Showing posts with label windows tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows tips. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

How to Remove “Earlier Version Of Windows"

In Earlier Posts We've Showed You Different Ways To Recover Or Restore Windows From Grub. In This Post We Tell You  a Way to Remove Earlier Versions Of Windows In fact Not Just Windows You Can Also Remove Unnecessary Boot Entries Which got Stucked in Boot Menu.


If You Have Windows 7 and Other Versions Of Windows like Vista and Xp On Your Computer ,In Case You Still Kept Xp For Playing Or Using Applications which Can't run Or Require Classic Xp Platform To Run.But When The Time Comes When You No Longer Need Earlier versions Of Xp (Fact is Windows Is Not Going To Release Updates For Xp in From 2013.) You Can Remove Those By Following This Tip.


Recently I installed Windows 8 Developer Preview in Dual Boot Mode With Windows 7. After Checking in it I Felt Like Its Too Early To jump into Windows8. I'm not Ready For Change. I Want To Go Back To My Old Windows 7 . I No Longer Need Windows 8 in My Boot Menu. I Somehow Removed Windows8 But I Could Not Get Rid of The Option in Boot Menu .
After Googling For Some Time i Found A Way To Remove the Unwanted OS Versions On The machine With just Following a Simple Command.


Here is A way to Remove "Earlier Version Of Windows" Or Other Unused OS. Before Going into Play Be Careful Do not Delete The Os Marked Current Other Wise You'll Be Lost.


Step1: Boot into Your Windows Version Which You Thinking To Keep.


Step2 : Open Command Prompt(As Administrator) And type Command BCDEDIT. 


You'll See A list Of Operating Systems Existing On The Machine. The Screen Would be Something Like Below.
Step3 : Identify The Boot Entry You Want to Get Rid Off.


in The Above Pic I Have Windows Developer Preview On Partition G which I no Longer Require. 


Step3 : Now Type  bcdedit /delete {Identifier} /f


Here Type the Identifier Name of Your Boot Entry.


For Ex: bcedit /delete {f124c033-fcd0-11e0-b137-f48146bd2213} /f




And Hit Enter.


After Few sec You'll see a Message "The operation Successfully". 



Sunday, June 12, 2011

Improve internet speed by 20 %


This is how You can improve Your internet speed on ur computer by 20%
1)On ur computer,click on start button,select run (or press win key + R)....type
''gpedit.msc'' (without quotes) in run dialogue box and click ok,it will open Group Policy Edit window.
2)expand "computer
configuration"
3) then expand
"administrative templates"
4) then expand "network"
5) then open the "QoS Packet
Scheduler"
6) on right window double
click "limit reservable
bandwidth"
7) on setting tab check/mark the
"enabled"
8) change "Bandwidth limit %"
to 0 (by default it's 20),apply,and click ok.
This is how u can,increase ur Internet speed by 20%
You've better to reboot ur computer after all :) works on XP and 7 !!

Friday, October 8, 2010

How to clean My Recent Documents Automatically on Log off?

Here is an exciting tip to remove My documents automatically when we log off computer, as we know it is a Virtual sub folder of the user's My Documents folder holds the details of lastly used items in computer.This portion of documents exposes your recent activity to all other users who access to your computer,which may have some private and personal data . we can delte the logs of Recent activity by manually deleting everytime logging off.But this trick lets you to customise automarically clearing of recent documents on log off .For this you need to do some Registry settings>
just follow this steps:
*Click Start --> Run --> Type in regedit
*Navigate to the following key.
HKEY_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies
*Right click on the Right Pane --> New -->Dword Value & name it as ClearRecentDocsOnExit .
*Double Clcik on it & se the value to 1

This will clear the My Recent Documents Folder automatically on logoff.

To stop this activity just delete the Dword value or set the value to 0.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Disable Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson is an debugger in Microsoft Windows operating system.It is named after Doctor Watson character of Sherlock Holmes Books who was known for his intelligence and error collecting and analysing the case Helping holmes.

It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows.

When a error occurs on windows it detects and diagnoses program errors and pops a window showing the error,It is very useful as it alerts about the bugs and Rectifies it.But this may sometime quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly.


Here is a Tip to disable the Dr.watson service

*Start the registry editor
Goto Start --> Run --> type "regedit.exe" and Hit enter.
*Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
*Click on AeDebug and click Del

or just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable it, type: drwtsn32 -i at the run.