One correction in the below email: In order to open Properties window for a selected drive or folder in Windows Explorer, we need to press ALT+ENTER and not ENTER. Pressing ENTER opens the selected drive or folder and lists its content in Windows Explorer.
-- Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget, whereas a pessimist forgets to laugh! -----Original Message----- From: Zujar Shabbir Kanchwala [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 7:54 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [AI] Save start up time Hi Mukeshji, If you do not intend to use backup/restore on your hard disc drives then you can disable the "Volume Shadow Copy" feature of Windows on selected drives to save disk space and also some amount of time. Volume Shadow Copy is a service that creates restore points on disk drives specified in System Properties. You can disable creation of these restore points to save disk space (good amount of space) and speed up your system a little if you don't intend to use System Restore on selected drives on a future date. Here's how you can select/deselect disk drives that need not be restored by Windows: 1. Type SystemPropertiesProtection in Run window and hit ENTER. The System Properties dialog box is opened with the Protection tab and focus is on the list of disk drives available on your system. 2. Deselect the drives (I deselected C: on my laptop) that need not be restored. 3. Click the OK button. You can also disable the "Volume Shadow Copy" service if no drive needs be restored. By default, the service is set to start manually, you can leave it as is. Manual means it starts when required and Disabled means it would not start at all. The other option available is Automatic which means that the service would always start itself everytime the computer starts. Below are the steps: 1. Type services.msc in Run window and hit ENTER. 2. TAB once to navigate to the list of services present on your computer. 3. Navigate to the Volume Shadow Copy service using letter navigation and press ENTER on it to open its Properties dialog box. 5. TAB to Startup Type combo box in the Properties dialog box and select "Disabled", it may appear as "Manual" by default. 6. Click the OK button. To remove restore points created till date: 1. Open "My Computer" or "Computer" as the case may be. 2. Select C: and press ENTER to open its Properties dialog box. 3. Activate the Disc Cleanup button and wait for a while. 4. The Disc Cleanup dialog box opens. Press CTRL+TAB to switch to More Options page of the dialog box. 5. Activate the Cleanup button in the System Restore region (the second button). 6. Confirm your action by activating the OK button in the confirmation dialog box. 7. Press OK button to clean up the selected drive or Cancel button to close the Disc Cleanup dialog box with cleaning. 8. Confirm your action if you chose to clean up the selected drive in the above step. hth... -- Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget, whereas a pessimist forgets to laugh! -----Original Message----- From: Zujar Shabbir Kanchwala [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Save start up time Here's one tip to disable programs/services that you may not want to run at startup thus saving startup time: 1. Open the Run dialog box by pressing WINDOWS+R. 2. Type "msconfig" without quotation marks in the edit box and press ENTER to open the System Configuration dialog box. 3. Switch to the Startup tab of the dialog box by pressing CTRL+TAB as many times required. 4. This tab lists programs that are marked to start automatically at startup. Uncheck the ones that you wish to disable. 5. Activate the OK button to apply changes and close the System Configuration dialog box. Restart if required. A word of caution:- Disable programs that you are sure of not hampering your system. Use the :Disable All" button only if you are 100% sure of what you're doing. On 9/20/12, Sheik mohammedali <[email protected]> wrote: > which is your operating system? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mukesh" <[email protected]> > To: "Access India" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:22 PM > Subject: [AI] Save start up time > > >> Hello friends, >> Please suggest me how to save the computer start up time by removing >> unwanted programmes while starting up the computer. 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