There may be many shortcuts for getting you more evenly placed with your systems, but this one is just about it for da lazy bones out there...

The fastest and the quickest way to shutdown your system...Check this out...

1. Press the Start button on keyboard (Windows Symbol button --> Between Control and Alt on right hand side)

2. Press the letter 'u' twice from your keyboard.

That's it !!

Your system is fast going to sleep.

(Note: This trick does not speed up the shutting down process, but just a shortcut to shutdown a system)

On behalf of my crew/panel of Know Ur System I would like to place a sincere apology to all our readers for not able to provide high quality posts in the past one month(January 2009).

Whatever may be the reason, it would not make any sense on repenting on it. So taking in the whole responsibility for this inactiveness, I would make sure that no such phase would occur in the future.

This tutorial trains you to create your very own system cleaner, free from advertisements and possible threat of adwares & malwares. And its totally free of cost...

So why not give it a try....

Use this 'tutorial' to clean your:

*.tmp
*._mp
*.log
*.gid
*.chk
*.old
*.bak and ?

Temporary Internet Files? ,etc...

Step 1:
Start with making a new txt file. (Notepad)

Step 2:
Paste this code in the txt file:

@echo off
echo =============================================================
echo know U'r System Cleaner
echo ===========================================================
echo waiting
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*._mp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.gid
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.old
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak
del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.*
rd /s /q %windir%\temp & md %windir%\temp
del /f /q %userprofile%\cookies\*.*
del /f /q %userprofile%\recent\*.*
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*?
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*?
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\recent\*.*?
echo complete!
echo ===========================================================
echo Visit knowursystem,blogspot,com for more Tips, Tricks and Hacks,
echo ===========================================================
echo. & pause

Step 3:
Now save the file as "Cleaner.bat"

Step 4:
Double Click on it to run ur Cleaner.

If your a firefox lover like me then you should try this.

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (This
means it will make 30 requests at once.)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0"(ZERO).
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.



Note: If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

 In the latest UFO riddle to grip Australia, a reader has spotted what appears to be a flying saucer hovering directly above Millers Point while checking out Google Maps.

The bizarre discovery, near the Sydney Harbour Bridge, comes at the end of a year that was full of claims of such close encounters.

Careful study of the Google picture isn't quite as helpful, reports the Courier Mail.

Photograph experts have cautioned that it could be a distortion - but Google didn't deny it was an alien craft.

A spokesman joked: "The interplanetary internet project is clearly gaining momentum quicker than we thought!"

"Of course, as with human-owned vehicles in Google street view, the licence plates on this UFO are not identifiable," he added. (ANI)

 
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

1.) Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" (without the quotes).

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

2.) Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

3.) Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

4.) "By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

5.) So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

That's It !!

works on XP Pro, and 2000

other OS not tested.