How to disable shutdown button on the Log-in screen?

Windows 2000 Workstation's log-in screen has a "Shutdown" button which you can use to shutdown the system without ever logging in. But you can disable Windows 2000 Workstation's "Shutdown" button on the initial log-in screen:

• Run "RegEdit.exe" or "RegEdt32.exe"
• Select the following key:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
  SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\
  Current Version\Winlogon
• Add a value named "ShutdownWithoutLogon" of type "REG_SZ" and set it to "0".
• Restart Windows

How to Disable or Enable Auto run CD in Windows XP?

In windows XP you can enjoy a good feature to run CD or DVD automatically when you loaded it into you CD drives on your computer. This is a defaults feature in windows XP but you can disable and enable it according to your nature of work. In user interface mode there is no option to disable or enable this feature, you must edit the registry of windows and be careful to work registry.

Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

Here you can disable or enable automatically running your CD. Change the value of Autorun to 0 for disable and change the value to 1 for enable. At the end restart your computer for this change.

How to speed up the Start Menu?

If you are still working with old or slow computer but don't worry, you can give surprise your friends with making some changing in windows registry. Edit your computer registry keys to speed up your computer start menu, because the default speed of start menu is slow. After these changes your computer start menu will response like latest computer.

Follow the given steps to change the speed of Start Menu.

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
• In Registry Editor panel go to the path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \

Desktop \ MenuShowDelay

• By default the value "MenuShowDelay=400", but you can set value between 0 to 400. Now put the value "MenuShowDelay"=0 to speed up.
• Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How to enable the advance performance setting in windows vista?

If you have noticed that the speed of your system is very slow with windows vista then today tip is very useful for you to increase the performance of windows vista. There is some default setting in vista which is used to manage the write caching on disk. By default windows enabled the write caching on disk but the advanced performance setting is disabled.

Follow the given steps to configure the advance performance setting in Windows Vista:

To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

First right click on My Computer icon then select the option Manage.

Here small windows will appear with title Computer Management, now select the Device Manager option, then locate the SATA Disk under the Disk Drives.

Here select the enable advanced performance sittings on the SATA disk.

Now click on Ok button to apply the setting and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How to install the games software using windows XP?

Normally windows XP create the problem to install many games software. You can solve these problems, if you follow the give steps before installing the game.

• First check the windows version that you are using is supported by the game software, because many games are not supporting windows XP version.

• Now make sure you have enough free space on the hard disk available to loading the game.

• Now check your system processor speed and RAM, VGA memory size meets the minimum size requirement to run the game.

• At the end turns off your system DMA (Direct Memory Access).

Follow the given steps to turn off the DMA using system Device manager.

• First click on Start button, click Run and then type here “devmgmt.msc” and press Ok.