Thursday, October 28, 2010

Sent Emails not save in Sent Massages Folder

Open the Sent Items folder

In the Navigation Pane (Navigation Pane: The column on the left side of the Outlook window that includes panes such as Shortcuts or Mail and the shortcuts or folders within each pane. Click a folder to show the items in the folder.), under All Mail Folders, click the Sent Items folder.

The messages in the Sent Items folder are listed in the message pane to the right.

The Sent Items folder is also included in the Favorite Folders pane by default.

View who you sent messages to

If you have the Reading Pane (Reading Pane: A window in Outlook where you can preview an item without opening it. To display the item in the Reading Pane, click the item.) on, under Sent Items in the message list, click the Arrange By column, and then click To.

If you have the Reading Pane (Reading Pane: A window in Outlook where you can preview an item without opening it. To display the item in the Reading Pane, click the item.) off, under Sent Items in the message list, click the To column.

I don't see messages I sent in the Sent Items folder

If the Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder check box is not selected, the Sent Items folder won't keep a copy of each message that you send. The Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder check box is selected by default. To select the setting, do the following:

On the Tools menu, click Options.
On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options.
Under Message handling, select the Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder check box.

Also, by default, messages older than 6 months in the Sent Items folder are automatically archived every 14 days. The messages are moved to the archive.pst file. To check the settings you can do the following:

In the Navigation Pane (Navigation Pane: The column on the left side of the Outlook window that includes panes such as Shortcuts or Mail and the shortcuts or folders within each pane. Click a folder to show the items in the folder.), right click the Sent Items folder, click Properties on the shortcut menu, and then click the AutoArchive tab.
Select the options you want to stop archiving or to change when messages are archived. For more information see, About backing up or deleting items using AutoArchive.

Notes

If you have a POP3 e-mail account, sent messages appear in the Sent Items folder under Personal Folders.
If you have more than one POP3 e-mail account, sent messages appear in the same Sent Items folder under Personal Folders.
If you have an Exchange Server e-mail account and then you add a POP3 e-mail account, sent messages for both accounts appear in the same Sent Items folder under your Exchange mailbox.
If you have a POP3 e-mail account and then you add an Exchange Server account, sent messages for both accounts appear in the same Sent Items folder under Personal Folders.
If you have a Hotmail account, sent messages appear in the Sent Items under Hotmail.
If you have an IMAP e-mail account, sent messages appear in the Sent Items under Personal Folders.
If you use more than one e-mail account and you choose to send a message from a secondary account using the Accounts button in a new message, a copy of the message is also sent to the Sent Items folder of the primary default account. For example, if you have a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account and an MSN Hotmail account, when you send a message by using the Hotmail account, a copy of the message is sent to your Hotmail Sent Items folder and to your Exchange Mailbox Sent Items folder.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Multiple Google Talk on 1 system

Here is how you can log into Google Talk using multiple IDs.

Create a new shortcut in Desktop (Rightclick – > New -> Shortcut)
In the input box enter the following “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex“
Click Next
Give your short a name and clic Finish

to log in using different IDs simply open your shortcut by double clicking. Please dont forget to check out my Multiple yahoo messenger loginâ€¦
Note : The path (marked in red) for Google Talk.exe may be different for your computer. Please enter the correct path.

If you have several google talk accounts, you may want to run multiple instances of google talk at once. Here’s how to do it.

Many users, including myself, like to have several different personalities on IM–Work, play, etc. By default google talk with only allow you to run instance of the program at a time. Here’s how to get around that…
Run google talk with the following switch: /nomutex
If you installed google talk to the default location, you can easily create a shortcut to this setting.

New

Shortcut

"c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

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How to use the Vlookup function in Exel

The VLOOKUP function is a handy one to know when you want Excel to lookup a value in one place and insert it in another. For example, let’s say you have a list of all of your customers on a sheet named “Accounts” and an invoice on another sheet named “Invoice”. When you type in their account number on the Invoice, you want Excel to fill in the name of the customer and their address (and this information is included for all customers on the Accounts sheet). A VLOOKUP will do this for you.
Make a small sample workbook to try this out. Name Sheet One “Invoice” and name Sheet Two “Accounts”. On the Accounts sheet, put three columns of data. Column A would be Account Numbers, Column B would be Customer Name, and Column C would be Address. Add at least five pretend customers, so you have enough to play with. On the Invoice sheet, just add these five column headings in cells A1:E1 – Date, Product Ordered, Account #, Customer Name, Address -but don’t put any data in there yet. (In reality, this sheet would be an actual invoice which included sections for you to add ordering info for any products they buy, etc. But for this example, let’s keep it simple.)
Now, before we try the VLOOKUP, the best thing to do is name the range of data that includes the info you want to pull over from the Accounts sheet. You can do VLOOKUPs without naming the range, but then you MUST be sure to use absolute cell references. So, I find naming the range a much easier way to do it. Highlight all the data on the Accounts sheet and name it Customers (don’t include the column headings in the named range – just the data). If you don’t know how to name ranges, read this TechTrax article I wrote on how to do that.
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=281
Now that you have your data and have named the range, let’s look at building a simple VLOOKUP formula. Assume we will be typing account numbers into cell C2 and wanting the customer’s name and address to be filled into D2 and E2.
The best way to learn new formulas is to use the Insert Function button . In Excel 97 and 2000, it's a button on your Standard Toolbar. In Excel 2002/2003, it's on your Formula Bar. On the Invoice sheet, click into cell D2 and click on the fx button.

(The picture above shows how this box looks in Excel 97/2000. In 2002/2003 it’s slightly different, but I think you can figure it out.)
If you know what type of function you are looking for, you can select the category and all the functions within that category will be listed. However, if you don't know what category you need, you can select "All" in the category list and all of Excel's functions will be listed. Notice as you click on any function name, Excel displays a description of what that function does below the boxes. For this exercise, select the "Lookup & Reference" category and scroll down to select the VLOOKUP function. Note that it tells you that this function “searches for a value in the leftmost column of a table and returns a value from the same row in that table based on what column in that row you specify.” Click OK.
Once you click OK, you will get the wizard which helps you with your VLOOKUP formula. Now, because we will be typing an Account # in cell C2, that is the value we must put in the first box of this wizard which will tell Excel to look for whatever is in C2 in the leftmost column of our lookup table (which we created on the Accounts sheet and named "Customers"). So, enter C2 into the top box.
Click into the next box where it says "Table_array". Notice at the bottom of this box, it tells you what each box you click inside needs. This is where we need to identify our table so Excel knows where to look. So, in this box, simply type Customers. (If you didn’t name the range, you will have to put the absolute reference including the sheet name here … this is why it’s easier to just name the range.)
Click into the third box. This one wants to know the number of the column we want returned. Remember that what you entered in the first box in this wizard must ALWAYS be in the first column of your lookup table. So, in our table, the Account # is in the first column and the Customer Name is in the second column. Since the customer name is what we want to put here, just type a 2 to let Excel know we want what is in the second column.
Notice the last box is labeled "Range_lookup" and it is the only label that is not bold. Whenever a label in this wizard is not bold, that means this "argument" of the function is not required. However, if you do not enter anything in this box, Excel will apply the default. If you read the instructions at the bottom of this box, you will see that the default for this box is "true" which will find the "closest match", whereas "false" will find an "exact match". Since we want an exact match, type false in this box. This is what it should look like if you have entered all the info correctly:

Click OK and you will see that cell D2 now shows #N/A, which simply means that there is no value yet in C2, so the information is "not available". Look in your formula bar and you will see the formula is =VLOOKUP(C2,Customers,2,FALSE). As you get more used to using functions, you won't have to use the wizard as much if you take the time to look at the formulas and start to understand how they work.
Now click into cell E2 and add a VLOOKUP formula which will find the Address in our table. The formula will be exactly the same, except the "Col_index_num" will be 3 instead of 2 because we want to return the address, which is in the third column of our table. Once you have added this, you should see another #N/A in cell E2. The formula will be =VLOOKUP(C2,Customers,3,FALSE).
NOTE: All other information in the second VLOOKUP formula will be exactly the same as the first one. We are still looking for the value that will be placed in C2. We are still looking in the table named Customers. And we still want false for an exact match. The ONLY thing that is different is we are now going to pull the information from Column 3 instead of 2.
Move to cell C2 and type in one of the Account numbers you have in your Accounts sheet and you will see Excel fills in the Customer Name and Address for that account number However, if you type a number that does not exist on your Accounts sheet, Excel will leave the #N/A because the information for that number is "not available
To see a VLOOKUP formula in action, go to this page at my website and view this interactive formula:http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/vlookup.htm
Now that we've gotten more comfortable with VLOOKUP, let's look at nesting formulas, one inside another. We can use the VLOOKUP formula we just made as a starter.
Let's say we don't want to see that nasty old #N/A every time one of our VLOOKUP formulas refers to an empty cell or value that is not in our lookup table. What we need to do is tell Excel to show us the result of the VLOOKUP only IF it does not return a #NA result and, otherwise, just leave the cell empty. So we need to use three different functions in one formula: VLOOKUP, IF, and ISNA.
Remember how we made an IF statement. =IF(<criteria>, <value if true>,<value if false>). If you don’t remember, read these two TechTrax articles I wrote:
Intro to IF Statements:http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=225
Nesting IF Statements:http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=242
So, our criteria is IF the VLOOKUP returns #N/A, give me an empty cell, but if it doesn't, give me the result of the VLOOKUP.
Let's try it. First we need to think about each of the three formulas and what they must include. We already have our VLOOKUP formula and we already know what an IF function must include, so the only one we need to learn is the ISNA function. All the ISNA function does is return a value of true or false. True if the cell has a #N/A error and false if it doesn't. So, since an IF statement wants to know if something is true or false, these two functions work very well together.
Click into cell D2 in your Invoice sheet where your first VLOOKUP formula is.
The thing you need to understand is that when you nest formulas within formulas, Excel performs the operation dictated by the deepest nested formula first, then works its way outward. So, enter the following formula into cell D2, then enter an account number in cell C2 that does not exist on your Accounts sheet and you will see that the #N/A error does not show.
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(C2,Customers,2,FALSE)),"",(VLOOKUP(C2,Customers,2,FALSE)))
NOTE: Be sure to include all the proper commas and parentheses. Remember that all opening parentheses must have closing parentheses or Excel will give you an error message.
Remember that Excel performs the deepest nested function first, so looking at the formula above, you will see:

· The first thing Excel does is perform the first VLOOKUP (since that's the one that is nested deepest)

· Then it performs the ISNA function on the result of the VLOOKUP to see if the VLOOKUP gave a #N/A error or not. The ISNA function returns a value of true if it sees the #N/A error and a value of false if it doesn't

· Then Excel performs the IF function on the result of the ISNA function. If it sees a "true", it returns nothing (which is what the "" tells it). If it is "false", it returns the result of the VLOOKUP function, which is what the last VLOOKUP function is telling it to do if the value is false.

Getting the hang of it? Excel has other lookup and reference formulas that you can explore using the Insert Function box. For example, HLOOKUP is similar to VLOOKUP, but it looks for Horizontally laid out data, instead of Vertical. More information on different lookup and reference formulas is available in this article from my ezine, ABC ~ All ‘Bout Computers:

Learning VLOOKUP in Excel

As September approaches, I can count on a series of spreadsheet questions. One of the popular Excel tutorial requests is how do you look up a value on one Excel worksheet and use it on another Excel worksheet. For example, you need to translate a product number into a product name. One of my favorite Excel functions is the VLOOKUP function and it can help with this task. (Includes Excel VLOOKUP Example file)

A recent case involved some voter registration data I needed to analyze. On one Excel spreadsheet, the voter’s party was listed as an alphanumeric value called "Pcode" and not the political party. This coding wasn't intuitive. For example, “D” was for “American Independent Party”, but some thought it meant “Democratic Party”.

One way to solve this problem is to create a worksheet with the Pcode and translation and have Excel use the VLOOKUP function for the party name. You might think of VLOOKUP as an Excel translator. I could then add a column called “Political Party” to my original worksheet to show the information from a lookup table.

Creating a Lookup Table

A lookup table includes the values you wish to "lookup" such as our Pcode and the translation such as political party. You can place this table on the same worksheet, but for this Excel tutorial I'll add a worksheet called "Political Party".
How to Create a Lookup Table,
1. Right-click your spreadsheet’s tab and select Insert…
2. On the Insert dialog, double-click Worksheet. This will be on the General tab.
3. Rename this new worksheet tab with a descriptive name such as “Party Codes”
4. In Column A, enter the unique values that exist on your main worksheet. In my example, these were the codes that showed in the Pcode column in the thumbnail. These values should be in ascending order.
5. In Column B, enter the translated value. You can have more values in column A than appear on your main spreadsheet. For example, I have an entry for “Citizen Party” even though I didn’t show a registered voter with that affiliation.

Using the VLOOKUP Function

Excel’s VLOOKUP function uses 4 pieces of information. The function panel may seem intimidating with the terms, but it’s simpler than it looks.
To lookup a value using VLOOKUP,
1. Add your new column on your original worksheet that will display the info pulled from the Lookup table. In my example, I added a column called Political Party in Column D. This is where I will insert the Excel function.

2. Place your cursor in the first blank cell in that column. In my example, this is cell D2.
3. From the Insert menu, select Function…. The Insert Function dialog will appear.

4. In the Search for a function: text box, type “vlookup” and click Go.
5. Highlight VLOOKUP and click OK.

Defining the VLOOKUP Values

After you click OK, Excel’s Function Arguments dialog appears and allows you to define the four values. You’ll see that your starting cell and the formula bar show the beginning part of the function =VLOOKUP(). The Function Arguments dialog adds the needed data elements that will display between ().
For illustration purposes, I have overlaid the Party Codes worksheet on top to show the relationships.

1. Lookup_value – Think of this field as your starting point. In my example, I’ll click cell C2 so the value is filled in the dialog. I'm requesting Excel take the value of C2, which displays as the Pcode of “A”, and find the matching political party on my lookup table on the Party Codes worksheet.
2. Table_array – This is the range for your lookup table. The range can be on your existing worksheet or another worksheet such as our “Party Codes”. When you click another tab and define the range, Excel prepends that tab name to the range such as ‘Party Codes’.

Rules & Caveats

There are several rules to remember about this table array.

Rule 1 - The left column must contain the values being referenced. In other words, I couldn’t have our first column be Political Party.

Rule 2 - You can’t have duplicate values in the leftmost column of the lookup range. I couldn’t have two entries with the value “A” with one being “Democratic” party and another “A” for the “Humanist” party. Excel would complain.

Rule 3 - When referencing a lookup table, you don’t want your cell references to change when you drag and fill to populate the other cells with the VLOOKUP function. As example, if I want to use the same function in cells D3 through D7, I don’t want my lookup cell references to shift each time I move down to the next cell. I need the cell references to be the same. After you define your range, you need to press F4 which will cycle through absolute and relative references. You want to select the option that includes a $ before your Column and Row. ( 'Party Codes'!$A$2:$B$45. ) You can get around this if you know how to use Excel name ranges.

Col_index_num – This is the number of the column on your lookup table that has the information you need. In our example, we want column 2 from the Party Codes worksheet which has the name of the political party.
Range-lookup – this field defines how close a match should exist between your Lookup_value (C2) and the value in the leftmost column on our lookup table. In our case, we want an exact match so we’ll use “FALSE”.
After clicking various cells, my dialog looks like this:

You can see in the circled formula bar above, I now have more information based on my entries in the Function Arguments dialog box.
The other item of interest is that when you build these functions, Excel displays the result in the Formula result = text line. This is great feedback which can show if your function is on target. In our example, we can see Excel looked up the Pcode of “A” and returned the Political Party “Democratic”.

Copying the VLOOKUP Function to Other Cells

It doesn’t make sense to use VLOOKUP for one cell in your Excel spreadsheet. Instead, I want to copy the function to other cells in the same column.
To copy VLOOKUP to other column cells,
1. Click the cell containing the VLOOKUP arguments. In our example, this would be D2.
2. Grab the cell handle that displays in the lower right corner.
3. Left-click and drag down the cell handle to cover your column range.
Note: If I hadn’t changed to absolute reference as mentioned in Rule 3, I would’ve seen my table array entry shift by one cell as we dragged down through the other cells.
VLOOKUP is a powerful Excel function that can leverage spreadsheet data from other sources. There are many ways you can benefit from this function. In this example, I used a 1:1 code translation, but you could also use it for group assignments. For example, you could assign state codes to a region such as CT, VT, and MA to a region called “New England”. And for the adventurous, you can use VLOOKUP in your Excel formulas.

Additional Excel Resources

· PDF version of this tutorial

· Excel VLOOKUP Example file

· ASAP Utilities Provides Excel Users Power and Flexibility

· How to Parse Names in Excel

· How to Ceate Custom Fill Lists in Microsoft Excel

Last Updated (Friday, 18 June 2010 18:55)

Monday, October 18, 2010

Windows XP Registry tricks

Xp Registry tricks

Display Your Quick Launch Toolbar Tip:

Is your Quick Launch toolbar missing from the taskbar?
To display your familiar Quick Launch toolbar:
Right-click an empty area on the taskbar, click Toolbars, and then click Quick Launch.

Easy as that your Quick Launch bar appears. To add items to your Quick Launch toolbar, click the icon for the program you want to add, and drag it to the Quick Launch portion of the taskbar.

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How to remove recycle bin from your desktop Tip:
Open Regedit by going to START - RUN and type Regedit and hit enter. Then you should navigate to following entry in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and delete it. This action should remove recycle bin from your desktop.

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How to stop new programs installed balloon from coming up tip:

Right click on START button and select properties. Click on Customize and go to Advanced tab and deselect check box saying "Highlight newly installed programs". This would help you stop this annoying feature from popping up every now and then.

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Unlock Toolbars to Customize Them Tip:
The new Windows XP now features locking toolbars, and you can adjust them. You may customize a lot of the Windows XP features such as the Taskbar, Start Menu, and even toolbar icons in Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Remember your right-click:
* Right-click on a toolbar, and then click Lock the Toolbars to remove the check mark.
* Right-click on the toolbar again, and then click Customize.

You may add or remove toolbar buttons, change text options and icon options. When you've got the toolbar customized, click Close. Now right-click on the toolbar and then click Lock the Toolbars to lock them in place. com

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Want to remove shared documents folder from My Computer window tip:
Some don't like my shared documents folder option. If you are one of that, here is a trick to remove it.Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit.
Once in registry, navigate to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders You must see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If you delete this key, you have effectively removed the my shared documents folder.

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How to improve on shutdown time ? Close apps automatically & quickly at shutdown tip:
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP and look for AutoEndTasks. On my computer default value is 0. Change it to 1. Thats all. Further more you can reduce the time it takes for Windows to issue kill directive to all active/hung applications.
In doing this only constraint that you should make sure exists is that HungAppTimeout is greater than WaitToKillAppTimeout. Change the values of WaitToKillAppTimeout to say 3500 (since default value for HungAppTimeout 5000 and for WaitToKillAppTimeout is 20000)

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Are you missing icons Tip:

Are you missing icons? You may be wondering where all the icons from your desktop are in Windows XP? Well if you're like me, you like to have at least My Computer, My Network Places, and My Documents on the your desktop.
You need to:
* Right-click on the desktop, and then click Properties.
* Click the Desktop tab and then click on Customize Desktop.
* Put a check mark in the box next to My Document, My Computer, My Network Places, or Internet Explorer, to add those familiar icons to your desktop. Easy yes!

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How to login as administrator if you don't see it available tip:
Unless and until you have run into issues and fixing XP (under which case you have to go to Safe Mode to login as Administrator), you can get to administrator screen by simply pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE twice at the main screen.

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Speedup boot up sequence by defragmenting all key boot files tip:
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction. In right hand panel look for Enable. Right click on it and set it 'Y' for enable. This is the way I have it set on my computer. This will help speedup boot time.

Use a Shortcut to Local Area Network Connection Information:

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Use a Shortcut to Local Area Network Connection Information Tip:

Here's something new in Windows XP, instead of using the command line program and typing ipconfig to get local area network information, you can try using the following shortcut:
* Click on Start, point to Connect to, and then click Show All Connections.
* Right–click the connection you want information about, and then click Status.
* In the connection Properties dialog box, click the Support tab.
* For more information, click on the Advanced tab.

To automatically enable the status monitor each time the connection is active, in the connection Properties dialog box, select the Show icon in taskbar notification area when connected check box.

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Do you know you can have Virtual Desktops (like in Linux) with PowerToys ?
If you have powertoys installed on Windows XP Its available for free at Microsoft download webpage. It is very easy to enable Microsoft Virtual Desktop Feature. Simply right click on the Start Panel Bar also called TaskBar, Click on Tool Bar and select Desktop manager.
You would see a set of 5 icons placed on the right portion of the TAskBar. Click on number 1 to 4 to go to any of the desktops. Now you have have four different Active Desktops.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You may see a little degradation in performance.

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Customize Internet. Explorer Title bar tip:
This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your computer experience. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet. Explorer\Main. In right hand panel look for string "Window Title" and change its value to whatever custom text you want to see.

Easy Text Size Change in Help & IE Tip:
I mentioned a way that you can change the size of the text that is display in the Help file and in Internet Explorer. As it turns out if you have a "wheel mouse," there is an even easier way to change the text size. In Internet Explorer or when viewing a Help file, simply hold the ctrl key while you spin the mouse wheel up to increase text size, or down to decrease text size.
Java VM: Java applets run in Internet Explorer 6 (a component of Windows XP) just as they run in older versions of Internet Explorer. The Java VM is not installed as part of the typical installation, but is installed on demand when a user encounters a page that uses a Java Applet. For more information see the Microsoft Technologies for Java Web site.

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Windows XP Shutdown and Power Off Tip:
On some computers, by default, Windows XP doesn't power off the computer when you tell it to shut down. However, if your computer is relatively new, it can probably by shut completely off by WinXP. To configure your computer for this behavior, simply open the Control Panel, open Performance and Maintenance, then Power Options. On the APM tab, check next to "Enable Advanced Power Management support," then click OK. The next time you choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, your computer should shut down completely and then power off.

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Customize Explorer Toolbar Tip:
In Windows Explorer, you can customize the toolbar to make Explorer even more handy. The Toolbar is the bar of icons directly underneath the menu bar. It contains icons for going back, up one level, displaying folders or search, etc. You can right-click an open area of this Toolbar and choose Customize to change the order of these icons, and even to add new icons to it. For instance, I like to add the Map Drive and Disconnect buttons. In Windows XP, you may have to unlock the Taskbar before you can make changes in Windows Explorer.
Lock the Taskba - If you find that your Windows XP Taskbar keeps being changed, or moved to one side or the top of your screen, and you didn't mean to have it do that, this tip is for you. Once you have your Task Bar arranged the way you like it, in the right location on the screen, and with all the right toolbars and icons, you can lock it, so that it won't get changed accidentally. To lock the Taskbar, simply right click it and choose Properties. In the window that appears, check the box (click) next to "Lock the Taskbar." Now you won't accidentally bump the mouse and have your Task bar end up on another side of the screen.

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Check Personal Firewall Status Tip:
In the previous tip, I mention how to turn on Windows XP's Personal Firewall feature. But once you turn it on, your connection looks just the same as it did before. How can you check the status of the connection and the firewall? Simply open Control Panel from the Start Menu, open Internet and Network Connections, then Network Connections. By default the view is of large icons.
Click the View Menu, and choose "details" in order to reveal several more columns of information about the connections that your computer has. Check the Status column to see if your connection is currently connected, and whether or not it is "firewalled." You can even drag the column headings around (I like to slide the Status column right next to the Name column. You can even remove entire columns by right-clicking the column heading and unchecking it.

Where does Window's Product Id get stored Tip:

There are two places at least where ProductId gets stored. To see the first place, open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]. In right pane, look for key by the name "ProductId". This is your Windows Product Id. Alternatively you can navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion] and still find same field with the name ProductId.

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You can Keep Your Favorite Programs on Top of the Start Menu tip:

Do you have a favorite program that you frequently use? Elevate its priority on the Start menu by putting it at the top of the list. This ensures that the program will remain on the Start menu and cannot be bumped by other programs, even if you use the others more frequently.
Right-click the link to your favorite program on the Start menu and select Pin to Start Menu.
Your program will be moved permanently to the top part of the list, just below your browser and e-mail programs.

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Having problems with Outlook Express ? Does it ask for password every time you connect tip:
If this is problem for you. Sometimes no matter what you do, Outlook Express forgets your password and asks you to enter it again each and every time you connect to your mail server.I have a solution that may work for you. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to HKEY_CURRRENT USER\Software\Microsoft and look for "Protected Storage System Provider". There is a good chance that you will see this folder. If you have it. Simply delete it. More than likely, you have solved your problem.

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How to avoid auto play of CD ? Way I like best tip.

Hey this time no registry trick even though there are ways in registry to do it. In earlier operating systems only those CD that had autorun.inf file in their root directory were able to execute on its own but with advent of WINDOWS XP it has become possible with just about anything. Well sometimes it is good but there are other times when you want to avoid this part of automation. What would I do. Simply press SHIFT key when you enter a CD in your CD drive. It won't Auto play. For those of you, who do want a registry hack. Here it is:
Open Registry and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer] and look for key "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and set its value to 185 (decimal). This would stop autoplay.

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This tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP.
Did you know you can customize the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key.

* Click Start, and then click Run.
* Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.
* Expand the menu in the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.
* Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay file.
* In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from 400 to a lesser number, such as 1.
*Click OK.
Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you may want to back up any valued data on your computer.

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Customizing Windows Explorer Context menu (right click menu in windows explorer)
Ever wondered how does the right click menu (which is actually a context menu) work ? For example, when I right click in windows explorer, I see an option which says "open command window here". Do You know why I see this ? Well I see this because I have following entries in my registry.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]
@="Open Command Window Here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command]
@="C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1""
If You have never used a tweaking utility and have newly installed Windows XP, You would not see this option. You would have to navigate to [[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive] go and create two subkeys ("cmd" and within that "command" and would have to put the text "Open Command Window Here" without quotes in default string value of "cmd" key and the text "C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k CD"%1"" without quotes in default string value of command key). After this You need to REBOOT for these changes to take effect.
Trick is in adding similar entries for other applications as well even though its much harder to come with ideas about what to put in the context menu!!!! .

Hack Windows XP Administrator Password

This is one of the best method to Hack Windows XP Administrator Password.For hacking admin you must have log in as guest or limited account.This methodod hacking sdmin is very easy.You don’t need any software or live cd.All hacking is done manual.To hack XP admin password follow these steps.Please backup your files which we are going to use here.
Method
1.Go to C:/windows/system32

2.Copy cmd.exe and paste it on desktop

3.Rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe

4.Copy the new sethc.exe to system 32,when windows asks for overwriting the file,then click yes

5.Now press shift key 5 times you will get cmd prompt close that

6.Now Log out from your guest account and at the login screen,press shift key 5 times.

7.You will get commmand prompt there
Now type “ NET USER ADMINISTRATOR mypassword” where “mypassword” can be any password
and Administrator is name of admin account ,then press enter.

8.You will see “ The Command completed successfully” and then exit the command prompt.

Thats done…You have hacked administrator password

If you have any problem comment here.Please backup your cmd.exe and sethc.exe if you are trying this on your own computer.This works because of sethc.exe process Vulnerability in Windows XP.You can search google for more information about it.
This method of hacking XP admin password can be used in your college lab where you have limited or guest access to computers.

Hacking Part (2)

A Faster Way to Encrypt Your Files By Diana Huggins
If your drives are formatted with NTFS, you have the option of using encryption. Windows XP uses the Encrypting File System (EFS) which lets you encrypt your folders and files for increased security. Normally to encrypt a folder or file, you would have to do so from the folder or file's properties window and access the advanced attributes. Wouldn't it be great though if you could just encrypt or decrypt a file or folder using the shortcut menu?

Well here's a nifty little tip that does just that... it adds the encrypt and decrypt options to the shortcut menu for a folder or file. Of course, a word of caution: the following steps do require you to modify the registry, so proceed carefully:

Click Start, point to run, and type regedit.
Within the Registry Editor, navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
Click the Edit menu, point to New, and select Dword value.
Type in EncryptionContextMenu. Configure the value as 1.

You should now be able to encrypt or decrypt any of your folders and files using the shortcut menu.* 04/28/2004

Boot into Safe Mode

It is often recommended to boot into Safe Mode in order to run anti-spyware/virus/etc scans. You can do so by repeatedly hitting the F8 key while the computer is starting up.

However, since hitting the F8 key constantly to boot into safe mode is annoying (to me), and sometimes despite doing that I still sometimes miss my window of opportunity to get into safe mode & have to let the PC boot into standard mode & restart. On my computers I always set it to pause & show me the option of booting into safe mode or the regular mode (which would be the default) every time the computer starts. This is how you can do the same:

Right-Click "My Computer" -> Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings

On the new window, there is a bunch of settings at the top under "System Startup". For the Default Operating System, it will probably show something like "Microsoft Windows XP Home" /fastdetect OR Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect" ... leave that alone.

Please notice that for this example I'll use "Windows XP Professional" for my computer Operating System...Substitute "Windows XP Home" if that is the Operating System you use.

Make sure the option for "Time to display list of operating systems" is checked. The default time is 30 seconds, I usually set the time to 10 seconds (sometimes even just 5).

Check the "Time do display recovery options" too (it should already be checked), and I leave it at the default 30 seconds.

Click the "Edit" button, and the boot.ini file will open in Notepad. It'll look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

The last line is the OS boot option.

If there is only one option, then you will not see a menu on start up & your computer will just boot straight into Windows. Let's add a second option at the end of this file, like so:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Safe Mode with Network" /safeboot:network /sos /bootlog /noguiboot

(You can just Copy & Paste that line right into the boot.ini file.)

This will give you the option of starting in Safe Mode with Network Support (so you can still access the internet or local network if needed).

To add an option of having Safe Mode with No Networking, use this line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Safe Mode" /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog /noguiboot

(Again, you can just Copy & Paste that line right into the boot.ini file.)

By the way, if the lines already in your boot.ini look different from the "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)" shown here, make sure that any new lines you add match what you've already got (ie. because you have Windows installed on a different drive/partition).

If you added both of these Safe Mode options, your file will now look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Safe Mode with Network" /safeboot:network /sos /bootlog /noguiboot
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Safe Mode" /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog /noguiboot

Save the file & close it & click Ok on any open dialogs. Next time you start the computer, you will see a little menu asking which boot option you want to use, with the default pre-selected (the default is the first one in the boot.ini file). If you don't make a choice (using cursor keys & Enter) before the timer counts down to zero, it'll use the default option.

As always, if you're nervous about manually changing settings for fear of messing things up, then leave things well enough alone and don't bother with this tweak. You can still get into Safe Mode by using the F8 key while starting the PC.

- Sriram Narayanan* 11/27/2006

Change Colors Of Command Prompt Window (2k/XP)

I got this tip from Lockergnome Windows Fanatics - October 18, 2005 Newsletter.

To customize the colors of the Command Prompt Window Screen Background and Screen Text, first open a Command Prompt Window:

Click Start - Run - type "cmd" (without the quotes).

Once the Command Prompt Window opens, Click the Control Box in the top left corner of the Command Prompt Window (the button that looks like a C:\ Prompt).

Once the Menu opens, Click Properties - Colors - Screen Background - and change this to whatever color you wish to use. An example will be shown below, in the Selected Screen Colors dialog box, as you make different choices. Do the same for Screen Text.

As you can see, there are other options you can change here as well.

Once you're finished, Click OK, then type "exit" at the Command Prompt to exit the Command Prompt Window (without the quotes).

Change the HungAppTimeout and/or WaitToKillAppTimeout Values - 95. Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 1

Open REGEDIT and navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\'
Highlight the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' value.
Set it to '1000' (the default should be 20000).
Now highlight the 'HungAppTimeout' value
Set it to '1000' also.

Please notice that tip #96. Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 2 on the same page gives instructions for changing the same settings, but for All Users of the computer.

Change the Internet Explorer Window Title - Start - Run - type regedit.exe - Enter - then navigate to - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title - and set it to blank. If this key is not present, add a String value and name it Window Title and modify the value, leaving the value blank.

Change the size of and Defrag Win XP's Virtual Memory (Page File)

Two very important things you need to know: You will need to physically disconnect from the Internet while doing this and you must turn off ALL other programs that are running in the background.

First, let's Defrag the Page File. Make sure you have enough physical memory before attempting this Tweak! It can be done with 512MB RAM, but 1GB RAM is better.

Hold down the WinKey* and hit Pause|Break to open the System Properties - Advanced - Performance - Settings - Advanced - Virtual Memory - Change - select the proper Drive - No paging file - Set - OK your way out while OKing any warnings.

Reboot and now Defrag the HDD. Click Start - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - When that opens, on the Leftt Side click Disk Defragmenter - stretch this window larger so you can see all of the Hard Drives/Partitions - click on the Hard Drive/Partition you need to Defrag and click Defragment. When it finishes, click OK and Reboot once again.

Now let's re-enable the Page File and change the Page File size - Hold down the WinKey* and hit Pause|Break to open the System Properties - Advanced - Performance - Settings - Advanced - Virtual Memory - Change - select the proper Drive - Custom Size - set both Initial and Maximum to twice the size of physical memory you currently have installed (...meaning, if you have 512MB RAM, set both to 1024MB...If you have 1GB RAM, set both to 2048MB...) - Set - OK your way out while OKing any warnings. Reboot one last time.

Now the Page File will be Defragged and in one contiguous file.

* The WinKey is the Windows Flying Logo key between the CTRL and ALT keys.

Controlling Cookies in Internet Explorer 6.0

Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools - Internet Options - go to Privacy - Advanced - check the Override automatic cookie handling box - then set First Party Cookies to Prompt and Third Party Cookies to Block and check the Always allow session cookies box. 08/15/2006

Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot - by Steve Sinchak - This is Chapter 8 from the ExtremeTech book Hacking Windows XP, published by Wiley. You can also read excerpts from the book about speeding disk access and speeding up your network and internet access.

No doubt you are surprised at how fast Windows XP boots up compared with other Microsoft operating systems. I certainly am, every time I start up the PC. This bootup time is something that everyone is becoming more concerned about as the need for PC speed becomes increasingly more important. Despite the relatively fast speed of Windows XP bootup time, this chapter will guide you through the steps of making the system boot up even faster. The changes discussed here should enable you to realize your bootup speed dreams.Your friends will then no doubt be impressed by your PC's superfast operation.

Windows XP has a lot of great features and visual enhancements that make Windows XP the most attractive OS from Microsoft to date. However, with all of the new features and attractive effects, the operating system has a higher system overhead, which means your hardware has to work even harder. If you are like me, and do not always have the fastest hardware, this chapter will help you get the most out of your current hardware by reducing the heavy workload put on it during the bootup process.* 11/11/2006

Minimize Outlook 2002 to the System Tray - I got this Registry Tip from Sue Mosher's Awesome Outlook Web Site.

Make a backup of the Windows registry, then go to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences

Add a new DWORD value named "MinToTray" and give it a value of 1.* 04/27/2004

Oh Man! With as many open windows as I always have going at any one time, I only wish I had found this registry hack sooner!! If I understand correctly, it's an added "feature" of Outlook 2003.

More Info in Device Manager - I got this Trick from the August 2003 edition of CPU Magazine:

If you'd like to have more information available than what Device Manager currently offers, go to Start-Control Panel-System (or hold down the Windows key (the one that looks like the Windows flag) and hit the Pause-Break key at the same time) and click on the Advanced tab in the System Properties window. Then click on the Environment Variables button and then New beneath the System Variables dialog box. In the Variable Name box type DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS (exactly as shown here) and in the Variable Value box type 1. Click OK as many times as necessary to close all dialog boxes and then reopen the System Properties-Device Manager window and choose any hardware item you'd like to see more info for and check out the new Details tab.* 07/12/2003

Open Two Side-by-Side Instances of Windows Explorer Easily! - by Neil J. Rubenking - Start by launching your two instances of Windows Explorer. If Windows combines the taskbar buttons for the two windows into a single one with a title like "2 Windows Explorer," simply right-click that button and choose Tile Vertically from the pop-up menu. If each of them has its own button on the taskbar, do this: (1) Click one button; (2) Ctrl-click the other; (3) right-click either button; (4) choose Tile Vertically from the pop-up menu.

Here's another method, possibly necessary if you have more than two instances of Windows Explorer sharing a button on the taskbar: (1) Minimize all windows except the two Explorer instances; (2) right-click the taskbar itself; (3) choose Tile Windows Vertically from the pop-up menu.

I was informed that this would work with all Microsoft programs, not just Windows Explorer.* 09/20/2006

Open Regedit in IE - One of the coolest tricks I saw lately came from one of my Students - Shay Levy.

Many tips published on various websites, including articles found on the Petri.co.il site, heavily use registry modifications and additions. These articles and tips usually tell you that in order to perform this or that, you need to open Regedit.exe (the registry editing tool), navigate to this or that registry path, and create, delete or modify registry keys and values.

In order to make your life easier, Shay has created this cool Internet Explorer add-in, that allows you to easily open Regedit and point it to the exact registry path, without the need to manually open Regedit.exe and begin to look for the relevant entry.* Awesome!! This is a MUST SEE Trick!! 04/10/2006

Put The Command Prompt Where You Want It - I got this Registry Tip from the May 2004 edition of CPU Magazine:

For those of you using the command prompt frequently, you can add a registry key to enable right-clicking on any folder in Windows and have the command prompt run in a box already changed to that directory.

Run Regedit and find the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell key and right-click to make a New Key. Name the key cprompt, and in the Value pane set the key's default value to Command Prompt. (You can label this any way you wish. What happens is the context menu will pop-up on a folder with the label "Command Prompt," but you can give it any label you like.)

Go back and right-click the cprompt subkey to make another New Key. Name it command. Set the key's default value to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1". Close regedit, and the effect should be immediate. Right-click on any folder and you should see Command Prompt in the context menu, and it will call up the command prompt in that subdirectory.* 04/25/2004

Hacking Part (1)

shtcut to restarting xp..

You can restart a Windows XP Pro and Home machine easily by creating a shortcut with following path. (Assume you installed Windows XP on your C: Partition) "c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00" -r is for restarting the computer. -f is to force close all programs without saving. -t 00 is used to restart in zero seconds. i.e. as soon as you D.Click on the shortcut. You can log off from a Windows XP Professional or Home edition by running "C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -l -f -t 00". Also you can shutdown a Windows XP Home or Professional edition by running "c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 00". You always have to turn from the CPU after running this command. (Same with AT and ATX powered machines.) If you want to turn down power of ATX machine automatically, run "c:\windows\system32\tsshutdn.exe 00 /POWERDOWN /DELAY:00" This is used to turn off a server. Even though your computer will be
shutdown completely, this whole operation will take 30 seconds to finish. Even though you don't have networked computers attached to your computer, this works.

1) Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer :

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown. To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item. It's .reg file is as follows: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore r] "NoDrives"=dword:03ffffff

2) Pop a banner each time Windows Boots :

To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to display just before a user is going to log on, go to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinLogon Now create a new string Value in the right pane named LegalNoticeCaption and enter the value that you want to see in the Menu Bar. Now create yet another new string value and name it: LegalNoticeText. Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots. This can be effectively used to display the company's private policy each time the user logs on to his NT box. It's .reg file would be: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "LegalNoticeCaption"="Caption here."

3) 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.SpecialFolders("Desktop") & "\LockWorkstation.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe"
oShellLink.Arguments = "user32.dll,LockWorkStation"
oShellLink.Save

first select a folder for example i'll use a folder name movies in D drive D:\movies\

in the same drive u create a text file and type

ren movies movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

and save it as loc.bat

again u type in a notepad as

ren movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} movies

and save it as key.bat

now in D drive u can see two batch files loc and key.. when u double click loc the movie folder will change to control panel and whn u double click key the control panel will change to normal folder..

there are two more different tricks in dis site to lock ur pc down in a unique ways.. donno where i have typed it.. !!!

4) Deleting System Options from the Start menu :

You can actually remove the Find and Run options from the start menu by performing a simple registry hack. Again like always Launch the registry editor and scroll down to the below key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Right-click on the right pane and select New, DWORD Value. Name it NoFind.(To remove the RUN option name it NoRun). Double-click the newly create DWORD to edit it's value and enter 1 as its value. This will disable the FIND option of the Start Menu and will also disable the default Shortcut key(F3 for Find.) To restore the Run or find command modify the value of the DWORD to 0 or simply Delete the DWORD value.

5) Cleaning Recent Docs Menu and the RUN MRU :

The Recent Docs menu can be easily disabled by editing the Registry. To do this go to the following Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Now in the right pane, create a new DWORD value by the name: NoRecentDocsMenu and set it's value to 1. Restart Explorer to save the changes. You can also clear the RUN MRU history. All the listings are stored in the key: HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMR U You can delete individual listings or the entire listing. To delete History of Find listings go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Doc Find Spec MRU and delete

6) Can u Delete Recycle Bin?

1 thing is 4 sure, delete option can be added 2 recycle bin...
the old registry thing will work out.....
* launch d registry...
* open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder
* to add a rename and delete option, change the Dword attribute to 70 01 00 20
* refresh and reboot the system..... u r done.

PS: always backup ur data as well as registry b4 attempting 2 work on it if u r a newbie....

7) To change the icons used for specific drives in explorer

Open regedit by typing regedit into start->run

then navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer

now create a key(KEY not VALUE!!) called DriveIcons under Explorer...
now within DriveIcons, create another key with the drive letter you want to change (e.g.,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\K)...
create another key within the drive letter key called DefaultIcon...
now set the default String value equal to the icon you want to use. if you have a file that has more than one icon in it, such as a DLL file, use the standard
C:\full_path\icon_file.dll,n <file:///C:/full_path/icon_file.dll,n>) where n is the number of the icon within the file icon_file.dll...

~ c h e e r s! ~

More

change drive icons.....

first of all copy a icon file to the root of the drive.
example: c:\icon.ico

then create a file called: autorun.inf in c:\autorun.inf
then open that file and type the following:

[autorun]
icon=icon.ico

save and close the file.

now open my computer and resfresh.. and woh! icon changed....
you can apply to other drives too.

be carefull:

"autorun.inf" and "ico.ico" must be in the root of the drive.
example: c:\autorun.inf and c:\icon.ico.
same on the root.

ENJOY, this works on 98 too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8) Hacking windows SEND TO MENU

I know this is a very simple thing but the problem, as like many other issues, is the ignorance about it.

How often do you copy songs from a CD? Or some photos from a CD?

What do you do? You select the required files and do a CTRL –C. Open the destination folder and do a CTRL-V. Here is something you can benefit time from. Customize your SEND TO MENU.

This sounds simple and you can do it in less than sixty seconds.
You can create your own BASKET.

First you’ll need access to hidden files. So change your view settings to make all hidden files visible.
Tools -> folder options -> view (tab) and select the show hidden files and folders.
go to parent drive:/documents and settings/(user name)/send to

Open up my computer and locate your most used folders.

Create a shortcut of the most used folders in SEND TO FOLDER.You can do this in a number of ways.

Right click -> send to desktop(create shortcut) and move the shortcut from the desktop to the SEND TO FOLDER

Copy the most used folder and go to SEND TO FOLDER and right click -> paste shortcut.

Also remember to rename the shortcuts to send to videos or send to potos. We don’t need confusion when we use the same later.

5. DONE

~ c h e e r s! ~

9) How to remove the shortcut arrow from the desktop ?

Open Regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Icons
Backup the key. More information.
In the right-pane, create a new String value named "29"
Double-click 29 and set its data to:
C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,50 (an empty icon)
Close Registry Editor.
Now,

Right-click Desktop, choose Properties
Click the Appearance Tab.

Click Advanced button.

Choose Icon from the drop-down list

Set it's size to 31 and press OK, OK.
The changes will be applied now. Repeat the above steps and then set the Icon size back to 32 (defaults). The above steps are required to force Windows to redraw the icons

10) The Complete list ! Can u Do it!

Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names--
"con" or "nul" or "Aux" or "Lpt1".
Windows will not let u create ....

This s coz these refer 2 some well known ports....
-con corresponds to the console
-Lpt1 corresponds to printer and so on....

well dat was common but hw bt this ? Try these more

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

TURN NUMLOCK ON AT LOGON.!!

NumLock does not toggle on by default (system-wide), even if you have it set in your PC's BIOS, because of XP's multi-user functionality. Guess Microsoft doesn't know everyone actually turns it on, which should be reason enough for what acts as "default"...
Anyway, you can hack the Windows Registry to change this behavior, or run a script at logon to turn NumLock on.
1. To enable NumLock through the Registry:
* Open Windows' Registry Editor (START > RUN, type "REGEDIT").
*. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard.
*. Change the value for InitialKeyboardIndicators from 0 to 2.
2. To enable NumLock using a script, see this MS Knowledgebase article for complete instructions:
CODEhttp://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q262625
Option 1 is the quicker method, but if you have more than one user on your system and one or more don't want NumLock on (stranger things have been known of), then option 2 is the way to go since it allows you to only attach the script to specific users.

REMOVING SERVICES DEPENDENCIES.!!

This will allow you to disable a service or uninstall it from your system without effecting another service that depends on it. Here's how you do it
1. After you have set your services the way you want them and you have disabled/uninstalled something that another services depends on, run "regedit"
2. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\find the service that will not function, do to another service being disabled/uninstall (found in ControlSet001\Services, ControlSet002\Services, and CurrentControlSet\Services)
3. Once you have found the service right-click on the string value, "DependOnService,"and modify
4. You should now see a list of services that it is dependent on. Simply delete the service that you have disabled/uninstalled
5. Restart your computer and your ready to go Disclaimer REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOU REGISTRY FIRST I'm not totaly sure if this will have any negative effects on your system. I used this method after uninstalling "Netbios over Tcpip" from my system completely, so that my Dhcp service would function and I have had NO negative effects on my system.

TURN ON UR PC IN JUST 10 SECONDS

Aight so u wanna know how to turn the pc on in 10 seconds (may vary)Aight heres what u have to do to turn ur pc on in 10 seconds

Aite 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\CurrentControlSet\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 (75300:hexadecimal)
Change The Value To 40000
here u go u have done it
now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer

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