To Disable CD Autorun

1.Right Click on My computer > select ‘Manage’
2. select category ‘Services and Applications’ and Click ‘Services’
3. check for the service named ‘Shell Hardware Detection’ then Right click on it and select its Properties and in Startup type option select Disable and Press Ok…Restart your system to take effect.

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can’t access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn’t work for me. Here’s what you do:

* Click on Start/Run, type ‘msconfig’, then click ‘OK’.
* Go to the ‘Services’ tab, find the ‘Background Intelligent Transfer’ service.
* Disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

There’s a small utility called “SHUTCMD.EXE” included in the Windows NT Resource Kit that can be used to shutdown or restart a local or remote computer.

For example, you can shutdown the local computer by running:
SHUTCMD /L

to shutdown a computer on a network (“SYTEM1″ being the name of the system to be shutdown):
SHUTCMD \\SERVER1 /Y

to shutdown a remote computer connected to the Internet (“127.00.22.12″ being the IP address of the computer you want to shutdown):
SHUTCMD \\127.00.22.12 /Y