In Windows XP everytime you open My Computer to browse folders XP automatically searches for network files and printers. This causes a delay in displaying your icons. You probably see the “default” windows icon and as you scroll it changes to the correct icon. This is how to stop that…
1. Open My Computer
2. Click [...]

A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option in enables but on some builds it is not so below is how to turn it on.
Start Regedit.
Navigate [...]

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory
management -atleast 256MB of ram recccomended
go to start runregedit -and then to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management
1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 – this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster [...]

This tweak will launch WindowsMediaPlayer with the ‘AboveNormal’ priority setting when opening a mediafile.
Having trouble watching a movie when you also have a lot of background processes going on?
Here’s what to do:
1. Create a new textfile in the root of c:, but instead of giving it the .txt extension you name it [...]

Normally when you open or access a document or file it is added to the list of recent documents on the Start Menu. This tweak will stop files from being added to the list.
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called ‘NoRecentDocsHistory’ set [...]

You can end non-responsive tasks without hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL with this tweak.
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopAutoEndTasks
Set the value to be 1
In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of milliseconds you want.

This is a safe tweak that I’ve tried on Windows 98/ME.
It has to do with VFAT. You don’t have to know anything about this to try it. We’re going to trick your Windows 98 into thinking it’s a Network Server. Actually it’s not a trick, but a setting.
Right-Click the My Computer icon on the desktop, [...]

Go to “administrative tools” in the control panel, and in the “services” list, disable the IMAPI CD-Burning COM service. (Note: manual setting is not enough it must be disabled) It is the built-in CD-burning capability for windowsXP (incidentally, written by Roxio).
Note: This solved my problem with not being able to access CDRW’s from a previous [...]

For added security you should always clear the page file upon shutting down your computer. Windows uses this file as extra ram. Lets say that you are working on a confidential MS Word doc.
When you load this document it is loaded into ram. To save ram windows places certain items in the page file. The [...]

Window Xp is known for its beautiful new interface, coupled with the stabilty of Windows 2000. The only problem is, there are some chinks you may want to iron out. XP comes with a whole bunch of in-built applications that are really useful if you want to run a server or some database application. The [...]