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A Faster Way To Shut Down And Log Off Your Windows XP

If you’re experiencing slow shutdowns and log offs on your Windows XP, this trick will help you.
Instead of accessing the shutdown menu via Start->Turn Off Computer, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

Press “Shut Down” at the top of the Task Manager and choose what you want your Windows XP to do:
shutdown
  • Stand By
  • Hibernate
  • Turn Off
  • Restart
  • Log off
  • Switch User
The task will be performed in a matter of seconds.
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Make XP boot even Faster

Microsoft has chosen a completely different path for XP and it's boot features by trying to incorporate as much support for newer fastboot BIOSes that are on most current motherboards. They built XP in such a way as to make it able to take advantage of features in these new BIOSes, and one of the coolest things is a small application called bootvis. bootvis.
Bootvis watches everything that loads at boot time, from the moment the OS begins to load just after POST (Power On Self-Test) to the moment you get to a usable Desktop. Some programs, most notably Norton AntiVirus 2002, suck up valuable seconds before you can actually DO anything even though you're at the Desktop. bootvis generates a trace file that you load and can then "see" a visual representation of what's happening. Every file, driver, hard drive read/write, etc., is recorded. You can then use bootvis to optimize the loading of files during the boot sequence. bootvis will rearrange the ways these very files are stored on the hard drive, thereby improving the boot time dramatically.
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Make your Folders Private

Open My Computer
•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.
•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
•Double-click your user folder.
•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.

Note
•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS
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Find IP address of any website free

Want to know the IP address of Google.com, yahoo.com, Twitter.com. Its really very easy abd just one click task.

Step1: open website http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php.
Step2: Now in the textbox just type the website name like www.google.com and click on "Get IP".

Now you can see the IP address of www.google.com

The result it will sends back is:


The IP address of www.google.com is 74.125.43.106
The IP address 74.125.43.106 is assigned to Great Britain (UK)

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Change domain name www.google.com to www.YourName.com for free

Pointing www.YourName.com to your favorite Website page is very easy and takes less than 30 seconds! Yes just 30 seconds!!!
Just enter the IP address of rankopeia.com into your hosts file for www.YourName.com
In the example IP address 74.208.153.119 is taken of  website called www.rankopedia.com. By following the directions below you can eaisly change any domain name to any for your computer only.

NOTE: want to know thw IP Address of any other website for use : see our find ip address of any website free (open in new page).



For Windows 95/98/Me

  1. Open your hosts file on your computer:

    Go to: Start -> run and type
    notepad c:\windows\hosts


  2. In the opened file type following one line towards the end (should be the last line)
    74.208.153.119     YOUR_NAME.com    www.YOUR_NAME.com

    where YOUR_NAME is your name, so if your name is john then you will type:
    74.208.153.119    abhi2810.com    www.abhi2810.com

    Now save this file and you are done!. Type www.YOUR_NAME.com on your browser and check!

For Windows NT / 2000 / XP Pro

  1. Open your hosts file on your computer:

    Go to: Start -> run and type
    notepad c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
    If this doesn't work try this: notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


  2. In the opened file type following one line towards the end (should be the last line)
    74.208.153.119    YOUR_NAME.com    www.YOUR_NAME.com

    where YOUR_NAME is your name, so if your name is john then you will type:
    74.208.153.119    abhi2810.com    www.abhi2810.com

    Now save this file and you are done!. Type www.YOUR_NAME.com on your browser and check!

For Windows XP Home

  1. Open your hosts file on your computer:

    Go to: Start -> run and type
    notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


  2. In the opened file type following one line towards the end (should be the last line)
    74.208.153.119    YOUR_NAME.com    www.YOUR_NAME.com

    where YOUR_NAME is your name, so if your name is john then you will type:
    74.208.153.119    abhi2810.com    www.abhi2810.com

    Now save this file and you are done!. Type www.YOUR_NAME.com on your browser and check!

For Mac

  1. Open your hosts file on your computer:

    Edit hosts file located at
    /private/etc/hosts


  2. In the opened file type following one line towards the end (should be the last line)
    74.208.153.119    YOUR_NAME.com    www.YOUR_NAME.com

    where YOUR_NAME is your name, so if your name is john then you will type:
    74.208.153.119    abhi2810.com    www.abhi2810.com

    Now save this file and you are done!. Type www.YOUR_NAME.com on your browser and check!

For Linux/Unix

  1. Open your hosts file on your computer:

    Edit hosts file located at
    /etc/hosts


  2. In the opened file type following one line towards the end (should be the last line)
    74.208.153.119    YOUR_NAME.com    www.YOUR_NAME.com

    where YOUR_NAME is your name, so if your name is john then you will type:
    74.208.153.119    abhi2810.com    www.abhi2810.com

    Now save this file and you are done!. Type www.YOUR_NAME.com on your browser and check!
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