These hack are for advanced users, they can really mess up your system. Please make backups of your registry before you do anything else. Caveat utilitor!

First thing is first, fire up your registry editor. Goto start –> run –> type in “regedit32″ and press enter

1st hack-

Changing the speed of menu speed
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\

MenuShowDelay. Thedefault valueis 400. Set it to 0

2nd hack-

This one places the windows kernel in ram ( the heart of the OS, do this only if you have over 1 gig of ram)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement\DisablePagingExecutive set this to 1 to disable paging and have the kernel run in RAM

3rd hack-

Prefetch Parameters

This places system files into cache for faster loading ( do this is you have more than 1 gig of memory)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemorManagement\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher Set this to 0 to disable prefetching, 1 to prefetch application launch files, 2 to prefetch boot files, and 3 to prefetch as many files as possible.

4th hack-

This one adds Copy to and Move to to the windows explorer right click menu.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Right-click on the ContextMenuHandlersfolder and select New | Key to add a new key.

Give it the name Copy To and then double-click the (Default) value of the new key’s right-hand pane.

Type in this code as the new data:

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Right-click on the ContextMenuHandlersfolder and select New | Key to add a new key.

Give it the name Move To and then double-click the (Default) value of the new key’s right-hand pane.

Type in this code as the new data:

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Thats all for now, hopefully you didn’t break your system, reboot and enjoy your speedier system!