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If any of you out there like to use the thumbnail view, especially for browsing through photos and images, it can become a bit of a drain on your system. It is possible to lower the thumbnail size and quality by editing the following registry keys. Open the registry and navigate to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer Create a new DWORD value called ThumbnailSize, and set the value between 32 and 256. And/or create another DWORD value called ThumbnailQuality, and set the value between 50 and 100. Key Details : USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer] Value Name: ThumbnailSize Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Data Value: 32 - 256 USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer] Value Name: ThumbnailQuality Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Data Value: 50 - 100

Performance Increase Through My Computer 1: Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties. 2: Click on the "Advanced" tab 3: See the "Perfomance" section? Click "Settings" 4: Disable all or some of the following: Fade or slide menus into view Fade or slide ToolTips into view Fade out menu items after clicking Show Shadows under menus Slide open combo boxes Slide taskbar buttons Use a background image for each folder type Use common tasks in folders There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster

HACKING THE XP BOOT SCREEN This is a very simple trick to do if you have done the same for the logon screen and the start button. There are 2 ways to do this trick that I know about one is doing it manually and the other is using a program called bootxp. I am going to tell you the manual way to do it, but if you want to know the other way just let me know, so I can do an update to the guide. Now once you have downloaded your ntoskrnl.exe file save it a general location so that you will have easy access to it, like my folder. Once you have ntoskrnl.exe file in an easy access folder, restart your pc into safe mode. Once into safe mode go to the folder where your files are located. Now that you are there copy the file that you want to change your boot screen too. Once you have copied that file, hit the window key + r or type %windir%\system32 in the run command, so that folder as follows. Once there paste your new file into the folder and overwrite the existing folder. Now that you have y...