Solution for "Folder Options missing"

Many of us sometimes find the folder options missing in windows explorer.

Here's the solution

Open Run and then type "gpedit.msc".

Now goto User Configuration >
Administrative templates >
Windows Component >
Windows Explorer.

Click on Windows Explorer you will find the 3rd option on the right side of screen
"Removes the Folder Option menu item from the Tools menu"

Just check it,
if it is not configured then change it to enable by double clicking on it and after applying again set it to not configured.

I hopes that you will find the option after restarting windows.

World's greatest Brand name.Where does it come from?

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind thehouse of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patchesto code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache

Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company AppleComputers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google -the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of informationthe search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders,Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project toan angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the webfrom a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up withthe business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - theprogramming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred toas HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether thecompany they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so theyhad to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The LotusPosition' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of TranscendentalMeditation (by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' wasremoved later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his companystarted manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting projectfor the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project wascalled Oracle (acronym for: One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison)

Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse teamcap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it andhad to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linuxhad an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone !

SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBMemployees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects"

SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for StanfordUniversity Network.

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (asit was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).The Greek root 'xer' means dry.

Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver'sTravels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and isbarely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the namebecause they considered themselves yahoos.

The World Trade Centre Trick

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on 9/11 was Q33N ....

Now Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flightnumber i.e Q33N...

Increase the Font Size to 72.

Change the Font toWingdings.

U will be amazed by the findings.

Get rid of the annoying Microsoft error reports

This error report sending message can become quite annoying at times,it keeps on bugging
the user.

Not to worry about.

There is a simple way to get rid of it:

1.Go to Start->Control panel.

2.Go to system.

Now go to the Advanced tab.

3.Under the advanced tab,at the bottom click on 'Error reporting'.

Now click on 'Disable error reporting'.

You are done.You will not receive the error sending report anymore...........

All Nokia Global codes

Code Function

*3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%

#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR)

*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time

*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec

*#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line :
Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type

*#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work

*#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number)

#pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

#pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

#pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

#pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

*#147# This lets you know who called you last (Only vodofone)

*#1471# Last call (Only vodofone)

*#21# Allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted to

*#2640# Displays security code in use

*#30# Lets you see the private number

*#43# Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your phone.

*#61# Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to

*#62# Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unreachable (no service)" calls are diverted to

*#67# Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to

*#67705646# Removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330

*#73# Reset phone timers and game scores

*#746025625# (or: *#SIM0CLOCK#) Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible

*#7760# Manufactures code

*#7780# Restore factory settings

*#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110

*#92702689# (or: *#WAR0ANTY#) Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again

*#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem

**21*number# Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered

**61*number# Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered

**67*number# Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered

12345 This is the default security code
press and hold # Lets you switch between lines

Google Search Tips !!!

You can make your search more efficient by learning some search basics !

Try these tips :

1. Use Of '+' sign :

This ensures that the results returned to you will definetly consist of the word following the '+' sign.

For Eg :
Search: reviews of +iPhone and iPod

This will show results containing the word reviews or iPod but the results will definatly consist of iPhone !

2. Use Of '-' sign :

Using '-' sign before any word will ensure that the particular word will not be included in the results !

3. Use Of '~' sign :

Using '~' before any word will return the results also containing the synonyms of the word !

4. Search a particular site :

To search a particular website you can use the following syntax in the google search :

Search: site:www.xyz.com abc

For Eg :Search: site:http://pcremix.blogspot.com/ Google Search Tips

5. Define a word :

To get the definition of a word just use :

Search: define:abc

For Eg : Search: define:Computer

This will return you results which define 'Computer'.

6. Find Pages similar to a page :

To find a page similar i.e. consisting of same type of content, use the following syntax :

Search: related:http://www.xyz.com/

7. Search for exact phrase :

To search a set of words exactly together i.e.

For Eg :Search: "contact us"

This will return the results containing both contact and us together !

8. Using the wild card '*' :

The * sign can be used in places where the whole word is not known.
For Eg:Search: friend*

This will return the results containing friend , friends , friendship.

9. Using the '?' sign :

This is used when the full spelling of the word is not known.

For Eg:Search: fri??d

This will result that in the results in which any alphabet can take the place of '?' sign.

10. Use of boolean operators :

The boolean operators like AND,OR,NOT can be used in search box to connect the words !

The search engine understands them as what they mean but the must be in capital letters !

For Eg:Search: swim OR floatThis will return the results containing either swim or float !

Amazing Animations...

These are the Animations that are really awesome...


http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hussain/fav/PENCILMATION1.swf


http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hussain/fav/Animation.swf

Proven Fact...

Do try it

Just do it -don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try this ..

This will blow your mind...!

Try this its actually quite good
.But don't cheat!


Count the number of F's in the following text in15 seconds:




FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH TH
EEXPERIENCE OF YEARS


Managed it?


Scroll down only after you have counted them!



OK?


How many?



Three?



You r definitely male!!!



Wrong, there are six - no joke



Read again!



FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS




The reasoning is further down...

The MALE brain cannot process the word "OF".


Incredible or what?Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go hasa brain of a Female

You can test this by asking a Guy/Girl near youto work it out.

Some Useful Tricks of WINDOWS XP..

Hifriends,
here is some tricks to windows xp.
just check it.

go to start-run and type some word like this......

1- Private Character Editor
This program is for designing icons and Characters(Alphapet)Click :start
Then :run
type :EUDCEDIT---------------------------------------

2- iExpress
This Program is for conerting your files to EXCUTABLE files
Click : start
Then : run
type : iexpress-----------------------------------------

3-Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
Click : start
Then : run
type : cleanmgr-----------------------------------------

4-Dr WatsonThis program Is for repairing problems in Windows
Click : start
Then : run
type : drwtsn32------------------------------------------

5-Windows Media Player 5.
1Opens the old media player
Click : start
Then : run
type : mplay32

give me ur feed back

HACK AIRTEL!!!!

Hacking Airtel Live GPRS access for PC 115.2 Kbps Internet

You need a PC or a Laptop and the required connectivity tools ,ie.,Serial/USB cable OR Infrared Device OR Bluetooth dongle

1) Activate Airtel Live! ( It's FREE so no probs)

2) Create TWO Airtel gprs data accounts (yep TWO) and select theFIRST as the active profile.

3) Connect your mobile to the PC (or Laptop) and install the driver foryour mobile's modem.

4) Create a new dial-up connection using the NEW CONNECTIONWIZARD as follows

Connecting Device : Your mobile's modemISP

Name : Airtel (or anything you like)Phone Number : *99***2#

Username and Password : blank

5) Configure your browser and download manager to use the proxy100.1.200.99 and port 8080.( My advice is to use Opera since youcan browse both wap and regular websites)

6) Connect to the dial-up account. You will be connected at 115.2kbps (but remember, that is a bad joke).

7) Pick up your mobile and try to access any site. You will get "AccessDenied..."(except for Airtel Live!). IT DOES NOT MATTER.Keep the mobile down.

8 ) On the PC ( or Laptop) open your browser, enter any address ,press ENTER and.......WAIT

9) After a few seconds the page will start to load and you have theWHOLE internet at your disposal.

The Settings on Sony Ericcson K700i Mobile

Under DATA COMM~~~~~~~~~~~~APN : airtelfun.com

USERNAME : blank

PASSWORD : blank

PASS REQ : OFFALLOW

CALLS : AUTOMATIC

IPADDRESS :DNS

ADDRESS :DATA

COMP : OFFHEADER

COMP : OFFUnder INTERNET PROFILES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~INTERNET

MODE : HTTP or WAP (both worked for me)

USE PROXY : YES

IP ADDRESS : 100.1.200.99

PORT : 8080

USERNAME :

PASSWORD :

Increse ur internet Speed by another tricks

Follow the step:-
Go to desktop->
My computer-(right click on)->properties->
then go HARDWARE tab->
Device manager->
Now u see a window of Device managerthen
go to Ports->
Communication Port(double click on it and Open).
After open u can see a Communication Port properties.
Go the Port Setting:----and now increase ur "Bits per second" to 128000 and "Flow control" change to Hardware.
Apply and see the result..

Reduce the Scan Disk check time delay.

"One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. Youmay cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.."

Every windows user would have encountered this message. Yes and its "recommended that you continue".

However the time delay of 10 seconds is what irritates me. By making a small tweak in the registry, we can change the time delay.

Start registry from Run----> regedit.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager .
Don't expand the Session Manager tree.

On the right pane look out for 'AutoChkTimeOut' .

If its not there right-click--->New--->Dword value.
Rename it as 'AutoChkTimeOut'.

Now double click it and give the desired time delay in seconds.
[Choose Decimal while giving delay].
Press OK.
If the entry is not found, the default count down of 10 seconds will be used.

If it is set to 0 second, there will not be any count down.

If it is set to more than 3 days (259,200 seconds), the default value will be used.
Thats all.

Now reboot for the changes to take place.

The next time Scan Disk starts, there will be delay of the time you have specified.

If you want to confirm it then right-click on any drive ---->properties---->Tools---->Check Now.

Tick both and then start.

When prompted for check on next system startup click yes.

CHAT without downloading Yahoo messenger

CHECK THIS AWESOME SITE
http://61226. com/share/ hk.swf

Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.messenger .yahoo.com/ webmessengerprom o.php/ __._,_.___

Delete undeletable files

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open........

Close all open programs...........

Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE

Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.

Leave Task Manager open.

Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.

At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.

Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.

Close Task Manager

Auto Refreshing orkut Scrapbook

This will open ur scrap book and keep refreshing every 2 minutes:
http://geocities.com/OrkutAuto
All u need to do is keep it open.
Now that partially serves the purpose of a scrap alert.
There was nothing much to do.
Just 2 lines of code

How to track the IP address of the sender in Gmail, Yahoo! mail or Hotmail:

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it.
For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender.
The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender.

Note:That this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Finding IP address in Gmail:

1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,
* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.
* Click on Show original
4. You should get headers like this:
Gmailheaders :Abhiraj
Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is 65.119.112.245.
That is be the IP address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the sender

Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail:

1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers :Abhiraj
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender

Finding IP address in Hotmail:

1. Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
2. Click on the Mail tab on the top.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings
* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked
* Click on Ok button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender's IP address
Hotmail headers :Abhiraj ,In this case the IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59]. Jump to step 9.
6. If you find a header with Received: from followed by a Gmail proxy like this
Hotmail headers :Abhiraj
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58]. Jump to step 9.
7. Or else if you have headers like this
Hotmail headers :Abhiraj
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] (Spam mail). Jump to step 9.
8. * If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.
9. Track the IP address of the sender...

Improve the broadband performance in Windows XP/2003

Well, before doing this....do this test.

1) Goto http://www.testmy.net/ and click on Download Speed Test, and then on Smart Test....(and while conducting this test, don't forget to close all Instant Messagers, and there should be no other web activity, other than the test)
2) Note down the speeds.
Now, lets see, what all changes to be made.....
This tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP while using standard Network Interface cards (NIC) that are connected to ADSL modems, or when using any directly-connected USB ADSL modem.
To speed up the Internet connection speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the NIC or the USB modem.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.
Step #1 - Identify the IRQ used by the NIC/USB modem

1. Open the System Information tool by running MSINFO3
2.EXE from the Run command.2. Expand System Summary > Hardware Resources > IRQs.
3. Look for the listing made for your NIC (in my case - a Intel® PRO/100+ Management Adapter). Note the IRQ next to the specified line (in my case - IRQ21).
In case of USB modems you will first need to find the right USB device used by your modem. Follow these steps:

1. Open the Device Manager tool by running DEVMGMT.MSC from the Run command (or by right-clicking My Computer > Hardware tab > Device Manager button).
2. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers and expand it.
3. Right-click the USB Root Hub and select Properties. Note that you might need to do so for all listed USB Root hubs (if there are more than one) in order to find the right one.
4. In the Power tab, look for your USB ADSL modem.
5. In the Resources tab look for the assigned IRQ (in this case - IRQ21).
6. This is the IRQ we're looking for.Note: IRQs and modem names might vary...

Step #2 - Modify the system.ini file

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type IrqX=4096 where X is the designated IRQ number we found in step #1, in my case it's IRQ21.Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!
5. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
6. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.Done.
Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

NOW DO THE SPEED TEST AGAIN (MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING) AND NOTICE THE CHANGE IN SPEEDThe most speed improvement is visible with USB.

Get rid of the annoying Microsoft error reports..

This error report sending message can become quite annoying at times,it keeps on bugging the user.Not to worry about.There is a simple way to get rid of it:
1.Go to Start->Control panel.
2.Go to system.Now go to the Advanced tab.
3.Under the advanced tab,at the bottom click on 'Error reporting'.
Now click on 'Disable error reporting'.
You are done.
You will not receive the error sending report anymore...........

Bored of autoplay CDs.....!!!

That autoplay CDs can be really annoying sometimes. If you thing so, than turn of that option.
If you are on Windows XP:
Start
RunQpedit.msc
Computer config
Administrative template
System
Double click on - "Turn off autoplay"
Enable If you change your mind sometimes, just do Disable on end of this instead Enable.

Best PC Configuration...

Many of us will be facing the problem in choosing the best configuration to buy the computer na...So i think this would solve the problem to some extent....

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (939 pin)@ 2.0 GHz with stock CPU heatsink and fan

Motherboard - Asus A8N32-SLI Delux nVidia nForce 4 SLI-X16 2000MT/s FSB, PCI-E, DDR400 with RAID (XX) Asus A8N-VM

Memory : Kingston 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR400 PC3200 (XX) Kingston 512MB DDR400

Graphic Card: nVidia Geforce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI-E (XX) nVidia Geforce 6600 GT 256MB PCI-E

Hard drive 1: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 (160GB) SataII with 8MB Cache

Hard drive 2 (for RAID) (optional): Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 (160GB) SataII with 8MB cache. (medium level config - go for a single hard drive either 160GB or 250GB (Hitachi Deskstar T7K250)

Raid Setting: striped RAID 0

Sound: onboard 7.1 or 5.1 channel. If you want more, go for Creative sound cards.

DVD Rewriter - LITEON 1693S

LAN : Onboard

Power supply : Powersafe or Antec 500W

Case: Antec (expensive but worth) or any other case with at least 3 fans and addition cooling space with outside LCD display about chassi fan etc.

Keyboad- Internet multimedia keyboard (Logitech)

Mouse - Logitech MX500 or MX300 (XX) Any good optical mouse you want with high scan rate.

Floppy drive - Sony

Joystick = Logitech

Wheel = Logitech

Entertainment for all the viewers of this blog...

Try this link
It displays an excellent addicting game...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

Add your name to the right bottom corner of your computer window.

For Microsoft Windows XP.
Go to:
Start.
Control Panel.
Regional and Language Options.
Click the Customize button.
Select Time tag.
Highlight AM and type the name you want to display . Repeat with PM.
clicK apply and than ok.......

Hide Desktop icons

If you want scare your friend and have access to his computer, you can hide icons from his computer desktop this way.
Open Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Than, do follow:
Edit- New- DWORD value
and name new value - "NoDesktop"

Default value change to 1, close regedit, restart Windows.

Make the folder INVISIBLE without hiding

Make your folders invisible............

1)Right Click on the desktop.Make a new folder
2)Now rename the folder with a space(U have to hold ALT key and type 0160).
3)Now u have a folder with out a name.
4)Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon.
5)Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them.
click ok Thats it,

now u can store ur personal data without any 3rd party tools

Display message on startup XP

If you would like to display a legal message or any other message in a pop-up
window when windows starts read below:
Start Regedit; if you are unfamiliar with Regedit please see our FAQ.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows
NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon.
Modify the key “legalnoticecaption” with what you want to name the window.
Modify the key “legalnoticetext” with what you want the window to say.
Restart.

chat with command prompt

If you want personal chat with a friend
you don't need to download any yahoo messenger
All you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.
Firstly, open Notepad and enter:
@echo off
:A
Cls
echo MESSENGER
set /p n=User:
set /p m=Message:
net send %n% %m%
Pause
Goto A
Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command
Prompt you should see:
MESSENGER
User:
After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.
After this, you should see this:
Message:
Now type in the message you wish to send.Before you press "Enter" it should look like this:
MESSENGER
User:27.196.391.193
Message: Hi
Now all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting!

FAT into NTFS

NTFS IS BETTER THEN FAT32

There are two way to convert FAT32 into NTFS….
Conver.exe
And FORAMT

Format will delete the whole data whereas convert.exe will retain your data
You better hav yor mind made up before converting FAT into NTFS

Click on start| run
Type cmd and press enter
Type the foll command
Convert X: /FS:NTFS
X is the drive u want to convert

Speed up your internet by 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

but u can get it back!

just Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configuration
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%......................

. Renaming The Start Button

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
Edit it be any 5 characters or less
Save the file
Boot to DOS
Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.
Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

Breaking The XP Password

In case of user password boot the pc in safemode by pressing the F8 key and then selecting the Safe Mode option. You can now logon as an administrator and XP wont prompt for the password. Incase of an administrator account try rebooting the pc in DOS. access C:\Windows\system32\config\sam . Rename SAM as SAM.mj
Now XP wont ask for password next time You Login. Also

Go to the cmd prompt .
Type net user *.
It will list all the users.
Again type net user "administrator" or the name of the administrator "name" *.
e.g.: net user aaaaaa *(where aaaaaa is the name).
It will ask for the password.
Type the password and there you are done.
Logging In As Administrator:

Hold the Ctrl-Alt key and press Del twice. This will bring up the normal login and you can log on as Administrator.

To unhide the Administrator account so it does show up:

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList

Unhide the Administrator key by giving it a value of 1