Posts Tagged ‘tricks’

Run Multiple Yahoo Messenger Account

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

With this follow tips you can run multiple Yahoo Messenger 8 with different account at the same time.

  1. Run regedit.
  2. Nvaigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test.
  3. In the right Pane, create New DWord Value named Plural.
  4. Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1.

Create Bigger Thumbnails In Windows XP

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

You can follow these steps to increase the size of the thumbnail images in Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view.

  1. Run regedit.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.
  3. In the right pane right-click on the ThumbnailSize key and select Modify. If the ThumbnailSize keys do not exist, you can create them by right-clicking on an empty space in the right pane and selecting “New – DWORD Value”.
  4. You can set the Value between 32 and 256, the higher the number you choose, the larger you thumbnail will be.
  5. Close regedit.

Create Shortcut to Device Manager

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Device Manager provides you with information about how the hardware on your computer is installed and configured, and how the hardware interacts with your computer’s programs. With Device Manager, you can update the device drivers for hardware installed on your computer, modify hardware settings, and troubleshoot problems. To create a shortcut to the Device Manager, just follow these steps:

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Change the MS DOS Prompt Color

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Microsoft Windows have COLOR command to cChanges the MS DOS Prompt window foreground and background colors for the current session. Used without parameters, color restores the default MS DOS Prompt window foreground and background colors.

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Disable Windows from Saving The Thumbnail Cache

Friday, July 27th, 2007

By disable Windows from Saving The Thumbnail Cache will speed up your Windows.

  1. In Windows Explorer, click Tools – Folder Options.
  2. Choose the View tab, and turn off the Do not cache thumbnails option.

Disable Zip Folders

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

You can disable zip folders view in Windows Explorer by following this steps:

  1. Click Start – Run.
  2. Type regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
  3. Click OK.

Disable Search from Looking in ZIP Files

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Compressing files, folders, and programs decreases their size and reduces the amount of space they use on your drives or removable storage devices. Drive compression decreases the amount of space used by all of the files and folders stored on that drive.

Windows XP Search can get slow if you have a lot of compressed files on your hard drive. You can speed up your searches by disabling this.

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