World's WORST PASSWORD's list - "123456" is on Top!

Want to know the World's Worst passwords list of all time..? Oh..yea, then you are in the right place!
As you know... hackers are everywhere on the net.. and recently, one of the popular Internet forum phpbb.com was hacked by a hacker who had stolen almost 20,000 usernames and passwords and then after released them to the public, giving us an idea how ridiculously easy passwords people use..

According to one of the surveys conducted by whatsmypass.com recently, the worst password used by most of the internet users is "123456" followed by "password" in the second place.
Other popular choices include:
666666 : Six Sixes
7777777 : Seven Sevens
ncc1701 : Ship number of Starship Enterprise
and even words like batman, bond007, cocacola made it to the list.

Interesting Facts: 
» Almost 1 out of 9 people use atleast one of the passwords mentioned on the below list.
» Almost 1 out of 50 people uses one of the top 20 worst passwords on the below list
» According the the survey by Digital Communications agency @www , an average adult human being had as many as 15 passwords to remember
» About 61% of the People use the same passwords for as many different accounts as possible in order to easily remember it and make life easier

So, here is the Top 500 Worst Passwords List : 

Speeding Up Windows XP Boot Up and Shutdown

After having Windows XP loaded on my laptop for some time now, I noticed that the boot time and the shutdown time were not as quick as I would like. So after some research and help from www.Google.com, I was able to come up with some solutions in order to speed up both processes.

Prefetch

There are several ways to increase the boot time. First Windows XP has a Prefetchdirectory located in the Windows directory. The use of the prefetch directory is to hold cached information regarding recently accessed files. Application as well as boot files are cached here. You can delete all the files within the Prefetch directory as seen in the below image that will allow faster boot times due to less file cache reading

Another tweak you can perform regarding Prefatch is a registry entry. If you are not familiar with editing the registry, please see the Microsoft knowledge base article here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;TR;322756

Within the registry, you can set prefetch to function in several different ways. Prefetch can cache applications, boot up files, both, or you can disable it completely. To improve boot speed set the following value in the registry to a value of 2.

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher

If you are uncomfortable with editing the registry, download the following file here (Prefetch_Registry.zip). Unzip it. Then double-clicking the resulting .REG file to insert the entry into your computer’s registry. It will set the value to 2.

This should help you on your way to a speedier startup and shutdown in Windows XP.

Sound Card Problems

Your computer may be experiencing sound problems like buzzing, breaking of the sound stream or your computer may not have sound at all, and other problems. If you are not experienced with a particular problem it is best to call some computer repair service. If you are wondering what causes your sound card to stop working or makes problems, you should know that there are many things you can check by yourself.

See if the speakers are plugged into a power source. There are some old speakers that used batteries as a power source, if you have those check the batteries because they may be empty. There is a big number of old sound adapters and laptops that have manual volume dial. You should try to position your volume dial in the middle and not to far on the sides, because it can turn off the volume.

Have you installed the driver for your sound card?

There are cases when people reinstall operating systems on their personal computers and they forget to install the drivers. Some motherboards have soundcards implemented on them and you can find sound drivers on installation disc for your motherboard. Sound cards that are not implemented on motherboards have driver installation discs too. Best way is to find most recent driver for particular sound device and download it from device manufacturer's official site. Then you can install it and solve the problem.

There are cases when system plays audio files fine but it can't play music CD's. Look for a hidden mute in software, maybe someone muted it or you did it by accident, there are cases when it is auto/muted. Also check cables in your computer tower, maybe some of the cables are not connected as they should be.

If you only have built in integrated motherboard sound support you should check if it is enabled in CMOS. And if you are using a sound card you should check if the motherboard sound device is disabled, it can make a conflict and mute all sounds. There is a possibility when the system can't recognize your sound card after previous steps. Try to unplug your sound card manually if it's a plug and play sound card, and remove any other adapters except your video card. After those reboot your computer and let your BIOS adjust and configure. After that step shut down your computer and replace your sound card, just to see if that can get it going. If it works now, you might have problems again when you put the other adapters back in. If you do it one at a time you can know where the conflict appears.

If none of the above helps, it is advised to call some help and support center or a computer repair service. They can determine if the sound card can be fixed or you maybe need to buy another. These services are great and they can accurately find what the problem is and fix computer in no time.