Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally... [ Continue reading... ]
In windows XP you can enjoy a good feature to run CD or DVD automatically when you loaded it into you CD drives on your computer. This is a defaults feature in windows XP but you can disable and enable it according to your nature of work. In user interface mode there is no option to disable or enable this feature, you must edit the registry of windows and be careful to work registry.Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then... [ Continue reading... ]
The windows Documents Menu display all the information about last used files and programs as a history. Your co-workers, family members can trace your activates on the computer with clicking on Documents menu. If you are using internet at any public place like internet cafe then you should clear your documents menu history to safe yourself from cyber crimes. You can clear the documents menu history manually, but automatically history clean... [ Continue reading... ]
To disable unneeded startup services for a safer, faster XP, use the “Services” Admin Tool (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services).Alerter Clipbook Computer browser Error reporting service Indexing service IPSEC service Messenger Netmeeting Remote Desktop sharing Remote Registry Routing & Remote Access Security Center System event notifikation Task Scheduler Telnet WINDOW TIME Window... [ Continue reading... ]
Following this steps to remove Windows Messenger from Windows XPFire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your... [ Continue reading... ]
If you like using a screen saver and have digital photos on your computer, you can easily make your own screen saver using the pictures that you have stored on your PC. You can set up your screen saver in Microsoft Windows XP to display a slide show of some or all of your pictures when you’re not using your computer.To set up a My Pictures slide showRight-click on the desktop, and then click Properties. In the Display Properties... [ Continue reading... ]
To automatically log on to Windows XP upon startupClick Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type control userpasswords2 and click OK. Clear the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer check box. Click OK. Click the User name box, type the user name that was displayed on the Start menu in step 1. If you normally type a password to log on, type your password in both the Password and Confirm Password... [ Continue reading... ]
