I hope you are already familiar with Windows XP installation but do you know that you can perform a complete XP installation in only 9 minutes instead of 39 minutes. Generally all the versions of XP take 35-39 minutes to install but now it can be done by only 9 minutes. Just you have to apply a simple Windows tweak.

I have tested this trick while installing XP (Service Pack3) on my laptop and it worked perfectly. So do not waste time and try it yourself following the steps below.

How to Reduce the Installation Time:

1. Insert a fresh copy of Windows XP installation CD/DVD and restart your computer.

2. Make sure your computer can boot from CD/DVD. If not, enter into BIOS settings and set the Boot priority to CD/DVD drive. Now It would start to boot from the inserted CD/DVD.

3. It would start to copy the Windows files to hard drive. Wait for the message “Setup will completed in approximately: 39 minutes” to appear in the left pane.

4. Once appeared, press “Shift+F10” to open the command prompt.

4. Type “taskmgr” without quotes and press Enter to open Task Manager. Now search for the process “setup.exe”. Once found, right click on it and set the priority as “High”.

Thus you have all done. Now closing task manager and command prompt, wait for only 9 minutes.

This trick can be also applicable for Vista and Windows 7 but I personally think it’s not required since Vista, Windows 7 installation generally take less times by default.

There are huge  software in internet to make a USB drive bootable and then install Windows XP from it. I have alreadydiscussed about a software PEToUSB which can make a bootable Windows XP version in USB drive. However the main drawback of these softwares is it takes much times to make your USB drive perfect for installing XP from it. These softwares also provides you a lengthy process to do it which is not acceptable. [Read more →]

Hi guys, this is my first post and in this article I am going to let you know how you can install Xp from Pen Drive (USB Flash Drive). You must have noticed there is a lot of techniques for installing Windows XP from USB drive but most of them does not work properly. Here in this article I will use a tool WinSetupFromUSB-0.1.1 that works with 100% perfection.

You can read our another method to install Windows operating system from pen drive.

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If you have a home theatre and does not produce fine sound with your XP operating system then I have a solution of it. It is a simple windows trick. Microsoft provides you Xp sound setting for home theatre but your job is to enable the option. It will be done from the Sound option in Control Panel. Just follow the steps below and finish the job…

Procedure to Setup your PC audio for Home Theater:

1. Go to the Control Panel and click on Sound, Speech, Audio devices (In XP).

2. Now Click on Change the speaker settings.

3. An another window will be opened. Click on the Advanced option at the bottom pane of that window.

4. It will show you the main setting window. Look at the bottom side. There is a dropdown menu containing 8-9 special sound settings for different sound equipments. Here you will find the option for Home theater. Click on it and hit Apply then OKbutton.

Thus you setting is complete. Now switch on your Home Theater and listen the changes.

Virtual PC is nothing but virtually existence of an operating system in your PC. It doesn’t allocate an entire hard drive for OS installation. It shares hard disc, RAM etc of it’s mother operating system. Today i am telling about a Microsoft product which can install an operating system in your PC virtually. [Read more →]

Have you lost your Windows XP serial key instead of having XP CD? Don’t worry, you can find out the serial key from your XP CD within a second. No software will be needed. Microsoft generally stores the serial key file in every XP CD. This is a simple trick to find out the serial. Follow the steps below for easy understanding.

When You Need This Trick:

• You have lost your Windows XP serial key.
• You have just downloaded a fresh copy of Windows XP but don’t get it’s serial key.

PROCEDURE:

1. Insert your windows XP CD.

2. Go to my computer and right click on CD/DVD drive. Click on Explore.

3. Open the I386 folder by double clicking on it.

4. Find out the UNATTEND(.text) file. Open the file in notepad. Now look at the bottom side of the text. You will discover your XP serial key there.

So getting back your lost XP serial key don’t forget to comment me…