iexpress

iexpress is integrated utility on windows xp that can be used to compress and create self extraction file. To use for this feature, follow these steps:

1. go to run (windows + R)
2. type "iexpress" (without quote)
3. IExpress Wizard will show

Block Access From Computer to FlashDisk

This tips should prevent transfer data from your Computer to Flashdisk. You will be able to transfer data from Computer to Flashdisk, but not from FlashDisk to Computer. Follow these steps:

1. Press windows + R keys togethe.
2. Run window will appear, type regedit.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control .
4. Right-click on the Control folder, select New -> Key, Rename the new folder with "StorageDevicesPolicies".
5. Go to the folder "StorageDevicesPolicies", right click, select New -> Dword, Rename with "WriteProtect".
6. The contents of the data value "WriteProtect" with 1.

Change Owner Name Windows Vista

Trick below is used to change the name of ownership on windows vista. Follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows + R keys simultaneousl.
2. In the run window, type regedi.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion.
4. Double-click on RegisteredOwner, replace the value data as you wish.

On Screen Keyboard

As we know, the windows have many hidden features. One of them is on screen keyboard. To create this feature, follow these steps:

1. Click Start -> All Programs.
2. select Accessories -> Accessbility.
3. On the menu that appears, select On-Screen Keyboard.

Or with a quick way:

1. Press Windows + R keys together.
2. Run window will appear.
3. Type "osk" ( without quote) and press Enter.

Disable Hibernation

Windows hibernation background services use a very large amount of system resources. If you are like most people you don’t use the Hibernate feature very much so you may want to disable it to give Vista a performance boost.
To shut down Hibernation:

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Click the Classic View on the left hand side
4. Double-click on Power Options
5. Select Change Plan Settings
6. Choose Change Advanced Power Settings
7. Click the Sleep “plus” icon
8. Click the Hibernate After “plus” icon
9. Adjust your selector down to zero minutes
10. Click Apply
11. Click OK

Disable Remote Differential Compression

Remote Differential Compression checks the changes of your files over a network to move them with as little bandwidth as possible instead of transferring an entire file that has previously been moved. Obiviously, the average home PC user has no need for this service. With it constantly checking for file changes, this service will greatly slow system performance. To shut down this service:

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Click Classic View on the left side of the window
4. Double-click on Programs and Features
5. Click Turn Windows Features On And Off on the left side of the window
6. Uncheck Remote Differential Compression
7. Click OK

Disable Un-Used Services

Services are background processes which keep running waiting for a response, so if you don’t use the application it still runs and slows PC speed. The average user doesn’t need many running.

1. Click the Start button
2. Type msconfig in the Start Search box, hit enter
3. Click the Services tab
4. Uncheck the unneeded startup items (examples below)

• Desktop Window Manager Session Manager - Provides Desktop window Manager startup and maintenance services. Uncheck to disable.
• Diagnostic Policy Service - Enables problem detection, troubleshooting and resolution for Windows components. Uncheck to disable.
• Diagnostic Service Host - Same as above
• Diagnostic System Host - Same as above
• Offline Files - The Offline Files service performs maintenance activities on the Offline Files cache. Uncheck to disable.
• Terminal Services - Allows users to connect interactively to a remote computer. Remote Desktop and Terminal Server depend on this service. If you don’t use either of these, then you can disable the service. Uncheck to disable.
• Windows Error Reporting Service - Allows errors to be reported when programs stop working or responding and allows existing solutions to be delivered. Uncheck to disable.
• After you are finished, click Apply then click OK to save changes

Disable Some Features

There are many new features in Windows Vista that are installed by default that you may not need. These extra and un-needed features can slow down your computer and take up more storage space. Windows Features can be un-installed using the Windows Features utility. Follow these steps to uninstall applications such as the Windows Fax and Scan and many more. To Turn-Off Some Un-Needed Features:

1. Go to Start Menu --> select Control Panel
2. Under Programs click Uninstall a program
3. On the left side menu, click on Turn Windows features on or off
4. Scroll through the list as shown below and uncheck from any feature you do not want installed.
5. Click OK when you are finished making your changes. The features will now be uninstalled.

Disable Windows Defender

Windows Defender real-time protection against malware continues to run despite having Automatic operation disabled. In actuality, this built-in malware protector from Microsoft is very poor at protecting your computer from external threats. To disable Windows Defender:

1. Click the Start button
2. Type “services” into the Start Search box
3. Find Windows Defender in the list of programs
4. Double-click on Windows Defender
5. Choose Tools from the top menu
6. Select Options
7. Uncheck Auto Start at the bottom of the window

Disable Auto Defragment

Windows Vista uses an always-on defragment set up that isn’t that necessary and will cause your system to slow down. Remember to run a defragment manually once a month.

To shut down this feature:

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Computer
3. Right-click on C: Drive icon
4. Select Properties
5. Click the Tools tab
6. Uncheck Run on a schedule
7. Click OK

Disable File Indexing

Windows Vista Search Indexing is constantly checking the files on your system to make their information available for quick searching. This is helpful, but can severely slow system performance as the average user doesn’t use the search function frequently.To shut down constant indexing:

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Computer
3. Right-click on the C: Drive icon
4. Select Properties
5. Select the General Tab
6. Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching
7. On the next dialog box, select Apply Changes to Drive C:, subfolders and files
8. Click OK

Reduce Graphical Effects

Vista looks beautifull because of its new aero glass transparency effects. Here is how to enable and disable this new eye candy.

1. Click Start (Windows) button
2. Select the Control Panel
3. Double-click Click Appearance and Personalization
4. Under Personalization, click Change the color scheme
5. In the Appearance Settings dialog box, click Windows Vista Basic, and then click OK.
6. Or, if you prefer a Windows 2000-style interface, click Windows Standard, and then click OK.

Disable UAC

Now, there’s a lot of talk about the new User Account Control policy in Vista, and all I can say is that it annoys the heck out of 99% of users and slows down normal computer usage. To turn it off, the easiest way is to:

1. Click the Start (Windows) button
2. Select the Control Panel
3. Type in ‘UAC‘ into the search bar
4. It’ll bring up a search result of ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’
5. Just follow the prompts from there

Remove Your Programs

You may have a bunch of software packages on your hard drive that are no longer needed, or they were gratuitously installed when you downloaded some other package. Toolbars, file-sharing programs, free email enhancers, online shopping "companions" and download managers are notorious for this practice. These uninvited guests can put a big drag on your startup time, cause web pages to load slowly, and generally bog down your computer.

1. Click Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Double-click Add/Remove Programs icon
4. See what programs are installed that you don’t typically use
5. Select the Remove button for the ones you know you don't need

If you’re unsure about some programs, do a web search to learn about the ones that you need to keep.

Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of memory and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Click Start button
2. Select the Control Panel
3. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
4. Click the Add/Remove Window Components icon on the left side of the window
5. This may take a few seconds to load. Be patient.
6. Look for the “Indexing Services” component in the list
7. Uncheck the Indexing Services
8. Click Next
9. Click Finish

Enable DMA

DMA stands for Direct Memory Access, a capability in modern computers that allows peripheral devices to send data to the motherboard's memory without intervention from the CPU. The DMA controllers are special hardware - now embedded into the chip in modern integrated processors - that manage the data transfers and arbitrate access to the system bus. To enable DMA, follow this steps :

1. Right-click on My Computer, select Properties
2. Select the Hardware tab
3. Click the Device Manager button
4. Double-click IDE/ATAPI controllers
5. Double-click on the Primary IDE Channel
6. Click on the Advanced Settings tab (as shown in figure) The tab may or may not be available for each option. It is only available in Primary and Secondary Channels.
7. Set the Transfer Mode to "DMA if Available" both for Device 1 and 0
8. Click OK
9. Perform the same operation for other items in the list, if applicable.

Rename Recycle Bin

Bored with the recycle bin? Immediately replace with the name you want. For that you need to follow step:

1. Click Start --> Run, type regedit

  

2. Go to : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID \ (645FF040-5081-101B-
    9F08-00AA002F954E).

3. Find "Localized string" on right column, double click and type what you
    want on value box.

Disk Defragmenter

Files that are stored in the hard disk will be fragmented long run, this of course can slow system performance. To do this disk defragmenter at least once a month. Follow the steps below:

1. Click Start --> All programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> 
    Disk Defragmenter
2. Disk Defragmenter window will open

 

3. Select the drive, then click Analyze
4. If show message like "You should defragment this volume", it better
    if you defrag the current volume, simply click Defragment. But if
    show message like "Tou do not need to defrag this volume", you can
    cancel defragment process for current volume.

After defragment process your system performance should increase, even little.

Run Disk Cleanup

Both Windows and application programs tend to leave temporary files lying around on your hard drive, taking up space. A hard drive that is close to being “full” can cause Windows to slow down or interfere with efficient disk access and virtual memory operations. If you surf the web a lot, your temporary internet files folder can become quite large, causing web browsers to slow down or malfunction. Cleaning up unneeded files, scanning for disk errors and defragmenting the hard drive can help to restore some zip to your system. Try to run once a month for peak performance.

1. Click Start --> All Programs -->Accessories --> System Tools--> Disk
    Cleanup
2. Disk Cleanup window will open

 

3. Select drive on scroll box, click Ok
4. New window will show

 

5. Select / checkTemporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin and Compressed
    Old Files
6. Click OK, wait until process finish

Decrease Size of Page File

Page file size is not constant by default. Due to this, the operating system has to resize the file each time more space is required. This is a performance overhead. All you have to do is to set the file size to a reasonable limit.
Follow the steps:

1. Right-click My Computer, Select Properties
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Click the Settings button under the Performance section
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. Under the Virtual Memory section click the Change button
6. "Virtual Memory" dialogue box will appear
7. Highlight the C: drive containing page file
8. Select the Custom Size radio button and give same values in Initial size and Maximum size fields:
   If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.
   
9. Click Set, then OK buttons to apply the changes

Increase File Browsing Speed

You may have noticed that every time you open “My Computer” to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing speed significantly:

1. Double-click on My Computer
2. Click the Tools menu
3. Select Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click OK
8. Reboot your computer

Reduce Visual Effects

More visual effects on Windows XP can look beautifull but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimize:

1. Click the Start button
2. Left click on MyComputer icon, then click properties
3. System Properties window show, click tab advanced
4. Find performance column, then click settings
4. Performance Options window show, click tab visual effects
6. On checklist option, leave only the following ticked:
a. Smooth edges of screen fonts
b. Use common task in folders
c. Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
d. Use visual styles on windows and buttons
7. Finally, click Apply and OK


Now look on task manager, page file now has been small decrease. It's mean that your computer run more responsive.

Disable Extra Startup Programs

There are certain programs that Windows will start every time you boot up your system, and during the startup phase, they're all competing for a slice of your CPU speed. Extra or unwanted items in the startup list will definitely increase your startup time, perhaps by several minutes. Some common examples are things related to AOL, RealPlayer, Napster, instant messengers, and video managers. If you're not sure about an item, no big deal. You can turn it off, restart your PC, and see if everything seems to work. If not, you can always go back and re-enable an item in the Startup list. Just follow step by step below :

1. Go to Start button Run
2. Type "msconfig", without quotations
3. Hit enter key or click the OK button
4. A System Configuration Utility window will show up
5. Click the Startup tab
6. In the Startup tab you will see several boxes and some of them will selected (checked). All you have to do is to uncheck extra items that are of no use. If you run an antivirus program it is not recommended to uncheck it.
7. After making you choices press the OK button, you will be prompted to restart computer to apply changes.
8. After restarting your computer a dialogue will be displayed.


You can check the option for not showing this dialogue every time your PC reboots.

Disable-Enable Registry Editor

1. Disable Registry

Open Notepad then copy / paste the code below,  then saveAs : your_file_name.reg

 
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System]
"DisableRegistryTools" = dword: 00000001

2. Enable Registry

 
Open Notepad then copy / paste the code below, then saveAs: your_file_name.vbs

 
'Enable Registry Editing'
'A? Veegertx - 4/7/2004
'This code may be freely distributed / modified
On Error Resume Next
'Prevents errors from values that do not exist
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ( "WScript.Shell")
'Delete DisableRegistryTools registry values
WshShell.RegDelete
"HKCU \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System \ DisableRegistryTools"
WshShell.RegDelete
"HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System \ DisableRegistryTools "
'display message Message = "You now can  open regedit"
X = MsgBox (Message, vbOKOnly, "OK")
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
[/ code]

Disable MS DOS Command Prompt

Setting the following will prevent the "use" MS-DOS command prompt in Windows. First open regedit with Start->Run, type regedit.



Go to Key :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ WinOldApp

Value Name: Disabled
Data Type: DWORD Value
Data: (0 = enable DOS, 1 = disable DOS)

Then restart or logoff windows.

How to rip Dynamic Flash Template

What you need:

Sample dynamic flash template from TM website
Sothink SWF Decompiler
Macromedia Flash
Yourself


1. browse or search your favorite dynamic flash template in TM website. If you got one... click the "view" link and new window will open with dynamic flash.. loading...

2. If the movie fully loaded, click View -> Source in your browser to bring the source code of the current page and in the source code, search for "IFRAME" and you will see the iframe page. In this example were going to try the 7045 dynamic template. get the URL(ex.
http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/7000/7045.html) then paste it to your browser... easy eh? wait! dont be to excited... erase the .html and change it to swf then press enter then you'll see the flash movie again icon_smile.gif.

3. copy the URL and download that SWF file.. use your favorite download manager.. mine I used flashget icon_smile.gif NOTE: dont close the browser we may need that later on.

4. open your Sothink SWF decompiler... click "Quick Open" then browse where you download your SWF/movie file. Click Export FLA to export your SWF to FLA, in short, save it as FLA icon_smile.gif

5. Open your Macromedia FLash and open the saved FLA file. press Control+Enter or publish the file... then wallah! the output window will come up with "Error opening URL blah blah blah..." dont panic, that error will help you where to get the remaining files.

6. Copy the first error, example: "7045_main.html" then go back to your browser and replace the 7045.swf to 7045_main.html press enter and you'll see a lot of text... nonsense text icon_lol.gif that text are your contents...

When you save the remaining files dont forget to save with underscore sign (_) in the front on the file without the TM item number (e.g. 7045) if it is html save it as "_main.html" and same with the image save it as "_works1.jpg" save them where you save the FLA and SWF files. Continue browsing the file inside Flash application so you can track the remaining files... do the same until you finish downloading all the remaining the files.

Accelerate The Start-Up

Like other Microsoft operating systems, when to install the program into the hard disk. Generally put some programs such as auto update feature, driver or program on the additional start-up. Maybe you did not realize if program that placed on the Windows start-up is also slow when Windows XP will be used.

To open the program and see what is loaded when Windows XP first started working. You can type in the Run, with regedit


Regedit function is to see the windows registry and change when needed. Located in the startup area. Or use msconfig to run through the Run.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run

Some of the programs that will be loaded on the system beyond the Windows XP Windows XP is placed in the RUN area. Make sure that when the task to remove the startup program in the RUN directory is not a program you use.

Windows XP Color Quality

If you feel your desktop screen a little slow, try to reduce color quality of the display from 32-bit to 16 bit. In addition to accelerating the performance of desktop, the image of the screen is also more responsive. Changing the color level of 32 bits to 16 bits will reduce the image display on the desktop computer, especially those who need quality impressions with a color image such as photo realistic. If you do not need a display screen as the photo editing applications, and 3D, 16 bit color with the more profitable your screen faster.