Make Your Own Icons In Windows XP !

Now even personalize your ICONS with Windows XP !

To make your own ICON :

1. Start>>All Programs>>Accessories
2. Click Paint
3. In toolbar select Image
4. Click Attributes

--------------------- Note : The size of a icon is 32 x 32 pixels ! ---------------------

5. Type 32 in both Height and Width and sure that Pixels is selected under Units
6. Click OK
7. Now add your photo or design .
8. File>>Save As
9. Type name.ico
10. Click Save

Enjoy your New ICON !!!


Posted by Yugal Jindle

Labels: Windows XP Tricks

XP: What is the Msocache Folder and How to Remove It

Local Install Source copies Office installation source files from the Microsoft Office 2003 installation media into a hidden folder on the hard drive called the Msocache folder. This describes how to remove this folder.

Local Install Source creates this hidden folder when Office 2003 is installed to prevent the user from having to insert the CD during installation and maintenance.

It usually takes up > 200 MB of space. You’ll have to decide if this convenience is worth the hard drive space or not.

You can prevent it from being place on your drive in the first place by selecting Delete installation filescheck box during the installation.

Removing it once it is created is not difficult. 1. Do not use explorer to delete this folder. Just running the Disk Cleanup Wizard will take care of it.

1. Click Start
2. Select All Programs
3. Select Accessories
4. Select System Tools
5. Click Disk Cleanup
6. Disk Cleanup will do its calculations
7. From the Drives list in the Select Drive dialog box, select the hard drive that contains the Msocache folder
8. More calculations…
9. Select the Office Setup Files checkbox in the Files to Delete list
10. Click OK.
11. When you are asked Are you sure you want to delete these files? select Yes

Moving or repairing of this folder is possible as well. Just use this tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/journ/listool.htm

FASTER STARTUP

Hello friends...In my previous post I showed you guys how to make the shutdown faster...Now I will show you how to make a faster startup...You can also do it manually...

1. Goto "start" and click "Run"...



2. Type "msconfig" and click "Ok"...the "System Configuration Utility" will appear...



3. Click "Startup" tab...Click "Disable All" tab...Click "Apply"...



4. Then click "Services" tab...Check the "Hide All Microsoft Service" box...Click "Disable All" tab...Click "Apply"...Close the window...



5. Click "Restart" and Windows XP will restart with only the system services and applications running resulting in a faster startup.

You are done...Enjoy your faster XP :-)

Note: You can remove those items from MSConfig which you have just disabled...Just follow the following steps:
1. Download "MSConfig Cleanup" from HERE.

Extract the file using WinRAR.
Password: xtrmhack.blogspot.com

2. Install and Run the program.
3. Press "Clean Up Selected".Press "Quit".You are done.

Note: This tweak will disable all non-system startup sevices and applications so if you have anything you want to run in the background such as Anti-Virus software do not disable that item.

Happy Hacking...Enjoy...

INCREASE VIRTUAL MEMORY

Hello friends...I hope you liked my post on locking a folder without any software...Now I will show you guys how to increase the Virtual Memory and make your system faster...Hope you will enjoy...

For computer users that multi-task or work with high performance applications, you should know about virtual memory and how to get the most from it. Virtual memory can be best described as simulated RAM. If your computer has 1 GB of RAM and you use up all of this memory with the OS and several applications, your computer is forced to compensate by switching from physical RAM to virtual memory. Without virtual memory, once your computer ran out of physical RAM, no other programs or higher performance could be possible.With virtual memory, the computer copies data from the RAM and writes it to the hard drive- essentially freeing up RAM and allowing you to open additional applications or allow a high performance application to run uninhibited.



However, the downside of virtual memory is that since virtual memory is copied to your hard drive and your hard drive is much slower than physical RAM, the user will notice a significant decrease in performance. If you would like to increase performance, there are a few things you can do. Here is a trick to increase virtual memory for both Windows XP and Vista.

1. To invoke the system properties dialog, click the Start button, right-click "My Computer" and select "Properties".This will open up your general system information dialog.



2. Click "Advanced" tab, then under "Performance", click "Settings".



3. "Performance Options" dialog box will appear...Click on "Advanced" tab...Then under "Virtual memory", click "Change".



4. Under "Drive [Volume Label]", click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.Under Paging file size for selected drive, check "Custom size" box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.Click "Set".



Note: You should choose the same amount for the initial size and maximum size.This will Stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file.

You are done...Your system is faster now...Have fun :-)

Happy Hacking...Enjoy...

Pc Tips Tricks Hacks

Loading time of your website or blog is one of the important factors influencing search engine optimization, which when is too slow could take the reader away from your website and move onto the next, thus indirectly affecting your page ranking as well. Some of the factors affecting the loading speed are the presence of Java Scripts and the lack of use of web-optimized images.


Follow the tips and tricks discussed here for improving the loading time of your web or blog.
1. Cache your pages:
Caching is one of the simple things, which you can do in ease, despite sounding technical it is very essential and crucial in enhancing the user experience. WordPress have a number of caching Plugins, which includes WP Super Cache and W3 total cache. W3 total cache has been most highly recommended for those using content delivery network (CDN) and CDN has an in-built option to activate automatically.
2. Compress HTML, CSS and JavaScript:
This is one of the best ways to reduce your blog loading speed and these are the culprits that make your blog load slowly and test your patience. Compression of Java Script and CSS has proved to reduce the loading time of your blog or website, and the best way to do this, if you are using Word Press is to use WP Minify plug-in.
3. Host your blog on a good and reliable webhost:
If you are thinking that you are wasting money on a good web-hosting domain then you are wrong. The use of cheaper hosting domains can cause frequent failures, which might be discouraging and reduce the performance of your blog causing you to lose regular visitors. Therefore, this is advisable, especially for a new blogger or a webmaster to go for some of the popular web hosting domains like Hostgator, especially if you are using WordPress.
 4. Optimize WordPress Images:
The time taken for a blog to load turns out to be longer than you would have thought of while using the image. However, many a times you will not feel like deserting some images that looks great on your blog or website. In such cases, it is best to optimize the images for your website and use some image editing tools or softwares like Adobe Photoshop to make the images much more web-friendly. If you are finding Photoshop a bit daunting, then there is automatic online image compression software called Smush.it, which is worth a try.
5. Avoid too many plug-ins:
There is a number of plug-ins in WordPress which may be tempting for you to use them in your WordPress blog or website. However, this is always good to keep the use of WordPress plug-ins to the minimal amount, and by choosing plug-ins that will suit more than one of your needs than choosing separate plug-in for each of your requirement. The lesser the plug-ins the lesser the loading speed of your website or blog.
6. Optimize website database:
This is one of the difficult things that you will be doing for reducing the loading time of your website or blog. One of the best ways to do this is not manually, as you may land up frequently with the following error, “database connection error”, even if you are making the smallest of the mistake. So one of the best things to do is to use the Word Press plug-in WP-Optimize, which does the job automatically without any errors.
7. Use content delivery network (CDN):
This helps to enhance the blog load time that this stores all the static pages onto their servers, and when any visitor comes to visit your website the blog content is served from the server of CDN. This also decreases the bandwidth usage of your current host, and Max CDN has been recommended to be the most affordable until to date.
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