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.

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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

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Windows XP Explorer tree expanded by default. You can stop windows explorer from expanding by using this method:

Right click on Windows XP Explorer and select “properties” then select the “shortcut” tab.

Change the target line to this:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\,/select

Nice and easy. Now your hard-drive tree should be collapsed and easier to navigate

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