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OPTIMIZED XP
The page file is a dedicated spot reserved on your hard drive that the computer refers back to when it needs extra memory for programs and applications. Page file, or virtual memory is the slowest component of the memory process, because your computer has to call to the hard drive to access the page file. By optimizing your page file you can speed up Windows’ responsiveness and performance.

Defragmenting The Page File

Defragmenting your hard drive is recommended by everyone, but what about your page file? Your page file too, like the hard drive, can get cluttered and fragmented so it’s important to make sure your page file is defragmented for optimum for performance.

There are two main methods for defragmenting your page file: Installing a page file defragmenting software, or disabling the page file then running the Windows Disk Defragmenter.

PageDefrag

A good program for defragmenting your page file is PageDefrag.

1. Download and unzip pagedefrag

2. Launch the program and select ‘Defragment at next boot’, or if you want to select ‘Defragment every boot’, though it’s not really necessary.

3. Now when you restart your computer PageDefrag will defragment your computer’s page file.

Windows Disk Defragmenter

To use the built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter to defragment your page file you’ll have to first disable your page file, so that way Windows can access it.

1. Go to your Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced Tab -> Click Change button -> No paging file -> Set -> OK -> Restart Your PC

2. After you restart your computer, your page file will be free for the disk defragmenter to defragment. Run Microsoft Disk Defragmenter and defragment your computer like you normally would.

Now that your page file is defragmented we can work on optimizing it.

Optimizing The Page File

The page file’s size can be set by Windows, or specified by user-settings for the minimum and maximum size. Window’s default settings for the minimum page file size is the amount of memory installed multiplied by 1.5, and for the maximum page file size is the memory installed multiplied by 3.0 on your machine.

The best way to optimize your page file is to place one page file on a different hard drive partition, preferably without any system files or data. And also have a smaller one on the primary drive partition as well. Due to an internal algorithm in Windows it will fall back to the page file on the least accessed partition.

If you don’t have an extra hard drive, you can try setting your page file manually to 1.5x-3.0x your memory. I’ve heard that this is a good solution for keeping your page file in line. You can also try setting your page file minimum and maximum size to the same amount, either 1.5x or 3.0x your installed memory and see how that works. Theoretically by having your page file maximum and minimum set to the same size it should speed up Windows, because it won’t have to constantly resize the page file depending on what applications you’re running how much memory you’re using, and it won’t become fragmented due to the size no longer changing.

Should You Disable Your Page File?

Several people suggest that you disable the page file to increase performance, by doing away with the page file that means your computer won’t have to access the hard drive. So it should be faster, right? It can be, or it can cause several instability problems for your computer. Many programs won’t even run without a page file enabled.

Over at Tom’s Hardware Guide, they tested a Windows Vista machine with 8GBs of RAM, and promptly disabled the page file to see what would happen. The 8 GB system ran just like normal, but when they lowered the amount of memory available to 2 GBs, system instability occurred. “Applications immediately crash as soon as the system runs out of RAM and Windows is unable to write the files to virtual memory on the hard drive.” Their only solution was to reboot. Limiting the memory even further to 512 MBs resulted in no longer being able to open any applications without the system crashing. Even low resource Windows-based applications like Notepad caused it to crash. The systems also crashed while idling after a short while.

By optimizing your page file you can boost your Windows performance. Even though it is possible for a computer to run with the page file disabled, it is not recommended by anyone to disable your page file, even if you have access to large amounts of RAM. Defragmenting the page file, changing the size of the page file, and putting it on a separate partition are several different methods you can use, but it’s the combined effort of all these methods, that will provide the biggest performance increase.

E-RUSE 5

GET PRODUCT KEY OF INSTALLED WINDOWS XP AND MS OFFICE.
CLICK THIS LINK BELOW:
SAMI

E-RUSE 4

Block any installed application from lunching on your computer
Today tip will help you to block any windows built-in applications or other third party programs from being executed on a target computer. If you want to restrict an application from running your family members and co-workers then AppLocker provides a simple solution to do so. However this tip is very useful for you, if you are sharing your computer with others or you do not want that other persons run all installed applications. This trick will work in nearly all of the windows versions like windows 2000, XP, 2003 and 2008.
AppLocker provides us a complete solution to block any programs from being executed on a target computer. You can download this tool for any windows version using AppLocker(http://www.computeronlinetips.com/Free-Dump/AppLockerV1102.zip) link. Download it and run the easy setup.
After installation, double click on AppLocker icon on your desktop to start the Application Locker software. Now this application will display the list of computer software programs like Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and many others.
Here click on any application checkbox and then click on Save button to block any software. For example, if you want to block Internet Explorer then select the checkbox of internet explorer and now after saving the change click on Internet Explorer to start it
Now here you can add other application other than the default lock application list, you can lock other programs by clicking the “Configure” button to open the configuration window. Type the caption you want displayed on the ‘Lock application list’. Then, type the programs executable file name and click the ‘Add’ button to add new applications.

E-RUSE 3

Disable the right click functionality on the desktop
Today tip is very useful particularly for home users who want to protect their system default settings against unwanted changes that other users can make. For example changes in system desktop appearance, themes, and screen saver as well as other display settings. Using registry editor, you can disable the right click functionality on desktop to access the "Display Properties" dialog box and this will also prevent users to access windows explorer.
Follow the given steps to disable the right click functionality on desktop:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next
Here locate the location to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with the name NoViewContextMenu (it is case sensitive), then assign number 1 in value data box.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
But next time, if you want to enable right click functionality on desktop then simply change the value of data box or delete the NoViewContextMenu DWORD item.

E-RUSE 2

Turn Off the Dr. Watson Debugger
Dr. Watson is a program error debugger that detects and diagnoses program errors in Windows and creates log files that contain the diagnostic data.

To turn off the Dr Watson debugger, apply the following Windows registry change:

Always be sure to backup your registry before making any changes !

To edit the registry go to Start, then Run and type in regedit and click Ok. To backup your registry go to File then Export and choose a location and name for your registry backup.

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
Name: Auto
Type: REG_DWORD
Use a Value of 0 to disable
Use a Value of 1 to enable

To re-enable Dr Watson, you can also type drwtsn -i from a command prompt

E-RUSE 1

Helpful DOS Commands

Sometimes when troubleshooting your computer you will need to use command line based utilities to find information or run programs that you can’t do within Windows. In this section we will go over some of the more helpful DOS based commands that you can use to solve your computer problems.

To get to a command prompt go to Start, Run and type cmd (command for Windows 98) and click Ok.

Some of these commands use switches which are different options that will make the command do different things. Switches are usually used by typing a / and then the switch after the command. For example: Command /switch. You can also type Command /? for help on that particular command such as the available switches and how to use them.

* Chkdsk - Creates and displays a status report for a hard drive based on the file system and also lists and corrects errors on the disk.

/f : Fixes errors on the disk.
/r : Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.

* Copy - Copies one or more files from one location to another
* Del - Deletes specified files.

/p : Prompts you for confirmation before deleting the specified file.

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Dir - Displays a list of a directory's files and subdirectories.

/p : Displays one screen of the listing at a time.

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Exit – Exits the command prompt utility.
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Gpupdate - Refreshes local and Active Directory-based Group Policy settings, including security settings.
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Hostname - Displays the host name portion of the full computer name of the computer.
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Ipconfig - Displays all current TCP/IP network configuration values and refreshes Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) settings.

/all : Displays the full TCP/IP configuration for all adapters.
/renew : Renews DHCP configuration for all adapters.
/release : Sends a DHCPRELEASE message to the DHCP server to release the current DHCP configuration and discard the IP address configuration.

* Mkdir - Creates a directory or subdirectory.
* Mmc - Opens Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
* Move - Moves one or more files from one directory to the specified directory.
* Nbtstat - Displays NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocol statistics, NetBIOS name tables for both the local computer and remote computers, and the NetBIOS name cache.

-A IPAddress : Displays the NetBIOS name table of a remote computer, specified by the IP address.
-n : Displays the NetBIOS name table of the local computer.
-RR : Releases and then refreshes NetBIOS names for the local computer that is registered with WINS servers.

* Netstat - Displays active TCP connections.
* Ping - Verifies IP-level connectivity to another TCP/IP computer by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request messages.
* Print - Sends a text file to a printer.
* Rename - Changes the name of a file or a set of files.
* Shutdown - Allows you to shut down or restart a local or remote computer. Used without parameters, shutdown will logoff the current user.

-l : Logs off the current user.
-s : Shuts down the local computer.
-r : Reboots after shutdown.
-a : Aborts shutdown.
-f : Forces running applications to close.
-m [\\ComputerName] : Specifies the computer that you want to shut down.
-t xx : Sets the timer for system shutdown in xx seconds. The default is 20 seconds.

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Sfc - Scans and verifies the versions of all protected system files after you restart your computer.

/scannow : Scans all protected system files immediately.
/scanonce : Scans all protected system files once.
/scanboot : Scans all protected system files every time the computer is restarted.
/revert : Returns the scan to its default operation.

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Time - Displays or sets the system time.
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Ver - Displays the Windows XP version number.
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Xcopy - Copies files and directories, including subdirectories.