Stop Windows 10 automatic restarts
n the run dialog box (winkey + R) type "gpedit.msc" (without quotations), hit enter
Navigate to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Update
Double click on "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
Enable it and click apply (from here)
Lots of space taken up by hibernate option
There is a file hiberfil.sys which can be very large. It is used to support the hibernate feature, which is a waste of time if you have an SSD drive. Here's how to turn off hibernate, and delete the file; via Microsoft. from this post.
Default Mail
Tired Default Mail utility...
Explorer.exe "Server execution failed" error [link]
The solution is to go to regedit, and change 2 keys to point to valid places:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal
You can set back the defaults by looking at how the other entries in those keys look like. I'm not entirely sure if the second one is necessary, but I changed both to point to valid places and it works now.
net use
net use Y: /delete
net use Y: \\kiwi\share pwd /USER:user /PERSISTENT:YES
New folder not working
Object viewer
comexp.msc
I have attached a jpg to indicate the problem described. I have the same problem and can not get rid of it. The document always opens with that email interface activated. If hit send, I get "Unspecified error", happens with or without recipient.
Here is the solution: You get that dialog by pressing: File > Send To > Mail recipient And surprize !!! You remove the same dialog by pressing: File > Send To > Mail recipient
It took me forever and a some luck to find out.
Office SP2, XP SP3
Regards Bart
Registry cleaning
We recommend the following Vista-compatible system utilities, available at Download.com
- Glary Utilities 2.2.1.63
- RogueRemover 1.16
- ToniArts EasyCleaner 2.0.6.380
A good one to try is ToniArts EasyCleaner 2.0.6.380. It’s both free and easy to use.
Vista search
Vista search actually has some great features, but gets screwed up sometimes... Anyway, here are some advanced commands.
To search for folderds under folders, use
search folder folder:under folder
e.g., "nifti folder:hand" looks for "*nifti*" folders that are subfolders of "*hand*" folders.
Vista - boot repair
- Boot from Vista CD/DVD
- Enter language / country information
- Select Repair
- Open terminal (command prompt)
- >bootrec.exe /fixmbr (>bootrec.exe for help)
Vista
Slow
Disable Aero
more ideas
Slow network
From neoblog
Slow networking is due to the auto tuning of TCP/IP in Vista which is turned on by default.
The following information was gleamed from Rob Garrett’s blog
Make sure you’re running as an Administrator (can open a command window as Administrator) and execute the following command at the prompt:
“netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled”
Changing “disabled” to “normal” will re-enable this setting, should you want to turn it back on again. The following command will list the status of the current TCP settings:
Since other readers of my site may be using a buggy router and an installation of vista the only proper fix is to prevent the server from sending SYN packets. The attached registry file will disable auto-tuning on a Windows 2003 server.Title
Note, turning off auto-tuning on the server will not produce undesirable performance. Up to recently, most (if not all) clients connecting to Windows 2003 did so without requesting auto-tuning. By default, Windows 2003 will not enable auto-tuning unless it is requested by the client - Vista!! Disabling auto-tuning with this registry change will assume XP like behavior.
“netsh interface tcp show global”
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224829
However, this does not fix the problem; others have reported that antivirus software is bad.
XP Network Slow
Have note tried this: [link]
Network - Turn off webDEV and also
Startup - see and turn off programs
Stop Windows 10 downloading and trying to update
If you clicked "reserve a copy of Windows 10, Windows Update will download it whenever you try to install security updates. To disable, open a command prompt as administrator, and run the following:
C:\WindowsSystem32>REG.EXE ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx" /v DisableGwx /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
This performs the following actions:
As I understand it, if you stop GWX from running, the download won't happen:
1) Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx
2) Create a new REG_DWORD registry value called: DisableGwx
3) Give it a value of: 1
From these comments.
Delete large folder
From command promtprompt, use
>rmdir /s /q >folder <folder name>
The Really Annoying Windows Update Restart Dialog...
Open a command prompt, type
sc stop wuauserv
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