Girl Geekette

Every time Win2k boots it will check the onboard controller if there is any drives attached. If you don’t have the habit of swapping IDE units in and out or you have none installed at all, then you might want to disable the scanning for IDE units and get a faster bootup.

Go here : Control Panel - System - Hardware-tab - Device Manager-button - IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers-node

There select properties for your Primary- and Secondary-Channel and go to Advanced Settings where you can change the Device Type from "Auto detection" to "None" when there is no IDE Unit attached

If you want explorer to display all drivers, run this command:

Start - run -type:

Target: %SystemRoot%.exe /e,c:

Step 1: Backing up the system registry file 

- Close all open applications running on the desktop. 
- On the taskbar click Start and click Run. 
- A run dialog box will appear, into which you type regedit. Then click OK. 
- This will launch the Registry Editor 
- Click on Registry and then click Export Registry File. 
- When the Export Registry File window opens, choose somewhere on your hard drive to save this new file. It can be anywhere, but best to put it where you’ll remember saving it. Create a new folder, call it Backup Files or something easy, and put it there. 
- Type in the name you wish to call your file ie; registrybackup and select the Export Range = All button. This ensures you save all of the file and not just selected bits.  It will become the registrybackup.reg file. 
- When you’ve clicked Open and the Backup Files folder is open, this same button will change to Save. 
- Click it and your registry backup will be saved. After a few seconds, you’ll be able to edit or close the Registry Editor window as normal.

The higher the sample rate of your mouse the better for gaming !

It is very easy to tweak your mouse.
Open Control Panel
Click on the mouse Applet
Click on the "Hardware" tab.
Click on properties.
Click on "Advanced Settings" tab
Make adjustments to suit.
Reboot.