Hidden Programs In Windows XP !

Is it strange to hear , but true that some good programs are hidden in Windows XP !!!Programs :1. Private Character Editor : Used for editing fonts,etc. ** start>>Run ** Now, type eudcedit2. Dr. Watson : This an inbuilt windows repairing software ! ** start>>Run ** Now, type drwtsn323. Media Player 5.1 : Even if you upgrade your Media Player, you can still access your old player in case the new one fails !!! ** start>>Run ** Now, type mplay324. iExpress : Used to create SetupsYou can create your own installers ! ...

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Error Reporting in XP

If error reporting in XP is bugging you then turn it off. When a system error occurs in XP, a little dialog box appears asking if you want to report the error to Microsoft. Click the message box to make it disappear. You don't have to report the error if you don't want to and on today's "Call for Help" Leo shows you how to turn off the feature if you find it distracting.To disable error reporting, follow these directions: 1. Right-click My Computer and choose Properties. 2. Click the Advanced tab on your System Properties dialog box. 3. Click the Error Reporting button on the Advanced tab....

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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 simpleStart -> 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...

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Remove Thumb.db file

Thumb.db is is a cache of the current picture in that directory.to remove it go for following step1 > open "WINDOWS EXPLORER". 2>go to "TOOLS". 3>open "FOLDER OPTIONS". 4>go to "VIEW". 5>see 1st section "FILES & FOLDERS". 6>click on the "DO NOT CACHE THUMBNAILS". now the thumbnail file will be removed from ur computer once u do this the file will be never created....

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Clean out the prefetch folder :

Windows XP uses a system called 'prefetch' to organize and preload some of the data necessary for commonly used applications and files. A folder called prefetch is used to store the information the operating system needs to carry out this operation.After several months of use, the prefetch folder may become quite overloaded with older references to software and files that may no longer be in use.It's a good idea to manually empty the older files out of the prefetch folder every few months or so.To do this: Navigate to 'c:\windows\prefetch' and delete all .PF files that are older than a week or t...

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Keeping the Windows XP Core in the RAM

If you have 512 MB or more of RAM, you can increase system performance by having the Windows XP 'Core' kept in the RAM instead of paged on the hard disk.Go to Start -> Run - Type regedit and press enter - On the left hand side tree, navigate toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\- On the list on the right side, look for an entry called 'DisablePagingExecutive'- Double click it- Press 1 on your keyboard- Click OK- Exit regedit and reboot the computerTo revert to the default setting, follow the same steps as above, but this time, press 0(zero) instead of 1 on the keyboa...

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Recover the lost administrators password in Windows XP

Slightly more work needed if you lose or forget the Windows XP administrator password.1.First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeated as the computer starts up.2.Then (in safe mode) click Start and then click Run. In the open box type "control userpasswords2" without the quotes - I have just used quotes to differentiate what you have to type.3.You will now have access to all the user accounts, including the administrators account and will be able to reset the lost password.4.Just click the administrators user account, and then click Reset Password.5.You will need to add a new password in the New password and the Confirm new password boxes, and confirm by clicking OK.All done, you have recovered the lost adminitrators passwo...

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How to find the IP address of the sender in Yahoo! mail

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.3. Open the mail.4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers, * Click on Options on the top-right corner * In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences *...

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How to find the IP address of the sender in Hotmail

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.Finding IP address in Hotmail1. Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.2. Click on the Mail tab on the top.3. Open the mail.4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,* Click on Options on the top-right corner* In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced...

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How to find the IP address of the sender in Gmail

How to find the IP address of the sender in GmailWhen you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.Finding IP address in Gmail:1.Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.2. Open the mail.3. To display the headers,* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.* Click on Show original.4. You should get headers like this:Gmail headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by a few hostnames...

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Create A Hidden User Account

Create A Hidden User AccountThis tweak allows an account that is normally displayed on the Welcome screen to be hidden from view. To log on using the account it's necessary to use the Log On To Windows dialog box similar to the one in Windows 2000. #[Start] [Run] [Regedit]#Registry Key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList#Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.#Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: Type Name of Account to be Hidden#Setting for Value Data: [0 = Account is Hidden / 1 = Enabled]#Exit Registry and Reboot...While the account is hidden on the Welcome screen, note that the account profile will be visible in C:\Documents and Settings or wherever user profiles are stored as well...

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To Create Folder " CON "

Without using Command Prompt.Here is a simple method..........Rename folder from the right click option........Now press alt and press 255...press 255 frm the right sideof the key bords i.e., num pad....where only numbers r given.....now write con and then press enter.....huh!! you ll see a con folder in ur pcand also you can delete it easi...

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How to Hide the drives(c:,d:,e:,...etc) in Ur Computer

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ExplorerNow in the right panecreate a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .Now restart your computer.So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Magic........lol....

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Disable CD Burning

Exciting isn't it?The user can't burn any CDs by this trick. This restriction will disable the use of the inbuilt CD recording functions of Windows.Open your registry and follow this path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Policies>Explorer andcreate this key: "NoCDBurning" and set its value to 1. Close you registry and logout/restart your system for the change to take the effe...

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Reverse the mouse buttons

1) No context menuWhat will you see when you right click on the desktop? You will see a context menu which says arrange icons, refresh,..and so on. Are you angry at your friend for not wishing you for you B'day? Do you wanna play a trick on a newbie in your family who is new to computers? This is a cool trick to play. By this tweak, you will be able to disable the right click on the desktop or any icons/files/folders/applications... But right click will work on taskbar of the start button and registry. So, dont worry!!! Open your registry and you will see all unknown files like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT....... and so on. Don't panic. Follow this path. HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>WINDOWS>CURRENT VERSION>POLICIES>EXPLORER. On the right side of the registry,...

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Chat With Command Prompt

If you want personal chat with a friend you don't need to download any yahoo messengerAll you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.Firstly, open Notepad and enter:@echo off:AClsecho MESSENGERset /p n=User:set /p m=Message:net send %n% %m%PauseGoto A Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see: MESSENGERUser:After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.After this, you should see this: Message:Now type in the message you wish to send.Before you press "Enter" it should look like this: MESSENGERUser:27.196.391.193Message: HiNow all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatti...

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Create Your Own Logon Message

1 Click start click run type regedit, then click ok!2 In The registry editor, drill down to the following key:hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current version\Winlogon.3 Right click LegalNoticeCaption, click modify, Type: THIS IS NEXT TRICK,and then click ok!4 Right click legalNoticeText, click modify, and then Close your message!5 Restart Your Computer.6 The message will appear every time you log...

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Password RECOVERY Console

The password recovery software(download link given blow)helps u 2 recover u r passwordAdobe Acrobat Password Recovery KeyAdvanced Archive Password RecoveryAdvanced RAR Password RecoveryAdvanced ZIP Password RecoveryMessengers Password RecoveryOffice XP Password RecoveryDialup password RecoveryMSN Password Recoveryhttp://rapidshare.com/files/17830985/Passr.rarPassword : mechodownl...

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This is how to create "CON" folder.

Do u ever tried to create the con folder.........................no.......... then try it...........they r two ways of creating confolder......1. By using Command Prompt.2. Without using Command Prompt.if u want to knoww, then just leave a message (in the comment) and ur mail id too............i ll reply u within 10hrs...

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Way to get XP product CODE from CD

It really workThere is a way to get the xp product code from the cdjust explorer the cd thenopen the folder I386then open the file UNATTEND.TXT andscroll down to the last lineand it goes to show what dumbasses microsoft are u have a product code.Have fun u never need to search for a product code for xp again...!!!!reply me b...

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Hidden unknown fact in MICROSOFT WORD

Bill Gates still doesn't know why it happens:Try out yourself...Open Microsoft Word and type=rand(200,99)and then HIT ENTER....see what happens.it won't hurt ur syste...

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PDF Trick!!!

Hey peeps now u can listen to wats there in a pdf document instead of reading the whole document....Try out the following keycombinations for Acrobat 6.0 & 7.0:- ctrl+ shift + b ---> To hear the whole documentctrl + shift + v ---> To hear only the pagectrl + shift + c ---> To resumectrl + shift + e ---> To s...

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Make your wndows Xp GENUINE.!!

This will allow you to bypass the Microsoft Genuine Validation thingythis method works better than many others i've tried before.forget the cracks and injectors etc... this is the BEST WAY:1) start > run > "regedit" (without the quotes of course)2) go to the key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer...and doubleclick on it.Then change some of the value data to ANYTHING ELSE...delete some, add some letters, I don't care...just change it!now close out regedit.3) go to start > run > "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a" (again, dont type the quotes)4) the activation screen will come up, click on register over telephone, then click on CHANGE PRODUCT KEY, enter in this key: JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ.Now you can dl all the updates...

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Try to LOCK ur folder wit out S/W method 1

To hide a a folder name"d:\game"GO TO CMD PROMPT :type in "d:\attrib game +s +h "2 unlck the hide :type in "d:\attrib game -s -h...

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Try to LOCK ur folder wit out S/W method 2

TRY to lock ur private folderSuppose you want to lock the folder games in d: which has the path D:Games.In the same drive create a text file and typeren games games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}Now save this text file as loc.batCreate another text file and type in itren games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} gamesNow save this text file as key.batNow you can see 2 batch files loc and key.Press loc and the folder games will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents.Press key and you will get back your original folder. try it out!!!!!!!Important note:How to rename your text files as bat files?Just go to my computer->tools->folder options->go to the view tab.Now uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'.Press apply.Now rename ur text files as bat...

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Remove SHORTCUT link from the desktop folder

how to remove short cut arrows on u'r desktop itemsjust go to >start>run>regedit>hkey_classes_root>ufind a file by name lnkfile click on that to that rightu can see a file by name is shortcut delete that andagain come to left click on pipfile u delete again is shortcutthen restart the pc u cant see the shortcut ar...

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Folders con nul dnt exist.................

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 ....Reason: all this correspond to some of the famous ports>con corresponds to the console>Lpt1 corresponds to printer and so on....

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Nice Windows ShortCuts

to gtalk windows key + escWindowsLogo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box)WindowsLogo+D (Display the desktop)Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows)Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer)CTRL+C (Copy)CTRL+X (Cut)CTRL+V (Paste)CTRL+Z (Undo)DELETE (Delete)SHIFT+DELETE(Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)F2 key (Rename the selected item)CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word) CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word) CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next...

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Write VIRUS to computer in 5 minutes

1) Creating virus trickopen ur notepad n type the following.........type del c:\boot.ini c:\del autoexec.batsave as .exe[save it as .exe file....n u can save it by ne name]create the notepad in c: drive... 2)Note: but with in seconds harddisk get damagedcreate Virus in 5 minutes.......Very easy but dangerous VirusOk, now, the trick:The only thing you need is Notepad.Now, to test it, create a textfile called TEST.txt(empty)in C:\Now in your notepad type "erase C:\TEST.txt" (without the quotes).Then do "Save As..." and save it as "Test.cmd".Now run the file "Test.cmd" and go to C:\ and you'll see your Test.txt is gone.Now, the real work begins:Go to Notpad andtype erase C:\WINDOWS (or C:\LINUX if you have linux) andsave it again as findoutaname.cmd.Now DON'T run the file or you'll lose your...

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symbols for notepad

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Creating 3D Window Effect

You can create a nice 3D effect for your windowsStart RegeditGo to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ ColorsMake sure the following setting are there:ButtonHilight=128 128 128ButtonShadow=255 255 ...

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disk cleanup........

Disk CleanupThis program used for cleaning harddisk to offer spaceClick : startThen : runtype : clean...

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Remov shutdown button

To remove the shutdown button from the logon screen in WinXP and 2K, use regedit and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system change the value of the dword 'shutdownwithoutlogon' to '0'. exit reged...

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prevent users from writing to usb

The following registry setting will prevent writing to usb in windows xp.Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l Add a new key and name it "StorageDevicePolicies".In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and label it WriteProtect, give it a value of "1" and users can no longer write to USB drives.Giving a value of "0" will allow to write ag...

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XP Animations <-

You can turn off window animation ("exploding" windows), displayed when you play around with minimizing/maximizing open windows. This makes navigating Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP a lot quicker, especially if you don't have a fast video controller, or if you got tired of seeing it all the time (like I did). smile.gif To do this,run Regedit (or Regedt32) and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop WindowMetrics or if you are the only user of your Windows computergo to: HKEY_USERS .Default Control Panel Desktop WindowMetrics Right-click on an empty spot in the right hand pane.Select New -> String [REG_SZ] Value. Name it MinAnimate. Click OK. Double-click on "MinAnimate" and type 0 to turn OFF window animation or 1 to turn it ON. Click OK. Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows....

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background movieeeeeee

This tweak will launch WindowsMediaPlayer with the 'AboveNormal' priority setting when opening a mediafile. Having trouble watching a movie when you also have a lot of background processes going on? Here's what to do: 1. Create a new textfile in the root of c:\, but instead of giving it the .txt extension you name it wmp_AboveNormal.bat 2. Right-click this file and choose 'Edit', you'll see it'll open notepad. Put this line in: start /AboveNormal C:\"Program Files"\"Windows Media Player"\wmplayer.exe %1 %* 3. Save (make sure you save it as .bat, not as .txt) and close. Now all you have to do is register your mediafiles to this batchfile. Here's how to do that: 4. In Windows Explorer choose Tools>Folder Options >File Types 5. Scroll down(press A) to the AVI filetype 6. Click 'Change'...

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Use pc as an alarm

Now this is specially for the ones who are too lazy to get up even when the trust cellphone dies screeching its lungs out. Its pretty simple Creating the playlist create a playlist of your favourite songs in Winamp, WMP or any other player. Export the playlist as a M3U playlist. M3U is generally accepted by almost every player. Triggering the alarm point to start> programs >accessories > system tools >scheduled tasks Create a new task and choose program as windows media player or winamp (May work with others too but I haven't tried anything else) Choose "daily", Enter the time and choose "every day" at next screen. It would now ask for password (leave blank in case you don't have one) Right click on the newly created task and check the "run only if logged in" check box. In the...

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Making Win Xp 60% Faster

Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly. In fact, you may notice that over a period of time the PC that used to roar to life seems a bit sluggish instead. Fortunately, you can perform several techniques that help Windows XP get the bootup speed you want. This chapter explores how to put these techniques to work.Some of the things may already have been discussed in some threads earlierStopping Unneeded Startup ServicesAlong with the core operating system and programs that Windows XP runs when it starts, there is also a host of services involved. Many of these services are necessary for Windows...

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StarWars Movie in Command Prompt

Just type in telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in the 'Run' command and watch the episo...

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Use the Notepad as your personal diary

There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a personal diary for you.Here is how to go about it: 1.Firstly open a blank Notepad file.2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, then press enter. Now save the file and close it.3.Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next line.4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process,that is it appends the date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor below ...

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Change the folder of c drive in my computer

All the Xp users would have been bored by the boring icons in their My Computer panel which are adjacent to the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or whatever drive letter you have).Here is a simple tweak by which you will be able to change this monotonous icon to anything you like,even your own Picture if you wishYou can put any image in place of one which I have shown,even the picture of your favourite celebrity or your dream caror your own Picture.Here are the steps you need to follow:1.First of all the picture you want to use should have .ico extension(if you already have a pic with .ico extension proceed to step 2).Most of the pictures we normally use have extensions like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc, so you first need to convert them to one with .ico extension.This is simple.Just go here and put your...

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Get the keyboard on your desktop screen!!!!!

Do you want to use an onscreen keyboard . Its simple:Just go to start press run.Now type osk andpress enter.You will get something like...

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Increase the life of ur dvd rom

This is an interesting one!!!This is for those who watch movies on their computer's dvd rom drive!!!There is a software called dvd idle pro which can really increase the life of your dvd drive. By using the Smart Read-ahead Cache,DVDIdle saves DVD data which will be played soon onto the hard disk cache or RAM cache, andthen feeds it to DVD player.This allows the DVD drive to rest. For example: a 6X-speed DVD drive will only work for 15 minutes when you are watching a 90 minutes DVDmovie. here is the link: http://www.dvdidle.com/download/DVDIdlePro59....

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The Medicine when Folder option vanishes.....

Method 1: Here's how you can get Folder Options back.. 1: Open Start menu and from there select Run 2: type gpedit.msc and hit enter 3: now in the Group Policy window, from the left pane, select user configuration->Administrative Tempelates->windows components->Windows Explorer by highlighting it with the mouse cursor.. 4: now in the right side you will see an option which says "Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu" 5: right click on this option and select properties6: now in the properties under Setting tab, select Disabled and hit OK ........................................................................................................................................................................ Method 2 run >>gpedit.msc >>user configuration...

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Now you can open them fast!!!

Some shortcuts for Windows XP users!!Press'Windows key' + R and type the following (without qoutes) :"winword" to open Word."powerpnt" to open Powerpoint."excel" to open Excel "mspaint" to open Paint."notepad" to open Notepad."wmplayer" to open Windows Media Player."wordpad" to open Wordpad."sndrec32" to open Sound Recorder."iexplore" to open Internet Explorer."firefox" to open Firefox."msconfig" to control startup."services.msc" to manage the Servic...

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Use of PrintScreen for some fun

You know the use of Print screen button on the keyboard [present on top right above insert] .It captures the screen , right ?But now I will tell you how to use it for some fun .Take screen shot of the desktop by pressing Print Screen on the desktop . Go to Paint and paste this .Save it .For Windows XP users 1) On the desktop right click -----> arrange icons by ----> De-select 'Show Desktop Icons '.2) Now right click the taskbar and select properties .3) Check auto hide the taskbar. Click OK.4) Now change your wallpaper and keep the one you saved earlier.5) If paint is not closed, select File ---------> 'Set as background (Centered) '.Now on the desktop even if you click any icon nothing will happen !!!Now do I need to tell youhow you can use it for fun on someone else's PC ?To revert...

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You can put shortcuts for shortcuts!!

You can put Keyboard shortcuts for desktop shortcuts.To do this follow these steps :1) Right click on the shortcut.2) Go to properties.3) Click once on the "Shortcut Key" bar.4) Press any alphabet that you want to use as Shortcut Key.5) Press OK Now to open that shortcut, Press CTRL+ALT+"the alphabe...

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How to Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

When you click on the SHUTDOWN button,make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button,you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.This is equivalent to term "HOT REBOO...

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Short cut for shutdown and Restart on desktop

On the desktop right click ----> New----> shortcut .In the location area type (without quotes) "shutdown -r" to reboot, "shutdown -l" to logout, "shutdown -s" to shutdown.In the name for the shortcut type in any name you are comfortable with e.g SHUTDOWN or RESTART etc.Click Finish and its done.Now double-click the icon created to perform the acti...

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Rename Your Recycle Bin

Hey Guys just follow thse simple steps and change the name of your Recycle Bin(where temporarely deleted files are stored)1)Goto 'start' menu and Choose 'Run' command.2)Type 'regedit' (without inverted commas). U will see Registery Editor Window on Ur Screen. 3)Now, On the Left Hand Side of the Window you'll see a Tree of folders Just DoubleClick on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder>Now in the new folder Tree DoubleClick on the 'Software' folder > then DoubleClick on 'Microsoft' folder>'Windows' folder>'Current Version' folder>'Explorer' folder>'CLSID' folder.4)Now, You will see a Tree of 3 or 4 folder(don't worry about the no. of folders). Just Click on the folder : '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}'.5)Finally, after Clicking on '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}'...

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Notepad secret

open notepad write "bush hid the facts" without the quotes and save itwith any name now open it well what do you see ???the reason for this is that the file has thecombination of 5-3-3-4 which is not accepted by unicode thus this err...

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Play movie on paint .......

play movie on microsoft paint simple first hit the print screen button on the keyboardwhen then media files are playing then open paint andpaste by pressing ctrl+v (paste key) voilathe movie starts on the paint applicat...

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DISABLE DISPLAY OF DRIVES (PARTITIONS) IN MY COMPUTER

With this trick you can play with u'r college pc...after this hack if some one opens my computer he/she'll not see any drive in my computer.Open Registry Editor by typing "regedit.exe" in Run or in command prompt. There you navigate to registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item (by rightclicking and new->dword) and name it NoDrives ( case sensitive).Now modify it's value by double clicking it and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .Restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be seen.To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete that DWORD item NoDrives that you created (it can be deleted by navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer...

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For pc to boost faster than it is nowww.........

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 RunType in regedit then click okFind "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftDfrgBootOpt imizeFunction" Select "Enable" from the list on the rightRight on it and select "Modify"Change the value to Y . Reboot your Pc and see the change yourse...

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