Here are additional tips to speed up windows xp startup, by changing the value of registry entry on StartUpDelay parameter, it's expected that the startup delay at login will be faster, the following key registers are to be changed;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ ContentIndex]
search key; StartupDelay,
change to 4000
Then find the file "Boot.ini" in the HOMEDRIVE (usually the drive C:), then decrease the value bootime untill it looks like this example;
[boot loader]
timeout = 3
default = multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) \ WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) \ WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" / noexecute = optin / fastdetect
Furthermore, other tips can be read at arstechnica
Making Windows Explorer Skin
Feel bored with the look of Explorer?
Usually, Win XP and earlier versions have a standard explorer skin with bright colors, by doing a little experiment, we can change the skin in Windows Explorer, only picture with the type of Bmp will accept the change. Images will not display as a skin for another file type.
How to Put an image in Windows Explorer?
Follow these steps to add a picture in Windows Explorer;
- Run regedit.exe
- Find a key : [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar]
- Right click, New, String Value
- Rename with "BackBitmapShell"
- Double click on the key, write the name of the file location and name of the file, like this example;
- After that, click Ok
- Log off, then LogIn to reload the registry.
Usually, Win XP and earlier versions have a standard explorer skin with bright colors, by doing a little experiment, we can change the skin in Windows Explorer, only picture with the type of Bmp will accept the change. Images will not display as a skin for another file type.
How to Put an image in Windows Explorer?
Follow these steps to add a picture in Windows Explorer;
- Run regedit.exe
- Find a key : [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar]
- Right click, New, String Value
- Rename with "BackBitmapShell"
- Double click on the key, write the name of the file location and name of the file, like this example;
- After that, click Ok
- Log off, then LogIn to reload the registry.
Internet Connection Optimization
If you do not use the local network (LAN), in other words not using the share files / folders, and only use the Internet network, try this following tips to optimize your internet connection;
- Open Control Panel,
- Click Network Connection
- Right click on the connection that is connected to the internet, there is usually at the sub LAN or High Speed Internet, and then
- Click on Properties
On the connection option, uses this following items:
- Click QoS Packet Scheduler, select Uninstall below
- Then, uninstall the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Network
- Uninstall Client for Microsoft Network
Leave all the services except the Internet Protocol TCP / IP
If the system asks you to restart, restart.
This tips will also work for DSL and Dial-Up Connection,
If you use the Gateway, then these tips will not disrupt your Internet connection.
- Open Control Panel,
- Click Network Connection
- Right click on the connection that is connected to the internet, there is usually at the sub LAN or High Speed Internet, and then
- Click on Properties
On the connection option, uses this following items:
- Click QoS Packet Scheduler, select Uninstall below
- Then, uninstall the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Network
- Uninstall Client for Microsoft Network
Leave all the services except the Internet Protocol TCP / IP
If the system asks you to restart, restart.
This tips will also work for DSL and Dial-Up Connection,
If you use the Gateway, then these tips will not disrupt your Internet connection.
Disable Autorun
To be more secure, we can turn off all drive configuration with autoplay feature, because usually virus, worm and its variants will work with fashion autorun / autoplay at the first time when drive is connected to drives/devices. This steps will automatic removed autorun on USB flash drive and also CD/DVD room access from autorun.inf file.
Here are steps to disable autorun ;
1. type this registery entry into a Notepad :
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ IniFileMapping \ Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
- Click Save As on the File menu
- Select All Files in the Save as type option.
- type Edit.reg in the File name and click Save
- double clik on the file
- click OK
2. Then open regedit.exe in the Run command, look for the NoDriveTypeAutoRun key string:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
Change the value to 95 with type (Hexadecimal)
3. To disable autoplay for all drives with group policy, follow this steps;
- Type gpedit.msc in Start, Run
- Click the Local Security Policy - Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System in Group Policy
- Double-click Turn off Autoplay on the right window.
- Click Enabled
- Select All drives on the option "Turn off Autoplay on"
- Click Apply
- Click OK.
Here are steps to disable autorun ;
1. type this registery entry into a Notepad :
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ IniFileMapping \ Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
- Click Save As on the File menu
- Select All Files in the Save as type option.
- type Edit.reg in the File name and click Save
- double clik on the file
- click OK
2. Then open regedit.exe in the Run command, look for the NoDriveTypeAutoRun key string:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
Change the value to 95 with type (Hexadecimal)
3. To disable autoplay for all drives with group policy, follow this steps;
- Type gpedit.msc in Start, Run
- Click the Local Security Policy - Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System in Group Policy
- Double-click Turn off Autoplay on the right window.
- Click Enabled
- Select All drives on the option "Turn off Autoplay on"
- Click Apply
- Click OK.
Your computer might be at risk
When Win xp security is threatened, then this service will provide a notification to the user. This occurs when the service Automatic Updates or Antivirus services is not running as it should. Sometimes, users do not want one of these services activated. Usually there are several reasons if the users don't want the services activated
Sometimes Antivirus is not installed on the computer user. Because it was what he wanted to. And there are also some users who complained about the automatic updates, the notification will occure when its not connected to the internet. With the reasons it services will usually use the bandwidth capacity while we begin to connect to the internet, although we did an update, but this service still continue to run every time you reconnect to the Internet automatically.
If you disable this services, it will appear Balloon tips that will tell the computer is at risk. Similarly, anti-virus, then it will appear Balloon tips if XP can not find the antivirus.
If you want these services running, but do not want any notification,
Here are some tips to diasble that services;
- Click the Start menu
- Run, then type regedit.exe or type regedit32.exe
- Find a key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced]
- Right click New,
- Select DWORD value
- Rename them with dword type : EnableBalloonTips
- Restart.
But if you really want to disable the Update service on the windows, here are the steps :
- Click Administrative Tools in Control Panel
- Open Services
- Automatic Updates and then search for properties
- Select Disable in the StartUp type option.
- And also to disable the Security Center.
- Restart.
Sometimes Antivirus is not installed on the computer user. Because it was what he wanted to. And there are also some users who complained about the automatic updates, the notification will occure when its not connected to the internet. With the reasons it services will usually use the bandwidth capacity while we begin to connect to the internet, although we did an update, but this service still continue to run every time you reconnect to the Internet automatically.
If you disable this services, it will appear Balloon tips that will tell the computer is at risk. Similarly, anti-virus, then it will appear Balloon tips if XP can not find the antivirus.
If you want these services running, but do not want any notification,
Here are some tips to diasble that services;
- Click the Start menu
- Run, then type regedit.exe or type regedit32.exe
- Find a key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced]
- Right click New,
- Select DWORD value
- Rename them with dword type : EnableBalloonTips
- Restart.
But if you really want to disable the Update service on the windows, here are the steps :
- Click Administrative Tools in Control Panel
- Open Services
- Automatic Updates and then search for properties
- Select Disable in the StartUp type option.
- And also to disable the Security Center.
- Restart.
Browser (IE 4/5/6) Optimization
Here some tips to speed up connections between network (LAN) or internet access for Internet Explorer (IE) v 4,5,6 users. These tips are also a bug solution for networks connection that use the shared folder using Task Scheduler, due to the delay was found when its connected to the network. We should be removed delay to optimalization aour connection. Follow this steps to remove delay form registery entry.
- Click Start
- Run
- Type regedit.exe, if not, type regedit32.exe
- Find this registery location : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ RemoteComputer \ NameSpace
- Find the key: (D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF)
It is better if we do some backup first, maybe we may need it again;
- Right click on the registery.
- Click the Export
- Type the name of the file
- Click Save.
If you have the backup, then we delete this registery;
- Right click
- Click delete
- Click OK.
After all, do log off, then log in back to reload the registery by the system.
If you like to surf on the internet, you should enlarge its temporary internet files capacity. This aims to increase the temporary files folder that could be rewrite the files everytime when the folder is full.
If you have a drive other than root (c:), temporary temporary folder can be moved to another drive (not root) ;
- Click Tools on IE
- Click Internet Options
- Click Settings in the Temporary Internet Files
- Click Move Folder ... Move the temporary folder to another drive.
- Slide to the right of "Amount of disk space to use" to enlarge the capacity
- Click OK.
If you do not have other drives than root (usually drive with the letter C:), then you only have to enlarge the capacity of these folders :
- Slide to the right of "Amount of disk space to use" to enlarge the capacity
- Click OK.
Perform routine cleaning after use IE. Delete all the temporary contents, so that temporary capacity is not fullfilled with the files we don't wanted, here are the steps :
- Click Tools
- Click Internet Options
- Click Delete Files on the General Tab.
- Click OK to confirm
- Click OK.
Seems IE v.6 has automatic cleaner temporary files feature, following this steps to activate that :
- Click Tools
- Click Internet Options
- Click Adavanced Tab.
- Search for security key
- Check "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed"
- Click Start
- Run
- Type regedit.exe, if not, type regedit32.exe
- Find this registery location : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ RemoteComputer \ NameSpace
- Find the key: (D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF)
It is better if we do some backup first, maybe we may need it again;
- Right click on the registery.
- Click the Export
- Type the name of the file
- Click Save.
If you have the backup, then we delete this registery;
- Right click
- Click delete
- Click OK.
After all, do log off, then log in back to reload the registery by the system.
If you like to surf on the internet, you should enlarge its temporary internet files capacity. This aims to increase the temporary files folder that could be rewrite the files everytime when the folder is full.
If you have a drive other than root (c:), temporary temporary folder can be moved to another drive (not root) ;
- Click Tools on IE
- Click Internet Options
- Click Settings in the Temporary Internet Files
- Click Move Folder ... Move the temporary folder to another drive.
- Slide to the right of "Amount of disk space to use" to enlarge the capacity
- Click OK.
If you do not have other drives than root (usually drive with the letter C:), then you only have to enlarge the capacity of these folders :
- Slide to the right of "Amount of disk space to use" to enlarge the capacity
- Click OK.
Perform routine cleaning after use IE. Delete all the temporary contents, so that temporary capacity is not fullfilled with the files we don't wanted, here are the steps :
- Click Tools
- Click Internet Options
- Click Delete Files on the General Tab.
- Click OK to confirm
- Click OK.
Seems IE v.6 has automatic cleaner temporary files feature, following this steps to activate that :
- Click Tools
- Click Internet Options
- Click Adavanced Tab.
- Search for security key
- Check "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed"
Browser (Mozilla Firefox) Optimization
Currently, the browser I use is the Mozilla version 3.0.11. There some excess if we use this Mozilla, one of them is that we can modify the variables on the Mozilla engine itself. This browsers is allowed to modify some variables and other supporting components according to existing regulations, and the Mozilla Foundation will not be liable for all consequences that we do change this. Here are the steps to speed up your browser connection that I recommended with changing variables value in Mozilla:
Try typing in the URL like this:
After that, press Enter or click on a URL nafigasi button, then browser will display your page like this:
Then click the button with the label "I 'll be carefull, I promise!"
It will display some of its functions and variables typenya.
What we need to optimize the speed of browser (connection) is using pipeline method optimization, you can type in keywords "network.http" in Filter column under the tab, it something like this;
After filtered, then look for the function and change its value, such as the following:
- Network.http.pipelining, (True)
- Network.http.proxy.pipelining, (True)
- Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, (between 4 to 8)
- Network.http.max-connections, (96)
- Network.http.max-connections-per-server, (32)
In addition to the Network configuration, change this variables :
- Dom.max_script_run_time, (values greater than 10)
- Browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone, (False)
- Browser.zoom.siteSpecific, (False)
- Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction, (1)
After that, close the browser and reopen the browser to reload.
If your browser still seems slow, try this one again, using the Mozilla's Add-Ons, and after that, I'm sure your browser is faster than before.
Try typing in the URL like this:
After that, press Enter or click on a URL nafigasi button, then browser will display your page like this:
Then click the button with the label "I 'll be carefull, I promise!"
It will display some of its functions and variables typenya.
What we need to optimize the speed of browser (connection) is using pipeline method optimization, you can type in keywords "network.http" in Filter column under the tab, it something like this;
After filtered, then look for the function and change its value, such as the following:
- Network.http.pipelining, (True)
- Network.http.proxy.pipelining, (True)
- Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, (between 4 to 8)
- Network.http.max-connections, (96)
- Network.http.max-connections-per-server, (32)
In addition to the Network configuration, change this variables :
- Dom.max_script_run_time, (values greater than 10)
- Browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone, (False)
- Browser.zoom.siteSpecific, (False)
- Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction, (1)
After that, close the browser and reopen the browser to reload.
If your browser still seems slow, try this one again, using the Mozilla's Add-Ons, and after that, I'm sure your browser is faster than before.
Default DNS server
If we want to visit a site, then the DNS server will provide IP address behind its site. Instead, we set their own static DNS server addresses in the system as the default server. This can shorten the time to find the target site, because computer will not find DNS server repeatedly when he wanted to find a destination site.
Steps are:
- Click Network Connections in Control Panel,
- Right click on your connection connected to the Internet, then click Status.
- Click the Support tab, then click the Details ...
type the IP address of DNS servers on a notepad, if already done ;
- Click Close
- Click the General tab, then click the Properties
- Click Internet Protocol (TCP / IP)
- Click Properties
- Select "Use the following DNS server adresses"
- Type the box with that IP addresses.
It seems like this picture;
If you done with it ;
- Click OK> OK> Close.
- Right click on an active connection.
- Click Disable, and wait a few seconds.
- Click Enable, to reload the system and connections.
Steps are:
- Click Network Connections in Control Panel,
- Right click on your connection connected to the Internet, then click Status.
- Click the Support tab, then click the Details ...
type the IP address of DNS servers on a notepad, if already done ;
- Click Close
- Click the General tab, then click the Properties
- Click Internet Protocol (TCP / IP)
- Click Properties
- Select "Use the following DNS server adresses"
- Type the box with that IP addresses.
It seems like this picture;
If you done with it ;
- Click OK> OK> Close.
- Right click on an active connection.
- Click Disable, and wait a few seconds.
- Click Enable, to reload the system and connections.
Bandwidth Optimization
One of the services that are directly related to bandwidth is the Quality of Service (QoS). QoS is a setting in accommodating mechanical sources available, this service will differentiate the data based on priority level, and usually very useful for the preparation of multimedia data.
With a broadband Internet connection or ADSL is certain to have a larger bandwidth
compared with dial-up, and usually have a bandwidth limitation for their clients. However, we still can get the optimum performance of your PC through this service.
Normally, on Windows XP, QoS will take a 20% bandwidth for real-time streaming, but now, multimedia was provided as a free web application and not integrated with the operating system (windows), then the current QoS services is inefficient. Moreover, there are now applications can work using his own application core, with the sense of not relying entirely on the windows. So why QoS will take 20% of our bandwidth?
Here are the steps to change the configuration:
- Click start
- Click on run
- Type gpedit.msc
- Click on "local computer policy" branch
- Click on "administrative templates" branch
- Click on "network"
- Click on "QoS Packet Scheduler"
- Double click "Limit Reservable bandwidth"
- Click Enabled
- Change the value of "Bandwidth limit%" to 0
Then restart the computer.
With a broadband Internet connection or ADSL is certain to have a larger bandwidth
compared with dial-up, and usually have a bandwidth limitation for their clients. However, we still can get the optimum performance of your PC through this service.
Normally, on Windows XP, QoS will take a 20% bandwidth for real-time streaming, but now, multimedia was provided as a free web application and not integrated with the operating system (windows), then the current QoS services is inefficient. Moreover, there are now applications can work using his own application core, with the sense of not relying entirely on the windows. So why QoS will take 20% of our bandwidth?
Here are the steps to change the configuration:
- Click start
- Click on run
- Type gpedit.msc
- Click on "local computer policy" branch
- Click on "administrative templates" branch
- Click on "network"
- Click on "QoS Packet Scheduler"
- Double click "Limit Reservable bandwidth"
- Click Enabled
- Change the value of "Bandwidth limit%" to 0
Then restart the computer.
DNS Optimization
DNS is used to resolve IP to the domain name (website). Technology today, already have DNS services on the client computer (the cache). DNS service used when we want to visit a website (web address).
There are several parameters used when this service is avtivated to make domain names to an ip address. We can change this parameter values expected this service execution time is faster than regularly.
Here are the steps to change these parameters:
- Click the Start Menu
- Click Run
- Type Notepad.exe and then Enter
- Type in notepad:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ dnscache \ Parameters]
" CacheHashTableBucketSize "= dword:00000001
" CacheHashTableSize "= dword:00000180
" MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit "= dword:0000fa00
" MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit "= dword:0000012d
- Click Save As on the File menu
- Select All Files in the Save as type box.
- Type dns.reg in the File Name
- Click Save
- Double Click dns.reg or right click the on file, select Merge
- Click OK to confirm.
Logoff, then log in again for Reload registery.
There are several parameters used when this service is avtivated to make domain names to an ip address. We can change this parameter values expected this service execution time is faster than regularly.
Here are the steps to change these parameters:
- Click the Start Menu
- Click Run
- Type Notepad.exe and then Enter
- Type in notepad:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ dnscache \ Parameters]
" CacheHashTableBucketSize "= dword:00000001
" CacheHashTableSize "= dword:00000180
" MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit "= dword:0000fa00
" MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit "= dword:0000012d
- Click Save As on the File menu
- Select All Files in the Save as type box.
- Type dns.reg in the File Name
- Click Save
- Double Click dns.reg or right click the on file, select Merge
- Click OK to confirm.
Logoff, then log in again for Reload registery.
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