Windows Tip's

1.
Windows uses a portion of the hard disk as RAM, constantly swapping data between RAM and hard disk as required. The speed of your hard disk is in the order of 1000 times slower than that of your main memory. Inefficient use of the swap file could considerable slow down your system to a very great extent. One of the best ways to speed up the swap file usage is to create a permanent swap file. In a permanent swap file, the file used for swapping information has a fixed size and location on your hard disk. When a temporary swap file is used, the location and size of the file is determined by application being used and is not predictable. Also, since a temporary swap file is constantly written to and is not fixed in size, it would be highly fragmented across the partition that holds it. A better option is to create the swap file on a dedicated partition on your hard disk. By doing this, the swap file will never be fragmented since that partition is only being utilized by the swap file itself. You can configure the swap file size and location from
Control Panel > System > Performance > Virtual Memory. The size of the swap file should be around 2.5 times the amount of RAM on the system.

2. Dummy entries in Add/Remove Programs list

Sometimes, even after program are uninstalled, or due to the files being deleted instead of a uninstalled, the entry in the Add/Remove Programs list does not get deleted. To remove it form the list:
i. Start the Registry Editor.
ii. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. iii. Delete the program entry here. You can also use Tweak UI to do this.

3. Restart only Windows
When restarting Windows, you don't always need to go to thought the BIOS initialization and POST. Instead of simple clicking on Restart form the Shut Down Windows dialog box, help down the Shift key as you click on OK. This will restart only Windows. This is particularly useful when you change some registry entries or a few system settings.Improve Removable Disk Drive PerformanceWindows gives you the option to use write-behind caching to improve the performance of removable disk drivers.
*Open control Panel > System > Performance and click on File System.
*Check the Enable write-behind caching on all removable disk drives check box under the removable Disk tab and click OK
Note: If this result in a problem with disk operations, uncheck the Enable write-behind caching on all removable disk drives check box.

4. Speed up your modem
Even if your modem if apparently working well, the baud rate of your COM Port might not allow you to reach top-speed. To improve your port's speed:
*Click Start >Settings > Control Panel > System.
*Click the Device Manager tab, and click on the "+" sign next to Ports (COM & LPT).
*Select the port your modem uses, click Properties, then click the Port settings tab and set the Bits per second to 115200 bps. That way you won't have a sort of filter on the Port.

5. A clean Run!
To remove unwanted items form the Run menu:
*Start the Registry Editor.
*Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU.*Delete the entries that you do not want on Run menu.
*Close the Registry Editor and Restart Windows.
Note: Do not delete the (Default) or MRUList values.

6.Stop your modem from frequently disconnecting
*On the Desk Top Double click on the icon "My Computer"
*Double click on Dial Up Networking
*Right click on the dialer that you are using and select Properties on the menu, click on configure
*Click on the Connection Tab and click on Advanced, in Extra Settings, type ats10=250