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Customize Desktop Icons

IE, My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places!

Right click an empty area of the desktop and choose properties. Select the “Desktop” tab and click “Customize Desktop”.
On the General Tab place a checkmark in the icons you wish to appear on the Desktop.

Change Search and Run icons in Start Menu

It was impossible to get an Icon Package / Theme that would change ALL the icons in the Start Manu. The Typical Problem would arise with the Search and Run icons (I have disabled the rest…)

A small search in the registry and I managed to identify the “keys” that control the default icons.To change them you need to get in the registry, and that can be done by going to Start > Run (or WinKey+R) and typing “regedit” (yes, without the quotes…)
“Search”
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f0-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon
“Run”
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIconYou can edit each one by double clicking on the respective file.

Alphabetizing your Start Menu

If you’re like me you’ve probably installed lots of programs, so many in fact that if you go to try and find a program its actually becoming really hard because they’re not alphabetized, new programs are stuck on the end, so forth and so on, well, this is a really quick, reallllly easy tip to organize your start menu in Windows XP (I think this also works in Win 98, but I’m upgrading my comp that has Win 98 and can’t verify it). Here are the steps:
1.First click on the start button
2.Move your mouse to “All Programs”
3.Move your mouse to any of the folders there
4.Right Click
A box will open up, scroll to “Sort By Names” and click

On-screen Keyboard

1.Go to start
2.Go to run and type OSK
3.Then the keyboard comes on

Remove start-up items

Having programs run when windows loads slows down your start.
There are two ways do disable programs that may be in your startup (like icq, messanger,)
The easiest is to do the following:
1. start –> run –> msconfig
2. Click on the “startup” tab (furthest right)\
3. Unclick any items you don’t want to load when windows starts.

The second is by deleting registry entrys, this can be done the following way:
1. Start –> run –> regedit
2. Navigate to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
3. Delete any entry’s that you don’t want to load up

***NOTE***
Deleting keys from the registry will not allow you to set them to startup again if you change your mind. **********

Shortcut Icon for Run

You can put the Run… command found in the Start Menu on the desktop or anywhere else you want
1)Click on the Start Menu
2)Drag the Run… command to the desktop
3)You can then cut and paste it anywhere you like.I put it in my Quick launch toolbar, it saves you a mouse click and possibly a little time.

(Works only in XP style Start Menu not in the classic, and make sure “Enable dragging and dropping” is activated in Start Menu properties.)

Clear temp files on IEclose

Internet Explorer includes some great security features. For this tweak I will talk about the feature that clear the temporary internet files each time you close internet explorer. This is a very useful feature since it saves disk space and also keeps the websites that you downloaded private. Lets say that you were doing some online banking. All of the HTML files would be downloaded to the temp internet files by default. Someone with few computer skills can then copy those files out of that directory and view them. That is why it is good to have those files cleared automatically.

1.Launch Internet Explorer.
2.Select the Tools from the menu bar.
3.Then select Internet Options… from the drop down menu.
4.Once the internet options has loaded click on the advanced tab.
5.Under security find where it says Empty Temporary internet files folder when browser is closed and check it.
6.Click OK

Keep high preformance and keep the GUI

To increase system performance and keep the GUI:
1.Right click my computer.
2.Click properties.
3.Click advanced.
4.Click settings (under performance).
5.Click Adjust for best performance.
Scroll to the bottom and check the last one “use visual styles on windows and buttons”.
NOTE: This will switch XP to Classic View

Disable Picture Viewer, but have thumbnails still work

There is a tweak for preventing the picture viewer from opening your pictures by typing “regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll” at a command prompt. This works, except if you use it, then if you set a folder to thumbnail display mode, your thumbnails will not work.
If you want to disable the picture viewer but would still like to have your thumbnails, then change this in the registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview\(Default)
It should be set to {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066} by default… just erase its contents to disable the picture viewer.
Your thumbnails should still work. If you did do “regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll” at the command prompt, you can undo it by going to the command prompt and typing “regsvr32 shimgvw.dll”

How do I delete an “undeletable” file?

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE .Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.

Control Panel Run Shortcuts

The Run dialog gives you easy access to many different programs and options. To get to the Run dialog, click the Start button, then click Run. Type in the command and press Enter, to launch it. For example, type “control folders” (without the quotes) in the Run dialog and press ENTER. Here is a list of commands to use, and what they do:

control – Control Panel
control folders – Folder Options
control userpasswords – User Accounts
control userpasswords2 – Advanced User Accounts
control desktop – Display Properties
control printers – Printers and Faxes
control mouse – Mouse Properties
control keyboard – Keyboard Properties
control netconnections – Network Connections
control color – Display Properties \ Screensaver
control date/time – Date and Time Properties
control schedtasks – Scheduled Tasks
control admintools – Administrative Tools
control telephony – Phone and Modem Options
control fonts – Fonts Folder
control international – Regional and Language

Enable NUM LOCK key for the logon screen

The status of the NUM LOCK key is specific for each user, and it is disabled by default. If you want the NUM LOCK key enabled for use before a user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL to log on (the logon desktop), you need to edit the registry

To enable NUM LOCK for the Logon desktop (shown when no user is logged on), use the steps below:

1.Click Start, Run and type regedit.exe
2.Navigate to the following location:
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard
3.Double-click the value InitialKeyboardIndicators
4.Set the value-data from 0 to 2
5.Close Regedit

To undo the above, change the InitialKeyboardIndicators value back to 0

Creating a Keyboard Shortcut

1. Right-click a shortcut on the desktop or in the start menu, and then click Properties .

2. On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut Key box.

3. Press the key you want to use. Windows will add Ctrl+Alt to it. So if you choose U the combination will be Ctrl+Alt+U.You can also choose one of the function keys you don’t use otherwise, F7 as example. Just one button to click then.

4. Click OK .

Delete Unwanted Screen Savers Loaded w/XP

If anyone else was wondering how to get rid of the annoying Screen Savers that Microsoft feels you have to have with XP they made it a little more difficult than normal.

1. First navigate to “C:\windows\system32\dllcache”. Cut and paste or type in your address bar to get there because it is a hidden folder .
   Once there, delete the Screen Savers in that folder . Otherwise, you will find that they will come back no matter how many times you delete them from your system 32 folder.
   2. Then you have to go to C: \Windows\system32 and delete the Screen Savers you want to get rid of . (Answer the file protection popups with cancel and yes.)
   3. Voila—no more Screen Savers!!!!

1. Customize Your computer

Get Started Customizing Your Computer

Change Your Desktop Background

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Share a Computer with Fast User Switching

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Changing Start button text in Windows XP

I always wanted to change the text of my Start Button ever since I have been using the Windows operating System. It has always been the most difficult of tasks to accomplish with very risky and lengthy activities involving alteration of Windows registry. In fact I could never find of any way to change the Start button text without actually altering the registry values. (If you know of one please let me know so that it can be posted here for others to know, also please let me know if there is a software that does it automatically)
Well the simplest and the least time consuming way of changing the Start button text is described below:
Step1:

You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker

Click here to download Resource Hacker
Step2:

Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File —> Open. Type “explorer.exe” in the text box.

Step3:Expand String Table —> 37 from the tree view and click on 1033 …………

Step 4:From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the text to what you want on your start button.

Step 5:Click on the “Compile Script” button on top of the right window. Now click on File —> Save as —->PARAS.exe ………………

Step 6: Open registry editor by clicking on Start —> Run and typing “regedit” at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon……………..

From the right pane double click on shell and replace “explorer.exe” with “PARAS.exe” and then exit registry editor:

Step 7: Restart your computer to see the changes.

Better Easy IP Check

Use this if you just want to display your IP address and not the extra information (default gateway / subnet mask)

Simply copy and paste the following into notepad

@echo.
@ipconfig find “IP Address”
@echo.
@pause

And save as IP.BAT (save to your windows dir if you want to be able to access it anywhere)

Now when you type IP you will see:
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : x.x.x.x
Press any key to continue . . .—————————

(information about the code:
@echo. produces a blank line,
@ipconfig find “IP Address” causes the output of ipconfig to be piped to the find command, which looks for the line containing “IP Address”, find then outputs your IP address,
@pause causes the terminal to wait for user input before continuing.
The @ before each command tells the terminal not to echo the command being typed.)

Remove “Log Off” from the Start Menu

To remove the Log Off line on your Start menu do the following registry hack.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ExplorerCreate a new DWORD value and name it NoLogOff.
Now add the value 1 to the key.
You need to logoff or reboot for the settings to take effect

Turn off Welcome screen

Click on start>setting>control panel.Open User Accounts in Control Panel.Click Change the way users log on or off

To change drive letters

To change drive letters (useful if you have two drives and have partitioned the boot drive, but the secondary drive shows up as “D”)Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management, then right-click the partition whose name you want to change(click in the white area just below the word “Volume”) and select “change drive letter and paths.”
From here you can add, remove or change drive letters and paths to the partition.

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent?

Go to ontrol Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop”

Remove the Recycle Bin from the Desktop

If you don’t use the Recycle Bin to store deleted files , you can get rid of its desktop icon all together
Run Regedit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/Desktop/NameSpaceClick on the “Recycle Bin” string in the right hand pane.
Hit Del, click OK.

How to Rename the Recycle Bin

To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, open Regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name “Recycle Bin” to whatever you want (don’t type any quotes).

Make your Folders Private

Open My Computer
•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
•Double-click your user folder.
•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box

Note:
•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile.
Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites.
If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well.
For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS

How To Enable Hibernation

Under Windows 98, Me, or 2000 there was an option in the shutdown dialog box to enter the computer into hibernation (where all the content of the RAM is copied to the hard disk).The shutdown dialog box of Windows XP doesn’t offer any longer the hibernation button.Some users may get confused about how to enable the hibernation mode.If this mode is supported by your motherboard (ACPI) you have to do the following:
1.Click Start and Shut Down,
2.Point the standby button and maintain the shift key pushed,
3.A new hibernation button appears: click it while still holding the shift key:
voila your PC will hibernate

Slow Shutdown

Some people have noticed that they are experiencing a really slow shutdown after installing Windows XP Home or Professional. Although this can be caused a number of ways, the most clear cut one so far is happening on systems with an NVidia card installed with the latest set of drivers. A service called NVIDIA Driver Helper Service is loading up on start up and for whatever reason doesn’t shut itself down properly. The service isn’t needed and can also increase the amount of memory available to your system. Here is how to disable it
1: Go into your Control Panel
2: Select Administrative Tools and then click on Services
3: Right click on the file “NVIDIA Driver Helper Service” and then select STOP.
4: To stop this loading up every time you boot up your PC Right click it again and select properties – then where the option “Startup Type” is shown – make sure it is set at Manual

Clean Prefetch Data

The prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links which can slow down yourcomputer noticeably.
I would suggest that you do this once a month or so to improve thespeed.
Do not follow this on a daily basis as prefetching of most commonly used programs will speed up the execution of those programs.
To perform this trick go to:C(SystemDrive):/windows/prefetch, and delete everything and reboot

Alignment of Start Menu panel

Start menu has all the entries aligned to left by default. But if you insist on aligning it to the right, then here is the way to achieve it. The objective can be met by a registry tweak. Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktopand look for key MenuDropAlignment.Set its value to 1 to align the menu entry to right. If you have any regrets in future, turn the value back to 0

Type URL without a Mouse Click

In IE you can use Alt + D key combination to highlight the address bar. This allows you to enter a URL without the mouse click. This will be helpful for the laptop users who find it uneasy to use their touchpad every time they want to type a URL

Customize Your Login prompt

So let us get into some serious business.
We shall start with a tip to customize your log in prompt.
Open Registry editor by going to Start[1]Run[1]Regedit and Navigate to the key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micrsft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
In right pane, do a right click to create a new string value and give its name LogonPrompt.Set its value to whatever text you want to see displayed at login screen.
Reboot the machine and see the log-in prompt for the change. You can see the text you entered above the text fields that ask for username and password.

Use the Address Bar to Launch Programs or Web Pages from the Taskbar

The majority of the time the taskbar is underutilized, simply displaying the names of open programs. Windows XP Professional provides enhanced functionality by allowing you to add the Address Bar to the Taskbar at the bottom of your desktop.Anything that can be launched by the [Start] [Run] command sequence can be done using the Address Bar.Web content can also be launched just as it would be from the Address Bar inside Internet Explorer
To add the Address bar to the taskbar:
Right-click an empty area on the taskbar.Point to Toolbars, and then click Address.Open and close the Address Bar by double-clicking it

Add Your Photo to the Start Menu

At the top of the Start Menu there is a graphic depicting the user signed onto the computer. The pictures are 48 x 48 bitmap images. Create any BMP, GIF, JPG or PNG image and add it to the folder located at:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default PicturesBest results are obtained by using a square image

Add Safe Mode Startup to the Boot Menu

It’s fairly common knowledge that if you want to start your computer in Safe Mode you can hit the F8 key during the boot process and it will bring up an alternate list of boot options. The trick is finding just the right place to whap the hell out of the F8 key to make sure the regular boot sequence doesn’t initiate. It’s much easier to get into Safe Mode if you add it to the boot menu as one of the options on the boot loader menu. Here’s how:Make a backup of the current boot.ini file
Note: The boot.ini file shown below is for illustration purposes only. Your actual boot.ini may vary from this example

[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetectUsing Notepad, edit the original boot.ini (shown above) so it appears as shown below.[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetectmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional Safe” /fastdetect

The line shown above in red is the line you add.I used the word “Safe” but this can be any word you choose.
Close Notepad and save changes when prompted.Start the System Configuration Utility by clicking [Start] [Run] and typing msconfig, then click [OK].
Click the BOOT.INI tab.Highlight the boot line you added with the word “Safe” or whatever word you chose to add above.
Check the /SAFEBOOT option in the Boot Options box and use the radio buttons to add whatever options you prefer. I’d suggest the MINIMAL option.Click [Apply] and [OK] and Restart when prompted.The option to boot into safe mode will now appear on the boot loader menu

All of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
Is it just a really weird bug? ?
Lock any folder without using any software
1. Suppose you have a folder named abcd in D:\abcd.
2. In the same drive next to the folder create a new notepad file with the exact statementren abcd abcd.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3. Now save this text file as loc.bat
4. Create another notepad file and typeren abcd.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} abcd
5. Save this as key.bat
6. Now there are two batch files. Double click loc.bat and your folder will change into Control Panel and its contents cannot be viewed .
7. To open the folder double click key.bat and you get back your original folder.
8. For more safety keep the key.bat in another location . Only for unlocking copy paste to the original location and double click..

Multiple Login in Yahoo Messenger !!!

This is the trick
multiple log in TO Yahoo messsenger

You can login with multiple id’s on the same yahoo messenger without
any download or patch .

Follow these steps

1. Go to Start —-> Run . Type regedit, then enter .

2.Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER ——–> Software —>yahoo —–>pager—->Test

3.On the right pane , right-click and choose new Dword value .

4.Rename it as Plural.

5.Double click and assign a decimal value of 1.

That’s it done!!

Now close registry and restart yahoo messenger .For signing in with

new id open another messenger .

MAKE WINDOWS GENUINE THE EASY WAY

download jellybean keyfinder from this website

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

Now open keyfinder.exe

Click on options and click “change windows key”

Now enter this key and you’re done.

*****************************

V2C47-MK7JD-3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J

*****************************

P.S: this works on windows xp sp2 only……

ppl u can try this out…

this might sound silly but it works perfectly…

TRY INSTALLING IE7 OR MEDIA PLAYER11.

IMPROVING SHUTDOWN TIME

This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.
Go to Start then select Run
Type ‘Regedit’ and click ok
Find ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
Select ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
Right click and select ‘Modify’
Change the value to ’1000′
Click ‘OK’
Now select ‘HungAppTimeout’
Right click and select ‘Modify’
Change the value to ’1000′
Click ‘OK’

IMPROVING BOOTUP TIME

A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled, but on some systems it is not, so below is the information on how to turn it on:

Go to Start Menu and Click Run
Type in regedit then click ok
Find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOpt imizeFunction”
Select “Enable” from the list on the right
Right on it and select “Modify”
Change the value to Y .
Reboot your Pc and see the change yourself.

GETTING BACK MISSING FOLDER OPTIONS

Open Run and then type “gpedit.msc”.
Now goto User Configuration > Administrative templates > Windows Component > Windows Explorer.
Click on Windows Explorer you will find the 3rd option on the right side of screen “Removes the Folder Option menu item from the Tools menu”
Just check it, if it is not configured then change it to enable by double clicking on it and after applying again set it to not configured.

I hopes that you will find the option after restarting windows.

MAKING MENU OPENING FAST

Go to Start then Run
Type ‘Regedit’ then click ‘Ok’
Find “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\”
Select “MenuShowDelay”
Right click and select “Modify’
Reduce the number to around “100″
This is the delay time before a menu is opened. You can set it to “0″ but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open if you just look at them – well move your mouse over them anyway. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on my mood

HACKING XP PASSWORD

1. Open command prompt (Start->Run->cmd),
2. Enter the following command, then press ENTER

3. Enter the followin command, then press ENTER:
compmgmt.msc
This should open the computer management console.
4. Go to local users & groups->users. Right click on any user and select “set password”.

If you get a “access denied” do the following:

start>run>cmd
then use following commands
1) net user test /add (this command will make test named user)
2) net localgroup administrators test /add (this command will make test user as administrators rights)

and use net user command to reset your admin. password

Alternative

What if u don’t know the password of your admin and still want to hack and change .. yea u can do it ..in a very easy manner.. check this. just follow the steps.. this doesn’t require u to know the admin password but still u can change it..
Start >> Run >> [type]cmd // this will open your command prompt
[type] net(space)user(press enter)
[type] net(space)user(space)[windowsloginid](sp ace)*(press enter)

// for e.g. : net user HOME *(press enter)

[type] new password (press enter) and retype it (press enter).. it will show u confirmation… // caution it wont show u the password u type.. but it still types.. the blinking pointer will b there at the same place.. but it still works..
// for e.g. : password changed successfully.

amezing trick to lock folder

this 1 is amezing trick to lock u r folder
using this trick not only lock u r folder but also hide it
here it is

copy following program:-

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

now go for following few steps
1>copy above folder into notepad.
2>the text which is written in bold letters delete it & type u r password there.
3>save that file by extension .bat ( name is u r choice)
4>now on ur screen there is a bat file appear.
5>double click on that file.
6>u will see the locker folder.
7>save the files in that folder.
8>double click on that folder & lock that folder
9>after lock that folder it will become hidden.
10>to open that folder double click on that bat file
11>type ur password & open that folder.

folder without name
Its Simple dear

Make a new folder and rename it with press (alt+0160) And (alt+255)..know its make a folder without any name…ok dude..if u want to make an invisible folder then go 2 the properties—>customize—->change icon—>use blake space for this–>apply–>ok–>ok……

follow this link to change the text on ur start screen.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button.htm

MS WORD TRICK

it is just a magic in MS WORD.
type =rand (200,99) & press enter.

just c what happens

Most  Amazing trick

covert any folder into a video file……………….just try it out

create a new folder…………….rename it to

mediafile.{00022602-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

WINDOWS TRIX……gud 1s

1. Start computer in 10 seconds “
Right heres what u have to do to turn ur pc on in 10 seconds

Click on the start button then press R it will take u to Run well go to run
n type Regedit
press enter
this will open Registery Editor
now look for the key

HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContro

lSet\Control\ContentIndex

now there find the Key Called
“Startup Delay”
Double Click On It
Now where its Base
Click Decimal
Now its Default Value Is 4800000
Change The Value To 40000
here u go u have done it

2. Hide your user account in xp
Hide user acc in win xp

1. Click on Start and click Run.
2. Type regedit. The registry editor opens.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi ndows NT
\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts \Userlist
4. In the right hand tab right-click and choose New–>DWORD Value.
5. Type in the name of your user account carefully(It is case sensitive).
6. Reboot and verify that your user account is hidden.
*To get full access to your user account, on the login screen press ctrl+alt and press del 2 times (Note that ctrl+alt must be held).

You get a screen to type in your username. Type your username and password and login to your hidden account

Warning:
If you hide all user account of your xp and if problem occure in start up due to some other software. Now you will try to boot in safe mode but in safe mode also there is no account visible and when you try to it visible by ctrl+alt+del it become visible but also your pc restart done and you will not able to logon even in safe mode
now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer
You’ll See The Result

3. How to easily set Wallpaper as Background for Folders

Adding wallpaper background to your folders’ file panes lets you easily recognize and differentiate folder windows – particularly if you have backup folders on a removable or network drive with names identical to the originals on your own hard drive.
First of all resize your picture to the size of your folder part.
To add wallpaper to a folder in XP:

Open the folder, choose Tools > Folder > Options, and click the View tab
Under Advanced settings, select Show hidden files and folders (you may need to double-click Hidden files and folders first)
Uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and click Yes when you see the warning
Click OK, and double-click the file named desktop.ini to open it in your text editor (you may not see the .ini extension). If you can’t find a desktop.ini file, launch Notepad or your preferred text editor
In your text editor, type or copy:
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=C:\My Documents\…\…(path to your image file)

If you’re editing the folder’s existing desktop.ini file, save the file and close your text editor. If you created the file from scratch, save it with the name “desktop.ini” in the folder that will house the background picture; use quotation marks to keep Notepad from adding its default .txt extension.
Once you’ve created your desktop.ini file, click Start > Run, type in the command line, ATTRIB +S “folder name” (e.g. ATTRIB +S ” C:\Documents and Settings\[your userid]\My Documents”) to activate the new settings

4. Great trick Lock ur PC yourself
Great trick Lock ur PC yourself

lock ur pc.. open notepad copy and paste the script below and save it .VBS extention
This wil create a shortcut.. run(click) it

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(wshShell.Special

Folders(“Desktop”) & “\LockWorkstation.lnk”)
oShellLink.TargetPath = “%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe”
oShellLink.Arguments = “user32.dll,LockWorkStation”
oShellLink.Save

5. Hide ur folders..Disguise them to Recycle Bin
Hide ur folders..Disguise them to Recycle Bin

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
eg,
if u’ve a folder games
press F2,
then type, “games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}”
c the magic….
then 2 get to original form,
remove the extension using
“ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games” in dos or as a bat file

n u are done..

crazy& famous fonts for ur computer (must have…)
hi friends….
i want to share some famous fonts…..
see the below link…
http://nagarjun007.googlepages.com/crazyfonts

A cool paint trick!
1>Open Paint
2>Select Air brush. Fill two three colours in a small area
3>Select free form select and select the area where you have put the colours from air brush
4>Press shift, and move ur mouse keeping shift pressed.
Check ouA cool paint trick!t the effect..

Trick to Show ur name after time in taskbar…
Hi freinds !

I m here to tell u a trick to add up ur name in place of AM and PM beside time and make urself to feel proud among ur group of frnds.

Its simple

Start -> Control Pannel -> Regional and LAnguage option -> Customize (beside English US) -> Go to TIME tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM to ur name -> Apply -> Ok …

IS it changed ??? Might be not …
Now go to time in taskbar and Double Click it to open “Date and time property” …
Look place where time chnges in digital form i.e. 02:47:52 AM , click to arrow to cnage the AM or PM by selecting and press arrow. It will Show ur name or name that was entered by u, Apply -> OK and be HAPPY 8)

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Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

Tips & Tricks Trackback

Do you want to set more than one homepage in firefox. Say you would like to set orkut google and my blog as your homepages. There is a tweak in firefox to set multiple homepages. This is what you should do :

Goto Tools>Options>Main

In the When Firefox starts drop down menu choose Show my home page

In Home page give your homepages separated by a | (pipe symbol)

Eg: http://www.google.com|http://www.orkut.com|http://cooltipsntricks.blogspot.com

and click OK

Now next time when you start Firefox all of your three homepages will be displayed simultaneously..