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A scenario where your Shared folders will be visible in the network neighborhood but your XP machine will not show up in the network neighborhood.
How you can do it?
1. Open command prompt.
2. Type the command “'net config server /hidden:yes” and press enter.
3. That's it.
Now your XP machine wont be visible in the My Network places.
After installing windows XP and when you restart your machine you get the following error : “STOP:INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE” and you are unable to start your Windows XP machine.
Reasons
1. Partition may not be set active.
2. Error in boot device.
Solution
1. Place the xp cd in the cd-rom.
2. Select the repair (pressing R)option and enter through the Console option.
3. While the process was going Press SHIFT+F10.
4. Type " FIXBOOT " press Enter.
5. Type " FIXMBR " press Enter.
Now restart your system
There are two ways to block websites for users, either in a network or home.
First one is by doing it through browsers, its easy and all browsers now in use support this feature.
But when there are many browsers used its necessary to do those steps in all browsers.
Second one is doing it manually and its quite simple. Provided there is no need to do it in each and every browser.
How you can do it?
Follow these steps:
Either through command prompt or explorer go to this path C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and open the hosts file using notepad or WordPad.
Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost . Its at the bottom.
Assume that we are going to block yahoo.com
To block the website yahoo.com, just add this text
(Note: Its necessary to block access to system32 files for users)
Forgot your XP admin password?
The password can be reset without using any third party tool.
How you can do it?
1. Have your bios set to boot from CD. Now keep the XP bootable disk in the cd drive and restart the system.
2. Proceed as normal XP installation and when you get to the Welcome Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows.
3. The Licensing Agreement will come next - Press F8.
4. The next screen is the Setup screen that gives you the option to do a Repair. Press R to begin the Repair process.
5. Setup will now check the disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.
6. After the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot.
7.Setup will resume automatically (do not press any key after reboot)
8. On the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10.
This opens a command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.
9. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Now it gives graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.
10. Now simply pick the account you need to change or remove password .
11.To log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password.
12.After the changes are done ,close the windows, exit the command box and continue with the Repair
13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password.
Have a nice day!!!
Features of Windows Live Mail
Enhanced security
Automated filtering of junk email which also includes spam and phishing messages.
Interface
Has a stylish, clean and friendly interface that can be changed as per user requirements.
Multiple email accounts
Windows Live Mail supports multiple email accounts setup including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo!Mail .
Photo e-mail
High resolution photographs can be sent through email as thumbnails. Full sized photo will be displayed only when requested.
RSS Feeds
Feeds subscribed from websites and blogs can be delivered straight away to your inbox with this feature.
Windows Live mail takes relatively less time for email search and the mail search utility is placed on the top for easy access.
Additional feature that comes with windows live , Windows Live Writer is an easy way to update blogs. It has easy html editing features, and supports number of plug-ins that can be additionally added from MSN.
Quick views shows particular categories from your email and news accounts.
Windows XP by default provides a service that can enable remote users modify registry settings of other computers in network. A Registry Security Hole. But this service can be disabled
How you Can do?
1. Open control panel.
2. Go to Administrative tools –> Services
3. Locate the “RemoteRegistry” in the right side panel.
4. Right click on it and select Properties.
5. In General tab , click Startup type menu and select Disabled.
6. Click OK and restart the system for changes to take effect.
Keyboard shortcuts 
Basic keyboard shortcuts
1. CTRL+C (Copy)
2. CTRL+X (Cut)
3. CTRL+V (Paste)
4. CTRL+Z (Undo)
5. DELETE (Delete)
6. SHIFT+DELETE (To Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
7. CTRL while dragging an item (To Copy the selected item)
8. F2 key (To Rename the selected item)
9. SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (To Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop)
10. CTRL+A (Select all)
11. F3 key (To Search for a file or a folder)
12. ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
13. ALT+F4 (Closes the active item, or quits the active program)
14. ALT+ENTER (Displays the properties of the selected object)
15. ALT+SPACEBAR (Opens the shortcut menu for the active window)
16. ALT+TAB ( Switch between the open items)
17. ALT+ESC ( Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
18. F6 key ( Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
19. F4 key (Displays the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
20. ALT+SPACEBAR (Displays the System menu for the active window)
21. CTRL+ESC (Displays the Start menu)
22. BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
23. Press SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive to prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing
24. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (For opening Task Manager)
25. Windows Logo (Displays or hides the Start menu)
26. Windows Logo+BREAK (Displays the System Properties dialog box)
27. Windows Logo+D (Displays the desktop)
28. Windows Logo+M (Minimizes all of the windows)
29. Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restores the minimized windows)
30. Windows Logo+E (Opens My Computer)
31. Windows Logo+F (Searches for a file or a folder)
32. CTRL+Windows Logo+F (Searches for computers)
33. Windows Logo+F1 (Displays Windows Help)
34. Windows Logo+ L (Locks the keyboard)
35. Windows Logo+R (Opens the Run dialog box)
36. Windows Logo+U (Opens Utility Manager)
Simple tweaking that can speed up your Firefox browser
I heard about this tweak and i tried it personally. I can now witness the change. Just give it a try!!!
How You Can Do It?
Follow the steps:
1. Start your Firefox 
2. In the address bar type “about:config”.
3. It directs you to a page where it displays number of options and their values based on the plugins
4. In filter option bar type , ”network.http.pipelining” and press Enter.
5. Double click on network.http.pipelining and it’ll be set to true.
6. Now double click on “pipelining.maxrequests”. Set the integer value from default “4” to some higher value like “10”.
7. Done. That's it!!!
8. Restart your browser.
Increase disk space on your computer without deleting any files on the system
1. Delete Temp files:
Go to Start > Run type %temp > press enter.
In the Temp folder, select and delete all files at this location.
Empty your recycle bin.
2. Delete Temporary Internet files and backup files:
Open My computer -->right click on the required drive say. C--> properties
Click on Disk Cleanup
This will open a Disk cleanup window
Select the temporary Internet files, recycle bin, setup log files, temporary files, office setup files and other files that are not necessary.
Click OK.
This cleans up system deleting all unnecessary files , increasing disk space.
How to make Internet Explorer run fast??
Two reasons that can slow down your Internet explorer run slow:
1. Saved web history,
2. Saved encrypted pages.
Reduce size of saved web history
It’s advisable to store two days web history while saving a week’s or more than that web history will certainly reduce the performance.
How you can do?
1. In Internet Explorer
2. In the Internet Options dialog box, in the History section, find the Days to keep pages in history: box. Type "1" or “2” (no.of.days) in this box.
3. Click OK
This is how you can set up Internet Explorer to reduce saved pages history. I always prefer to have just a day’s history to be saved.
Saved Encrypted pages
Internet Explorer can save encrypted pages. These pages require usernames and passwords. Pages are messed up to hide sensitive information.
How you can do?
1. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. In the Internet Options dialog box, click on the Advanced tab.
3. In the Settings section, scroll down to the Security section. Check the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" option.
4. Click OK.
This how you can set up Internet Explorer not to save encrypted Web pages
All these settings can be applied based on the user requirements.
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