Tweak Registry to Fast Shutdown Windows XP and Vista

When ever you click the shutdown button on your PC running Windows XP or Vista it usually stand still without any activity and sometimes blinks, well at that stage it just closing all the applications and it might take some minutes, but I just found a easy registry tweak that can make that process actually very fast just follow below steps and you will be able to shutdown at a pace of time.
Well we are going to tweak the registry entries so its basically a technical work if you are not comfortable with editing your registry than you should not do it without consulting any of your good geek friend. So follow below steps separately for Windows XP and Vista.

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INCREASE YOUR COMPUTER SPEED

**Increase your Computer Speed**
This trick will help your computer work faster than ever before. To increase the speed of your computer, please follow the steps below:
· Go to start, click run and then type “regedit”
· Select "HKEY_CURRENT_USER”, then select control panel folder and after that select the desktop folder. Make sure you do it correctly.
· You will see "registry setting" on your right hand side. After, select "menu show delay”, then right click on it and select "modify".

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LOCK any folder without Software[win xp]

**To Lock a folder in windows XP without any software. Follow the steps Below.**
1.Make a Folder in C drive rename it as "abc" without quotes.
2.Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu.
3.Type "attrib +s +h C:\abc" without quotes and press

enter.
This command will Make your folder invisble and it can not be seen even in hidden files and folders
4.To make it visible again type "attrib -s -h C:\abc"
You can lock any other folder also by changing the location C:\abc to address of your folder.

The options +s is for making it system folder, +h for hiding it. And -s for removing it to be system folder, and -h for unhiding it.

Here is some tricks how to lock a folder by making it look like control panel so that if anybody opens it, he will see control panel. this only works in XP. Doesn't work on Windows 7.

ust append the following string to your folder name including dot(.)

1, .{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}


and press enter. you will see it looks like control panel.
2. if you want to make it hidden,then follow the above mentioned steps..enjoy

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WINDOWS HACK: End non-responsive tasks and make computer faster

Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks::

You can automatically kill the program that is not responding in your OS by the following tweak

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER >Control Panel >Desktop>AutoEndTasks
3. Set the value to be 1
4. In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of milliseconds you want..

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