Change icon of recycle bin

Go to

 regedit>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Here we can change the  icon of our recycle bin.

But remember, the icon must be a “.ico” file and it should definitely be 32X32 pixels by size.

Enjoy Tweaking!!!

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Reserved Bandwidth

20% of your available bandwidth is reserved by default by Microsoft

This affects the Broadband performance.

We can get back this 20%

Click Start-->Run—>type  gpedit.msc

This opens the group policy editor.

Go to:
Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network—>

QOS Packet Scheduler->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Now, Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.

It  shows that it is not configured,

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this
setting to override the default."

We have to set this to ENABLE and then set it to ZERO.

Now the reserved bandwidth is retrieved!!!!

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Folder lock in Windows XP

Manual tweaking is the primary goal of this site and its applicable to this tweak too.

To Lock a folder in windows XP we need not use any third party tool.

We can do it manually using two small commands!!

Now, How you can do it ??
 

1. Create a folder and name it as say, “lock”. I’m creating it in the C drive.

2. Open command prompt

3. Now type   "attrib +s +h C:\lock"   without quotes and press enter.

This command makes the folder “lock”   invisible, you can’t even see the folder in hidden files and folders.

4. To make the folder visible again type  in the command prompt "attrib -s -h C:\lock".

That’s it!!!!!

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