www.kipram.com

Hosts file is a local text file in the same format as the 4.3 Berkeley software distributions (BSD) UNIX /ets/hosts file. This file is maps host names to IP addresses, and it is stored in the \%Systemroot%\System32\Drivers\Etc folder.

If you browsing internet, your browser will send request to DNS server and then the server searching the IP that match with the name that you have type. After the DNS server find out the IP, then the DNS server send it to your browser.

Illustration:

1. User type www.kipram.com in the address bar and press enter
2. Then the browser send to DNS server about this request
3. The DNS server find out the IP for www.kipram.com
4. If IP for www.kipram.com is find, then DNS server send the IP to your browser.
5. Then your browser open the IP address

You can cut this delay by using HOSTS file. Below example of HOSTS file:

201.103.222.37    yahoo.com
202.201.125.17    google.com

You can add more IP address and web name as you like. One of you possibly will ask how to know the IP address from every website? The answer is simple. You can use command prompt to know IP address from some website.

Illustration when using HOSTS file:

User type www.kipram.com in the address bar and press enter
Then Windows XP searching the IP address from HOSTS file and give to your browser to open the IP address.

You need 2 step only.

If your booting process is very-very slow, you need more time to wait. In generally the speed of your system to booting is depending on specification of your computer. But if we want to make the booting is faster, Microsoft can help for this problem.

Microsoft provides a free program to download. The program named BootVis. You can download it from this url:

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.asp

With this program, we can know the part of our system which make slower the performance and Bootvis can give the solution to it.

After apply the suggestion from BootVis program, your system will take 3-35 second to boot. Depend on your specification too.

Another trick to make faster booting process is using disk defragmenter regularly.

To turn off your computer by default setting you must click Start and then click Turn Off Computer then click Turn Off. By default you must 3 times clicks the button. But if you want to turn off your computer only with one click, try this trick:

Before follow this trick you must setting your folder options to single click to open an item. Then you can start the trick by create shortcut on your desktop. Follow these steps for more:

1. Right click on clean surface of your desktop
2. Point your mouse to New and then click Shortcut

There are options:

1. Then type Shutdown –s for shutdown
2. Then type Shutdown –l for logoff
3. Then type Shutdown –r for restart
4. And then click next and click Finish

You can add comment or message while shutdown by this option:

1. Shutdown –r –c “YOUR MESSAGE HERE”
2. Shutdown –r –c “YOUR MESSAGE HERE” –t “xx” xx is time in seconds. So your system will shutdown in xx seconds.

Ping is Packet Internet Gopher. With ping command we could know IP address some website on the internet. With ping command we could verify a website is exist or not. Ping command could we operating via command prompt. Because command prompt installed when we install windows, so there is not requirements program to install.

Below the step:

Open your command prompt now, clicks Start menu and then All Programs, after that accessories then Command Prompt Icon.

On the command prompt type this line:

• To know IP address of www.google.com:
• Ping www.google.com and press enter
• This the result
• Reply from 64.233.189.104: bytes=32 time=785ms TTL=243

• To know IP address of www.yahoo.com:
• Ping www.yahoo.com and press enter
• This the result
• Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=983ms TTL=47

• Now type www.blablablablabla12345678901234567890.com and press enter
• The result is:
• Ping request could not find host www. www.blablablablabla12345678901234567890.com. Please check the name and try again.

It means that the website is not exist.

There are many tricks that we can apply to formulate Windows XP work more fastens. At the previous articles about Computer Optimization Part 1 (Disk Cleanup) and Computer Optimization Part 2 (Disk Defragmenter) I have explain the step to create Windows XP work more fastens. In this time I will write articles about Advanced Performance.

After do this trick hope your Windows XP will work more fastens and stable. Below the trick:

• Click Start button at bottom left your screen.
• Point your mouse at My Computer icon then right click.
• Choose and click Properties.
• On System Properties window click advanced tab, and then click Settings.
• On Visual Effect tab choose and click Adjust for best performance radio button.

• Click Apply and Ok, then restart your computer to see the effect.

My Recent Document is listing of document that latest open. In generally after we open a file then close, the files name will add to list of Recent Document. The list of Recent Document usually sort base file name ascending. To see your Recent Document just click Start button and point your mouse to My Recent Documents.

You can remove the list manually by right click on the file name and then click delete. But Windows XP provide the easy way to remove the list. Follow this step:

• Open your control panel by clicking Start button and then Control Panel. Then from Control Panel window choose and click Taskbar and Start Menu.
• From Taskbar and start Menu Properties window, click Start Menu tab and then click Customize.
• Click Advanced tab.
• Click Clear list.