Login Automatically on Windows XP Home / Professional

If your Windows XP installation forces you to login every time you reboot, you can automate the login process easily so that you won’t have to login again.

Note that for security reasons, you would usually want to have a password, but for a home computer you may not care.

Go to the Start menu, click Run, and type in the following:

control userpasswords2

You will be presented with a window similar to this one:

Uncheck the box, and click the OK button. You will be presented with a password dialog for the currently logged in user.

Now when you reboot your system, you will automatically be logged in.

This can be very useful when you are installing a bunch of software or testing out configurations.

Disable Fast User Switching on Windows XP

Fast User Switching is a way for users to quickly switch between accounts without having to fully log off. This is just one more service that doesn’t really need to be started.

•Navigate to the Services console in Administrative tools.
•Double-click on Fast User Switching and change Startup Type to disable.
•Hit the Stop button if the service is started, and then hit OK.
One more unnecessary service stopped.

Save CPU and RAM: Disable the Indexing Service on Windows XP

Save CPU and RAM: Disable the Indexing Service on Windows XP
If there is one bloated and unnecessary service that you should immediately disable, it’s definitely the Indexing Service built into Windows XP. The idea behind it is that you can search for files more quickly if it is enabled…. but you are using Google Desktop for that, right?

The indexing service seems to eat up a lot of CPU on every machine I’ve used, especially when you have the amount of files that I’ve got. Let’s disable it.

•Navigate to the Services console via Administrative Tools.
•Double-click on the Indexing Service and change the startup type to disabled.
•Hit the stop button if it is started, which is likely, and then hit OK.
Yet another unnecessary service stopped!

Lock Folder in XP using DOS

The best way to hide a folder is using the cacls commands(locking)
it is very simple
for this u shud ve folder in NTFS drive. (say e:)
once it is done open run->cmd

for locking the folder
cacls e:\(name of the folder in drive f) /d everyone

for unlocking type
cacls e:\(name of the folder in drive f) /g everyone:f

once u hav locked a folder and if anyone tries opening it a message access is denied will be displayed. u dont hav to hide a folder after doing this.