Install Windows Xp in ‘9 minutes’ in stead of ‘39 minutes’.

Although the installation time of any Operating System also depends upon installation media and the drive performance, you can reduce your installations time up to 1/3rd. I was tested it on five computers and the installation time  on different computers are varies from 9 minutes to 13 minutes. 9 minutes in best case and 13 minute in worst case.This is the fastest installation of Windows Xp. Now let us proceed.

Step 1: Start your Xp installation as usual, that is insert your bootable media (cd or pen drive / flash drive) and Restart your Computer.

Step 2:  After the computer is booted, do all thing exactly same as you done in general Installations. That is select your Drive in which Xp to be installed, and then format the Drive in NTFS file system if needed and proceed.

Step 3:  Now Windows will copy the files and Restart for 1st time automatically.

Step 4:  After the Restart, computer will begin installation and you will see, ‘setup will completed in approximately: 39 minutes’ on installation window shown below.

***Step 5:  At that instant press Shift + F10 and you will see that the command prompt  is open (if not then try again after 30sec.). Now in command prompt type taskmgr and press Enter, then the Task Manager is open.

***Step 6:  In Task Manager go to processes tab and Right Click on Setup.exe  Then in that menu go to set priority  and set the priority to High by clicking on High. Shown in screen shoot given below.

Step 7:  Now you have done, close the Task Manager and Command Window and continue as general installation.It will take exactly 9 minutes from now.

You can also apply this trick on Windows Vista or Windows 7 but it is not required because windows vista and windows 7 by default take very less time to install.  If you have face any problems during this process just mention in comments.

Format USB pen Drive in NTFS without using any software’s or command prompt in windows

Here i will show u the stepwise instructions for Format you pen Drive or flash Drive in NTFS file system without using Commend prompt or any software's like Hp format tool in Windows operating system.you can also increase your pen Drive speed and performance by this technique for detailed see Increase your usb pen drive read and write speed more than two times, without using any software's.
By default in Windows there are no options to Format the pen Drive in NTFS file system, but after some modification in settings given below, you get the options to format your pen Drive in any of the given Format: NTFS,FAT32 and exFAT.
I will give you instructions with screen shoot of Windows Vista, but it is also exactly same for Windows Xp and Windows7.

1.  Go to My Computer.
2. Right click on your USB Drive, in my case it is PURUSHOTAM(H:)
3. From menu select Properties.
4. In properties window go to Hardware Tab. As shown in screen shoot.

     5. Select your USB Device and Click on properties button. A pop-up window is open,
     6. In pop-up window select Polices Tab shown below in screen shoot.

      7. Select Optimize for Performance and then ok and then Apply in previous window.
      8. Now Format your pen Drive as usual but in Format window select NTFS instead of FAT32  as shown below in screen shoot.After the Format is completed , you have NTFS file system on your pen drive.

In Windows Xp and Windows7 the procedure is exactly same and having same options described above.
Note that you must have the administrative privileges to make this changes. If you have any problems just comment, i will respond within 12hrs.

Increase your usb pen drive read and write speed more than two times, without using any softwares

Even though the pen drives speed is mainly depends upon hardware manufactures, by some simple tricks you will get enormous speed  increment.

Here i will so you how to increase your pen drive read and write speed more than two times without any hardware modification and without using any software's.
I was done some Tests before and after the modifications and in all tests, i was taken a single file of 689MB (if you take small files like pictures or documents  it’s take more time to write or read compared to a big one having same size, but here i was taken same file in all test. so which file was taken having  no importance) , my pc (with OS: windows vista, RAM: 1GB, Processor: dual core 2.8GHZ) and a pen drive of size 4GB (kingston data traveler 2.0 usb device, Drive Name: PURUSHOTAM(I:)).Also tested by me on Transcend (2GB,4GB) and on Sandisk Pen Drives.

First of all i send (write) a file of 689MB mentioned above to my pen drive without any modification and the writing speed are shown below at two different time.In the beginning it is 2.62 MB/sec and at the end the speed is 5.69MB/sec.
 
Now, I Format my pen drive with NTFS file system, which is don easily without using  windows command  (diskpart) or any external software's like Hp format tool .

For doing this go to My Computer>>Right click on your usb pen drive>>select properties from Menu>>and in that window go to Hardware tab>>in that tab select your your pen drive>>and click on properties button>>now a popup window open>>in that window select Policies tab>> in this tab choose optimize for performance>>then come back by clicking on ok button in both window. Now Format your pen drive as usual and select NTFS from drop-down menu in stead of FAT32 in Format window.If you don't understand or you have any confusion see in detail stepwise instructions with screen shoot.  Format usb pen drive in NTFS without using any software’s or command prompt in windows.  I separate detailed of Format because of the size of this article become  large.If you know how to format in NTFS then you can format as you like and proceed.

Now after i completed the format, again i send the same file to the same pen drive and see the writing speed.I take two screen shoot at two different time shown below. In beginning it is about (20-30)MB/sec  and at the end of writing it’s (12-14)MB/sec.
 
Notice that after your convert your pen drive file system from FAT32  to NTFS your data security and stability is also increases, you will get all the benefits of NTFS file system. You can also rename the usb pen drive in small letters in additions to only in capital letters in FAT32 drive.The only thing is that it take some space for file system don’t worry it take only 47MB for 4GB pen drive, which is negligible compared to it’s benefits.

Also i was tested my pen drive by USBDeview,if you don't know what is USBDeview then it is a small utility that lists all USB devices that are currently connected to your computer and test the Read and Write speed of the devices and much more. For more information about it or download go to this softpedia link. The screen shoot of the result is given below.

It's gave almost constant results with some variations for a particular usb device and independent from file system and also it’s not 100% accurate.Don’t worry about this test you will get more than this result just follow the above instructions.Don’t worry about your pen drive if you don’t like you can revert back at any time by just format your pen drive in FAT32. Just try once.

The characteristic shown above may be different for different manufactures or models but in all cases you will get average read or write speed about two times to your previous read or write speed. If you got any problem just mention in comments.