Posts Tagged ‘tips’
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
The Desktop Cleanup Wizard displays a list of the desktop icons that have not been used for 60 days or more, enabling you to remove those icons that you don’t want on your desktop. You can retrieve icons you have removed by opening the Unused Desktop Shortcuts folder on your desktop. If you want to disable this annoying feature you can follow these steps:
- Right-click on an empty space on the Desktop then click Properties.
- Select the “Desktop” tab.
- Click “Customize Desktop” button.
- At the bottom uncheck the box labeled ‘Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard Every 60 Days‘.
- Click ‘OK’ then ‘OK’ again to save changes
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Here are a couple of tips to speed up your Windows XP computer and help keep you protected and secure online. First you need to control which programs load on startup: Many of the programs you install on your computer automatically configure themselves to launch at startup, usually invisibly. The truly essential ones, such as anti-virus and firewall products, generally run as services and run fine in the background. Other less important software like media players don’t need to be running continually.
These extra programs slow the boot process and then severely suck up resources like memory and CPU cycles. It is pretty easy to control which applications launch on startup. The System Configuration Utility lists all these applications in one place:
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
The hibernate feature saves everything in memory on disk, turns off your monitor and hard disk, and then turns off your computer. When you restart your computer, your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. It takes longer to bring your computer out of hibernation than out of standby.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Following these steps to disable stop the CD ROM from automatically running
- Open registry editor.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom.
- Right click on AutoRun String and select Modify.
- Change the value to 0.
- Click OK.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The hibernate feature turns off your monitor and hard disk, saves everything in memory on disk, and turns off the computer. When you restart the computer, your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. To enable Hibernation, follow these steps:
- Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel.
- Click on Power Options icon.
- Click on the Hibernate tab.
- Check the Enable Hibernation Support checkbox.
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Tags: hibernation, tips, windows xp
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Every time a program crashes in Windows XP, an “Error Report” screen pops up allowing you to send some information on the crash to Microsoft. You can follow these steps to disable it
- Click Start button – Settings - Control Panel.
- Double click System icon.
- On the Advanced tab, click Error Reporting button.
- Select Disable Error Reporting.
- Click OK.
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
You can disable the Windows Explorer’s ability to show the Thumbnail View.
- Open regedit (registry editor)
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced \
- Change ClassicViewState to 1
- Close regedit
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Windows XP has a program called shutdown.exe which allows you to easily create shortcut to shutdown or restart your computer.
To create a shutdown shortcut on the desktop:
- Right click on the desktop.
- Click New – Shortcut.
- Enter in “shutdown -s -t 00” (type without quotes).
- Press the Next button.
- Type a name for this shortcut.
- Click Finish button.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
With the following tips you can change the drive icons.
- Create autorun.inf file in the root directory of the hard disk you wish to change. You can use Notepad to create that file.
- Insert this code into autorun.inf,
[autorun]
icon=<icon file name>
example:
[autorun]
icon=C:\Data\icon1.ico
- Restart Windows.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
With this tips you can disable the right click on the taskbar.
- Start regedit
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
- Modify/Create DWORD Value of Data type REG_DWORD Named “NoTrayContextMenu”
- Setting for Value Data: 0 or 1 (0 = Enabled / 1 = Disabled)
- Close regedit
- Reboot
Tags: taskbar, tips, windows xp
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