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Do you know that windows XP has a hidden movie with it.
Type a small command to have a look at it.
Watch and Enjoy!!!
Go to start—> Run and type the following command
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
and hit enter!!
That's it!!
Now enjoy it with some snacks to eat!!
When the power button in the CPU is pressed , by default our system shuts down.
We can change this setting , letting XP ask us what to do whenever the power button is pressed.
How you can do??
Right click on the desktop and select properties.
Now in the Display properties window click on the screensaver tab.
Click the Power button in the bottom. This opens Power option properties window.
Click on the advanced tab.
Under Power buttons there will be two drop down menus “When I press the power button on my computer” and “When I press the sleep button on my computer”
In those menus select “ask me what to do” as shown in the figure.
Click apply and ok and restart your system.
Now whenever the power or sleep button is pressed XP opens Turn off computer window and lets you decide what to do!!!
Here are some browser shortcuts that can be really helpful while browsing.
Opening a site:
.com - Ctrl+Enter
For example type Google in the address bar and press ctrl+enter . This will take you to www.google.com. Got the point !?? Need not type www & .com!!!
.net - Shift + Enter
.org - Shift + Ctrl + Enter
Open the site in new tab
Alt+ Ctrl + Enter
Bookmarking a site
Ctrl+D
Close a Browser tab
Ctrl+W
Searching
A specific word can be searched in the site
Ctrl + F
Text Size
Ctrl and + for larger text
Ctrl and – for smaller text
Enjoy Fast Surfing!!!
You can have one-click access to your local drives (can have to many parts of your computer too!!).
No need to double-click my computer and then again double-click on the local drive.
How you can do?
Right click start button and select properties.
Then go to customize
Click Advanced in the “Customize Start Menu Window”.
You’ll now see a start menu items scroll bar.
Now scroll down to My computer and select the radio button , “Display as Menu”.
Click ok and apply.
That's it.
Now you can see your local drives displayed as menu when you place your mouse pointer over My computer in the start menu.
!!!!!!!!One-click access!!!!!!!!!!
When you right click on my computer and click properties , the properties window opens. In the general tab have you ever seen a manufacturer’s logo ??
While working with CSC i saw their logo in that place.
Its their manufacture and they have branded it.
Does it gives a weird feeling that its their computer and not yours??
Don’t worry we can change it and make it look like the way we want!!
How you can do it??
Just follow these simple steps.
1. Select or create an image.
2. The picture should be no more than , 180*115 pixels and should be a bitmap file. (Use some image editor if you don’t have such!)
3. Now save it as oemlogo.bmp in c:\windows\system32 folder.
4. Half done!! Now open notepad type the following code, (in the space after “=” type whatever you like to appear.
[General]
Manufacturer=
Model=
[Support Information]
Line1=
Line2=
5. Save the file, as oeinfo.ini and select all files in file type, and in the same location c:\windows\system32 folder.
6.Voila !!! Its yours now!!!
7. Now the window will look like (like i edited),
8. When you click on support information,
Happy Tweaking!!!!
We can hide a user account in welcome screen , if its necessary to do.
Microsoft hides certain system accounts by default , these accounts support certain background processes. We need not know much of these.
We can use the same steps to hide a user account.
How you can do ??
Follow the steps:
1. Open regedit
2. Follow the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList.
3. In the right panel right-click and select NEW—>DWORD value and give the name of the account to be hidden.
4. Close the registry editor and restart the system.
5. Now the user account can be seen hidden in the windows logon screen .
6. To login through that account press ctrl+alt+delete twice when you are in the log on screen and give the user name and password to login.
Note: Its always a good habit to back up registry before we make any changes to the registry. Its easy to revert back to the original state if anything goes wrong after changes are made.
Every time we activate our windows with Microsoft , all activation stuff is saved in a file called “Wpa.dbl”
We can backup this file so that every time we reinstall windows
How you can do?
Backup the file Wpa.dbl
C:\windows\system32\Wpa.dbl
Go to this location and copy the file before you reinstall windows.
Why not we give names to recycle bin??
It's cool to see it with the name we have given to it!!
Garbage collector
Trash bin
Whatever you feel good to it , you can rename it!!
How you can do??
follow the steps:
1. Open run, type regedit and go to the registry editor
2. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\
3. In the right pane , double click on LocalizedString or right click on LocalizedString and select Modify to modify the registry value.
4. You should see the default value of “@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964″. Delete or remove the default value and key in your desired new recycle bin’s name in text, for e.g. give “Trash Barrel” (without quotes).
5. Refresh your desktop or Windows Explorer by pressing F5.
You will see the new ‘recycle bin’ name.
You can also modify the text of InfoTip, commonly known as tooltip what display description about Recycle Bin when the mouse pointer is placed on Recycle Bin icon.
The default text that is displayed is “Contains files and folders that you have deleted.”
We can even change this!!!
How you can do??
In the same right panel , Simply double click on InfoTip, or right click on InfoTip and select Modify to change the text of the info tip.
The default value is “@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-22915″, change it to another description that you want the tooltip to be.
Refresh the desktop to make it effective.
Note: Its always a good habit to back up registry before palying with it!!
A tool that can be used to restore the operation of windows XP.
Restores operation of Windows XP
Windows uses the information from registry that was saved during last shutdown.
How you can do??
1. Start your computer, press F8 key when Windows begins to start.
Pressing F8 opens Windows Advanced Options menu.
2. Use your ARROW keys to select Last Known Good Configuration , and then click OK.
Select Microsoft Windows XP,if a start menu appears,and then click OK.
The steps are as follows,
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
-or-
Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Under System Startup, click Edit.
Alternative method:
You can also edit boot.ini through command prompt through the command edit boot.ini
Passwords that we type in for your user account in XP is not secure as in most cases it is a simple one remember and this allows others to guess or crack our passwords.
There is a feature in XP where we can request a strong and secure password.
How can you do it?
Procedure to set the password complexity for your user account
Follow this path
control panel -> administrative tools -> Local security Policy -> account policy -> password policy
Enable the "password must meet complexity requirement”
That’s it!!!
The applications on your Windows XP computer are running slowly. the system has only 100 MB free disk space.
How can you improve performance?
For a system to run normally , it is recommended that there should be at least 200-500MB of free hard disk drive space available.
So, to increase the free disk space in the system we recommend the following solutions ,
1.disk cleanup &
2. removing unwanted applications & unwanted data from the system.
Disk cleanup is the utility provided by Microsoft
Follow the steps below in your XP machine to use Disk Cleanup utility
Start--> All programs-->Accessories-->System Tools-->Disk cleanup.
Removing unwanted applications & unwanted data from the system will increase free disk space in the system.
Finally make sure that there is at least 200-500 mb free disk space is available in the system.
Disaster recovery helps when machine status is crucial and helps to recover system settings and keep them intact.
How you can do??
Follow the steps
I. Backup system state data
1. Go to System tools -->Backup and than enter.
2. Click advanced mode --> Select Backup --> Click System State box -->enter the backup
media like that --> \\servername\shared name\backup file name.bkf (or) Select browse and then
click entire network--> select shared folder --> click finish.
3. Click start backup --> Advanced --> Choose backup type like Normal, Incremental and
Differential -->OK-->Click start Backup -->Finally hit close button.
II. Restore system state data
1. Click start -->All programs --> Accessories -->System tools -->Backup and than enter.
2. Click advanced mode -->Select Restore and Manage Media --> Select backup file and start restore.
The “send error report to Microsoft” message pops up when any program ends in an unusual way.
But this can be disabled.
How you can do it??
Follow the steps
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
Click on -> System icon
Click on -> Advanced tab
Click on -> Error Reporting button at the bottom of the window
Select -> Disable error reporting radio button.
Click -> OK and OK again
That's it!!
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