Increase Windows Xp Explorer Folder Cache

How to increase Windows XP Explorer folder cache

Windows Explorer cache about 400 folders by default, but you can increase folders cache, for this

1- click Start menu > Run > and type “regedit” ( without quote) to run Windows Registry Editor

2- find and go to following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam

3- Change the value of BagMRU to whatever size you want ( in hexadecimal )

For example:

1000 - 3e8

2000 - 7d0

3000 - bb8

4000 - fa0

5000 – 1388

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Displaying Hidden Devices

To showing hidden devices in Device Manager do following

1- click Start menu > Run > and type “regedit” ( without quote) to run Windows Registry Editor

2- find and go to following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Control \ Session Manager \ Environment

3- create a new string and name “DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES”

4- Give it value of 1

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How to format Partition larger than 32 GIGs with FAT32 file system

Windows XP does not format a partition larger than 32 GIGs with FAT32 file system, if you have a Hard Drive with high capacity and need both Windows XP and MS DOS OS, do following

Use a Win98 Boot disk and use FDISK command to create the partition (with Large Hard Drive Support)

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Removing XP boot logo

Run MSCONFIG ,Click on the BOOT.INI tab ,Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT

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