Computer Tips and Tricks: Top 12 Use Full Tips and Tricks

Computer Tips and Tricks: Top 12 Use Full Tips and Tricks

1. Use Keyboard with Mouse (on-screen Keyboard)

If you feel that your keyboard is not working or some of its keys not functioning then you can use a windows build-in keyboard on your desktop screen. This property of keyboard is available in Windows XP and Windows 7.

Follow these simple steps to use the screen board

•  Visit the start menu and click on run. Write "osk" and push Enter Button (without commas).
•     After a few seconds keyboard will appear on your desktop screen.
•   Use the mouse to click on keys to perform operations.

Screen Keyboard

2. Increase Speed of Hard Disk

It is a common observation that that sometimes our computer speed slows down. This is happening due to the poor speed of the hard drive. This trouble can be answered by boosting the hard drive speed. 

Follow the steps to increase the speed of the Hard Disk:-

•   Go to the Start menu and click on run Icon.
•  Type sysedit.exe in run and press enter
•   Sys config will show up.
•   Multiple windows will appear but you will only select system.ini.
•   This window contains line 386enh.
•    After this line type (Irq 14=4096) close the window & save it.
•    Reboot your PC.
•    Hopefully, you will feel the better performance of your computer

3. Turn on PC in Just 10 Seconds

Click on the start button and select run & type Regedit and hit enter. This will open Registry Editor to look for the key HKEY LOCAL_MECHINE/SYSTEM/Current/Set Control/Content Index and Key Called Startup Delay. Twice click on it.

Its default value is 4800000/5300 hexadecimal

Change the value to 40000.

Close the Registry Editor and reboot your computer and check the result.

4. How to Hide Files and Folders by Using Command Prompt

By using this method you can hide your personal data from anyone else once files are hidden they cannot be viewed by any search option even by selecting Show all Hidden Files and Folders.

To hide Files and Folders just follow the steps given below:-

•  Press short cut key window key + R Run command dialog box will appear.
•  Type cmd and hit enter command prompt windows displays.
•  Type attrib + s + h drive name/file name and press enter.
•  The desired folder will be hidden (it cannot be viewed by any search option).
•  If you like to see this folder again then the same command but replaced + with flags s and h.

 5. Free Up or Clean RAM using Notepad

Sometimes processes that are executed are stored in RAM which is not needed for the operating system. We can remove or free up the RAM with unused data to increase the speed of the system. We can clean the RAM by using a notepad application. For this open the notepad and type FreeMem=Space (64000000) and save it as CleanRAM.vbs on the desktop.

Use inverted commas with the name of the file. execute the file and free RAM memory.

You can re-write the following code from the file for more clean-up purposes.

1.  FreeMem=Space (1280000000)

2.  FreeMem=Space (2560000000)

3.  FreeMem=Space (10240000000)

6. Install Windows XP Faster

Normally Windows XP takes 30-40 minutes to install on a computer. It is too much time to install the window.

To install faster on your computer just follow the step-by-step guide given below:-

• Power on your computer and start with a bootable Windows XP CD.
• At the first stage, windows will load installation files.
• Select Drive C for installation.
• For Partition to format select NTFS.
•  Setup will copy files in the selected drive and will try to reboot your computer.
•  After rebooting the XP logo will appear press the Shift+F10 button.
•  It will launch the command prompt.
•   From their write "taskmgr".
•   Go to the options process tab and locate Setup.exe press the right mouse button on setup.exe and select Set priority a submenu will be seen. Here priority will be a normal select priority to High or above normal.
• This will lead the installation process to be much faster than the normal time.

7. Increasing System Performance

If your system has 512 Megs or more of memory then you can increase system performance by having the core system kept in memory.

• Start Regedit
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM//CONTROL/SessionManager\Memory             Management\Disable Paging Executive.
• Set the Value to be 1.
•  Restart your computer and see the result.

8. Removing Multiple Boot Screens

To remove unwanted multiple boot screens just follow these steps:-

•  On the My Computer icon click right. Click on Properties.
•  Chose the option "advance tab".
• Select Setting in the Startup and Recovery Section.
• Select the operating system which you desired.
• Click the ok button.
• Again press the setting and click on Edit.
• It will open the boot. in.File.
• Now you can remove that OS that you do not like to sho

9. Getting Back Missing Folder Options

  Open "Run" and type gpedit. msc.

 Now go to user Configuration, Adm templates, Windows Component, and then Windows   Explorer click on windows explorer 3rd option will appear on side of the screen,                 and removes the folder options menu item from the tools menu.

10. Random Access Memory (RAM)

Speed of PC makes faster by simply adding an extra module of RAM. Use RAM Booster to proactively free up unused RAM at regular intervals.

11. Password Setting

a. Supervisor Password

If you do not want to access any to change your BIOS setting then set the password as a supervisor in the BIOS and set it as a user password.

b. User Password

If you want to prevent access to anyone else then set the user password.

12. Find & Delete files wasting space

Windows build-in tool called WindDirStat can be used to find easily which files & folders are occupying more space on your drive where you can delete them and free up bigger storage space.