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Enabling NumLock Automatically

If you want the NumLock key to be enabled automatically for every user, click on the button Start, click on the word Run and then type the keyword Regedit. Go the following directory: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators. Once you are there, the value should be changed from 0 to 2. Enable NumLock manually. After this, you have to log off the computer and then log in again. You should do this procedure for all users of your computer. For this change to take effect, there is no need to restart your computer, as you are logging off a user account each time.

Fixing Winsock2

You will know that Winsock2 is damaged while releasing and renewing the IP address through IPCONFIG when you get a message saying that an error occurred during the renewal of the interface ‘Internet’ and that the operation was forced on something which is not a socket. What you should do is run the Regedit command and the registry keys Winsock and Winsock2 should be deleted under the directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. You need to download a specific reg file to do this. You are required to reboot your computer and after doing so, you should go to Network Connections. Right click on Properties and the click the button Install. Proceed to selecting Protocol and then clicking on the Add and Have Disk buttons. Go to the directory \Windows\inf and click on the Open and OK buttons. You should highlight Internet Protocol and click on OK. One last step is rebooting your computer and you are done.

Using Msconfig

Chances are, there are a lot of programs installed in your computer that also integrate themselves into the booting process. It’s not really a bad or disruptive thing, it’s just that these programs don;t really need to be integrated that kind of way. Besides, they slow down the booting process.

So one effective trick is to type ‘msconfig’ into the Run box under the Start Menu, and going to the Startup tab. Here you’ll see the list pf programs integrated into your boot process. Check the ‘command’ column to see which programs are unnecessary to the boot process – which are probably media playing software – and uncheck the Startup item. It’s perfectly safe, and speeds up your boot.

Prevention is the Key!


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It is an actuality of Windows that trying to fix Registry problems after they take place is much more complicated than preventing their occurrence in the first place. So when it comes to the Windows Registry, the motto should always be “prevention is the key!” This is because it is frequently the most frequent and profuse types of errors that wind up killing Registries, especially those caused by a system’s registered applications, users, and even Windows itself. As new applications are installed and old applications are removed, and as registered applications persist on accessing and altering Registry data, they often put down small bits of themselves behind as orphaned registry entries.

By themselves, these errors will probably not expose themselves in any degradation of speed or normal Windows functions, especially if your system is new. But if these errors are permitted to be stored for a very long time, they can greatly increase a Registry’s size and cause disorder on the overall structure and stability of its database.. It is predominantly at risk if you often install or uninstall applications and hardware, since these dealings augment the Registry’s pace of growth promotes by accumulating more registered components, orphaned Registry entries, and undeleted drivers to your system.