Make your Folders Private

Open My Computer Double-click then  drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer). If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive. Double-click the Documents and Settings folder. Double-click your user folder. Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click
Properties. On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box. Note To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My
Computer. This option is only available for folders included in youruser profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start
Menu, Cookies, and Favorites.
If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer. When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private. You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS

Make your Folders Private

Xp Animation

You can turn off window animation ("exploding" windows), displayed when you play around with minimizing/maximizing open windows. This makes navigating Windows 95/98/ ME/NT4/2000/XP a lot quicker, especially if you don't have a fast video controller, or if you got tired
of seeing it all the time (like I did). :) 

To do this, run Regedit (or Regedt32) and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | Desktop |  WindowMetrics or if you are the only user of
your Windows computer go to: HKEY_USERS | .Default | Control Panel | Desktop | WindowMetrics Right-click on an empty spot in the right hand pane.

Select New -> String [REG_SZ] Value. Name it MinAnimate. Click OK. Double-click on "MinAnimate" and type 0 to turn OFF window animation or 1 to turn it ON. Click OK. 

Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows. Done. TweakUI, the famous Microsoft Power Toy [110 KB, free, unsupported] can also
turn off animated windows. 

Just remove the check mark from the "Window Animation" box under the General tab.

Xp Animation

Increase Hard Disk speed in windows

If you like to increase/ optimize your Hard Disk I/O - read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard
disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak
also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won't harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!

Steps:

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.

2. Expand the system.ini file window.

3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].

4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)

6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

8. Restart windows! The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement

Increase Hard Disk speed in windows