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Disable the Windows XP Splash Screen

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:24:38 +0000

Ever wonder what’s going on behind that splash screen? Well, now you can find out!

Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery, Edit. Edit BOOT.INI. Add “/SOS” right after “/fastdetect” with a space between. The line will look something like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /SOS. When you’re finished. The first part, multi(0)….. may not be the same on your machine. Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removing the new switch.

ITSoftMedia Tricks: Removing Shortcut Arrow From Desktop Icons

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:44:47 +0000

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Here’s how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

ITSoftMedia Tricks: Speed Up Viewing Shared Files Across a Network

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:26:47 +0000

Windows 2000 & XP machines delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks.

Here’s how to prevent this remote search for Scheduled Tasks:

Open up the Registry and go to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Under that branch, select the key :

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

and delete it.

If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn’t require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

Changing Windows Program Installation Directory

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:29:46 +0000

As the Hard disk sizes are increasing we are using Partition system in our Operating system.As when we install any program in our computer it automatically assigns
“C:\Program Files” directory for installation. This causes a lots space problem in our HDD.

XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack.

Go to :

- Start > Run

- Type “regedit” (without “”)

- Go to this directory…
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

- Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default,this value will be C:\Program Files. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and now XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs.

- Careful on Editing the Registry