Boot Xp Faster

Follow the following steps

1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:windowsprefetchntosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:
2. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “gpedit.msc”.
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add”, “Browse”, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file & click “Open”.
5. Click “OK”, “Apply” & “OK” once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “devmgmt.msc”.
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers”
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “Properties”.
9. Select the “Advanced Settings” tab then on the device or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect’ & click “OK”.
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel”, select “Properties” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.

Optimize Firefox

Limit the use of RAM:
If you use Firefox took a lot of memory, you can limit the amount of RAM to use. Again, go to about: config, filter "browser.cache" and select "browser.cache.disk.capacity. Is set to 50000, but you can reduce it, depending on the memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512 and 1 GB of RAM.


Reduce the use of RAM when Firefox is minimized:
Maybe this is the best trick of all. We will create an entry in about: config so that when Firefox minimize reduce the use of RAM.
Enter about: config / Right click / New / Logic / "config.trim_on_minimize" / value "true"


Remove the close button or move the tabs:
Click the button accidentally closing the tab in Firefox? You can move or delete them, again through about: config. Edit the "browser.tabs.closeButtons. Here is the meaning of each value:

• 0: Display a close button only on the active tab
• 1: (Default) Displays the button to close all tabs.
• 2: Remove the close button.
• 3: (For users of Firefox 1.x), shows the close button at the bottom of the tab bar.

Add Youtube (for example) as your search:
Next to the address bar is the quick search bar, go to www.youtube.com, now press the button next to the search bar, which really comes near the end of the menu, the option "Add Youtube Video Search ", click on this option and you can find on Youtube from the bar directly. (Thanks xkod)

Make Firefox 3 Faster

Firefox 3 as we all know is now super quick at loading pages. But there is always room ofr improvement and best of all since Firefox is open source software there is a lot of ways that you can mod the app.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. You will get a warning about changing settings but we are not doing anything too radical so it is OK. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 8. This means it will make 8 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.