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XP Animations

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You can turn off window animation ("exploding" windows), displayed when you play around with minimizing/maximizing open windows. This makes navigating Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP a lot quicker, especially if you don't have a fast video controller, or if you got tired of seeing it all the time (like I did). :)

To do this, run Regedit (or Regedt32) and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | Desktop | WindowMetrics
or if you are the only user of your Windows computer go to:

HKEY_USERS | .Default | Control Panel | Desktop | WindowMetrics

Right-click on an empty spot in the right hand pane. Select New -> String [REG_SZ] Value. Name it MinAnimate. Click OK. Double-click on "MinAnimate" and type 0 to turn OFF window animation or 1 to turn it ON. Click OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows. Done.

For a Safer, faster XP Close Unwanted Services

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To disable unneeded startup services for a safer, faster XP, use the "Services"

Admin Tool (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services).

If you are a single user of a non-networked machine, you can disable the following items, with no ill effect.

->Alerter
->Clipbook
-> Computer Browser
->Fast User Switching
->Human Interface Access Devices
->Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)
-> Messenger
->Net Logon (unnecessary unless networked on a Domain)
-> Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
->Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
->Remote Procedure Call Locator
->Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
->Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
->Server
->SSDP Discovery Service (this is for the utterly pointless "Universal P'n'P", & leaves TCP Port 5000 wide open)
->TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
->Telnet (disabled for extra security)
->Universal Plug and Play Device Host
->Upload Manager
->Windows Time
->Wireless Zero Configuration (for wireless networks)
->Workstation

Force users to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to Logon

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(XPPro only)

->Go to start/run,

->Type control userpasswords2