Tips for Longer PC life

1. Keep your PC in a smoke-free environment. Tobacco smoke can damage delicate contacts and circuits. 

2. Leave your PC running. Powering up from a cold state is one of the most stressful things you can do to your system's components.
If you don't want to leave your PC running all the time, use Windows' Power Management settings to put your machine into hibernation rather than completely shutting down.

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25 ways to speed windows not only defragment

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 25 suggestions that will. 

Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

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Hard drive gone bad and slow - Trick/Answer is here

The most common problems originate from corruption of the master boot record, FAT, or directory. Those are soft problems which can usually be taken care of with a combination of tools like Fdisk /mbr to refresh the master boot record followed by a reboot and Norton disk doctor or Spinneret.

The most common hardware problems are a bad controller, a bad drive motor, or a bad head mechanism.

1. Can the BIOS see and identify the hard drive correctly? If it can't, then the hard drives onboard controller is bad. 

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Rename a Series of Files(once) in windows

When you connect your digi cam to your computer you see many files named in series like md101, md102 and so on.
You can do this thing by yourself on other files too.

To do this

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Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend.

To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer

go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) Now press F5 to refresh.

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Can u Delete Recycle Bin?

1 thing is 4 sure, delete option can be added 2 recycle bin.
the old registry thing will work out.
* launch the registry. [run regedit]
* open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

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Hacking windows SEND TO MENU

I know this is a very simple thing but the problem, as like many other issues, is the ignorance about it.

How often do you copy songs from a CD? Or some photos from a CD?

What do you do? You select the required files and do a CTRL –C. Open the destination folder and do a CTRL-V. Here is something you can benefit time from. Customize your SEND TO MENU. 

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How to remove the shortcut arrow from the desktop ?

Open Regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Icons
Backup the key. More information.
In the right-pane, create a new String value named "29"
Double-click 29 and set its data to:

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Convert FAT,FAT32 files to NTFS:HOW TO tutorial

How To Convert File System? FAT - FAT32 to NTFS

open a dos prompt and give the command

convert d: /fs:ntfs

this command would convert your d: drive to NTFS.

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How to HACK PC from USB

Now days we use Hack in many ways not only in Online but as a Slang, so Hacking passwords or any information using USB (Pendrives).Here is the small tricks guys for stealing information or passwords of ur friends or enemies using pendrives...

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How to Remove WINRAR Password

Winrar Password Remover makes use of its powerful brute force and dictionary attack to crack the passwords of Winrar archives.

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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.

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BOOT YOUR COMPUTER FASTER

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start ).This is due to many reasons.

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system:

1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter.

Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.

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BOOST WINDOWS XP SPEED UPTO 60%, ITS TRUE

Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly. In fact, you may notice that over a period of time the PC that used to roar to life seems a bit sluggish instead. Fortunately, you can perform several techniques that help Windows XP get the bootup speed you want. This chapter explores how to put these techniques to work.

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Change Drive Letters in Windows XP

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives.

However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive.

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Put Folders, Files To "Send To"

Go to the path in explorer bar:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\SendTo

Remember SendTo folder is hidden by default. So

firstly you would have to apply the permission Show
hidden files and folders.

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how to Create Your own Virtual Drive in windows

> Go to start
> run
> Type cmd
> subst k: c:\FOLDERNAME

Check your my computer, new drive should be shown.
For removing, type

> subst k: /d

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how to SpeedUP internet surfing

-Go 2 Run

-type gpedit.msc

->administrative Template

->Computer configuration

->enableoption

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