Suppress Error Messages When Booting - Visual Enhancement Windows XP Registry Hack

This hack will suppress all pop-ups informing you that a device is not working or is causing an error. You might want to temporarily apply this edit if you know that a certain device isn’t working, and you don’t want to keep getting reminded.

Navigate to:

HLM\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ Windows

Change the value of the DWORD called NoPopupsOnBoot to 1. This will suppress all error messages, but remember, you will not be warned even if the error is serious. If the pop-up is too annoying and you can’t do anything about it, go ahead and suppress the error messages, but ensure that you periodically review the event logs to see that there’s nothing going seriously wrong with your system.

If you do wish to be warned of critical errors, you can use another setting called “Error Mode”. Set the DWORD Value to 0 for no error suppression, 1 for suppressing system errors, and 2 for suppressing all errors.

Change The Priority Of The Print Spooler - Hardware Enhancement Windows XP Registry Hack

The “priority” of a task is the degree of urgency that the task presents to the processor—requests from a task with higher priority are served earlier. Now, the default setting for the Print Spooler is to run at normal priority. Now if you mostly use your computer for printing, use this hack to change the priority class of the Print Spooler.

Navigate to:
HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print

Create a new DWORD value called SpoolerPriority and set it according to what value you want (or if it exists, just set the value):
0xFFFFFFFF for Idle Priority
0 for Normal Priority
1 for High Priority