Best 2 Know

If your system has failed to the point where you cannot access the Windows GUI either through booting normally or through safe mode, you may still have the chance to use the System Restore feature if you have it enabled, by running it form the command prompt. To do this:

Restart your computer and press F8 after the POST screen to bring up the Windows XP boot menu. Choose ‘boot in safe mode with command prompt.’

If your system gets to the command prompt successfully, type ‘%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe’ and then press enter. Follow the onscreen instructions to restore your computer to a previous saved point.

When you start to shut down Windows XP, it has to quit, or “kill,” any live applications or processes that are currently running.
So close all applications first. However, some applications and processes are always running in the background.
You can reduce the amount of time that Windows XP waits for those applications and processes to close before Windows XP kills them.
Edit three different Registry settings to change this:
1. Open the Registry Editor.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Select WaitToKillAppTimeout and set the value to 1000.

3. Select the HungAppTimeout value and set it to 1000 as well.

4. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. Set the WaitToKillAppTimeout and set the value to 1000. Select the HungAppTimeout \newline value and set it to 1000 as well.

5. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control. Select the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value and set it to 1000.

6. Close the Registry Editor

That’s it..u r done

to turn those balloon pop-ups off:

1. Launch regedit.

2. Open
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.

3. Create a REG_DWORD named EnableBalloonTips.

4. Set the value data to 0.

5. Close regedit.

6. Reboot the computer.

Setting the value to 1 will turn the balloon tips back on if you decide you can’t live without them.

Just follows these steps:

1. Open Control Panel.

2. Then go to Regional and Language Options.

3. then click on Customize.

4. and then click on time here you can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name

Enjoy

Wanna show anything or any type of notice on the startup..ie when windows starts

here it is

1.Go to Start –>RUN —> REGEDIT

2.Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

3.then Edit these

“LegalNoticeCaption”=”enter your notice caption to show”
“LegalNoticeText”=”enter your legal notice text to show”

Bingooooo

To disable the stupid feature in WinXP which tries to send a report to microsoft every time a program crashes you will have to do this:

1.Open Control Panel

2.Click on Preformance and Maintenance.

3.Click on System.

4.Then click on the Advanced tab

5.Click on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.

6.Select Disable error reporting.

7.Click OK

8.Again click OK

That it..u r done