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The reason of your computer having a slow startup speed is most probably the number of applications unnecessarily starting up when you turn on your computer. Many applications needlessly add themselves to your startup process; consequently you experience startup speeds slower than you would prefer.


Lets start this trick…

Instructions:

• Click Start
• Click Run
• Type msconfig
• Click OK
• A window is open. Now click Startup tab in its top.
• Uncheck the programs that you dont want to run in startup.
• Click OK Button.

Have fun…

Although not strictly a performance tweak I love this fix as it makes my machine ‘feel’ faster.

I hate the annoying ‘are you sure?’ messages that Windows XP displays, especially if I have to use a laptop touch pad to close them.

To remove these messages:

Instructions:

• Right-click on the ‘Recycle Bin’ on the desktop and then click ‘Properties’.
• Clear the ‘Display Delete Confirmation Dialog’ check box and click ‘Ok’.

Note: If you deleted a file accidently then don’t worry as all is not lost. Just go to your Recycle Bin and ‘Restore’ the file.

We all might have set background images for the Local drives in Windows XP. But you might not have set background picture for your pendrive. Its a very simple hack so give it a try after reading this post, All you need to do is, just Copy & Paste the below code to notepad, then save it as desktop.ini

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%system32SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=127
ConfirmFileOp=0
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=”YourPictureName.jpg”
IconArea_Text=”0xFFFFFF”
VeBRA sources – don’t delete the tag above, it’s there for XXXXX purposes -
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}
[{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}]
PersistMoniker=Folder.htt
PersistMonikerPreview=%WebDir%folder.bmp

Some Information On Above Code:
Where “YourPictureName.jpg” is, delete that and replace with your picture name for example “abc.jpg”

Note:

• Please check that Picture format (.jpg , .bmp, .gif) properly else this hack wont work.
• If your Picture is white colour then folder names will not be clear so change the IconArea_Text=0xFFFFFF to IconArea_Text=”0x000000 
• Save the notepad as “desktop.ini”.
• Place both your notepad file (i.e) desktop.ini and your picture in Pendrive.
• Set the above files attributes as Hidden.
• Refresh(F5) and Enjoy with your new background.
• You can also this on your windows Xp Local drives(C,D,E,F).
  IF above Code Not Work Then Try This 

[ExtshellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=test1.jpg