MaxConnectionsPerServer Tips for XP

When I was going through April PC World magazine(www.pcworld.in) I found this below XP tips as something new for me and also felt useful. I thought of sharing..here goes like this..

How to configure Internet Explorer to have more than two download sessions

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
Value Name: MaxConnectionsPerServer, MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) – decimal
Value Data: Number of Simultaneous Connections you want, example 10 for each

More at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q282402

Restart your system for this effect. Caution : Pls do this with precaution, registry editing is not recommened for newbie

Hidden Windows XP Sound Track

Windows XP has a hidden sound track which plays as background music during Windows XP installation process, but most people can’t hear this music because they have a soundcard that won’t have drivers preinstalled on XP. Here’s a way to uncover it:

Navigate to C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images,

Then go to Tools > Folder Options > View, check Show Hidden Files and Folders options and then uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files. You will now notice a file called title.wma, that’s the hidden sound track!

(Published via Office 2007 )

Alesti.com – Online RSS reader ( review )

Hi all,

As you all know…I’m an avid blog reader and blogger, I used to read almost 100 blogs starts from MS technology,MSDN, MVP’s to science etc.

   But I never satisfied with the readers and web readers until I’ve seen feedDemon(s/w) and Alesti(online reader). Thanks to Jayaveer who introduced those to me.

First I started to collect all my feeds from various webreaders like LIVE.com and google’s reader..and then subscribed under FeedDemon. Finally exported to OPML and imported here @ alesti. I tried it and working fine and satisfied with the both the readers.

 Features to look in Alesti

(1) Its a simple, user-friendly, free “Web 2.0” feed reader.

(2) Supports RSS and Atom feeds.

 (3) Uses standard compliant web techniques like Ajax

(4) Its quite faster than anyother I;ve tried.

 (5) More news @ http://www.alesti.org/ Hope this would be useful for blogreader looking for webreaders..

Currently subscribed to : 89 blogs, my blog Hits : 11374

Mahesh  

Tips to enable/disable the USB drives in WinXP

hi all.

        I had some situation to limit my USB usage...I was looking for some free software for doing the same. When I called my friend (Admin, working in branded MNC)..he shared this secret of disabling the USB drives to the employees. Yes, In big companies they will play with reg.settings else in BIOS to disable the USB for data theft.

 

here is the crux to break that settings..

 

In Run >Regedit go down to the following keys…H_L_Machine > System > controlset > services > usbstor

 

  (Step 1) Right click the usbstor and set the permission’s to whom you want to enable and disable

 

  (Step 2) In right windows, double click Start and change the Value Data [0x00000003(3)] to  [0x00000003(4)]
        *3- for enabling
        *4- for disable the same

  (Step 3) Go to this path C:\WINDOWS\inf and check for the file usbstor.inf and give full permisson to ur login id… Try after each step, hope this would help to get the access to USB.

 

Enjoy
Mahe~ 

Seattle,Ap25 – MS HEC 2005 site link…!

More on Microsoft HEC 2005 – from seattle,April 25 

As we all know, MS recently 3 days back released Windows 2003 64 bit OS Server in market, where Intel and AMD also launched 64 bit dual core processor few months back.Here is the official link takes you HEC2005 details and slides…

MS Hardware Engineering Conference 2005 -Bill gates keynotes, Slides, Video…more details here www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx

Finallly after 16 bit(DOS) , 32(windows 98,xp…) — > 64 bit OS (winXP, win2003 server). This is called as Third decade of Windows

Any comments or HEC 2k5 event images links are greatly welcome…!!

Mahes~

 

Windows Server 2003 x64 – Official Launch Today

Coming up:

Windows Server 2003 x64 will officially launch April 25 at Microsoft WinHEC 2005. The new edition supports AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with EM64T, and Pentium with EM64T processors. With this release, 64-bit Windows computing is possible with commodity hardware. Enjoy!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/x64/editions.mspx