Windows 9X/ME/2000

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks.

Sharing of files and folders can be managed in two ways. If you chose simplified file sharing, your folders can be shared with everyone on your network or workgroup, or you can make your folders private. (This is how folders are shared in Windows 2000.) However, in Windows XP Professional, you can also set folder permissions for specific users or groups. To do this, you must first change the default setting, which is simple file sharing. To change this setting, follow these steps:

Windows 95/98/ME

Right click desktop/new short cut.

Enter: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx N in command line.

Now before clicking next, replace the N at the end with one of the
following numbers:

0 - Log Off: Shuts down all running processes and logs the user off.
1 - Shutdown: shuts system down to the point where you can turn off
the computer.
2 - Re-boot: shuts the system down and re-boots the computer.
4 - Force: Shuts the system down without notifying any running