Lajukan Masa Shut Down Computer

Cepatkan masa komputer anda shut down?

Ramai pengguna komputer termasuk saya selalu mengeluh mengapa komputer mengambil masa terlalu lama untuk shut down.”Malas a nak tunggu” secara tidak langsung anda meningalkan komputer tanpa off suis power.Inilah salah satu penyebab mengapa ramai yang tidak off power utama ke komputer.Sedangkan dengan off kan suis utama dapat memanjangkan hayat manusia peralatan komputer dan menjimatkan bil api elektrik.

Mengikut ilmu dan pengalaman saya , masa yang diambil oleh internet komputer untuk shut down bergantung kepada hardware dan aplication yang sedang runing/dijalankan.Jika komputer anda berkuasa kuda tinggi dari segi CPU dan RAM , masa yang diambil untuk shut down lebih laju dari komputer yang hardware berkuasa rendah.Aplication yang sedang running juga mempengaruhi masa yang diambil untuk shut down.Semakin banyak aplication sedang runing semakin lama masa diambil.

Hari ini saya akan kongsi satu tip untuk melajukan proses shut down komputer anda.Anda hanya perlu membuat sedikit perubahan pada setting di system registry.Boleh baca artikel sebelum ini jika belum mengenali apa itu system registry.Apa yang perlu anda lakukan adalah ubah value data pada AutoEndTasks dan WaitToKillAppTimeout.Double klik pada AutoEndTask dan ubah nilai 0 kepada 1000 dan value data WaitToKillAppTimeout dari 2000 kepada 5000.Selepas itu restart komputer anda dan lihat perbezaan.



Pesanan Penaja :

Install program yang berkenaan sahaja dan bersesuain dengan hardware komputer anda.
Anda tidak digalakkan mengubah system registry kerana kesilapan anda akan membawa padah.
Kredit :http://www.cnet.com

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a free update for Windows XP. It offers enhancements and better protection against viruses, hackers, and worms.
With features like Windows Firewall, Pop-up Blocker for Internet Explorer, and Windows Security Center, you can be confident that your computer has the right tools to stay more secure and up to date

Learn the basics and find out how to upgrade to Windows XP SP2 here

Support and how-tos
Need help, have questions, or want to do more with Windows XP SP2? Start here.

Why?
Learn why you should upgrade to Windows XP SP2. Here are two good reasons: 1) It's free! 2) You'll still be covered by product support.

How?
Now that you know you want Windows XP SP2, here are quick tips for a successful upgrade.

Folder Option Problem

Taip regedit di run untuk run program Registry Editor: Kalau kuar mesej "your regedit has been disable by administrator" taip arahan ni di run dahulu

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Kemudian wat step2 dibawah ni untuk kembalikan value di dalam registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Tukar value NoFolderOption = 0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Tukar value NoFolderOption = 0

Copy Error Messages To Clipboard

What’s the first thing you do when you see a baffling error message in Windows? If you are anything like me you’ll pick out the keywords and look it up on Google. That’s fine when it’s something simple but all too often error messages are long-winded and contain lots of gibberish, which are a pain to type into the search box The temptation, is to try and copy and paste the message, but you will find that this doesn’t work as you can’t highlight the words in an error box, but there is another way.

Here’s a nifty little tweak that I came across the other day on Asp.net. From Windows 2k onwards you have been able to copy the text in error messages to the Windows Clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C, but Microsoft forgot to tell anyone. So the next time you get an indecipherable error message, just press Ctrl + C then open Notepad, WordPad, Word etc and press Ctrl + V, then you can highlight the text, and use it to search for a solution.

INTERNET TIME

The internal clocks in most PCs are usually fairly accurate but they can drift by a few seconds a week. XP has a useful facility that allows you to synchronise your PC to an atomic clock when you are connected to the Internet. The next time you are online double click on the time display on the taskbar and select the Internet Time tab, check the item ‘Automatically Synchronise…’ and click the Update Now button. If the time-server web site selected by default is slow to respond or busy you can find a list of alternate servers at:
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers

TIMER SHUTDOWN

Here’s a useful tip if you want to make sure your children switch the PC off at a particular time, or even limit your own usage to prompt you to go home/get to bed at a reasonable hour. XP has a built-in utility called Shutdown that can be programmed to switch the PC off after a predetermined delay. To use Shutdown go to Run on the Start menu and type ‘cmd’ (without the quotes) and this will bring up a DOS type window. Now type the following command: ‘shutdown.exe –s –t xx’, where –s is the shutdown ‘switch’, -t is the time switch and xx is the delay in seconds. So, if you want the PC to shutdown in 15 minutes, say, the command would be: ‘shutdown.exe –s –t 900’. When the Enter is pressed the countdown begins, with a dialogue box on the screen showing the time left and warning the user to save their work. For a full list of the switches available for this utility just type shutdown.exe at the command prompt.

FILE SORTING

Windows Explorer has several new features for displaying and sorting files and folders. One of the most useful is Show In Groups, which is enabled on the View menu. You can now select the type of grouping that you require, if you click on the Name header the groups will be alphabetical, click on ‘Type’ and they will be sorted so that documents, images and spreadsheets etc. are grouped together. As a further enhancement you can enable Show In Groups in Details, Icons, Tiles and Thumbnails Views.

ERROR REPORTING

Windows XP is very stable but it’s certainly not immune to crashes and when it does you are presented with an offer to report the error to Microsoft using Windows Error Reporting (WER). It’s well meant and should, in theory, help Microsoft to identify bugs and glitches a lot faster, but it can become very annoying when you are trying to install a piece of hardware or software and the message keeps popping up. More worringly Error Reports can also contain a considerable amount of personal information about you and your PC, including credit card numbers, PINs, passwords and so on -- read the Privacy Statement, it's quite scary! To switch it off go to Control Panel and click System, select the Advanced tab then the Error Reporting button at the bottom and check the item ‘Disable Error Reporting’ and click OK.

AUTOMATICALLY RENUMBER FILES

Windows XP has a little-known facility for renaming and numbering files in batches. The first step is to highlight all of the files you want to change. You can do this individually by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking each one in turn, or if there are a lot of them, hold down the Shift key and use cursor arrow down or the Page Down keys to speed up the operation. Next, right-click the first file in the block and select Rename. Enter the new file name, hit Return and all of the highlighted the files will be automatically renamed and numbered. If you want to specify the start number then enter the number you want to start at in brackets, so in your case the first file would look something like this: ‘mypicture(51).jpg and all subsequent files will be numbered in sequence.

PASSWORD EXPIRE

Shortly after you have started using your new XP computer you will receive messages telling you that your password will expire, usually in 14 days. If you are happy with your passwords and do not want to change them go to Run on the Start menu and type ‘control userpasswords2’ (without the quotes of course) and on the dialogue box that appears select the Advanced tab then the Advanced button. Double click the Users folder and right click the user name whose setting your want to change and select Properties then check the box ‘Password never expires’.

CLEAN OUT THE CRAP

Regular readers will know that Windows secretly logs the address of every web site you have ever visited from the day you first switched on your PC in hidden and protected files called index.dat. You may also know that over the years we have been a big fan of a freeware index.dat cleaner utility called Spider but unfortunately it doesn’t work on Windows XP. Now the long search for an effective freeware cleaner for XP is over, and it’s called (excuse the language…) Crap Cleaner or ‘CC’ as we’ll refer to it from now on. It does a bang-up job of removing all traces of your web browsing, as well as clearing out all of the other little tell tales that Windows stores and it also includes a registry cleaner utility. Crap Cleaner is freeware, there are no adware or spyware components and it is polite to make a small donation to the author if you find it useful and continue to use it.

CHECK YOUR STARTUP

It’s not always clear what the items on the Startup list are for and whether or not they’re important, superfluous or possibly even dangerous, like a spyware or adware component. If you are not sure whether to uncheck an entry refer to the very comprehensive list of common Startup items at: www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php.

UNINSTALL SP2

If you cannot get SP2 to load properly or you can’t resolve your problems by any other means then the first thing to uninstall SP2. Normally this is quite straightforward from Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, it should be listed under Windows XP Updates (make sure the ‘Show Updates’ box is ticked at the top of the page). However, in some cases this may not be displayed and there’s a selection of alternative methods involving the use of a hidden Service Pack uninstaller, System Restore and the XP Recovery Console at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875350

RECOVERY CONSOLE

If you haven’t installed Recovery Console on your computer you can start it using your Windows XP installation disc, however you first have to change the PC’s ‘boot order’. To do that you need to enter the BIOS program (see your PC or motherboard manual) and set the PC to boot from your CD-ROM drive. Load the XP disc, restart the PC and after Windows Setup has finished you will see a menu screen. Choose the second option ‘To Repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console press R’. If you don’t have an XP disc you can download a set of XP start up files from Microsoft, which you copy on to 6 floppy discs. For more details go to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994

DISABLE SPLASH SCREEN

This quick tip will only save a couple of seconds by disabling the Windows XP ‘splash screen’ that appears during boot up but every little helps! Go to Run on the Start menu and type’msconfig’ (without the quotes) and select the BOOT.INI tab. In the lower half of the box, under Boot Options check the item /NOGUIBOOT, click OK, Restart your PC and work out what you are going to do with all of those extra seconds you have just saved…

SAFE MODE SHORTCUT

Here’s a tip for advanced users with troublesome Windows XP Pro PCs (it also works with XP Home but see note below). Repeatedly restarting in Safe Mode can be a bit of a chore so here’s a way to add Safe Mode start to your Boot Menu. Right click My Computer, select Properties then the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery click the Settings button then the Edit button. Boot.ini opens in Notepad. Carefully highlight and Copy the line: ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect’. Paste the copied line immediately underneath the original and change “Microsoft Windows XP Professional” to Microsoft Windows Safe Mode”. At the end of this line add the following ‘/safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog’ (without the quotes), Save and Exit Boot.ini, restart and Safe Mode should be listed on the Boot Menu.

N.B if you don’t see a Boot Menu when you start Windows XP select the option in the Startup and Recovery dialogue box (see above) by checking the item ‘Time to display Operating Systems’ and reduce the time setting to between 5 and 10 seconds.

MAKE YOUR OWN SCREENSAVER

Here’s a really simple way to personalise your Windows XP computer, with a custom screensaver using your own stored digital images. Right-click on an empty area of the desktop select Properties then the Screensaver tab. Scroll down the list and click My Picture Slideshow. By default it will use photos stored in My Pictures but you can switch to any other folder by clicking the Settings button, and from here you can also adjust picture dwell time, size and transition effect.

SECRET MUSIC

Here’s a little oddity for Windows XP users with five minutes to spare. Buried deep in a system sub-folder there’s quite a pleasant little tune that you’ve probably never heard, unless you were present when Windows was being installed on your PC. After that it’s never played again, unless you know where to look for it. To hear what you’ve been missing open Windows Explorer or My Computer and work your way to C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images and look for a file called ‘Title.wma’ or possibly ‘Windows welcome music.wma’. It should be around 2.56Mb in size. Double click the file and this will open Windows Media Player, or your preferred media player and proceed to regale you with a gently swooping (though somewhat repetitive) melody for the next five and a half minutes.

AUTOMATIC DEFRAG

As you know over time the Windows filing system can become disorganised and this will eventually lead to a slow down and a reduction in performance. ‘Defragging’ the hard drive can restore order but most of us forget to do it regularly and leave it until the system has started to slow down. Here’s a way to program Windows to automatically Defrag your drives once a month or every few weeks. Go to Start > Control Panel and click Performance and Maintenance then Scheduled Tasks (or just go direct to Scheduled Task in Windows XP) and double-click Add Scheduled Task. This will launch the Scheduled Tasks Wizard. Click Next then the Browse button to C:\WINDOWS\system32, click defrag.exe and select Open. Now you can give it a name and set the timings for defrag to run and when you have finished check the box ‘Open Advanced Properties …’. If there’s more than one User Account on your PC you may want to set up a Password, otherwise leave the fields blank. To finish off in the Run line add n the drive letter for the disc you want to defrag after the command, so it should look like this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe c: click OK and it is set.

SPEED UP WINDOWS XP BOOT (SLIGHTLY)

Here’s another tip for speed demons, determined to shave the last few nanoseconds off their Windows XP boot up times. Truth be told this one probably won’t save more than a second or so but every little helps. The idea is that XP wastes time and resources checking to see if there are any devices connected to empty IDE slots on the PC’s motherboard. To stop this happening open Device Manager (Winkey + Break > Hardware > Device Manager) and click on the plus sign next to the IDE ATA/ATPI listing to expand the tree. Right click on Primary IDE Channel and select Properties then the Advanced Settings tab. If either Device 0 or Device 1 is ‘Device Type’ box is empty (not greyed out) change the drop down menu setting for this box to ‘None’ and click OK. Repeat for the Secondary IDE Controller listing. Note that if you add a new IDE device you will have to go back and change the Device Type drop down menu back to Auto Detect

Hidden XP Utilities

Hidden XP Utilities
Deep inside Windows XP there’s all sorts of forgotten tools and utilities, some of which were carried over from earlier versions of Windows, or left behind by the developers. Here’s a few for you to be getting on with and all you have to do is type the name in Run on the Start menu (without the quotes of course). Most of them are undocumented, though a few of them have some Help files which might help you figure them out but as always you use and try them at your own risk

‘charmap’ – the Windows Character Map, the place to look for unusual characters
‘eudcedit’ – create or modify your own characters
‘perfmon’ – versatile system monitor, everything you wanted to know about your PC
‘progman’ – the old Windows 3.1 Program Manager (removed by SP2)
‘rasphone’ – remote access phonebook, used to manage dial-up networking
‘telnet’ -- ancient PC to PC remote command and communications system
‘winchat’ – communications tool for exchanging messages over a network
16/03/07

General keyboard shortcuts

• CTRL+C (Copy)
• CTRL+X (Cut)
• CTRL+V (Paste)
• CTRL+Z (Undo)
• DELETE (Delete)
• SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
• CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
• CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
• F2 key (Rename the selected item)
• CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
• CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
• CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
• CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
• CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
• SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
• CTRL+A (Select all)
• F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
• ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
• ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
• ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
• CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
• ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
• ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
• F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
• F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
• CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
• ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu)
• Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
• F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
• RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
• LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
• F5 key (Update the active window)
• BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• ESC (Cancel the current task)
• SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Open Task Manager)