Increasing Your Internet Connection Bandwidth By 20%

Increasing Your Internet Connection Bandwidth By 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc
To get it back Click on Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor.
Then go to Local Computer Policy then Computer Configuration then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

View Faulty Device Drivers

View Faulty Device Drivers

If you are having problems with lockups, blue screens, or can only get to safe mode,
often the problem is due to a faulty device driver.
One way to help identify them is through the use of the Verifier program
Go to Start >> Run>> Write This Command Verifier
Keep the default of Create Standard Settings
Select the type of drivers you want to confirm
A list of drivers to be verified on the next boot will be shown.
Reboot
If your computer stops with a blue screen, you should get an error message with the problem driver To turn off the Verifier, run verifier /reset

Opening Shared Folders

Opening Shared Folders

To manage all your shared folders, you can run the snap-in directly
Start >> Run write this command fsmgmt.msc
This will show you all your shared folders in a single window
You can also see what other computers are connected and what files they have opened

Increasing Your Internet Connection Bandwidth By 20%

Increasing Your Internet Connection Bandwidth By 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc
To get it back Click on Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor.
Then go to Local Computer Policy then Computer Configuration then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

Remove Windows Messenger

Remove Windows Messenger

Go to Start >> Run and type:

"rundll32setupapi,InstallHinfSectionBLC.Remove128%SystemRoot%INFmsmsgs.inf"

View Installed Drivers

View Installed Drivers

To View the installed Drivers on Your Computer Open MS DOS and Write The Command Driverquery This will show you the complete list of installed drivers.

Defrag

Application Secrets - Defrag

Secret - Hidden Command Line Switch
Instructions - Go to "Start", "Run" and Type defrag c: -b to defragment the Boot and Application Prefetch information.

Notes - Windows XP will run this automatically every three days or so, during system idle periods. BootVis will evoke this when you run the "Optimize System" function. There is no need to manually run this unless you wish to immediately optimize a newly installed application's load time.

Changing Colors of DOS Window

In Windows XP you can change the color of DOS window to any Color of Your Choice. To Change Color, Open DOS and use "color" command . e.g Color 12 or Color bc etc.

Running NetMeeting

To run NetMeeting
Go to Start >> Run

Enter conf

Answer the prompts.