Nov 18
In the Sound Recorder utility the maximum time of recording is 1 minute. You can increase itto any number of minutes of your choice by applying this trick. First make sure that yourmicrophone is muted so it will not pick up sound. Click Record, and then let Sound Recorderrun for 60 seconds. This will create a blank wave file of length 1 minute. After 60 seconds,click Save As on the File menu, and name the file loops.wavClick Insert File on the Edit menu, and then insert the loops.wav file. This increases themaximum recording time by 60 seconds. You can repeat this step once for each additionalminute of recording time that you want to add. For example, for a 10-minute recording time,insert the loops.wav file 10 times.
Nov 18
You can speed up your startup procedures by changing the BIOS with the built-insetup utility. How you run this utility varies from PC to PC, but you typically get to itby pressing the Delete, F1, or F10 keys during startup. You’ll come to a menu with avariety of choices. Here are the choices to make for faster system startups:Quick Power On Self Test (POST)When you choose this option, your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than thenormal, lengthy one.Boot Up Floppy SeekDisable this option. When it’s enabled, your system spends a few extra secondslooking for your floppy drivea relatively pointless procedure, especially consideringhow infrequently you use your floppy drive.Boot DelaySome systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drivegets a chance to start spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don’t need to have thisboot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can turn it back on.
Nov 18
You can remove the boot logo that appears when you start Windows XP. This little tweak probably shaves only a few seconds off your boot time but seconds count if you are serious about trying to get Windows XP up and running as quickly as possible. The only negative is that if you remove the boot logo, you will also not see any boot messages, such as check disk.To remove the boot logo, follow these steps:
1. Select Start/Run, type msconfig, and click OK.
2. In the System Configuration Utility, click the BOOT.INI tab.
3. On the BOOT.INI tab, click the NOGUIBOOT check box option. Click OK.
Nov 18
There is way to give you an extra boost in WindowsXP’s boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices inDevice Manager. for example, if you don’t have input devices that are connected toone of your USBs or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra perfromance boost in booting.Go to Control Panel \System \ Hardware tab
\Device manager.
Disable devices that you don’t use for your PC and then restart. See the difference foryourself.
Nov 18
1. Gather all the files that you wish to hide in a folder anywhere in your PC (make it in C:\hidden - RECOMMENDED).
2. Now, add those files in a RAR archive (e.g. secret.rar). This file should also be in the same directory (C:\hidden).
3. Now, look for a simple JPEG picture file (e.g. logo.jpg). Copy/Paste that file also in C:\hidden.
4. Now, open Command Prompt (Go to Run and type ‘cmd‘). Make your working directory C:\hidden.
5. Now type: “COPY /b logo.jpg + secret.rar output.jpg” (without quotes) - Now, logo.jpg is the picture you want to show, secret.rar is the file to be hidden, and output.jpg is the file which contains both.
6. Now, after you have done this, you will see a file output.jpg in C:\hidden. Open it (double-click) and it will show the picture you wanted to show. Now try opening the same file with WinRAR, it will show the hidden archive .