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Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a file,
select Copy To Folder or Move To Folder,
and the move to box will pop up and let you choose
a location to either copy or move the file or folder to.

Update: Downloadable version also available.

Here's the quick registry hack to get this working.
As usual, back up your registry just in case.
You will want to browse down to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Once you are at that key, right click and choose the New Key option:

Now you will double-click on the (Default) value and enter the following:

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

Click OK and continue.

If you want to enable Move To, you will repeat the same steps,
except creating a new key named Move To, and using this value:

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

Now when you right click on a file or folder, you should see the following options:

Let's click Copy To Folder just to see what happens….

Tip taken from majorgeek


Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace Under that branch, select the key : {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} and delete it. This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

is very important to defragment your disk drives, this will reduce seek time and improve overall speed.
Go to: Start--> all programs--> accessories--> system tools--> Disk defragmenter
once the disk defrag console is up you can either analize your disk or just go to defragment
repeat the defrag options for all your drives, enjoy :)

System configuration Utility.

Did you ever wondered why your machine is getting slower and slower at startup?
one of the reasons are all the programs that run at startup, yes all those little icons close to the pc clock, those are programs who run when you switch on your machine and in many cases you did not want them so to speed up your machine startup and decrease the amount of ram used
you can disable some of those startup programs, in order to do so go to start run and type MSCONFIG, this will bring up System Configuration Utility, now click on startup and untick all the programs not needed to run at startup, remember if you do not recognize what is it leave it alone
otherwise you could google it!!
once you decided which one to leave at startup click on ok, where you will be asked to reboot, once your machine reebots...TBC

System restore.

Something many people are overlooking is restore facility embedded on windows Xp
this handy tool can help recover a system in case of failure.
At times adding a new software or changing some settings could cause to have an undesired effect,
if this happens you can recover your system using this tool:

To access this tool just go to Start-->All programs-->Accessories-->system tools-->System restore.
once done you will be presented with the system restore console, then select create a restore point, click on next you will then be presented with the option to add a description,
add a description which will remind you of the change, something like game install etc, then click on create.
You have finally created a restore point, if you ever need to revert your system to a previous state you can do it now
just launch the system restore console and select restore my computer to an earlier time.
Enjoy.