[TIP] Lost your Motherboard Driver CD, here's something for ya'

Whenever I install Windows I have to search for my motherboard CD for installing drivers of sound, LAN, graphics, etc and majority of times it takes hell a lot of time to search for driver CD. At least I find it very difficult to keep my CD in a safe place so that I can use it when I need it.

But what will you do if motherboard driver CD gets lost, I know you will say that you'll go to Internet and download all the desired drivers from there but for that you should know the model number also. If you have lost your motherboard CD and do not know your motherboard model number and want to download or update your drivers, here is a very good application for you.

DriverMax

DriverMax is a tool that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Just create a free account, log in, and start downloading the updates that you need.

You can also export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place!

Most of the situations when Windows is running slower are caused by faulty driver installations. Windows stores all versions of older drivers just in case you want to go back; sometimes it messes up older versions with more recent ones. The Export Wizard will only export the drivers you select by copying the needed files to a folder or a compressed ZIP file.

After reinstalling Windows all drivers will be back in place in less than 5 minutes - sparing you of searching, inserting disc after disk and losing precious time. The Import Drivers wizard allows you to install all the drivers that you exported earlier. The entire operation might take up to 5-10 minutes.

Just one single computer restart will be required after all drivers are reinstalled!

Download: http://small.drivermax.com/soft/dmx/drivermax.exe

[TIP] Installing Windows XP OS in 10-12 mins

I found that we can bypass the 40 minutes of time while we are installing Windows XP.

Hope you will like it...

We all know that after loading the file or copying the file from the boot disk to temporary space the system requires a first time reboot.

Now if we PRESS SHIFT+F10 then the task manager will open

Goto the processes tab and search the process "setup.exe"

Right click on it, set priority, and set it to "Realtime"
 

We are done!!!
Find ur XP getting installed in 10min with tolerance 2 min.

[TIP] Correcting System Hang at Startup

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't work for most. Here's what you need to do:

1. Click on Start -> Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.
2. Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service, disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

This problem with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service should have been corrected in Windows update Q 314862, part of Service Pack 1.

[TIP] Make Windows Geniune

Have you ever faced problems while installing certain softwares like Internet Explorer 7/+, or Windows Media Player 11/+, may be because your copy of windows is not genuine

OK, here is a small trick to make your copy of windows genuine

Just copy the following code in notepad n save that notepad file as "anything.reg"
Now run that file n restart your pc
You are done !!!


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd
"LastWPAEventLogged"=hex:d5,07,05,00,06,00,07,00,0f,00,38,00,24,00,fd,02

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"CurrentBuild"="1.511.1 () (Obsolete data - do not use)"
"InstallDate"=dword:427cdd95
"ProductId"="69831-640-1780577-45389"
"DigitalProductId"=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,36,39,38,33,31,2d,36,34,30,2d,\
31,37,38,30,35,37,37,2d,34,35,33,38,39,00,5a,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,\
30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0d,04,89,b2,15,1b,c4,ee,62,4f,e6,64,6f,01,00,\
00,00,00,00,27,ed,85,43,a2,20,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,31,34,35,30,34,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ce,0e,\
00,00,12,42,15,a0,00,08,00,00,87,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,94,a2,b3,ac
"LicenseInfo"=hex:9e,bf,09,d0,3a,76,a5,27,bb,f2,da,88,58,ce,58,e9,05,6b,0b,82,\
c3,74,ab,42,0d,fb,ee,c3,ea,57,d0,9d,67,a5,3d,6e,42,0d,60,c0,1a,70,24,46,16,\
0a,0a,ce,0d,b8,27,4a,46,53,f3,17

[TIP] Remove Windows Genuine Validation Notification

If your copy of windows is not genuine, and you happen to visit microsoft.com or install the automatic update - WGA Validation Tool (KB892130) and WGA Notifications (KB905474), then windows gives a nag screen on start up, and also gives random pop-up balloons. To make things worse, it removes your wallpapers, etc.
You have 30 days after this notification starts and after that you may have to re-install windows, if you do not fix it

OK, here are a few ways to fix that problem.

Method 1:
Step 1) Download RemoveWGA.exe tool and run it.
Step 2) It tell you if the WGA notification tool is active on your system
Step 3) Allows you to remove the WGA notification tool from your system
note-If the above download link doesnt work, you may also find the tool on softpedia.com click here

Method 2:
This ones a little tricky,but i like it, and prefer doing it this way
Step 1) Launch Windows Task Manager
Step 2) Go to Processes and look for wgatray.exe, select it and click on end process
Step 3) It will ask for confirmation, don't click on anything, wait
Here's the tricky part of it
Step 4) Now open C:\Windows\System32 and look for WgaTray.exe, select it, and then delete it.
Step 5) It will ask for confirmation to delete, wait
Step 6) Now align that end process confirmation box over the delete confirmation box.
Step 7) Click Yes on end process and then quickly press Yes on the deletion confirmation.
(You need to repeat this if you miss it)
Step 8) Lauch RegEdit(Start=>Run=>regedit)
Step 9) Browse to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
Step 10) Delete the folder WgaLogon and all its contents
Step 11) Reboot Windows xp


That's it, you are done with it!