Whenever you shut down your computer, it takes a lot of time in closing all the running applications.And worse, if they stop responding, then you have to click either end task or wait for windows to shut it down. Now you can apply a registry hack that automatically shuts the non-responding annoying applications instantly and without any interruption. Apply the following registry hack to speed up windows xp.
1. Open regestry editor from Start -> Run -> type regedit
2. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
on the left side of the registry editor window.
3. Double click on AutoEndTasks key from the right window and assign the value to be 1. The default value is 0.
Reverting the process is also very simple. Just change the AutoEndTasks value to 0.
You can also increase the booting/startup time for windows
xp by disabling unwanted services.
If you remove an installed program and its files by deleting the files, it may still show up in the Add/Remove programs list through the control panel. In order to remove it from the list (so you don’t need to re-install in order to just remove it again).
- Start the Registry Editor by clicking RUN from start menu and entering ‘regedit’ without quotes.
- Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Uninstall
- Delete any programs from the list.
This will only delete them from the list, not delete the actual programs. Only programs designed for Windows95 will show up here in the first place.
