Increase your cable modem or DSL speed in XP

Increase your cable modem or DSL speed in XP

This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with winXP
professional version - might work on Home version also. It will probably work with
networked machines as well but I haven't tried it in that configuration. This is for
windows XP only, it does not work on win2000.
I use 3 Com cards so I don't know how it works on others at this point. It does not
involve editing the registry. This tweak assumes that you have let winXP 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.
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

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 re-start the machine.
7. After re-start 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. Re-start the machine
10. after restart enjoy the increased responsivness of IE, faster page loading, and
a connection speed boost.

Why it works, it seems that windows XP, in its zeal to make sure every base is
covered installs two seperate 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 loads 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 un-hindered.

Increase BROADBAND

This is for broad band connections. I didn't try it on dial up but might work for dial
up.

1. make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any
account that just has administrator privileges.
2. start - run - type gpedit.msc
3. expand the "local computer policy" branch
4. expand the "administrative templates" branch
5. expand the "network branch"
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window
7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting
8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item
9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0

Effect is immediate on some systems, some need to re-boot. This is more of a
"counter what XP does" thing. In other words, programs can request up to 20% of
the bandwidth be reserved for them, even with QoS disabled, this is no big deal and
most programs do not request it. So, although QOS has caused a big stink because
people think it reserves 20% of their bandwidth, you can still disable it, just to be
sure, hehe.

Turn of CD Auto Play

Open My Computer
Right click on your CD ROM and choose Properties
Click on the Auto Play tab
In the drop down box you can choose the Action for each choice shown in the
drop down box

or
1. Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc
2. Computer Config -> Administrative Template -> System
3. Double click Turn off Autoplay
4. Enable it.

Enable Clear Type

Right click on a blank area of the Desktop and choose Properties
Click on the Appearance Tab; Click effects
Check the box: Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts
In the drop down box select: Clear Type

Easy sendto menu modification

first open - X:Documents and SettingsusernameSendTo (it is hidden) where X is your
drive letter and username is your username make and delete shortcuts to folders at
will

Change the text in Internet Explorers title bar to anything you want

In regedit navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain
change the value of the string "Window Title" to whatever you want on the title bar
of Internet Explorer - to have no title except the title of the web pages you are
browsing do not enter anything for a value.

Remove Shared Documents

Open Regedit(Start- Run- Regedit) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My Computer NameSpace
DelegateFolders There will see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-
5595fe6b30ee}. By Deleting this you can remove the 'Other Files stored on This
Computer' group.

Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons

Here's how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in
Windows XP.

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

Close Multiple Windows : Note works in all versions of Windows

If you just opened a number of separate, related windows (a folder inside a folder,
and so on), there's an easier way to close them all than one-at-a-time. Hold down
the Shift key as you click the X caption button in the upper-right corner of the last
window opened. Doing so closes that window and all windows that came before it.

Disable error reporting

Open Control Panel
Click on Performance and Maintenance.
Click on System.
Then click on the Advanced tab
Click on the error-reporting button on the bottom of the windows.
Select Disable error reporting.
Click OK
Click OK

Adjust various visual effects

1. Open up the control panel
2. Go under system and click on the advanced tab
3. Click settings under Performance options
4. You can now change various graphical effects (mainly animations and
shadows)