Hack In Firefox To Reduce Memory Usage
Sometimes Firefox becomes quite slow because it uses caching to increase the speed of browsing while you click the back button. This actually results in using more memory. You can disable this feature by doing the following:
1. Start Firefox and type about:config and hit enter.
2. In the Filter column enter “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers” and instead of the -1 setting, change it to 0 and hit Enter.
3. Restart your browser, now as soon as you start go to a particular site and then just check the Firefox memory usage, you’ll see the difference.
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Speed Up Boot By Disabling Unused Ports
You may have tried many tweaks like modifying windowsXP start-up applications, prefetches, unload DLLs method,etc. And yes those methods do work for me.
I have just accidentally found out another way to give you an extra boost in windowsXP's boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices in
Device Manager. for example, if you don't have input devices that are connected to one 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.
1.Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
2.Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters
3.Make sure you backup the keys by exporting them to a .reg file.
4.On the EnablePrefetcher value, change the setting from 3 to 5 (decimal).
5.Close the registry editor.
6.Restart your computer
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Create ICO files Using JPG, PNG, BMP files
Imagicon is a graphics utility designed to convert
multiple image files from BMP, JPG or PNG image
formats into any of the following image formats (24-bit):
* Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
* Independent JPEG Group (JPG)
* Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
* Windows Icon (ICO)
Options are available to transform images and enable
alpha transparency of icons. The interface window
of Imagicon can be personalized with custom designs.
Screenshot of Imagicon
The user can select to save icons with the following
dimensions in pixels: 16 x 16, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64
and 128 x 128. Imagicon also features the ability to
drag 'n' drop multiple images for faster processing.
Full instructions are included with the software,
explaining each of the possible settings
and the function that they perform.
Click Hereto dOwnload.
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Speed up Opera
This Post is specially for opera lovers, Though i am not opera lover, but I believe opera is one of the fastest browser in this web world. Just follow the simple steps to speed up your opera Desktop
Browser :
1. Open your Opera, Hit Tools menu -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network.
2. Select Server name configuration.
3. Uncheck the following options :
Try name completion
Look For local network machine
Hit OK, and Restart your Browser.
Surely speed varies.
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Windows 7 Shortcuts
I’ve been running Windows 7 HB for a little over a week now and can’t imagine going back to Vista/XP at this point. In the process, I went searching to see if there are any interestingWindows 7 power toys or tricks available. While I didn’t find any power toys, I did discover that some tricks are available on Windows 7.
Here is a quick summary of what I’ve found so far for Windows 7:
Window Management
- Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow: Dock a window to the left or right half of the screen.
- Win+Shift+Left Arrow and Win+Shift+Right Arrow: Move a window from one monitor to another, keeping them in the same relative location to the monitor’s top-left origin.
- Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow: Maximizes and restores/minimizes a window.
- Win+Shift+Up Arrow and Win+Shift+Down Arrow: Maximizes and restores the vertical size of a window.
- Win+Home: Minimize all the non-active background windows, keeping the window you’re using in its current position. (Press Win+Home again to restore the windows to their original locations.)
- Win+(plus key) and Win+(minus key): Zoom in or out using Windows Magnifer.
- Win+E: Opens Windows Explorer.
- Win+U: Opens the Ease of Access Center.
- Win+D: Show/hide the desktop.
- Win+F: Opens the Search Results window.
- Win+L: Locks the computer.
- Win+B: Sets focus to the “Show hidden icons” button on the task bar.
- Win+M: Minimizes all windows.
- Win+Ctrl+F: Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog.
Taskbar
- Win+Space: Use “Aero Peek” to see any gadgets or icons you’ve got on your desktop.
- Win+R: Opens the Run dialog.
- Win+T: Move the focus to the first taskbar. (Pressing again will cycle through them.)
- Win+Shift+T: Move the focus to the last taskbar. (Pressing again will cycle through them.)
- Ctrl+(mouse click on a single application icon in the task bar): Toggle through each of the open windows in order. The best example of this is Internet Explorer. If you have five tabs open in a single IE instance, holding the Ctrl key while repeatedly clicking on the single IE icon in the task bar will toggle through each of the five tabs in order.
- Ctrl+Shift+(mouse click on an application icon in the task bar): Launch that application with full administrative rights. You can also use Ctrl+Shift+Enter for commands from the search bar for the same action.
- Shift+(mouse click on an application icon in the task bar): Launch a new instance of the application rather than switching to the existing application. (You can also middle-click with the third mouse button or scroll wheel.)
- Win+1 .. Win+5: Launch a new instance of the any of the first five icons on the task bar. (By the way, the icons can be reordered to suit your needs by simply dragging them around and can be pinned shortcuts or running applications.)
- Shift+(right mouse click on an application icon in the task bar): Show the Window menu. (You get different menus depending on whether the application is running or has multiple instances open.
Miscellaneous
- Win+P: Display the project options, which you can then use the arrow keys (or keep hitting Win+P) to switch to the different options.
- Win+X: Open the Windows Mobility Center.
- Win+G: Bring gadgets to the top of the Z-order. (Sets the focus to a gadget.)
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Find Windows XP CD Key inside CD
Ever thought that the CD-Key of the Windows XP disc you were looking for was just Right Under you Nose. Lets see how easily you can get it…
Find Windows XP CD key inside your Windows XP CD
To get the Windows XP CD key, you have to do the following steps. Just follow the following steps and find Windows XP cd key into your windows XP CD.
Steps to follow to find Windows XP CD key:
1. Bring your Windows XP CD and insert it into your computer’s CD/DVD ROM/ RAM.
2. Now, browse your Windows XP CD and find the folder I386.
3. Inside I386 folder, find the file named as unattended.txt.
4. Open unattended.txt by using notepad.
5. At last, keep scrolling of the opened file and you will get Windows XP CD key.
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Open Locked Folder Without Password
Folder locker is one of the most used application for windows to lock some personal files. There is some time when we forget the password and due to which we are not able to access some of our personal files/folders.
To unlock just follow simple steps : -
* Open “C:\WINDOWS”
* Then just find regedit
* Open It by double clicking there In The Left Side you will see Something like : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE just click it.
* Then find the file name software In the list and open it.
* Then Find The Name called EverStrike…. doubleclick It…..
* You will see LF30 Just click it.
* On the right Side Some thing will appear out of those Select the file named Password & Delete It.
* Thats all, your done
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