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By default, Windows Vista scans thru every folder and file that stored on your hard drive when you search. One way to speed-up searching in your Start Menu applications is limiting the results. To configure the search results, follow either one of two methods below:

Method 1: Registry Hacks
1. Click Start -> type regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> Advanced
3. Find and right-click on Start_SearchFiles and select Modify
4. Set the Value to 0
5. Restart the Explorer.exe process or reboot the computer

Method 2: Manually
1. Right-click on the Start Button and select Properties
2. Click on the Customize button
3. Uncheck Search Communications
4. Set Search Files to Don’t Search for files
5. Click OK

Windows XP Pro
Click Start -> Run -> GPEDIT.MSC
Click OK or hit Enter key to open up the Group Policy

Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> highlight System

Near the bottom of right-hand side panel, scroll down and you will see Turn off Autoplay

Right-click Turn off Autoplay -> Properties

The default is the Not configured, so you have to select either Enabled or Disabled radio button
Click OK and you’re done.

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Windows XP Home
Click Start -> Run -> REGEDIT
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> policies -> Explorer

Create a new value called: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type is: DWORD
Value is: 0×000000b1 (177)

Note: To undo this change, set the NoDriveTypeAutoRun value back to 91 (145) instead of b1 (177)

Click -> Start -> Control Panel and type Adjust font size in the Search box. DPI Scaling windows will pop up, showing you two default options: 96 DPI and 120 DPI but you can change to different size if you like by clicking on Custom DPI lower bottom right-hand side and adjust the scale that fit you.

Windows automatically searches for network folders and printers. This can cause a delay in displaying your icons, to stop windows from automatically searching, do the following:

1. On your Desktp, double-click on My Computer
2. Click Tools menu on the top
3. Select Folder Options
4. Click View tab
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers box
6. Click Apply
7. Click OK to exit

If you’re able to memorize all of these commands, it would save you a lot of time to open any applications which don’t have to click thru folders and folders. It sounds scary but keep on practicing, you’ll get familiar with it.
click Start -> Run -> type cmd -> click OK