Set Processes Priority

Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritisation of processes using the CPU.

CTRL-SHIFT-ESC

1.Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option


2.For example, your Run your CDwriter program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s

Set Permissions for Shared Files and Folders

Sharing of files and folders can be managed in two ways. If you chose simplified file sharing, your folders can be shared with everyone on your network or workgroup, or you can make your folders private. (This is how folders are shared in Windows 2000.) However, in Windows XP Professional, you can also set folder permissions for specific users or groups. To do this, you must first change the default setting, which is simple file sharing. To change this setting, follow these steps:
•Open Control Panel, click Tools, and then click Folder Options.
•Click the View tab, and scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings list.
•Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box.
•To manage folder permissions, browse to the folder in Windows Explorer, right–click the folder, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and assign permissions, such as Full Control, Modify, Read, and/or Write, to specific users.

You can set file and folder permissions only on drives formatted to use NTFS, and you must be the owner or have been granted permission to do so by the owner.

Set up and Use Internet Connection Sharing

With Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Windows XP, you can connect one computer to the Internet, then share the Internet service with several computers on your home or small office network. The Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP Professional will automatically provide all of the network settings you need to share one Internet connection with all the computers in your network. Each computer can use programs such as Internet Explorer and Outlook Express as if they were directly connected to the Internet.
You should not use this feature in an existing network with Windows 2000 Server domain controllers, DNS servers, gateways, DHCP servers, or systems configured for static IP addresses.


Enabling ICS

The ICS host computer needs two network connections. The local area network connection, automatically created by installing a network adapter, connects to the computers on your home or small office network. The other connection, using a 56k modem, ISDN, DSL, or cable modem, connects the home or small office network to the Internet. You need to ensure that ICS is enabled on the connection that has the Internet connection. By doing this, the shared connection can connect your home or small office network to the Internet, and users outside your network are not at risk of receiving inappropriate addresses from your network.
When you enable ICS, the local area network connection to the home or small office network is given a new static IP address and configuration. Consequently, TCP/IP connections established between any home or small office computer and the ICS host computer at the time of enabling ICS are lost and need to be reestablished. For example, if Internet Explorer is connecting to a Web site when Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, refresh the browser to reestablish the connection. You must configure client machines on your home or small office network so TCP/IP on the local area connection obtains an IP address automatically. Home or small office network users must also configure Internet options for Internet Connection Sharing. To enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Discovery and Control on Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition computers, run the Network Setup Wizard from the CD or floppy disk on these computers. For ICS Discovery and Control to work on Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition computers, Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later must be installed.

To enable Internet Connection Sharing on a network connection

You must be logged on to your computer with an owner account in order to complete this procedure.
Open Network Connections. (Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double–click Network Connections.)

Click the dial–up, local area network, PPPoE, or VPN connection you want to share, and then, under Network Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.

On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box.
If you want this connection to dial automatically when another computer on your home or small office network attempts to access external resources, select the Establish a dial–up connection whenever a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet check box.

If you want other network users to enable or disable the shared Internet connection, select the Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection check box.

Under Internet Connection Sharing, in Home networking connection, select any adapter that connects the computer sharing its Internet connection to the other computers on your network. The Home networking connection is only present when two or more network adapters are installed on the computer.


To configure Internet options on your client computers for Internet Connection Sharing

Open Internet Explorer. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Internet Explorer.)

On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

On the Connections tab, click Never dial a connection, and then click LAN Settings.

In Automatic configuration, clear the Automatically detect settings and Use automatic configuration script check boxes.

In Proxy Server, clear the Use a proxy server check box.

Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Under that branch, select the key :

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

and delete it.

This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.

This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Go to ontrol Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"

How to Upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition Profiles to Windows XP Domain User Profiles

This guide describes how to upgrade a Microsoft Microsoft Windows 98-based, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition-based client that has user profiles to a Microsoft Windows XP-based client.

The following steps enable the Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition (Me) profiles to be retained throughout the process.

Your best method to retain the profiles is to join the domain during the upgrade installation process.
Otherwise, you must use a workaround method to transfer the profile information over to the Windows XP profile.

During the upgrade installation process, at the networking section, the administrator is offered the choice to join a domain or a workgroup.
If you join the domain at this juncture, you ensure that all the existing profiles are migrated successfully to the Windows XP-based installation.

If you did not join the computer to the domain during the upgrade process, you must use the following workaround method:

Join the upgraded computer to the target domain.

All applicable users must log on and log off (which generates a profile).

Copy the appropriate Application Data folder from the Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me profiles to the newly created user profiles.

Upgrading to Windows XP

You can upgrade a computer that runs Windows 98, 98SE, or Me to Windows XP Home Edition. Those same versions, along with Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows 2000 Professional, can be upgraded to Windows XP Professional.

(1).To ensure a smooth upgrade and avoid networking problems, follow these tips before starting the upgrade:

(2)Install all network cards. XP will detect them and automatically install the right drivers.

(3)Have your Internet connection available. The XP setup process will connect to a Microsoft server to download the latest setup files, including changes that have been made since XP was released.

Some programs are incompatible with XP and can cause networking problems. Un-install these programs. After the upgrade is complete and the network is working, re-install XP-compatible versions of these programs: Internet Connection Sharing, NAT, Proxy Server Anti-Virus Firewall.

New Sound Blaster Drivers

With the loads of problems reported by users with Soundblaster cards on Windows XP Creative has stepped up and offered drivers for at least some models of their Sound Blaster cards, but check your particular model closely. I have downloaded the SB128 drivers and my sound problems have been resolved..! So they do work.

Set the Search Screen to the Classic Look

When I first saw the default search pane in Windows XP, my instinct was to return it to its classic look; that puppy had to go. Of course, I later discovered that a doggie door is built into the applet. Click "Change preferences" then "Without an animated screen character." If you'd rather give it a bare-bones "Windows 2000" look and feel, fire up your Registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ CabinetState.

You may need to create a new string value labeled "Use Search Asst" and set it to "no".

How to Remove Windows XP's Messenger

Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak.

Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.

Tuning up MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) to speed up Internet access.

This is an old one. I had tried it on Window 2000 as well. Now let me tell
you one important fact related with tuning. Value of MTU depends upon how
fast a connection you have, what kind of activities you perform (ask
yourself a question. Are your a mild, average or high end user of Internet
? To put it in other words, Do you download little or nothing, or are an
average surfer or are Internet savvy individual and download everything
from programs,apps,patches to watching Internet audio/video real-time
content?) Depending upon who you are as a user and what kind of connection
(modem,dsl,cable or in rare cases T1/T3), this tuning may have little to
significant effect on your Internet experience. All right MTU stand for
Maximum Transmission Unit. Value of MTU decides the size of Internet data
packet. Bigger the size, more you can transfer. Analogy could be made with
a bucket. If bucket is small, you can carry little but it would be no
strain on your strength. Bigger the bucket, more you can carry but it
strains your physical strength. (Well! Its not that simple but good enough
to understand). Objective should be find a perfect balance which works for
you. I think maximum that you can put is as value of MTU is 1500 (but could
be higher for your specific network) and it may not make sense making it
smaller than 68.
Again this is a registry tweak unless and until you have a tweaking utility
that can do it for you.Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering
REGEDIT and Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interf
aces\ ID for Adapter. For this right click on right pane and add a key by
the name MTU. For this key you can add a DWORD value from 68 to 1500 (or
higher value is certain cases). If you put less than 68, it will default to
68. If you put a value higher than 1500 or your Network permitted max, it
will default to permitted max.
The MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) specifies the maximum transmission unit
size of an interface, and is usually determined by negotiation at the link
layer of the driver.
The upper level protocols normally optimize pack size for each medium.

Following table gives typical values of MTU in bytes:-
|Network Type |Windows XP MTU (bytes) |Windows NT / Windows |
| | |2000 MTU (bytes) |
|16 Mbps Token Ring |17914 |17914 |
|4 Mbits/Sec Token Ring |4464 |4464 |
|FDDI |4352 |4352 |
|Ethernet |1500 |1500 |
|IEEE 802.3/802.2 |1492 |1492 |
|X.25 |576 |576 |
|PPPoE (WAN Miniport) |1480 |N/A

Having problems with Outlook Express ? Does it ask for password

Even though this is not a problem for me but there is a chance that it
could be a problem for you. Sometimes no matter what you do, Outlook
Express forgets your password and asks you to enter it again each and every
time you connect to your mail server.I have a solution that may work for
you. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate
to HKEY_CURRRENT USER\Software\Microsoft and look for "Protected Storage
System Provider". There is a good chance that you will see this folder. If
you have it. Simply delete it. More than likely, you have solved your
problem .

Set the low level hook time-out and stop certain programs from crashing

One of the things that you can do avoid some programs from becoming
unstable is to set a low level hook timeout. There are a few programs which
use this low level hook timeout. Setting a low value (in milliseconds)
means that if the hooked program does not respond within timeout period,
one that has set the hook would not become unstable or go in infinite wait
but would kill itself saving windows resources and improving performance.
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop] and look for
"LowLevelHooksTimeout" in the right pane. Now set it to a small number in
milliseconds for example a value of 3500 would mean 3.5 seconds.

Where does Window's ProductId get stored ?

There are two places at least where ProductId gets stored. To see the first
place, open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and
Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion]. In right pane, look for key by the name "ProductId".
This is your Windows Product Id. Alternatively you can navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion] and still
find same field with the name ProductId.

Customize logon prompt with your own words

This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your
computer experience. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering
REGEDIT and Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]. In right pane, look for key by the name
"LogonPrompt". Set its value to whatever text you want to see displayed at
login screen.

Improve system performance by disabling DOS 8.3 naming convention

, I briefly mentioned MFT fragmentation. So what is the
cause of fragmentation. Well most common cause is too much use. As with
anything excessive use causes fragmentation. Activities of
add/update/delete to a section of disk would invariable cause it to
fragment. So there is no permanent solution as we can not avoid these acts.
As such it is a good idea to use disk defragmenter regularly. Contiguous
data which results from defragmenting disk, improves system performance
considerably. But what I am suggesting you here would prolong intervals
between defragmentations resulting in more time for your own productive
work. OK! This tip is for those folks would never be using a DOS based
program or don't care for connection from DOS based operating systems
(example: old games and all things before windows 95). In Windows XP, two
file names are created for each file one is the actual name and another one
is 8.3 version of that file name for compatibility with DOS based programs.
Now this work name in the name of compatibility takes quite a lot of system
resources specifically CPU time and disk space.But this is not it, it also
increases your MFT utilization and fragmentation. So the solution is to
disable it. How to do this ? Open Registry by going to START-RUN and
entering REGEDIT and Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. In right
pane, look for key by the name "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" and sets its
value to 1. Thats it. You would see improvement in system performance for
sure.

MFT (Master File Table) manipulations to improve disk performance

MFT stands for Master File Table. Typically in Windows XP , if you are
using NTFS ( I would recommend it if you don't) then by default,NTFS would
reserve 12.5% of your free diskspace for MFT. MFT fragmentation could also
cause a significant slow down. Let me discuss size first. Now if you have
installed tons of different programs on your hard disk (or intend to do
so), MFT utilization is going to be high. Under such situation, it may be
beneficial to increase this percentage to say 25%. If you want to do this,
here is the the trick. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering
REGEDIT and Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. In right
pane, Add one more key by the name "NtfsMftZoneReservation" with the
REG_DWORD value of 2. DWORD value of 1 is interpreted as 12.5% ,2 as 25%
and so on.

Enable write caching on disk and improve disk performance

I have enabled write caching on my disk and this does have helped improve
disk performance to a significant degree. Now you may ask why ?. WriteCache
is nothing else but implementation of concept of delayed write. As we all
know I/O activities are generally slow and hence if they are synchronous
can significantly reduce the system performance. Hence if system
performance has to be improved we have to reduce I/O activities. Now
practically we can not ask you to change your habits (meaning start typing
like a superman or robot etc.) but we can have a solution. We can control
the frequency of diskwrite by specifying regular intervals. All that needs
to be written between the intervals would be writen in a write buffer which
would be maintained in RAM. This write buffer would be written to the disk
at regular intervals or whenever it gets full. This is a smart concept with
one drawback. There is a chance that you may loose some data in case of
critical power loss or system failure but this is not an issue for me and
should not be to most of the users. Such things become an issue for Mission
Critical Business Servers.
To enable write cache on your disk, go to DEVICE MANAGER. Then select hard
disk in the disk drives and right click on it and select properties. Go to
policies tab and select checkbox which say "Enable write caching on the
disk". Close out everything and you are done.

Are you a MP3 fan ? Add ability to rip MP3 songs in Windows Media

I am not that great a fan of MP3 but do appreciate its power. If you have a
truckload of CDs that you would like to listen to but do not want to carry
all of them at the same time, you can rip them into MP3. Yes it can be done
technically and that too from Windows Media Player even though make sure
you have legally on right side of fence, meaning you own the CD that you
would rip MP3 from. That said here is the little tweak in registry. Open
Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayerSettings\MP3Encoding] and
adding following entries
"LowRate"=dword:0000dac0
"MediumRate"=dword:0000fa00
"MediumHighRate"=dword:0001f400
"HighRate"=dword:0002ee00
which corresponds to 56, 64, 128 and 192 Kbps. Following table would help
with other settings as well:
320 Kbps = dword:0004e200
256 Kbps = dword:0003e800
224 Kbps = dword:00036b00
160 Kbps = dword:00027100
112 Kbps = dword:0001b580

Customize Internet. Explorer Title bar

This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your
computer experience. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing
REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet.
Explorer\Main. In right hand panel look for string "Window Title" and
change its value to whatever custom text you want to see. That is it.

One more way to fine tune Internet. Explorer load time

If you do this little trick, application load time may improve
significantly. Right Click on shortcut to Internet. Explorer in taskbar (
If you do not see it right click on taskbar,click toolbar and select
quicklaunch) , click on properties and under shortcut tab look for Target
field. It should say some thing like "C:\Program Files\Internet.
Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE". This is typical default. I am suggesting you to put
" -nohome" without quotes at the end of this string with one space in
between. It should read like this "C:\Program Files\Internet.
Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome. Doing this would help load the application
quickly as time would not be wasted in connecting to home page again and
again. This is good for normal use as well.

Create your own customized legal notice at Windows Startup

This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your
computer experience. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing
REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. In right hand panel look for two fields by the
name legalnoticecaption and legalnoticetext. Modify legalnoticecaption to
what you want popup window caption should read and change legalnoticetext
to customize whatever message you want.

Speedup boot up sequence by defragmenting all key boot files

Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction. In right
hand panel look for Enable. Right click on it and set it 'Y' for enable.
This is the way I have it set on my computer. This will help speedup boot
time.

How to improve on shutdown time ? Close apps automatically & quickly at

Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP and look for AutoEndTasks. On my
computer default value is 0. Change it to 1. Thats all. Further more you
can reduce the time it takes for Windows to issue kill directive to all
active/hung applications. In doing this only constraint that you should
make sure exists is that HungAppTimeout is greater than
WaitToKillAppTimeout. Change the values of WaitToKillAppTimeout to say 3500
(since default value for HungAppTimeout 5000 and for WaitToKillAppTimeout
is 20000)

How to stop new programs installed balloon from coming up?

Right click on START button and select properties. Click on Customize and
go to Advanced tab and deselect check box saying "Highlight newly installed
programs". This would help you stop this annoying feature from popping up
every now and then.

How to avoid password entry at start up ?

Open Administrative tools in control panel and go to Local security
policy.Select accounts and within that password policies. Set minimum
password length to 0. This should be enough to stop password from being
entered at startup.
I have received some criticism for asking users to set their password
length to 0 and I agree to some of the potential security risks. Here is
one better way to do it.

Go to START-RUN and enter "control userpasswords2" select the user the you
would like to have auto logon set to and then uncheck "Users must enter a
user name and password to use this computer". Ok out. Now you have to do
one more thing. Go to START-RUN and enter "control userpasswords" and
clicking on "Change the way users log on or off", and unchecking both "Use
the Welcome Screen" and "Use Fast User Switching".
Now Reboot and see it happen.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: (Please make sure that you are doing this to user
account and not administrator account. If you do this to administrator
account or user accounts that have admin privileges and connect to
Internet. and do not have a good firewall installed or enabled, your are
exposing yourself to potential risks) XPTOOLS is not responsible for any
such damage. *Also note that default user accounts created by XP are in
admin group and have admin privileges so be careful.

How to login as administrator if you don't see it available ?

Unless and until you have run into issues and fixing XP (underwhich case
you have to go to Safe Mode to login as Administrator), you can get to
administrator screen by simply pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE twice at the main
screen.

Do you know you can have Virtual Desktops (like in Linux) with

If you have powertoys installed on Windows XP Its available for free at
Microsoft website, visit my downloads webpage address) It is very easy to
enable Microsoft Virtual Desktop Feature. Simply right click on the Start
Panel Bar also called TaskBar, Click on Tool Bar and select Desktop
manager. You would see a set of 5 icons placed on the right portion of the
TAskBar. Click on number 1 to 4 to go to any of the desktops. Now you have
have four different Active Desktops.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You may see a little degradation in performance but for
desktop work it is negligible.

Correctly set your level 2 cache and improve performance !!

I read about this trick the other day over Internet. Open Registry by going

to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory

Management\SecondLevelDataCache. Based on the kind of CPU you have, this

value should change. Here are some of the defaults. Intel Celeron - 128 ,

AMD Duron - 64. PII and Athalon: 512. Cyrix and AMD K6-3 256. Pentium IV-

1024. Figure out what your CPU type is and what L2 cache it supports and

set it accordingly. It is important to know what critics have to say about

this tweak. Opinions vary and I have put following three articles that have

been brought to my attention which may help you understand why it may not

be effective in some situations:

Do not change the SecondLevelDataCache entry (from Microsoft technet

article

nol/windows2000serv/reskit/serverop/part2/sopch06.asp>)

Some third-party sources have erroneously reported that modifying the

SecondLevelDataCache registry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System

\CurrentControlSet \Control \Session Manager\Memory Management can enhance

system performance. The second level (L2) cache is recognized by the

operating system and is fully utilized regardless of the setting of this

parameter.

(from Microsoft knowledge base item Q183063

)This is

not related to the hardware; it is only useful for computers with direct-

mapped L2 caches. Pentium II and later processors do not have direct-

mapped L2 caches. SecondLevelDataCache can increase performance by

approximately 2 percent in certain cases for older computers with ample

memory (more than 64 MB) by scattering physical pages better in the address

space so there are not so many L2 cache collisions. Setting

SecondLevelDataCache to 256 KB rather than 2 MB (when the computer has a 2

MB L2 cache) would probably have about a 0.4 percent performance penalty.

(From an arstechnica article

1.html>) One of the most infamous NT tweaks since the introduction of NT4

has got to be the "L2 cache" tweak, a lone registry entry which stipulates

the amount of L2 cache (or secondary cache) that the OS will make use of.

Well, as with many things in life, the effects of this tweak are not so

black and white. If you're using a processor that implements a direct-

mapped L2 cache design (like Pentium I's), then this registry adjustment is

indeed for you. However, if you own any Intel processor post-PI, or any

modern AMD processor (K6-2 and newer), then your processor is using a set-

associative L2 cache design, and thus you need not specify your L2 cache

size. Let me explain.

If you choose not to futz with the registry key in question, the OS will

call on the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for retrieval of the L2 cache

size when you boot your computer. If this happens to fail, a default value

of 256KB is used for all logon sessions on that boot session. This is where

the myth that NT can only use 256KB of L2 cache comes from. But it's false.

See, the HAL is able to retrieve the processor (L2) cache from any

processor using the set-associative cache design, it's only the relatively

few processors out there with direct-mapped L2 caches that the HAL won't

chat it up with. Thus, this tweak only applies to a select number of people

anymore (like people with Pentium I procs between 166-233MHz, as lower

rated procs had only 256KB cache).

Reduce IO and increase turnaround which means faster computer !

I read about this trick the other day over Internet. Open Registry by going

to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory

Management\IoPageLockLimit. Depending upon how much RAM you have, you can

increase your diskcache size by entering a higher value in IoPageLockLimit.

Typically your computer won't come optimized for diskcache and you can set

to a value which works best for you by trial and error.Rule of thumb is to

have a ratio of 1 or 2 for every 64K chuck. But try out various different

values as each case would be a little different

How to boost XP speed by by changing real time clock priority?

I read about this trick the other day over Internet. Open Registry by going

to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl]. If

you see an entry by the name IRQ8Priority set it to a value

"IRQ8Priority"=dword:00000001 if you don't then click on the right pane and

add a new dword entry with given name.. IRQ8 is typically reserved for real

time clock in most of the computers. Make sure thats the case (by going to

device manager -> system devices -> system COMS/realtime clock ->

properties -> resources tab , if it is set to another number try adding an

entry with that number N as IRQNPriority) . Generally realtime clock

priority boosting helps most but you are free to try others as well.

If you have a lot of RAM, do you really need swap file?

With RAM prices dropping so low ( I saw 256 MB SDRAM for $34 in COMPUSA on

Jan 2nd,2002), more and more people are adding RAM to their computer. This

is the best upgrade I would suggested to anyone. Well if you have 512MB or

768 MB or a whopping 1GB of RAM, you do not need a swap file (SWAP FILE is

the concept of old dayw when RAM was too costly). Try this out. Go to My

Computer and right click on properties and get into System Properties

window. Go to Advanced tab and click on the Settings button for Performance

group, click again on advanced tab and then click on change and choose NO

SWAP FILE. I think you would see an improvement. If you don't like the

change, follow the same steps and change SWAP FILE size to whatever you

want (typically 1.5 * physical RAM). Also you can further gain by applying

following changes in registry. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and

typing REGEDIT. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory

Management and look for DisablePagingExecutive. On my computer default

value is 0. Set it to 1. This will stop paging act as well.

Ever wondered how come you get into those HTML error pages ? Want to

Some times, I type a webpage address and instead of seeing the page, see an

error message. Do you know that all these error messages are stored in a

DLL file. That is correct ! All of this message are burned into SHDOCLC.DLL

file. Here is the syntax to see all of these error messages . If you want

to see server busy error message type in Internet address field,

res://c:\Windows\System32\SHDOCLC.DLL/servbusy.htm Similarly If you want to

try out any other error message simply replace servbusy.htm by that html

file (just the names) Here are some complete examples html files that you

can try .

http_400.htm, http_404.htm, http_406.htm, http_410.htm, http_500.htm,

http_501.htm, http_gen.htm, servbusy.htm, syntax.htm, navcancl.htm,

offcancl.htm, policyerror.htm, policylooking.htm, policynone.htm,

policysyntaxerror.htm, privacypolicy.dlg, preview.dlg, printerr.htm,

printnf.htm, printnof.htm, printunk.htm, wcee.htm, ietext.bmp,

ietext256.bmp, world.bmp, world256.gif, ie.gif, ie256.gif, orgfav.dlg,

about.dlg, analyze.dlg, bidifind.dlg, docppg.ppg, error.dlg, find.dlg,

findic.dlg, ieerror.dlg, imageppg.ppg, orgfav.dlg, and pstemplate.dlg

If you need to customize these messages, write an error message that you

want to see as displayed and store it somewhere on your harddisk, open

registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and navigate to

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet

Explorer\AboutURLs and changing entries associated with various keys and

provide complete path name to your own custom html file.

Do you know there are two command shell environments in XP ? which one

In Microsoft Windows XP Pro ( I think this must be true for HOME Edition,

but don't quote on me), There is not one but two different command shell

environment. One is the old one COMMAND.COM and other one is CMD.EXE. Both

would do the job but they do it somewhat differently at a lower level.

Which one is better ? I have noticed that CMD.EXE is much better in

executing your commands. And this is true. CMD.EXE is the new command shell

environment. that is better by design.So if you want to try out even your

very old DOS apps, try it first in CMD.EXE. There is a very good chance

that it will work and will work better than in your old shell.

Heard of Atomic Clocks? or NIST ? Here is a tip on accurately setting

Till yesterday I was using a separate third party utility to synchronize my

computer clock precisely. I am not a timely person in all other aspects of

life (not a good thing but have to be truthful !) to worry about time that

too at atomic level but as it is with many things, it sounds like good a

good idea to do it anyway! Thanks to National Institute of Standards and

Technology, It has become much easier to do that via Internet. And there is

no need for third party tool if you have bought WINDOWS XP Operating

System. Just click on the time (right side of your START bar or panel) and

click on INTERNET TIME tab. Select the time.nist.gov and click update now.

Your are all set. Wait a minute your computer clock is still not that

advanced. So you many need to synchronize again and again. But hey, we are

in the computer world and who has time for This manual work. So I have a

solution for you. OPEN registry editor ( I think you know how to open a

registry.. click START-RUN and enter regedit) and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Services \ W32Time \

TimeProviders \ NtpClient. In right pane, you would see

"SpecialPollInterval". Double click and set a decimal number (unit is

seconds) to the frequency with which you want to have the automatic

synchronization carried out.

Also you can add many more time servers directly into registry because by

default all that you can see is two time servers in the drop down list.

List of many other time servers is available at

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/

. To add any other time

servers, get details about the server and then navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Serve

rs] and adding them into the list.

Avoid download of file attachments that may have virus infections

Open Group Policy Editor by going to START - RUN and entering gpedit.msc.

This one is easy.. Navigate to USER CONFIGURATION - ADMINISTRATIVE

TEMPLATES - WINDOWS COMPONENTS - INTERNET EXPLORER. For This on right hand

pane (most likely secondly last line at bottom) you should see an item

Configure Outlook Express. Double Click on it and enable it and mark check

box that says "Block attachments that may contain virus". OK out and close

the global policy editor.

Further speedup broadband cable Internet connection

READ DISCLAIMER FIRST AND THEN FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS BELOW IF APPLICABLE:

A. in the "My Network Places" properties (right click on the desktop icon

and choose properties), highlight the connection then at the menu bar

choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the

lower half for the bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS

networks. Click OK

B. Continue as indicated below steps:

1. from the Windows XP CD in the support directory from the support cab,

extract the file netcap.exe and place it in a directory on your hard drive

or even in the root of your C:\ drive.

2. next, open up a command prompt window and change directories to where

you put netcap.exe then type "netcap/?". It will list some commands that

are available for netcap and a netmon driver will be installed. At the

bottom you will see your adapters. You should see two of them if using a

3Com card. One will be for LAN and the other will be for WAN something or

other.

3. Next type "netcap/Remove". This will remove the netmon driver.

4. Open up control panel / system / dev man and look at your network

adapters. You should now see two of them and one will have a yellow ! on

it. Right click on the one without the yellow ! and choose uninstall. YES!

you are uninstalling your network adapter, continue with the uninstall. Do

not restart yet.

5. Check your connection properties to make sure that no connection exists.

If you get a wizard just cancel out of it.

6. Now restart the machine and go to your connection properties again and

you should have a new connection called "Local area connection 2".

highlight the connection then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then

"Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the

bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.

8. Choose connection properties and uncheck the "QOS" box

9. Restart the machine and enjoy the increased responsiveness of IE, faster

page loading, and a connection speed boost

It seems that Windows XP installs two separate versions of the NIC card.

One you do not normally see in any properties. Remember the "netcap/?"

command above showing two different adapters? The LAN one is the one you

see. The invisible one slows everything down and its like your running two

separate cards together, sharing a connection among two cards. This method

breaks This"bond" and allows the NIC to run unhindered.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This tweak assumes that you have let Windows XP

create a connection on install for your cable modem/NIC combination and

that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and print sharing - and client

for Microsoft networks ,only installed. It also assumes that winxp will

detect your NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try

This as This may not work.

Want to enhance Network throughput? Try out this tip.

Network throughput depends on a variety of factors and as such you never no

what could be the bottleneck. One of things that we can try out is the

network redirector reserves.Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and

entering regedit and navigate to key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Para

meters]. One here, click on right pane and added following Dwords. Dwords

are in hexadecimal (and value as shown below indicates that of 104, valid

values are 0-255). Keep both values same. I think default is 15 or 20. This

may help networkthrough put but there is no guarantee. Try it out.

"MaxCmds"=dword:00000068

"MaxThreads"=dword:00000068

Start menu is slow in responding? Want to boost response time of start

Windows XP is touted as a new generation of OS Xperience. No doubt about

that but this experience come at a cost. Resources. If your hardware

configuration (read CPU,RAM) is not upto speed but still want to boost

response time of start menu, here are a few tricks that might help. Open

registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit and navigate to

key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay . Change

the value (default may be 400) to 5 or 50 or even 0. This should speed up.

If you are not all that crazy for shadowy effects, you can further speed

the things up by going to DISPLAY Properties Window and from there to

appearance and over there clicking Advanced command button and check off

Show menu shadow.

Want to change font size of Internet Explorer content on the fly ?

Do you know that font size of many of the web sites can be changed as per

your view pleasure. Yea ! You know about it but do not want to take those

additional steps. I hear you ! Here is a tip. If you have a mouse that has

scrolling button then fond changing is as easy as pressing CTRL key and

rotating scrolling button either towards you (to increase) or away from you

(to decrease). Try it out. It works for me.

Have tendency to forget passwords ? Want a solution that will help you

Most of us have a common tendency of forgetting passwords. If you don't

every forget anything, I envy you and this may not be of much use to you

but for most of us, this may be a life saver. If you're running Windows XP

Professional as a local user in a workgroup environment, you can create a

password reset disk by following instruction as shown below:

Go to START-CONTROL PANEL-USER ACCOUNTS. Then click your account name and

further on in RELATED TASKS, click PREVENT A FORGOT PASSOWRD. A wizard

would come up, follow instructions and you have your password reset disk

ready.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As it goes with things like password, make sure that you

keep this disk at secure location else you risk tress passing with your

user account.

Group Policy Editor: Extremely powerful tool in Microsoft XP Operating

Have you heard of group policy editor ? This is one of the most powerful

tool that Microsoft XP comes bundled with that most of us don't even know

about. I recently discovered it by accident. Learn more about it at Group

Policy Editor section of this site but in brief it can

be used to carry out powerful customizations and performance tuning of your

system. Go to START-RUN and enter gpedit.msc

How to verify XP software you bought is OEM/UPGRADE/RETAIL?

I am sure we all have noticed Microsoft product marketing strategy.

Whenever they launch any new product line,there are various flavors of it

available right from day one. Some are given adjectives like UPGRADE

version or FULL, others RETAIL v/s OEM and then of-course we have various

categories of the product like HOME, PRO , SERVER , ADVANCED SERVER etc

etc. Well ever wondered what you bought is same as what was advertised ?

How to tell the difference. Here comes the help. Look for a file called

Setupp.ini that is present on your Windows XP CD and double click on it and

browse its content. There is a field called PID=. This PID is what would

tell us exactly what we have got.First 5 bytes of PID decide whether (it is

OEM or RETAIL or is an UPGRADE ) and last three digits determine what kind

of CD KEY will it accept. Here are some of the typical PID values:

Retail = 51882 335

Volume License = 51883 270

OEM = 82503 OEM

Want to have more options in the Add/Remove program list ?

All programs that are available on your Windows XP system are not available

for removal. For example wordpad. I mean you don't want to remove wordpad

from Add/Remove program list, but that serves just as an example. So why

are some programs in the list and some not. Its not a game of Random

numbers. There many a few unique methods through which we can control what

appears on list and what does not. If you have installed Windows in C:

drive , Go to C:\WINDOWS\inf (substituting the correct drive letter for

your version of Windows) and open the sysoc.inf file. File contents looks

like this: See the components that have word HIDE as second last item on

the row. This hide tells system to not to display those items/apps in the

Add/Remove program list. If you want to have this item in list, simply

replace it with blank. I think you understand what am I saying

[Version]

Signature = "$Windows NT$"

DriverVer=07/01/2001,5.1.2600.0

[Components]

NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4

WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7

Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7

Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7

NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7

iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7

com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7

dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7

IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7

TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2

msmq=msmqocm.dll,MsmqOcm,msmqocm.inf,,6

ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7

fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7

AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7

IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7

Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7

AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7

CommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,HIDE,7

MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,HIDE,7

AccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,HIDE,7

Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7

MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7

ZoneGames=zoneoc.dll,ZoneSetupProc,igames.inf,,7

[Global]

WindowTitle=%WindowTitle%

WindowTitle.StandAlone="*"

Want to remove shared documents folder from My Computer window ?

Microsoft has done a fabulous job in the making of Windows XP. But least to

say, no two people are alike. Some of the default features that Microsoft

thought was good may not be liked by you at all. I have read various

newsgroups and chats and one thing I noticed is that some don't like my

shared documents folder option. If you are one of that, here is a trick to

remove it.Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit.

Once in registry, navigate to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft

\ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \

DelegateFolders You must see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-

5595fe6b30ee}. If you delete this key, you have effectively removed the my

shared documents folder.

Further fine tune Internet access speed: Tip on improving DNS

Internet browsing is such an exciting and easy experience now a days that

we have almost forgotten the amount of work that goes behind the scene to

make this all happen. We only feel bad if we can't find something easily or

have to wait for a long time (I have heard many people saying WWW stands

for world wide wait not too long ago!!!) Well with changes in technology

and falling prices we have far better hardware and software to do this job

but fruits of fine tuning have always been great and would continue to

remain so. One of the things that should happen before Internet connection

would go through is DNS resolution.DNS stands for Domain Name Service. Even

though XP does a fine job of handling DNS resolution, you may still gain by

increase the DNS Cache size. To do this you would have to add following

entries in registry. Save what is written below in say "dnstuning.reg" file

and import it in REGISTRY but opening registry editor and going to IMPORT

option from top menu.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001

"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180

"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00

"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d

Fine tune Internet connection speed: Tip on changing QoS parameter.

This tweak deals with QoS parameter manipulation. There have been some

confusion as to what can be achieved in real terms by changing the QoS

parameter. Microsoft has finally released an article correcting describing

the behavior of QoS parameter. I am providing a link to Microsoft web site

knowledgebase article

In

brief though, this tweak would only work on QoS aware programs and rest of

the programs would simply ignore them. Networking Quality of Service (QoS)

refers to a variety of techniques that prioritize one type of traffic or

program when these operate across a network connection rather than relying

solely on "best effort" connectivity. Please click on how to change QoS

parameter article using Group Policy Editor

(GPEDIT.MSC).By default, programs can reserve up to an aggregate bandwidth

of 20 percent of the underlying link speed on each interface on an end

computer. If the program that reserved the bandwidth is not sending enough

data to utilize it completely, the unused portion of the reserved bandwidth

is available for other data flows on the same host. This default parameter

can be changed.

Attention LAPTOP Users ! Do your eyes a favor, use Clear Type Fonts

Hi everyone! May be you have already realized the importance of clear type

font by now. A new feature that must be a boon to all those people who are

spending their life staring these monitor screens!. After years of

research, it has been noticed that Clear Type Fonts are best way to prolong

you Laptop computer experience. Windows XP comes equipped with it and you

can change the setting to use Clear Type fonts. What is not so simple to do

is to even change the Welcome (logon) screen to used Clear Type. I have got

hand of a tip that might be of help to you installing clear type fonts at

logon screen. Save following to a .reg file and import it in registry.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"FontSmoothing"="2"

"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]

"FontSmoothing"="2"

"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

For those of you who do not know how to use clear type fonts in normal

session here are the instructions: Right click on at any free area of the

desktop and go to appearance tab of Display Properties. Click on effects

and check the box saying "use following methods to smooth edges of screen

fonts" and select clear type.

Not sure of website address?

Most of the computer users would choose to type less if they are given such

an option. Problem is for many of us, to find that option itself is

challenging enough! Anyway I am talking to those folks who don't have habit

of typing complete domain names and want the computer/Internet to do the

job. Here are some of the registry changes that can widen your search

domain.. If in Internet options, Display result and go to most likely site

or just go to most likely site is enabled, you can type only the domain

root in the Address box and Internet Explorer attempts to locate the

correct Web site by searching different domain types. For example, if you

type "Microsoft" in the Address box, Internet Explorer searches the domain

types in the Autoscan list until a domain name match is found (in this

case, www.microsoft.com).

By default, Internet Explorer searches the following domain types when the

Autoscan Common Root Domains option is enabled:.

.com, .org, .net, .edu

To add a domain type to the Autoscan search list, add the string value ""

with a value of "%s." and a string value "" with a value of "www.%s."

(without quotation marks), where is the next available number and is the

domain type, under the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Url Template

For example, if you want to add the .gov domain type and there are already

7 domain types listed, add a string value "8" with a value of "%s.gov" and

a string value "9" with a value of www.%s.gov. NOTE: The order in which

Internet Explorer searches domains is based on the string value.For

example, the domain type associated with string value 1 is searched before

the domain type associated with string value 2.

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With ad revenues hit by the slowdown, Yahoo hoppes to boost its sagging revenues with the launch of three new 'targeting' products for brand and performance marketers to help them reach the audiences that matter most when advertising online.

The Sunnyvale-based company made the announcement during the company's keynote presentation at the annual conference of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

The new products include:

* Search Retargeting, which gives advertisers the ability to target display advertising based on user search activities,
* Enhanced Retargeting, which allows advertisers to deliver dynamically generated display ads across the Yahoo network based on user activity on an advertiser's site, and
* Enhanced Targeting capabilities for search advertising, including ad scheduling and demographic targeting within search.

"As the economy continues to put pressure on advertising budgets, marketers are looking for increased accountability for every dollar they spend. Yahoo's new targeting products significantly improve the ability for search and display advertisers to reach their target audience, providing increased efficiency and accountability," said Michael Walrath, senior vice president, Advertising Marketplaces Group.

Search Retargeting for display advertising
Yahoo's Search Retargeting is a customised display targeting solution that lets advertisers capture user interest from search terms and retarget the user with display ads throughout the Yahoo network. For example, if a user searches for the keyword "sandals," indicating strong purchase intent, an advertiser can target that user with a tailored display ad for footwear.

Enhanced Retargeting for display advertising
Yahoo is also introducing Enhanced Retargeting, which combines standard site retargeting with dynamic ad generation. For example, users who visit an airline website to check offers for flights from SFO-JFK can be served a personalized offer for that specific flight when they visit a page within the Yahoo network.

The company said that in a recent trial, a market-leading online travel company saw a 230 per cent increase in total bookings and a 651 per cent increase in click-through rate when comparing Enhanced Retargeting to their traditional retargeting campaign.

Enhanced Targeting capabilities for Search Advertising
Recognising the need for more focused audience segmentation and improved control, Yahoo Search Marketing will offer advertisers Enhanced Targeting capabilities for Sponsored Search and Content Match programs, which is expected to start in March.

New features are designed to extend the advertiser's control over where and when an ad is shown at both the campaign and ad group level, including what time of day and day of the week an advertiser would like campaigns to run (ad scheduling) and what age and gender they'd like to reach (demographic).

Advertisers will be able to vary their bids for different segments in order to increase their ability to reach the desired audience.

The online advertising market may change since Yahoo has a considerable base of display advertisers, although Google holds the biggest search market share by far, but Yahoo also has approximately 20 per cent share and could boost its revenue if advertisers like branded search ads.

Google has not tinkered with display ads in its search results and although it acquired Doubleclick in 2008, Yahoo still is the leader in display ad technology.

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Yahoo! announces global availability of its new ymail and rocketmail news

Yahoo! Inc today announced the global availability of two new email domains that will give users the chance to register for the email address or Yahoo! ID they may have always wanted.

People can finally say goodbye to CutiePie4Ever80 or xyz1977@yahoo.com and get a new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail cklaims more than 260 million users worldwide (source: comScore Media Metrix, April 2008), as a result of which many desirable e-mail addresses have already been taken for the yahoo.com domain, as well as for localised versions of the namespace in countries around the world.

With the two new email domain choices, Yahoo! will make millions of new email addresses available to the online community.

''We recognise that people want an email address that reflects who they are, whether they are signing up for an email address for the first time, or simply updating their email pseudonym to reflect the stage they are at in life,'' said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! Mail.

Email addresses at the new domains will have the same Yahoo! Mail features as addresses at the yahoo.com domain.

A common Yahoo! ID will work for everything across the Yahoo! network, from checking email to checking out Messenger, Flickr, groups, sports, finance, and the rest.

In many markets, Yahoo! will also help users transfer their email and contacts to their new address and notify friends of their new email address.



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Yahoo! announces global availability of its new ymail and rocketmail news

Yahoo! Inc today announced the global availability of two new email domains that will give users the chance to register for the email address or Yahoo! ID they may have always wanted.

People can finally say goodbye to CutiePie4Ever80 or xyz1977@yahoo.com and get a new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail cklaims more than 260 million users worldwide (source: comScore Media Metrix, April 2008), as a result of which many desirable e-mail addresses have already been taken for the yahoo.com domain, as well as for localised versions of the namespace in countries around the world.

With the two new email domain choices, Yahoo! will make millions of new email addresses available to the online community.

''We recognise that people want an email address that reflects who they are, whether they are signing up for an email address for the first time, or simply updating their email pseudonym to reflect the stage they are at in life,'' said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! Mail.

Email addresses at the new domains will have the same Yahoo! Mail features as addresses at the yahoo.com domain.

A common Yahoo! ID will work for everything across the Yahoo! network, from checking email to checking out Messenger, Flickr, groups, sports, finance, and the rest.

In many markets, Yahoo! will also help users transfer their email and contacts to their new address and notify friends of their new email address.



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Yahoo Domains: $9.95 or $4.98?

Is Yahoo selling domains for $9.95 or $4.98? That may depend on how and when you navigate to its domain sales page, as Yahoo offers periodic promotions to build interest in its web hosting offerings. On Tuesday, the yahoo.com home page featured domains for $4.98, while ads appearing on Google.com for Yahoo domains were also offering the $4.98 rate. Meanwhile, the smallbusiness.yahoo.com page was listing .com domains for $9.95 a year.

"Yahoo's standard domain price is $9.95, which is offered on our web site and channel wide 24x7," said Yahoo spokesperson Kelley Podboy. "From time to time, we use promotional pricing (e.g. $4.98) to build awareness of our services and reach new business customers in promotional channels, like Yahoo.com, where we run one-day ads several times a month. Due to the limited nature of this advertising, we hope that visitors respond right away. If they don't, they may pay our standard $9.95 price."

Yahoo isn't the only provider offering targeted discounts, as 1&1 Internet features regional pricing differences on .com domains (which are $5.99 on 1&1's U.S. site and 8.89 pounds, or $16.21, at its UK site)

On the pricing front, several hosting companies are running domain promotions priced below Yahoo's, including Aplus.net, which has a "limited time offer" of $3.95 for a one-year .com domain. Meanwhile, Netfirms is apparently preparing to end the $4.95 a year pricing it announced in February, as the price is now accompanies by a "hurry, offer ends soon" warning.

The domain name resale market continued to produce big-ticket sales, as South American investor Chris Chena spent a reported $550,000 to buy eight domains, including cheapgas.com ($150,000), Paraguay.com ($150,000) and a series of one-word Spanish-language domains. Chena's puchases accounted for eight of the top 10 domain sales last week, according to Domain Name Journal.

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What Is a Yahoo Domain?

The well-known Internet portal Yahoo! has joined the domain name business. The company now offers domain name registration services through its Yahoo! Small Business division. This sector of Yahoo is devoted to helping entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running by providing assistance like recruiting services, marketing tools and web hosting. The next reasonable step is to offer branded Yahoo domain registration. It’s another tool which will help business establish an online presence.

PC Magazine reviewed Yahoo Domains and gave it the highly-coveted Editor’s Choice Award. The published review states that “domain registration through Yahoo! Small Business is the easiest.” The statement reflects the level of service that one receives through a Yahoo Domain. It offers great features like domain forwarding, email forwarding, control panel with DNS management, and the most popular top-level domains. Knowledgeable customer service is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and the call is toll-free. In addition to this, one to five-year registration plans are available.

Yahoo! Domains also makes upgrading very easy for those who want to expand to other Yahoo! services. Customers may upgrade to receive a personal custom mailbox or business mail package which reflects the domain name. Users may also transfer their Yahoo! domain from another web host to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If the customer needs help creating an online store, they may summon the help of Merchant Solutions which is a program that will help them manage online sales.

PC Magazine said that a Yahoo Domain was the easiest. It is quite possible to claim that the service is one of the cheapest. It offers all of the aforementioned features for only $4.98 per year at the time of this writing. With so many wonderful features at such a low price, it is hard to overlook an offer like this one.

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Why File a Mesothelioma Lawsuit?

A mesothelioma lawsuit can be filed in the legal system in order to seek reparations for medical expenses, loss of income and pain and suffering associated with the development of this disease. Employers and manufactures of asbestos containing products can be held liable for the injuries that develop as a result, especially when they were aware of the risks associated with the level of exposure they caused or permitted. Contacting a qualified lawyer is often the first step in discovering what your legal rights and options might be in a mesothelioma lawsuit. For more information on a mesothelioma lawsuit, please Contact a Mesothelioma Attorney whomesothelioma lawsuits, is familiar with other mesothelioma cases.


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More Common in Men

Mesothelioma affects men three to five times more often than it affects women. It is diagnosed in patients at an average age of 50 to 70 years. Once diagnosed, mesothelioma is fatal. The average survival time after diagnosis is only one year, because the cancer is usually in its advanced stages by the time it is discovered. For people who are diagnosed earlier, about one half survive for two years and twenty percent make it to five years.


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Who Is At Risk?

Mesothelioma is a rare but fatal cancer that is caused by this harmful exposure to asbestos. Mesothelioma affects the mesothelium that surrounds and protects the internal organs of the body and can affect any organ in the body including the brain, heart and reproductive organs. Pleural mesothelioma is the most common and affects the lining surrounding the lungs. This lining can become cancerous when asbestos is inhaled at toxic levels. Many times the disease is asymptomatic, though symptoms may include a persistent cough, pain in the chest area or shortness of breath.

Mesothelioma also affects the peritoneal lining of the organs in the abdominal cavity. This type of mesothelioma can also remain latent and asymptomatic for several years. If symptoms do develop they might include pain and swelling of the belly, nausea, bowel problems, weight loss, swollen feet, and anemia.


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Mesothelioma Lawsuit

A mesothelioma lawsuit is filed by a victim of mesothelioma in order to recover damages associated with their development of this asbestos related cancer. A mesothelioma case can help a victim seek reparations for medical expenses, lost income and pain and suffering. Mesothelioma develops almost exclusively as a result of toxic exposure to asbestos. This disease can remain latent in a victim for up to forty years; therefore people who were exposed to asbestos in the environment in the 1950s may still be at risk for developing this disease.

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Will my case go to court?

Again, it is impossible to say until your lawyer has tried to settle out of court. However, most mesothelioma cases are settled out of court and this saves both sides money because taking the case to court can get costly.

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Will the lawsuit be filed in the state where I live?

Not necessarily. Your lawyer will select the state in which you have the best chance of success and where you are likely to get the highest compensation. This will make no difference to you as you will not have to pay any extra and may end up getting far more compensation in another state.

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Where can I find a mesothelioma lawyer?

there are now many mesothelioma lawyers and you should have no problem finding one. The Internet is a good place to start your search, as many mesothelioma lawyers advertise there. You can check out many credentials and assess the experience of individual law firms by searching on the Internet. You can also submit your details via the Internet in many cases, allowing the law firm to evaluate your case and then contact you. You can also check in your local phone directory for details of mesothelioma lawyers. However, try to find a lawyer that has experience of working with mesothelioma lawsuits as they will already have a network of resources and contact that could help to process your case more quickly.


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How much will I get?

It’s impossible to say how much you will get as it depends on the merits of your case. Your lawyer will discuss this with you in more detail when you go through the details of your claim, but past settlements have notched up hundred of thousands of dollars and even multi-million dollar payouts.


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How can I afford legal assistance?

You won’t need to worry about having cash up front because mesothelioma lawyers usually work on a no win no fee basis. You will not have to pay a penny unless you receive compensation, and then the lawyer will take a percentage of the compensation as his fee.

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What if I don’t know where and when I was exposed to asbestos?

It is helpful if you know this and will certainly speed up the process, but if you don’t remember the lawyer will be able to help. A private investigator can be hired through the lawyer (paid for by the lawyer) who will do the necessary research to clarify when and where the exposure took place and which company or companies are responsible.


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How long do I have to file my claim?

This differs from state to state but generally the time limit is one to two years from diagnosis. It is important that you check on the time limitation for your state and act within the limitations otherwise you may not be eligible to claim. If you are claiming on behalf of the deceased, time limitations still apply and it is probably even more important to act quickly because of the time limits and the research required by the lawyer.

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How long does the process take?

The process can take quite a while, although there is no set time and some lawyers will get your case sorted faster than others. The more research that is required to put a solid case together, the longer it will take.

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Who has the right to file for compensation for mesothelioma?

A mesothelioma lawsuit can be filed by a person who has developed mesothelioma through exposure to asbestos. In the event that the person has passed away, the lawsuit can be filed by a family member or the executor of the deceased’s estate. A lawsuit can also be filed by a family member who has developed the disease through close contact with the person who was exposed to asbestos.