No matter how fast our PC boots, it’s not fast enough. Lets shorten the time it takes for our desktop to appear when
we turn on our PC and make Windows shut down faster with following few hacks which are described below:
Confirm That Boot Defragmentation Is Enabled:
There’s a simple way to speed up Windows startup: make our system do a boot defragment, which
puts all the boot files next to one another on our hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, our system will start faster.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
After running regedit on run command window, edit the Enable string value to Y if it is not already set to Y. Exit the Registry and reboot. The next
time we reboot, our computer will perform a boot defragment.
**Many web sites are found to suggest a way of speeding up boot times for Windows XP that might in fact slow down the amount of time it takes to boot up and probably slow down launching applications as well. The tip recommends going to C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch directory and emptying it every week. Windows uses this directory to speed up launching applications. It analyzes the files we use during startup and the applications we launch, and it creates an index to where those files and applications are located on our hard disk. By using this index, Windows can launch files and applications faster. So, by emptying the directory, we are most likely slowing down launching applications.
Fine-Tune Registry for Faster Startups:
Over time, our Registry can become bloated with unused entries, slowing down our system
startup because our system loads them every time we start up our PC. Get a Registry cleanup
tool to delete unneeded Registry entries and speed up startup times. Using Free Registry Cleaner
(www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm), shown in Figure, is an excellent
Registry cleanup tool. It combs our Registry for outdated and useless entries and then lets us
choose which entries to delete and which to keep. It also lets we restore our Registry if we run
into a problem.
Registry cleanup tool combs our Registry for outdated and useless entries and then lets us
choose which entries to delete and which to keep. It also lets us restore our Registry if we run
into a problem.
Don’t have Windows clear our paging file at shutdown:
For security reasons, we can have Windows clear our paging file (pagefile.sys) contents
whenever we shut down. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme
security isn’t a high priority, we might not want to clear it.
To shut down Windows without clearing our paging file, run the Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. (It may already be set to this). Close the Registry and restart computer. Whenever we turn off Windows from now on, the paging file won’t be cleared, and we should be able to shut down more quickly.
**One simple way to speed up shutdown (and startup) times is to not ever actually shut down our PC. Instead,
use sleep or hibernate modes. They use very little power, and shut down and start up our PC far more quickly
than when we shut off the power completely.
Changing the waiting time during shutdown:
Sometimes it takes Windows a long time to shut down because it’s waiting to see whether a service will stop on its own before prompting we to manually shut it down. Windows, by default, waits 15 seconds before prompting us, which can sometimes seem interminable. We can hack the Registry to have Windows ask we sooner than 15 seconds. Run the Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Look for the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value. By default, it’s set to 15000 (15,000 milliseconds).
Change it to another number, in milliseconds—such as 10000, which would have Windows wait 10seconds instead of 15 before prompting we. It’s a good idea to start off lowering the number in
increments of not more than five seconds, to see how our computer responds. And don’t set it to
lower than 5000, or we might lose data or our PC might not shut down properly.
Shutting off applications and services that we don’t need at startup:
One of the best ways to speed up our PC without having to spend money on extra RAM is to stop
unnecessary programs and services from running whenever we start our PC. When too many
programs and services run automatically every time we start up our system, startup itself takes a
long time—and too many programs and services running simultaneously can bog down our CPU
and hog our memory.
To do this, go to command window, run msconfig and then go to startup tab. Now uncheck the programs that we don’t need to be started up automatically.
This is a place to build own community or own companies.
Less talk, All action.
This is about 54 hour event going to be organized on April 15-17(Date may vary later) at Banepa Training Center with full residential arrangements on a nominal fee of registration. The event has targeted 75 participants along with 50-50 percentage of technical and non-technical participants.
What do we get on Startup Weekend:
· Experimental education
· Co-founder dating
· Build our network
· Learn new skills
· Learn how to launch a business (& actually do it)
· Mentorship
· Get access to valuable startup resources
This Startup Weekend event has targeted to promote IT entrepreneurship by respecting local ideas and building local capacities in Nepal. This is the correct platform for sustainable entrepreneurship, which is most necessary in the context of Nepal. Besides these we can have collaboration with various entrepreneurs and will be able to link with global communities. This event will definitely help us with networking at local and international level.
For more information http://nepal.startupweekend.org/
The Imagine Cup is all about solving the toughest problems,
like hunger, poverty,health,education,etc. in the world with the help of
technology. It has been started since 2003 with only 1000 competitors and this
year this is going to be organized at USA. This time 3,75,000 competitors are
taking part and more than 3,00,000 have already registered. This competition
deals around with the social cause around the world that needs to be solved as
soon as possible.
The main reasons for participation are like:
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Learn new skills
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Make new friends of international level
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Last but not the least, to change the world
The imagine cup has 5 competitions in the subjects like:
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Software Design
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Embedded Design
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Game Design
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Digital media
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Windows phone 7
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IT challenge
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Orchard challenge
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Windows 7
In order to get participated, all we have to get a project
with a world changing concept and a team of 5 members(4 students and 1
faculty).