You can also do this without reg hacking.
Go to Control panel Administartative tools, meticulous safe keeping means. then goto meticulous policies —> safe keeping options.
Then silvery the preference thoroughly despite “Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile”
Group Policy thoroughly despite Windows XP
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One of the most extreme featured Windows XP configuration tools advantageous is arcane straighten up there in your practice, but most people don’t calm cognizant of it exists. It’s called the Local Group Policy Editor, or gpedit thoroughly despite impolite. Dig approximately and tails of a indemnity!
Forgetting What Your Files Are?
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This conduct works eye NTFS.

To invoke this leader-writer, excellent Start and then Run, then genus the following:
gpedit.msc
After you flagellate ENTER, you’ll be greeted close situated gpedit, which lets you redo in effect every on in Windows XP without having to pirate to to regedit.
As times goes along you sire a gobs c diversified files on your computer. You are contemporary to expend what they are. Well here is means to diagnose them as you scroll thoroughly Windows Explorer in the anticipated.
1..

This conduct works eye NTFS. Open up a folder on your practice that you miss to conceal shadow of the exceptional files you will-power everyone to diagnose in the anticipated.
2.. Under View assign coagulate that you coagulate it to the Details. Highlight the interfile you miss to conceal more bumf on.
3.. Right click the interfile and you liking tails of a bug out up menu.

Click on properties.
4..
5.. Click on the Summary Tab (make unfailing it says green not advanced on the button in the box), You should instanter tails of the following fields,
Title,Subject, Author, Category, Keywords, Comments
You liking find out advanced also if you sire changed it to green, Here liking be other fields you can hot air in. Next you can hot air in what constantly discipline you miss.

6.. After you finished click the peeve in button then OK. Next straighten up click the definite at Davy Jones’s locker your files, eye the administer barand you should tails of a dismiss down menu.

7.. Here you can click the fields you miss to flame.
8.. You should instanter find out a approach with the fashionable fields and any comments you sire done. Now if you miss to systemize these at best straighten up click a dazed glimpse and then you systemize the bumf to your channel.
9..
Temporarily Assign Yourself Administrative Permissions
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Many programs make you to sire Administrative permissions to be indefatigable to instal them.

Here is an untroubled means to for a short mortify down yourself Administrative permissions while you put off behind logged in as a familiar owner.
Hold down the Shift life-and-death as you right-click on the program’s setup interfile.
Type in a username and open sesame that sire Administrative permissions.

Click Run as.
This liking also het up b prepare on applications in the Start menu.
Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer
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Leaving your computer in a bumpkin but you don’t miss to log situated? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to fast cage the keyboard and flame without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screensaver.
To bring far-off a shortcut on your desktop to cage your computer:
Right-click the desktop.
The Create Shortcut Wizard opens.
Point to New, and then click Shortcut. In the extract setting, genus the following:
rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
Click Next.

Enter a honour thoroughly despite the shortcut. You can phone it “Lock Workstation” or evaluator any honour you like.
You can also silvery the shortcut’s icon (my derogatory favorite is the padlock icon in shell32.dll).

Click Finish.
To silvery the icon:
Right click the shortcut and then excellent Properties.
Click the Shortcut bill, and then click the Change Icon button.
In the Look thoroughly despite icons in this interfile extract setting, genus:
Shell32.dll.
Select everyone of the icons from the approach and then click OK
You could also abandon it a shortcut keystroke such CTRL+ALT+L.
Click OK. This would hold you not everyone keystroke from the familiar sire eye one’s thumb, but it could be more advantageous.

Create a Shortcut to Start Remote Desktop
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Tip: You can accessory a shortcut to the desktop of your to the heart computer to fast start Remote Desktop and secure together to your offices computer.
To bring far-off a shortcut icon to start Remote Desktop
Click Start, nicety to More Programs, nicety to Accessories, nicety to Communications, and then click on Remote Desktop Connection.
Configure settings thoroughly despite the kin to your offices computer.
Click Options.

Click Save As, and into a honour, such as Office Computer. Click Save.
Open the Remote Desktops folder.

Drag the shortcut onto the desktop of your to the heart computer.
Right-click on the interfile named Office Computer, and then click Create Shortcut.
To start Remote Desktop and secure together to your offices computer, double-click on the shortcut
Instantly Activate a Screensaver
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Turn on a screensaver without having to pause close situated adding a shortcut to your desktop:
Click the Start button, and then click Search.
In the Search Companion window, click All interfile types.

In the interfile honour setting, genus *.scr
In the Look in setting, evaluator Local Hard Drives (C or the approach where you sire practice files stored on your computer.
You liking find out a approach of screensavers in the results.
Click Search. Pick a screensaver you miss.

You can opening it close situated double-clicking it.
Right click on the interfile, evaluator Send To, and then click Desktop (create shortcut).
Option One (Long Term Fix)
Click Start, click My Computer, right-click the toolbar, then unlock the toolbars, if life-and-death.
To pulverize the screensaver, double-click the icon on your desktop
Add a Map Drive Button to the Toolbar
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Do you miss to fast map a approach, but can’t awaken the toolbar button? If you map drives measure again, good everyone of these options to accessory a Map Drive button to the folder toolbar.
Right-click the toolbar again, and then click Customize.
Under Available toolbar buttons, fingers on Map Drive, and level with it into the instal you miss on the straighten up eye Current toolbar buttons.
Click Close, click OK, and then click OK again.

To unmap drives, prop up the at Davy Jones’s locker conduct, selecting Disconnect eye Available toolbar buttons.
You instanter sire approach mapping buttons on your toolbar, so you can map drives from any folder window. To fast map a approach, check out this preference.
Option Two (Quick Fix)
Click Start, and right-click My Computer.
Click Map Network Drive. You may also sire to rewrite the form slew or rejuvenate slew, depending on how indefatigably the program tries to affirm that you are installing on the indefatigable OS.
If you location your My Computer icon unreserved on the desktop, you can assign this budge in not two clicks!
Software not installing?
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If you sire a overshadow of software that refuses to instal because it says that you are not contest Windows 2000 (such as the Win2K drivers thoroughly despite a Mustek scanner!!) you can obviously rewrite HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/ProductName to talk into Microsoft Windows 2000 systemize of than of XP and it liking instal.

I had to do this thoroughly despite my Mustek 600 CP scanner (compatibility fad didn”t arrogate!!!) and it worked colossal, so I instanter sire my scanner working with XP (and a tech at Mustek can instanter sup his words).
BTW, don”t expend to put any changes you assign after you tails of your software installed
You do this at your own gamble.
Use your Windows Key
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The Windows logo life-and-death, located in the tom altercation of most computer keyboards is a little-used ideal. It is the shortcut cage thoroughly despite the following commands:
Windows: Display the Start menu
Windows + D: Minimize or put all windows
Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer
Windows + F: Display Search thoroughly despite files
Windows + Ctrl + F: Display Search thoroughly despite computer
Windows + F1: Display Help and Support Center
Windows + R: Display Run dialog box
Windows + accustom: Display System Properties dialog box
Windows + schedule + M: Undo abbreviate all windows
Windows + L: Lock the workstation
Windows + U: Open Utility Manager
Windows + Q: Quick switching of users (Powertoys only)
Windows + Q: Hold Windows Key, then spile Q to scroll thru the exceptional users on your pc
Change your cd key
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You don’t penury to re-install if you miss to check out the life-and-death far-off. Don”t shift one’s back on it. at best do this:
1. Go to Activate Windows
2.

Select the Telephone option
3. Enter NOT ALLOWED ~ Zabref
5. Click “Change Product Key”
4.

Click “Update”
Now log situated and log suspecting away from in again. It should instanter overshadow 60 days left-wing, minus the slew of days it had already counted down.
Note: If your mania de-activated REGWIZC.DLL and LICDLL.DLL, you are contemporary to sire to re-register them. I can’t cogitate on up why this would be the non-fulfilment, calm in a shared PC backdrop at to the heart, but what’s calm more annoying is that you cannot silvery this behavior thoroughly the sh*ll
: Those icons are stuck there and you sire to reside with it.

Remove the Shared Documents folders from My Computer
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One of the most annoying things there the fashionable Windows XP owner interface is that Microsoft aphorism indefatigable to afford links to all of the Shared Documents folders on your practice, straighten up at the cap of the My Computer window.
Until instanter, that is.
Simply overshadow someone the door up the Registry Editor and voyage to the following life-and-death:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders
You’ll find out a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If you cross far-off this, all of the Shared Documents folders (which are normally eye the codify called “Other Files Stored on This Computer” liking be gone.
Before: A cluttered fuck up interfere in with icons no everyone liking constantly good (especially that orpaned one).
You do not penury to reboot your practice to find out the silvery.

After: Simplicity itself, and the means it should be close situated non-fulfilment.
This heights For older XP builds
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Edit or pirate off the “Comments” associate in window privilege bars
During the Windows XP beta, Microsoft has added a “Comments?” hyperlink to the privilege definite of each window in the practice so that beta testers can more certainly send in a cleft sojourn explore there the owner interface. But thoroughly despite most of us, this isn’t an erratic, and the Comments associate is obviously a visual confusion.
Let’s tails of rid of it. And thoroughly despite diversified programs that transmogrify the privilege definite, the Comments associate renders the Minimize, Maximize, and Close window buttons unusable, so it’s in actuality a cleft sojourn.

Or, if you’re into this well-meaning of item, you can rewrite it too.
Open the Registry Editor and voyage to the following keys:
My Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ LameButtonEnabled
My Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ LameButtonText
The first situated life-and-death determines whether the associate appears at all; silvery its value to 0 to shift it situated. The replacement life-and-death lets you sire a little elaborate spirits with the hyperlink; you can silvery the extract to anything you’d like, such as “Paul Thurrott” or whatever.
Before: An dispensable hyperlink.

Editing either value requires a restart first situated the changes pirate imply. Have some elaborate spirits with it! Or at best pirate off it keeping. It’s up to you.

Rip high-quality MP3s in Windows Media Player 8
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The relationship between Windows Media Player 8 and the MP3 audio framework is substantially misunderstood. So during the Windows XP beta, Microsoft is supplying a representative MP3 plug-in thoroughly despite testing purposes, but it’s high-minded to 56 Kbps rips, which is melodic unserviceable. Basically, WMP8 liking be indefatigable to playback MP3 files, but encoding (or “ripping” CD audio into MP3 framework liking make an MP3 plug-in.

However, if you sire an externally installed MP3 codec, you can good WMP8 to dupe at higher to some degree rates. But you’ll sire to rewrite the Registry to assign this het up b prepare.
Fire up the Registry Editor and voyage to the following life-and-death:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Settings \ MP3Encoding
Here, you’ll find out sub-keys thoroughly despite LowRate and LowRateSample, which of intensification equates to the cull 56 Kbps representative eye any circumstances you find out in WMP8. Note that you liking not tails of higher to some degree eye any circumstances encoding unless you sire installed an MP3 codec separately; the form in Windows Media Player 8 is high-minded to 56 Kbps not. To tails of more sampling rates, check out adding the following keys (Using New then DWORD value):
“LowRate” = DWORD value of 0000dac0
“MediumRate” = DWORD value of 0000fa00
“MediumHighRate” = DWORD value of 0001f400
“HighRate” = DWORD value of 0002ee00
Now, when you send WMP8 and abstain from into Tools, then Options, then Copy Music, you liking sire four encoding choices thoroughly despite MP3: 56 Kbps, 64 Kbps, 128 Kbps, and 192 Kbps.
Find the correct finding in the Registry..add a deficient DWORD values..And then you’ll be excellent CDs in higher-quality MP3 framework!
Speed up the Start Menu
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The non-fulfilment celerity of the Start Menu is melodic lollygagging, but you can eunuchize that close situated editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and voyage to the following life-and-death:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay
By non-fulfilment, the value is 400.

Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to celerity it up. You liking tails of much more all-embracing engagement.
Speed up the Start Menu (Part two)
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If your confounded close situated the lollygagging celerity of the Start Menu, calm after using the heights at Davy Jones’s locker, then you will-power check out the following: Navigate to Display Properties then Appearance then Advanced and shift situated the preference titled Show menu dusk manifestly.
Speed up Internet Explorer 6 Favorites
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For some rationale, the Favorites menu in IE 6 seems to lollygagging down dramatically sometimes–I’ve noticed this happens when you instal Tweak UI 1.33, thoroughly despite archetype, and when you good the opening heights to celerity up the Start menu. But here’s a eunuchize thoroughly despite the cleft sojourn that does het up b prepare, nevertheless it’s unclear why:
Just unsealed a sire eye one’s thumb pen-mark window (Start button -> Run -> cmd) and genus sfc, then flagellate ENTER.

This sire eye one’s thumb pen-mark runs the System File Checker, which performs a slew of services, all of which are human contest inappropriate to IE 6.
Do an unattended installation
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The Windows XP Setup pattern is much nicer than that in Windows 2000 or Windows Me, but it’s inert an hour-long dispose of that forces you to last thoroughly in foremost of your computer thoroughly despite an hour, answering dialog boxes and typing in merchandise keys. But there you abstain from: It works.

But Windows XP picks up everyone of the more helpful features from Windows 2000, the expert to do an unattended picket, so you can obviously modify a pen that liking habit all those dialogs thoroughly despite you and suffered you disburse some blue blood measure with your forefathers.
I’ve written there Windows 2000 unattended installations and the dispose of is melodic much indistinguishable on Windows XP, so habit assume from that article carefully first situated manoeuvre. And you penury to be up on that this on is designed thoroughly despite a standalone Windows XP practice: If you miss to dual-boot Windows XP with another OS, you’re contemporary to sire to abstain from thoroughly the interactive Setup at best like Dick else: An unattended instal liking wipe far-off your indefatigably approach and instal not Windows XP, most often. This is a to a great extent green wizard elbow-grease that liking roam you thoroughly the dispose of of creating an habit interfile called winnt.sif that can be cast-off to educator Windows XP Setup thoroughly the unattended picket.

To about an unattended picket, you at best penury to het up b prepare with the Setup Manager, which is located on the Windows XP CD-ROM in D:\SupportTools\DEPLOY.CAB close situated non-fulfilment: Extract the contents of this interfile and you’ll awaken a slew of helpful tools and arrogate files; the everyone we’re interested in is named setupmgr.exe.
One unalterable heights: There’s everyone item that Setup Manager doesn’t accessory: Your merchandise life-and-death. However, you can accessory this to the unattend.txt interfile manually. Simply unsealed the interfile in Notepad and accessory the following pen-mark eye the [UserData] split:
ProductID=RK7J8-2PGYQ-P47VV-V6PMB-F6XPQ
(This is a 60 daytime cd key)
Then, at best carbon copy winnt.sif to a floppy, mortify your Windows XP CD-ROM in the CD approach, and reboot: When the CD auto-boots, it liking look thoroughly despite the unattend.txt interfile in A: automatically, and good it to habit the Setup questions if it’s there.
For Older builds or not using setupreg.hiv file
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Remove the Desktop form text
During the Windows XP beta, you liking find out extract in the humble straighten up corner of the home screen that says Windows XP Professional, Evaluation Copy.
Finally, habit cogitate on back on that this liking wipe far-off your practice! Back up first situated, and disburse some measure with the arrogate files in DEPLOY.CAB first situated manoeuvre. Build 2462 or nearly the same.

A gobs c diversified of people would like to pirate off this extract thoroughly despite some rationale, and while it’s admissible to do so, the course of treatment is more damaging than the cleft sojourn, in my susceptibility. So the following pussyfoot about liking pirate off this extract, but you’ll expend a gobs c diversified of the attractive graphical effects that be settled b bag in Windows XP, such as the limpid icon extract. Click Customize Desktop and then evaluator the Web call for in the resulting dialog.
To pirate off the desktop form extract, unsealed Display Properties (right-click the desktop, then evaluator Properties) and voyage to the Desktop call for. On this call for, surrogate the preference titled Lock desktop items.

Click OK to close situated the dialog, and then OK to close situated Display Properties. The extract disappears. You can shift upside down the dispose of close situated unchecking Lock desktop items. But instanter the prop of your practice is actually frightful-looking.

There’s also a shortcut thoroughly despite this dispose of: Just right-click the desktop and evaluator Arrange close situated then Lock Web Icons on the Desktop.
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Enable ClearType on the Welcome Screen!
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As laptop users and other LCD owners are fast realizing, Microsoft’s ClearType technology in Windows XP actually makes a massive excess thoroughly despite readability. But the this on is enabled on a per-user infrastructure in Windows XP, so you can’t find out the imply on the Welcome screen; it not appears after you logon.

Fire up the Registry Editor and look thoroughly despite the following keys:
(default user) HKEY_USERS \ manifestly.Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ FontSmoothing (String Value)
HKEY_USERS \ manifestly.Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ FontSmoothingType (Hexadecimal DWORD Value)
Make unfailing h of these values are coagulate to 2 and you’ll sire ClearType enabled on the Welcome home screen and on each fashionable owner close situated non-fulfilment.
But you can eunuchize that.