Save more time with windows task bar

Here is you will learn how to Save time with Windows XP taskbar and able to work more efficient in windows environment :

• Configure the Windows XP taskbar so that work for you
• Able to load faster in web pages
• move the favorite folders on the windows taskbar
• configure and customized follow-up menu for windows taskbar
• and work further efficient in Windows

This Windows XP tips and tricks, is design to help you saving time. When the key is saving time, the tasks is very powerful tool to be configure. It beat everything else hands down. This small bar in windows XP at the bottom of your Windows desktop is the place to be quick and easy access to everything you need.

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Item check list if the boot process are too slow

On the windows OS (operating system) sometimes we face that boot up process are take too long, I did some test and here is probably the thing that make the boot process takes too long.

Free RAM, should meet the minimum.

If you don’t have enough free RAM, the boot process can take longer. For Windows XP, 256 MB RAM is the minimum, 512 MB or more would be better.

Try to defrag your Hard disk

If your Hard disk is running too slow it’s also caused to boot process take times. And if your Hard disk is really Bad (Got noise and running too slow) buy new one.

Not enough Free Disk space

Windows OS (operating system) has the file called swapfile, this file need a space, and the minimum space for swapfile is 3 megabytes of free disk space for each megabyte of system RAM

Do not install too much fonts or your system

Installing font on Windows are too simple, those some user installed more than 800 fonts, I recommend only 100 or 200.

Network drivers (Lan, Dial-up Networking, ADSL) are takes too long to load

Make a test, try disabling those driver and see if it makes a difference.

Application on startup

Too many applications on startup is not good, check your startup folder and remove any unneeded application.

Another windows Tips and tricks:

• How to bring your computer into Hibernate state? - Hibernate is design to cut shutdown and bootup process, and also save more power.
• Speed up menu display in winodws XP - Windows XP uses too many effect, those effects may caused your system running too slow.

Speed up menu display in winodws XP

Some users complaining to me that their work station is working to slow when they click on the start menu.

That because Microsoft Windows XP uses too much visual effects to provide a rich and friendly interface. One of these settings allows menus to disappear in the end, when you open them. This visual effect is so smooth that you have never noticed this, however, the effect came cause menus to take slightly longer to appear.

I think this should be a problem on a fast computer. But for a small workstation just like my office clients, somehow is not responding as quickly wish, you can make rapid display menus by changing and costume it.

To speed up menu display

1. Click on the Start menu. then Right-click on My Computer, and then click Properties.

2. Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance area, click Settings.

3. On the Visual Effects tab in the Performance Options dialog box, clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box.

4. now Click OK.

5. In the System Properties dialog box, click OK

Now whenever you click a start menu, it should appear almost instantly. If not contact me.

Network connection failed and shows access denied

The following tips may work if you cannot logon to your network with error message “access denied”

If you've always Denied errors when trying to connect to a computer, with windows XP,
You know, and you have the correct user names and passwords on the computer,
the solution may be simple registry editing, like below:

• From the start menu go to RUN, and type REGEDIT
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Lsa
• Change the value of a key called "restrictanonymous" to 0 instead of 1
• Don't change "restrictanonymoussam" value.
• Reboot

Speed up your browsing ability

When contacted by the website your computer sends information back and forth. Some of this information is concerned with solving site, the name of an address at things that TCP / IP really dealing with, not words. This is the DNS information and is used so that you do not need to pray for the location of the site each time you visit the site. Although Windows XP are very efficient DNS cache, you can increase your overall performance by increasing its size. You can do this with the registry below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

• "CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001
• "CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180
• "MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00
• "MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d
  

Make a new text file and rename it dnscache.reg. Then copy and paste the above into it and save it. Sign that registry.