How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Go to ontrol Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"

How To Change windows xp boot screen[EASY WAY]

BootSkin

Stardock BootSkin is a program that allows users to change their Windows XP boot screens.

Unlike other programs that can change the Windows XP boot screens, BootSkin does so in a safe manner. It doesn’t patch the Windows XP kernel. Nor does it require the user to download replacement Windows XP kernels to do so.

Boot screens that use BootSkin are typically under 20K compared to other boot screen programs whose files are over 2 MEGABYTES.

See dis for more details

http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

HOW TO SPEED UP FIREFOX

First downlad- firefox 3.0
*Open Firefox, and type about:config in the address bar. Don’t worry about the warning that comes out.
*Use the filter above to find network.http.pipelining and set it to True by double clicking on it.
*Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set that to True, as we
*Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8.
*Now look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and again set it to True.
*Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay and content.notify.interval, setting them to 0.
*Now restart your browser and check a few heavy-loading websites to see if those changes worked or not...
IT WORKED GR8 for me