Showing posts with label Booting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Booting. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Restart Windows without Restarting your PC


Mostly Computer takes lots of time for restart. Sometimes we need to restart our computer, that time it becomes necessity like after installing some software but when we have limited time and we are busy then it is very annoying to wait for it to restart.
So here is solution for this problem. In that case you need not to restart your computer but you can restart your windows without restarting computer. It will take very less time.


To restart windows without restarting computer you just need to hold Shift key down while clicking on shutdown or restart button.

you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

Restart Windows without Restarting PC, this term is known as Hot Booting.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Change Startup & Shutdown Sound - Cool Computer Tricks


Do you get tired of listening same windows startup and shutdown sound?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can change default windows startup and shutdown sound and can use any of your favorite voice or music as your system's shutdown and start up. Here are steps for this.

1). Choose the track or sound which you want to set as start-up and shutdown sound, But remember that file should be in .WAV format and size of file should not be large it should be smaller than 1 mb otherwise startup will take longer time.
If your file is not in .WAV format then you can easily convert it into .WAV by using jet audio or any other converter.
2). Rename these files as Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV respectively.

3). Now Go to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA, here you will find file Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV, move them to some other locations, So tht you can set default sound again in future.
4). Now move files which you have choosen to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA.

Its done.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Set Windows Logon Wallpaper

Logon wallpaper is the wallpaper or image that windows shows on screen when windows logs on (before it asks for username & password) . It’s usually set to the image-logo of the brand of our computer (e.g. in compaq laptops). If you are get tired of watching that wallpaper then now this is right trick for you jaust follow these steps and set it to our own image or any other image(any bmp file)


1) Open Startmenu->Run type regedit and press ok to open registry editor.

2) In registry editor window , In hierarchical structure in left, navigate to registry entry
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

3) In right side pane see a number of values placed in a table format. choose the value named Wallpaper from there and double click it.

4) Now you see a box with value name as Wallpaper and value data as Path to the image file .

5) There give the full path of the image(bmp file) which you want to set as logon wallpaper by deleting previous path and writing path to your bmp file e.g. C:\WINDOWS\me.BMP (to set image me.BMP file as log on wall paper).

Also double click on WallpaperStyle and change it’s value to 2 to get a stretched wallpaper at logon.
Put that bmp file in windows directory for better results.
If that is a jpeg file, convert to bmp file by opening in Windows Image Viewer and save as bmp.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Disable XP Boot Logo

It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot process. Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to see any boot-up messages that might come up(chkdsk, convert ... ), but if your system runs without any problems then it should not matter.

· Edit boot.ini.
· Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect".

Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removing the new switch.

Correcting System Hang at Startup

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you cn't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background
Intelligent Transfer) running in the background.

Here's what you do:
· Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.
· Go to the 'Services' tab
. find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service.
· Disable it, apply the changes & reboot.