Boost Up Your PC Ride

To Increase System Performance
Right click on "My Computer"
Goto:- properties
Click advanced.
Click settings (under performance).
Click Adjust for best performance.
Scroll to the bottom and check the last one use visual styles on windows and buttons.

How to Disable XP's crap built in CD Burner
Click the start button.
Select Run.
Type services.msc and click OK
Go to IMAPI CD-Burning Com Services open it and click on start up type, change to "Disabled".

Fine Tune Your Systems Memory
(These Settings will fine tune your systems memory if you have at least 256MB of ram to do this)

Go to Start > Run then type in REGEDIT -and then to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
Memory Management

1.DisablePagingExecutive -Double click it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allows XP to keep
data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to hard-drive yields faster performance.

2.LargeSystemCache- Double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernel to Run
in memory and improves system performance a lot.

3.IOPageLockLimit - Create a new DWORD value and name it double click it and set the value in hex - 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disk cache.

Reboot

Disable Unwanted Services

Windows XP Pro runs a lot of services by default that are not required if your not on a corporate network. the following services are ones that I safely disable thereby freeing up memory but before doing it check what each one does first to make sure your not using it for something:

Go to Run and type "services.msc", right click on each service, properties and choose disable.

Alerter
Application Layer Gateway Service,
Application Management
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer
Clipbook
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinater
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
IMAPI CD-Burning
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Net Logon
Net Meeting
Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
Smartcard
SSDP Discovery Service
Telnet Themes
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Webclient
Wireless Zero Configuration
WMI Performance Adaptor

Disable DLL Caching
Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.

1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer].
2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default value to equal
'1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory.
3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Tweak The Prefetch
1. Run "Regedit"
2. Goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParame ters\EnablePrefetcher]
3. Set the value to either 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3-Both
("3" is recommended).
4. Reboot.

It will decrease the boot time but double and increase the performance of your XP.

iGoogle

Google has renamed Personalized Homepage to iGoogle. Using of 'i' is not a trend. And there is no dearth of such names in the market.. iHome line of products, iPlayer (soon to be launched) from BBC, etc. It just seems to me that everybody is trying to cash in on the Apple iPod’s name success!

iGoogle is an application that focuses on implementing Google`s technology – and search technology in general – into different mediums. iGoogle has 4 main features: Google Search, Google Mail, Desktop Search and News Search. All of which can be configured using the Settings feature and optimized to their full ability using the Support feature.Google also is expanding iGoogle globally to new languages and countries, reaching 26 languages and more than 40 countries, and launching themes for iGoogle users located outside the United States.

Facts make iGoogle cool and effective:-

1 Get results faster by searching Google from your desktop.
2 Be informed of new messages in your Gmail account periodically.
3 Find things a lot faster by searching your computer easily.
4Find insight in the latest headlines and news from Wired News.
5 Preview a web page before visiting it in Google Search.
6 Get update information by iGoogle`s Live Model
7 Search history with only a click.

A couple of example of how this might work is that search results can be personalized based on your recent search history. If you have recently searched on "maserati", and then type in "jaguar", the auto results will receive a boost over the animal. Or if you type in pizza, and you have set a default location in Google Maps, you will get information on pizza places near you.

Google adds to this the ability to create your own gadgets – or at least tweak the settings within new templates. Options include a photo album into which you can stick seven shots, a YouTube gallery for your favourite videos, a “to do” list and Daily Me, a gadget that features details of what you’re up to that day. You can share these gadgets with your Gmail contacts through the ne "MY COMMUNITY" section. This means anyone can create a gadget without any knowledge of web development. This is certainly taking social media to the masses and could also provide a way for small businesses to create cool tools relating to their business that could help to spread the word about them online.

I love lot of Google products but iGoogle isn’t one of them. The reason for my lackluster review about iGoogle is because Netvibes and other personal homepage products like PageFlakes have all these features already and have implemented it better. The use of screen real estate is much better in Netvibes which means I can cram more feeds into every tab without having to scroll.

Launching Of Indian Portals

In this present world world every MNC is launching its own portal. India is recently becoming the IT extraction centre for the whole world. Although Sify was taking steps in this respect from quite a longer time the introduction of AOL's India portal is a big buzz. AOL is channelizind itself much towards indian system like the introduction of bollywood and Indian city guide.

Sify Launches Broadband Portal For Hyderabad

.After its launch of broadband portals mumbailive.in and bangalorelive.in, Sify has launched the Hyderabad version of the portal, www.hyderabadlive.in in the city yesterday. The portal is largely video-centric with an extensive coverage of the Telugu film industry.Sify has developed some exclusive videos for the portal featuring hosts, which it calls ‘net jockeys’, reporting on the events in the city. This is besides the usual listings on what’s happening in Hyderabad. The traffic channel streams from live web-cams placed at key junctions in the city to help people choose their routes. The news on the portal is both in English and Telugu.

HyderabadLive.in will showcase Hyderabad-centric video content created for an online audience and will focus on city news and events, entertainment, celebrities, lifestyle, commerce and politics.Hyderabad’s net users to publish their news and participate in discussions and upload images and videos by sending an SMS to a short code (4545). The messages appear as a ticker on the portal.

Speaking at the launch, Raju Vegesna, chairman and managing director, Sify Limited, said "We aim to make Hyderabadlive a high-quality entertainment destination, especially for the youth of the city. This is the medium they are increasingly comfortable with, and we will provide them compelling content in video to bring the city to life on the net".


AOL Launches India Portal

AOL’s India portal offering a host of services that, well, we have heard of before from other players of the net like email, instant messaging, local news and information. They’ve also launched AOL Messenger, and incorporated content focusing on Bollywood, Cricket, Hollywood, News, Sports and International music. There’s also a City-Guide and a Guru channel with advice from local and international experts.

AOL President and COO Ron Grant believes that AOL is one of just four companies with the scale, network infrastructure and resources to compete at a global level, and they’re looking to leverage that in India. The others, I suppose, are Google, Yahoo and MSN, though India has its own share of media companies in this space including Indiatimes (owned by the Times of India group) and Rediff. AOL is looking to target an Internet population that is reported to be about 94 million by 2008 and 147 million by 2010.

The City Guide currently features content from Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and both text and video content for Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. For mobile, they’re using a short code 51515/16, which I don’t recognize - have they gotten their own? The similarity of the AOL India main page with Yahoo India is striking... well, the design is similar to the AOL.com design.