Shutdown your system fast

Most of the time windows shutdowns too slow. Heres the way to fasten your shutdown speed.

open regedit and then go to:-

HLocal_machine _user/system/controlset001/control
in the right hand panel you wil finad a DWORD named "wait to kill service time out"
its the last key there.Just double click on it and the change its value to 0 .
the default is 20000.
This will give no waiting time for running processes, and hence will
shutdown/restart your pc in less than 5 secs..

Clean the Prefetch to Improve the system Performance
Clean Your Prefetch to Improve Performance

This is a unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to scrub registry
and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically.
Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP.
However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can
get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your
computer noticeably.
Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files,
reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month.

How to turn off Low Disk Space warning in Windows XP ?

Annoyed by the Low disk space warning that comes in the tray icon whenever your disk runs out of space ? Do you want to turn of the Low disk space warning ?

• Open your registry editor by typing " REGEDIT " in the run prompt .
• Navigate as follows : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.
• Now Right Click in the right pane , Click New -> Dword and name it asNoLowDiskSpaceChecks.
  
• Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value as 1, and press OK.

Thats it . From now on you wont get annoying Low disk space error .

Add sound to almost every event in Windows

XP comes with a new set of sounds that will surely add pizzazz to the way you work in Windows. But there's one problem -- you need to actually turn on the Windows default sound scheme before you'll be able to hear them.


To turn on the Windows XP default sound scheme, follow these directions:

Single-click the Start menu.
Single-click the Control Panel.
Single-click the Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices icon.
Single-click the Sounds and Audio Devices icon or the text labeled "Change the sound scheme."
Make sure you're on the Sound tab and locate the pull-down menu under Sound scheme.
Select the Windows Default option and press Apply. Windows will ask you if you want to save the previous sound scheme. Since there wasn't a sound scheme already loaded, just choose No.

If you look under the text labeled "Program events," you'll be able to sample your new sounds or customize them with your own. Read Customize Events Sounds if you'd like to learn how to do this yourself.