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.

Yahoo messenger for windows vista has some cool new features, tabbed IMing being the prominent among those. With tabbed windows you can easily switch over to different chat windows. A Yahoo blog has recently reported about some hidden hacks inside the current version of yahoo messenger. That means you can enjoy the features of windows vista version of messenger in your current version that is yahoo messenger 8.1.
You can download this Tabbed Im hack for your version 8.1 from here or you may like to read some more about this hack on wacky b forums.

- This works only in windows xp.
- It gives you Sound alerts on new messages
- Enables Tabbed IMing when this hack is turned on.
- Easy switching between various IM windows.

Happy Yahoo!  IMing.