The Start Menu in Windows seems to open fast using this trick.
Open the registry editor by going to Start ->Run ->regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop. Double-click on MenuShowDelay and set it to ‘0′.
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Closing a number of applications at once in Windows
To close many Windows at once in Windows 7/Vista/XP, keep the [Ctrl] key pressed and select all the windows you want to close in the taskbar. Then leave the [Ctrl] key, and right-click on the last selected taskbar entry. Select “Close group” from the context menu that appears.
How to change drive letters in Windows
After plugging in external drives or after adding optical drives and hard drives, Windows automatically assigns a drive letter to them. Usually, the system drive is assigned the letter C: and other drives are assigned subsequent incremented letters.
It is possible to change this auto-assigned drive letter in Windows 7/ Vista/XP. Right-click on My Computer and [...]
Enable display of older help files in Windows 7 and Vista
Ever since Windows 3.1, Microsoft has included the Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) with new releases. Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft doesn’t bundle the Windows Help program used to view .HLP files meant for older Windows programs with the OS. Apparently, Microsoft made this decision because the program hasn’t had a major update for many years, [...]
Enabling more then 6 simultaneous downloads in IE8
Internet Explorer 8, as it may be known, doesn’t support more than 6 parallel downloads. While downloading a large number of big files from slow servers, bypassing this limit becomes a necessity. Like the previous versions, this limit is defined in the registry, but in a different location.
To change this limit, close all instances if [...]
