These tips can save you up to half-a-minute on restarts. It works with both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Restart / Boot XP Faster

Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

Restart / Boot Vista Faster
Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Via

There are plenty of proxy based solutions available. But make sure that you don’t do any financial transactions over these proxy connections. Similarly I would advice you keep a separate google id just for Orkut purpose.

Try the following proxy services which works!. Most of the administrators are yet to block these. We shall update the lists frequently though.

Ublock24

DontBlock

SurfingArena

Anonymite