How to set Automatic Screen Refresh ?

To refresh your screen automatically you should edit your system Registry. But the best technique to edit the windows registry keys, always export or backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing. Because any mistake in Registry can cause serious problem in your computer to run properly.

Follow the given steps to change the updates automatically.

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

• In Registry Editor panel go to the path:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet /

Control / UpdateMode

• Here in right hand side panel edit the DWORD value to be between 1 and 5.

• Now restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

note: If you are novice, please take support of an expert for registry update.

How to Disable the Security Center warnings??

Security is a system of safeguards designed to protect a computer system and important data from damage or access by unauthorized persons. Different antivirus and firewall programs are used to manage the security of the computer. Some time this is build-in antivirus or firewall program in windows XP to maintain the computer security. But if your windows is not provided with any antivirus, firewall program and Automatic Updates, your windows security center will alerts you a message "Your computer may be at risk. Your virus protection status is unknown" with useless repeating reminder. You can disable this message permanently by changing the values of “AntiVirusDisableNotify” in windows registry.

Follow the given steps to edit the computer registry for disable message:

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

• Here locate the location to:

· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center

• Here in right side panel, double click on AntiVirusDisableNotify and set its value 1.

• Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How to change the list of recently opened documents history?

By default windows XP display the shortcuts of last fifteen programs on recent documents list in start menu but we can increase this value with providing required input value.

Follow the given steps for configuration to increase the list of recently opened documents:

• To edit the computer registry, first we should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

• Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next।

• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

• Now in left side panel, click right to create a new Key value with the name Explorer under "Policies" area।

Now we explore the full path like:

• Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\explorer

• Now in right side panel, click right to create a new DWORD value with the name MaxRecentDocs and then set values with our required input value

• In this case, we are trying to set input value to 30 and press Ok button।

But next time, if we want to disable this functionality then simply change the value of data box to 15 or delete the MaxRecentDocs DWORD item.

Now close the registry editor and restart our computer after any changes to go into effect.

Note : If you are novice, please take support from an expert to handle registry editor.

How to cache DNS ?

when you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth, this is obvious. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that tcp/ip really deals with, not words. This is DNS information.

It is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site. Although WinXP and win2000 has a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size.You can do this with the registry entries below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]"
CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001"
CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180"
MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00"
MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d

• Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. The copy and paste the above into it and save it. Then merge it into the registry
• For newbie always be careful to handle registry edit. If possible take support from experts.

Juts speed up Startup menu

Juts speed up Startup menu -

Open registry edit and go to this location.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

On the right side Double click on MenuShowDeley and change default 400 to 0.

Now you will see the speed of your menus opening is increased.