup file called  "explorer_original.exe")
(If you wants to open explorer.exe file, you try  to open uninst.exe file, then the backup become uninst_original.exe)

8. Move explorer_original.exe file to anywhere

Steps on Copying File

Step 1:
- restart computer,
- before windows booting press F8
- choose ‘Safe Mode With Command Prompt’.
- logon as Administrator.
- at command prompt type ‘copy c:\explorer.exe c:\windows. pilih y(yes).
- then restart PC (Ctrl+Alt+Del, at Shutdown tab choose restart)..
- look the result

Step 2:
- If you have install cd win98 / diskette dos, run by booting
- After it’s dispaly A:\, type C:- type "copy c:\explorer.exe C:\Windows"
- choose "yes" to overwriting
- Restart

Changing icon folder is very easy, but how about drive?! There’s a special way.

First
choose the icon that you wants to display into drive, then save the
icon in drive that you wants to put icon. Example in C:\ or in D:\
partition

Then open notepad, wrote like this :

[Autorun]
Icon=

.ico

Ex:
[Autorun]
Icon=Punisher.ico

After that, save it as Autorun.inf, Restart …

to be more secure, Hide the file & set "Read Only"

First of all, type this in notepad:

[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=Background.jpg
IconArea_Text=0×000000ff

then save it as desktop.ini, then makes the file hidden and read only so that it wont be able to re-setting by someone else.

In the next part is what picture we gonna use, I give the name background.jpg. So if you want to

change picture name just simply rename the origin pic with background. Not only .jpg, but .bmp and .gif can be use aswell.

IconArea_Image=Background.jpg

In
the next part is how we can setting the color from word file into
drive. The color is changed into biner digit number. In this part, the
color we use is red, green, blue.

IconArea_Text=0×000000ff (Red)
IconArea_Text=0×0000ff00 (Green)
IconArea_Text=0×00ff0000 (Blue)

Don forget to balancing the color text with the used background

NOTE !! Take your pic that you want to set as backgroundto the related Drive

And as usual, to be more secure, Hide the file and "Read Only" aswell

Go to Run : Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer | Advanced | Folder | Hidden
In "Type" delete word "group"

OS : WIN XP

method 1 :

CTRL + ALT + ESC to reach to Logon screen (if "User Welcome Page" option below Control

Panel | User accounts is deactivated) Next choose "Block Computer"

method 2 :

Make a shortcut in desktop by right click New | Shortcut, with these command :

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

in the next screen decide file name that wont make people suspicious to try, ex : ‘Icon’ or whatever as

long as that wont invited people to clicking

method 3 :

Using Screen Saver by using passwd, Simply by checking ‘Passwd Protected‘ in

screen saver setting
Weakness : New Protection only works after screen Saver run

OS : WIN XP, 2000, ME

Normally if we open word file or even picture or watching video, listening music & etc, it always makes a new entry to My Recent Docs. How to deleting them automatically :

Go to run : Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer

in the right window, make a new binary value, type : ClearRecentDocsOnExit, edit the number : 00 00 00 01

You can actually deleting them from "List most recent Opened Document" at Properties in Start Menu | Customize | Advanced.. But that’s taking too much time by manually doing that

OS : WIN 2000, XP

If some of file that hasn’t being associated by any program, there will
be an dialogue window which will asking you to choose from 2 option

you can activate "Open With" only with this way :

Open registry Editor, type in run : Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer

makes a new Dword : InternetOpenWith, give value 0

OS : WIN XP

make a new notepad file oeminfo.ini to C:\Windows\System for Win 95/98 or to C:\Winnt\System32 for

Windows NT. The content from the file oeminfo.ini is from the following

[General]
Manufacturer=Tweaking PC
Model=New Model

[Support Information]
Line1=First line
Line2=Second line
Line3=Please wrote with
Line4=any text

You can change the word at the right after equal to signal (=), with your own text. You can make as

many line as you like, by"increasing" digit number above.

Whatever the pic is as long as the pic has resolution 180 X  114 more than that, the pic will cut off
Save as oemlogo.bmp in C:\Windows\System for Win 95/98 or to C:\Winnt\System32 for Windows NT