Learn Windows Programs Tips Lesson 2 - Computer Tips

<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="left"> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>21) How to Hack an EXE File</b></span></span><br /> Could you edit an executable file when it has been compiled? Yes, you could. But you could only change the String data. How? Using the MS-DOS Text Editor. The String data is text, but in the file will appear different. For example, if in the application appears</div> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="left"> <div class="normaltext"> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></div> <div class="normaltext"> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">22) About NotePad</span></b><br /> in the compiled file will appear <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">A b o u t N o t e P a d </span></b>with an space between each word. Before modifying the file, make a back-up of it. If you want to modify the file, first you have to open it using the MS-DOS Text Editor and open the file as Binary. Then activate the Insert key and search for some text data in the program. But, it isn't as easy as said. You have to search it manually, 'coz the words are separated by a space between. Then replace each word for anyone you want. Example:</div> <div class="normaltext"> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">N o t e P a d</span></b> to <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">M y P r o g r</span></b><br /> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>23) BE CAREFUL</b> </span><br /> The file must weight the same than the original; if not, it could not work.<br /> [Even then the file may not work. For example, it might calculate its checksum and notice that you have made changes. This is certainly a dangerous technique. So at least make a backup copy of the file before you mess with it.</div> <div class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">24) Installing Registry Entries</span></b></span><br /> Here's an easy way to set registry entries when you install a program. First, create the entries manually on your computer. Put them in their own subtree if possible. Use the registry editor to export the subtree containing the entries. This will creates a .REG file. Include this in the list of files given to the Package and Deployment Wizard. The Wizard will automatically offer to run the registry file on the target system during installation and that installs the registry values.</div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>25) Learn ASCII Code in Visual Basic immediate window</b></span></span><br /> Ever want to know what the chr number is for a character? Open the immediate window by pressing (CTRL+G) and type <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">?Asc("")</span></b> and press enter. The result will appear right before your very eyes.</div> <div class="normaltext"> <span class="authorname"></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> Example: the number for a double quote<br /> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">?Asc("""")</span></b> would come as <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">34</span>.</b></div> <div class="normaltext"> <b><br /></b></div> <div> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>26) Using ADO in Access 2000</b></span></span><br /> To use a Microsoft Access 2000 database and ADO you have to add the correct references in your Visual Basic project. To add the references to your Visual Basic project follow the instruction's below.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> Open a project.<br /> From the Project menu, click References.<br /> From the list, select <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.1 Library.</b> </span><br /> From the list, select <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Microsoft ADO Ext. 2.1 for DDL and Security. </span></b><br /> From the list, select <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Microsoft Jet and Replication Objects 2.1 Library.</b> </span><br /> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Click OK. </b></span>This should let you now use an Access 2000 database with an ADODC control. However Data form Wizard will still face problems!</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>27) Understanding Error Handlers</b></span></span><br /> When you use On Error GoTo and an error occurs, VB enters exception mode. The line you GoTo is supposed to be the beginning of an error handler. If an error occurs within an error handler, the program stops. What you need to do is leave the error handler and resume normal execution. Then you can use On Error to establish a new error handler for the next error. You do this with the Resume statement. See the help for details. In this case, you can use Resume LineLabel to make the program continue execution at a specific line.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> Unfortunately, executing Resume from outside an error handler generates an error. Thus you cannot place the error handler in the flow of code the way you have. You need to jump out to the error handler and jump back with Resume.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> Below is a subroutine that demonstrates two error handler.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> Private Sub Command1_Click()<br /> Dim i As Integer</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> On Error GoTo Error1<br /> i = 1 / 0 ' Divide by zero.<br /> Error1Resume:<br /> On Error GoTo Error2<br /> i = 1000000 ' Too big--overflow.<br /> Error2Resume:<br /> MsgBox "Finishing."<br /> ' Do not fall through into the error handlers!<br /> Exit Sub</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> Error1:<br /> ' Resume ends error handler mode.<br /> MsgBox "First error handler."<br /> Resume Error1Resume<br /> Error2:<br /> ' Resume ends error handler mode.<br /> MsgBox "Second error handler."<br /> Resume Error2Resume<br /> End Sub</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">28) Stop your modem from frequently disconnecting</span></b></span></div> </div> </div> <ul> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">On the Desk Top Double click on the icon "My Computer"</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Double click on Dial Up Networking</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Right click on the Satyam Online icon (or the dialer that you are using) and select Properties on the menu, click on configure</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Click on the Connection Tab and click on Advanced, in Extra Settings, type ats10=250</span></div> </li> </ul> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div align="left"> <div class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>29) Load Outlook Faster</b></span></span>If you're tired of waiting the Outlook Express to start up, there's a way to make it faster. Open the RegEdit and navigate to the next path:</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div align="left"> <div class="normaltext"> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\[nr of id]\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\[vers]<br /> Then create a new DWORD value called NoSplash, and assign the value 1. Remember to take a backup of the Registry before doing this! For more information on how to backup your registry,</div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>30) Convert WMF Files Into BMP Files in Visual Basic</b></span></span><br /> Create a new project, add a form, then put a picture box and a command button into it. Add block of code into command button click event.</div> <div class="normaltext"> Private Sub Command1_Click()<br /> ' Load meta picture file<br /> Picture1.Picture = LoadPicture("C:\test.wmf")<br /> ' Save meta picture to bitmap file<br /> SavePicture Picture1.Image, "C:\test.bmp"<br /> End Sub</div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>31) Break an RGB color value into its components in Visual Basic</b></span><b> Use :</b></span></div> <div class="normaltext"> r = color And &HFF&<br /> g = (color And &HFF00&) \ &H100&<br /> b = (color And &HFF0000) \ &H10000</div> <div class="normaltext"> There are some system colors that have funny values like &H8000000F&. Unfortunately they don't work this way. You can use the GetSysColor API function to find these color values. Use And to mask off the leftmost digit. Then use GetSysColor to see get the color value.<br /> Public Declare Function GetSysColor Lib "user32" Alias "GetSysColor" _<br /> (ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long</div> <div class="normaltext"> If color And &H80000000 Then color = GetSysColor(color And &HFFFFFF)</div> <div class="normaltext"> One final case occurs if you use Point to get the color of a pixel that does not exist. For example, on a form with ScaleMode = vbPixels, Point(-100, -100) returns -1 because <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>there is no </b></span><b style="color: #3d85c6;">pixel at (-100, -100)</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span></div> <div class="normaltext"> The following subroutine breaks a color into its components. If the color is -1, the routine leaves r, g, and b unchanged. Depending on your application, you may want to set them to default values such as 0 or 255.</div> <div class="normaltext"> <b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Public Declare Function GetSysColor Lib "user32" Alias "GetSysColor" _</span></b><br /> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">(ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long</span></b></div> <div class="normaltext"> ' Break a color into its components.<br /> <span class="authorname">Private Sub BreakColor(ByVal color As Long, ByRef r As Long, ByRef g As Long, _<br />ByRef b As Long)</span>If color = &HFFFFFFFF Then Exit Sub</div> <div class="normaltext"> If color And &H80000000 Then _<br /> color = GetSysColor(color And &HFFFFFF)</div> <div class="normaltext"> r = color And &HFF&<br /> g = (color And &HFF00&) \ &H100&<br /> b = (color And &HFF0000) \ &H10000<br /> <span class="authorname">End Sub</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Learn Windows Programs Tips Lesson 2 - Computer Tips

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Learn Windows Programs Tips Lesson 1 - Computer Tips

<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span class="listhead"><b>1) C</b></span></span><b style="color: #3d85c6; text-align: -webkit-left;">lean Desktop</b></div> </div> </div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> To hide all the icons on your Desktop, open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Current Version\Policies\Explorer. Add a DWORD value and name it NoDesktop. Change it's value to 1. Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2) ToolTips</span></b></span><br /> To disable ToolTips in Windows, open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. Double-click UserPreferencemask and change its value to 3E 00 00 00. Chose the Registry Editor and restart Windows.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>3) Speed up your modem </b></span></span><br /> Even if your modem if apparently working well, the baud rate of your COM Port might not allow you to reach top-speed. To improve your port's speed:</div> </div> </div> <ul style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Click Start >Settings > Control Panel > System.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Click the Device Manager tab, and click on the "+" sign next to Ports (COM & LPT).</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Select the port your modem uses, click Properties, then click the Port settings tab and set the Bits per second to 115200 bps. That way you won't have a sort of filter on the Port.</span></div> </li> </ul> <div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>4) Associations in a jiffy</b></span></span><br /> To associate files of a certain type with a different program, hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on a file of that type and click on Open With... from the context menu. Select the program you want to open files of this type with and enable Always use this program to open this type of file. Henceforth, the file will always open with this program when double-clicked.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>5) A clean Registry</b></span></span><br /> As time passes the computer's registry accumulates a lot of corrupted, unused, and unnecessary register keys, especially if keys are not removed when you uninstall a program. As a result, you might experience problems and your machine might function slower than expected. The latest version of Microsoft's RegClean could delete a lot of such registry junk. You can download this from <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">zdnet</a> Just search for RegClean and it will let you download it. Best of all, it is free !!</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>6) Assigning passwords to folders in win 98 and 2000</b></span><br /> Right-click on empty space in the folder which you want to protect and<br /> select CUSTOMIZE THIS FOLDER, then choose CREATE HTML DOCUMENT FOR THIS<br /> FOLDER. Once the document is opened in Notepad, scroll down until you see<br /> <script language>="JavaScript"> Insert a blank line after this string.<br /> Then insert the following text.</div> <div align="justify"> var pass = prompt("Enter the password")<br /> if(pass != "YOURPASSWORD")<br /> {window.location="C:"}<br /> Hit the Enter key on your keyboard</div> <div align="justify"> Put a password in the place of YOURPASSWORD but leave the quotes. Save the<br /> document, exit Notepad,<br /> refresh the folder (or hit F5), enter your new password, and the next time<br /> you try to enter that folder,<br /> you'll be prompted for your password. If you enter a wrong password you'll<br /> end up in C: drive!</div> <div align="justify"> This works on Windows 98 and 2000.</div> <div align="justify"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>7) Trace the route</b></span></span><br /> A great utility included with Windows is a program called Trace Route. Open a DOS window and type tracert <location name>. The location name can be any IP address or Internet domain like tracert .The program will then trace the route from your Internet service provider to that locating, and show you every server along the way. This could be useful for when you can't connect to a site it will show you if some server is down along the way.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>8) Select your Monitor</b> </span></span><br /> Windows might not always detect your Monitor accurately. This affects display and refresh rates. To select your monitor manually:</div> </div> </div> <ul style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Right-click on the Desktop.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Choose Properties from the context menu. On the Settings tab press Advanced button. Select the Monitor tab. If your monitor is not listed (correctly) here, click on Change.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Select your Monitor form the list, or if you have a driver disk for your monitor, select have Disk.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Click Apply, and follow any other instructions on screen.</span></div> </li> </ul> <div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">9) Redialing</span></b></span><br /> Dial-Up Networking provides for automatic redial.</div> </div> <ul style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Open Dial-Up networking.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Select your connection.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">From the menu select Connections > Settings.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Enable, Redial, select the number of times to redial and click OK.</span></div> </li> </ul> <div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>10) A clean Run!</b></span></span><br /> To remove unwanted items form the Run menu:</div> </div> <ul style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Start the Registry Editor.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">OpenHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Delete the entries that you do not want on Run menu.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Close the Registry Editor and Restart Windows. Note: Do not delete the (Default) or MRUList values.</span></div> </li> </ul> <div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>11) Bitmap as icons</b></span></span><br /> You can preview bitmaps (.BMP files) as icons in Explorer instead of the default icon of the application it is associated with. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_ CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon. Double-click the Default string and change it's value to '%1' (without quotes). Close the Registry Editor and restart windows.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>12) Window and menu Animations</b></span></span><br /> One of the desktop enhancements built into windows is the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize windows or when displaying menus. Disabling this makes navigating Windows a lot faster. Open the Desktop Properties dialog by right-clicking any blank area of the desktop and clicking on Properties. Disable Animate windows, menus and lists form the Effects tab.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>13) Smooth Screen Fonts</b></span></span><br /> You may find that the fonts in your Internet Explorer and other windows seem jagged as you increase the font size. To make them smooth and thus, beautiful.</div> </div> </div> <ul> <li><div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="list"> Right-click anywhere on the free space of the Desktop and click properties</div> </div> </li> <li class="list"><div align="justify"> Select the Effects tab from the Display Properties</div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">In the Visual effects frame, <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">enable </span></b>Smooth edges of screen fonts</span></div> </li> </ul> <div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>14) Change the Refresh rate of your Graphics Adapter</b></span></span><br /> Refresh rate of your monitor determines how fast the screen if updated. Generally, the higher refresh rate monitor can support, the better. Optimum refresh rates can be set manually for a flicker-free display. If Windows hasn't already configured it. Right-click on the Desktop, click on Properties and open Settings > Advanced > Adapter. Depending on your graphics card and monitor, you will get different choice for the refresh rate. Click on Apply after setting the appropriate refresh rate. Click through the warning message to change the refresh rate. If, for some reason the display becomes garbled, don't do anything, Windows will restore the original refresh rate.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>15) Speed-up your connecting time</b></span></span><br /> To speed-up the time it takes for Dial Up Networking to establish a connection with your ISP:</div> </div> <ul> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Open Dial-Up Networking.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Right-click your connection and choose Properties.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">On the server types tab, under Advanced Options, make sure that the check-box for Log on to network is unchecked.</span></div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <span class="list">Under Allowed network protocols select only TCP/IP and uncheck NetBEUI & IPX/SPX</span></div> </li> </ul> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>16) Dummy entries in Add/Remove Programs list</b></span></span><br /> Sometimes, even after program are uninstalled, or due to the files being deleted instead of a uninstalled, the entry in the Add/Remove Programs list does not get deleted. To remove it form the list: 1. Start the Registry Editor. 2. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Uninstall. 3. Delete the program entry here. You can also use TweakUI to do this.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>17) Restart only Windows</b></span></span><br /> When restarting Windows, you don't always need to go to thought the BIOS initialization and POST. Instead of simple clicking on Restart form the Shut Down Windows dialog box, help down the Shift key as you click on OK. This will restart only Windows. This is particularly useful when you change some registry entries or a few system settings.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead">Improve Removable Disk Drive Performance</span><br /> Windows gives you the option to use write-behind caching to improve the performance of removable disk drivers.</div> </div> </div> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="list"> Open control Panel > System > Performance and click on File System.</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="justify"> <div align="justify" class="list"> Check the Enable write-behind caching on all removable disk drives check box under the removable Disk tab and click OK</div> </div> </li> </ul> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="text-align: justify;"> Note: If this result in a problem with disk operations, uncheck the Enable write-behind caching on all removable disk drives check box.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>18) MS Office memory hoggers</b></span></span><br /> A typical installation of MS Office installs Find Fast, an indexing utility that loads at startup. This hogs system resources by regularly indexing the entire hard disk(s). You can improve performance of your computer by removing Find Fast form your Startup folder. To reclaim the space used by the Find Fast index, open Control Panel > Find Fast, select your hard drives(s) and form the Index menu, click on Delete Index. When you've deleted your Index, click on Close and Stop form the Index menu. Another item installed in the Startup folder is named Microsoft Office. This does nothing apart from loading all MS Office libraries at startup to speed up launching of any Office applications. Since this is not necessary, you can delete this shortcut, too.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>19) Stop Automatic Dialing</b></span></span><br /> Many Internet applications or software are often set to automatically dialup and connect. To setup automatic dialing, open Control Panel > Internet Options. Under the Connections tab, enable Never dial a connection.</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> <div align="left"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="listhead"><b>20) Automatic maintenance</b></span></span><br /> The Windows Maintenance Wizard can automate a lot of routine system maintenance tasks. To open this wizard, choose Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Maintenance Wizard. It sets up the Task Scheduler to regularly run Scandisk, Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">11) Resetting Forgotten Dial-Up Server Password</span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> If you forget the password you set for you Dial-Up Server<br /> simply delete (or rename) the RNA.PWL file in the WINDOWS directory<span style="color: blue;">.</span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /><strong>12) Monitoring Your Dial-Up Connection</strong></span><br /> There are some system checks you can use to see how good your ISP and Phone lines are.<br /> You either net OEM SR2 or the ISDN Accelerator Pack 1.1 installed Make sure SYSMON is installed. You can add this through the Control Panel / Add New Programs<br /> Run SYSMON<br /> Select Edit / Add Item<br /> Click on Dial-Up Networking Adapter<br /> Select CRC Errors<br /> Click on OK<br /> If you have lots of CRC errors, either the phone lines or your modem is having problems.<br /> You can also add Framing Errors and Timeout Errors if you are still having problems and your.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">13) Fixing a problem with Shortcuts that keep network UNC connections</span></strong><br /> <div align="justify"> By default, when you create a shortcut to a network application, both the Drive letter and UNC connection are stored as part of the shortcut.<br /> The reasoning that if the drive letter gets reassigned or deleted, the UNC connection will serve as an additional way to ensure that the application is available.<br /> This can also be a problem because when you want to re-assign the drive to a new server, it will still make the connection to the old one through the UNC To disable this feature, there is a program called SHORTCUT.EXE in the Admin / Apptools / Envvars directory.<br /> Execute the program with a -? to see a description of the available switches.<br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 639px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="justify"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>14) </b><span class="listhead"><b>Increasing Modem Performance</b></span></span><br /> To increase modem performance when connecting to the Internet: Disable compression on your modem<br /> In SYSTEM.INI under 386enh section put in: COMxBUFFER=1024 (x is your modem port number )<br /> Add AT%C0 (that's a zero),to the extra settings line of your modem's properties.<br /> Switch errror correction off</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">15) To Find Your IP Address</span></strong>To find your IP address when connected: Open Explorer<br /> In the Windows folder find the file WINIPCFG.<br /> Drag a shortcut onto your screen.<br /> Now when you are online you can double click the shortcut to see your IP address and other data.</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">16) Using UNC Network Names with Files</span></strong><br /> As already mentioned, you can use long file names in an MS DOS Box.<br /> But you can even use UNC-style network names. Example: DIR \\server\share1\dir1<br /> will give you all files on the computer named "server", in the share named "share1" and in the directory "dir1".</div> <div align="justify"> This does not work with CD, but it will work with MD, RD, DIR, COPY, MOVE, REN, and so on.<br /> I use this in combination with a batch file to copy files to a number of computers on a network</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">17) Changing the Number of Rings Before Dial-Up Server Answers</span></strong><br /> To change the number of rings before Dial up Networking Server answers: Find the INF file for the modem in the \WINDOWS\INF directory. The filename will begin with "mdm" and end with characters desciptive of the manufacturer, ie. "supra" for Supra Express modem.<br /> Make a copy of this file.<br /> Edit this file with notepad and look for a string "HKR, Answer, 1,, "ATA<cr>".<br /> Change to HKR, Answer, 1,, "None".<br /> A few lines up from this should be the line HKR, Monitor, 1,, "ATS0=0<cr>" Change the value of the S0 register to the number of rings you would like to have the modem answer on.<br /> Remove the modem by using the Control panel | System | Device Manager.<br /> Reinstall the modem using the REFRESH Button.<br /> This should install the modem using the updated INF file.<br /> <br /></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">18) Starting a Dial-Up Connection from the Command Line</span></strong><br /> You can dial your ISP from a command line. This can make it easy to create a batch file that will<br /> do things like dial, start your e-mail and web browser. The syntax is:<br /> rundll rnaui.dll,RnaDial connectoid<br /> Note: The RnaDial and connectoid components of the command line are case sensitive.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">1) Speeding Up Internet Searches</span></strong><br /> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> When you go to a web site, the first thing that happens is that a query goes out to the DNS server for IP address of the web site.<br /> In order to eliminate this query, you can simply add the IP address and web name into the HOSTS file in the Windows directory.<br /> To find the IP address, just PING the web name (ping www.microsoft.com) For example, Microsoft would be:</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> 207.46.130.149 www.microsoft.com #.url</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> You can do this for all the sites you regularly visit.</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>2) Auto-Dial Internet Connections (Win98)</strong></span><br /> If Win98 is not automatically dialing your Internet Connection: Open up the Dial Up Networking box<br /> Click on Connections / Settings<br /> Uncheck Prompt for information before dialing.<br /> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3) Opening the Make New Connection Dialog Box</span></strong><br /> This command line will pop up the "Make new connection" window. rundll rnaui.dll,RnaWizard /1</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">4) Help Stop Modem Disconnects</span></strong><br /> If you modem goes offline frequently, it may be due to a temporary lost carrier. To lengthen the time the modem will go offline after the carrier is lost, change the modem properties. Open up the Control Panel<br /> Double click on the Modem icon<br /> Click on Properties / Connection / Advanced<br /> In the Extra Settings, enter S10=10<br /> This will enable the modem to stay connected without a carrier for up to 10 seconds.</div> <div align="justify"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></strong></span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">5) Using More Than One Modem at a Time</strong></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Win98, WinME and Win2000)</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If you have two phone lines in your home and want to use them both to dial out,</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">you can use MultiLink, which will effectively double your connection speed. Create a dial-up connection like your normally would. </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Right click on the icon and select Properties </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Click on the Multilink tab </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Click on Use additional devices </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Click on the Add </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Click on the other modem you would like to use </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If your ISP allows, you can use the same phone number, otherwise enter an additional phone number to dial. </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You should now connect with both modems. </span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You can confirm this by opening up your dial up connection in the System Tray after you connect.</span><br /> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">6) Seeing Servers Your Are Connected To When OnLine</span></strong><br /> To see what servers you are connected to when on the Internet<br /> Simply run Netstat</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">7) Backing Up Your ISP Settings</span></strong><br /> If you want to save your ISP settings (name, phone, login id etc.) for future installations: Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ RemoteAccess<br /> Select Registry / Export Registry<br /> Make sure Selected branch is checked<br /> For the name, enter any name that will help you remember the purpose of the .reg file<br /> Now if you need to restore your ISP settings after a new installation of Windows, you just need to import this file</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">8) Forcing Alpha-Numeric Passwords</span></strong><br /> In order to force passwords that just use alpha-numeric characters Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Network<br /> Create a DWORD entry called AlphanumPwds<br /> Give it a value of 1<br /> <br /></div> </div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">9.Speeding Up Your Modem's Dialing</span></strong><br /> For Win95, to make that modem dial much faster: Open up the Control Panel<br /> Double click on the Modem icon<br /> Click on Properties / Connection / Advanced<br /> In the Extra Settings enter S11=x , where x is how many milliseconds each tone sounds. Try S11 = 1, then dial, you'll be surprised.</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">10.Showing Your Actual Modem's Connection Speed</span></strong><br /> Normally when you open up the modem icon in the system try, it shows the port connect speed.<br /> So see your actual modem speed: Go Control Panel<br /> Open up the Modems icon<br /> Click Properties<br /> Click on the Connection tab<br /> Click the Advanced button<br /> In the Extr Settings, put ATW2L0 (the last character is a zero)</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

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If this file is in the directory were the application resides, it could<br /> cause problems. Programs that could have problems like this are:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Ewan.exe (Telnet app)<br /> WSIRC.exe (IRC app)<br /> WSGopher.exe (Gopher app)<br /> NX.Exe (NewsXpress)<br /> Netscape v.1.0<br /> We found that if the software listed above is in the same directory as the<br /> Trumpet Winsock.dll file, then they will NOT work under the MS-TCP/IP stack.<br /> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">20) Device Contention when trying to use a Modem</span></strong><br /> Occasionally, when trying to use your modem, you might get the following errors: Another program is using the selected Telephony device. Try again after the other program completes.<br /> or<br /> Cannot initialize port</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The state of Windows 95 device contention is determined by the value for the "COM n AutoAssign=x"<br /> setting in the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file,<br /> where n is the number of the serial port and x is a value from -1 to 1000.</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The default setting in Windows 95 is -1. This setting causes Windows 95 to not release a serial port previously used<br /> by a non-Windows-based program.</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> If you need hot-swapping capability between an MS-DOS-based communications program and a Windows-based communication program,<br /> add the following entry to the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file:</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Com n AutoAssign=0</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">21) Unable to Browse the Network</span></strong><br /> If you do not have a logon password, Windows95 might have problems when you try and browse the network.<br /> Try the following steps to solve the problem. Start REGEDIT<br /> Go to Hkey_Local_Machine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current_version \ Network \ Real mode net<br /> Delete the line that says AUTOLOGON=0<br /> Save the changes and reboot the system</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">22) Auto-Dialing for 32-bit Internet Applications</span></strong><br /> If your 32-bit Internet applications do not automatically invoke your<br /> Windows 95 Dialer, here is a way I found to enable this feature. First, bring up an internet application such as Netscape or Internet Explorer.<br /> Next, manually dial into your internet provider by double-clicking your connection icon.<br /> Once connected, go to the Control Panel and double-click on the Internet icon.<br /> Once the window open, uncheck the checkbox titled "Dial whenever an Internet Connection is needed".<br /> Click the check box again and make sure there is a check in the checkbox.<br /> Next, click the APPLY button.<br /> Finally , click the OK button.<br /> Once you do this, close your internet application and disconnect from your internet provider.<br /> Re-start your Internet application and the Windows 95 dialer should start up.<br /> NOTE: From my experience, all Internet applications will be effected and will automatically start the Windows 95 dialer.</div> <div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">23) Changing your Modem's Initialization String</span></strong><br /> Start REGEDIT<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Class \ Modem \ 0000 \ Init<br /> Change the settings to the values for your modem</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">24) Increasing the Modem Timeout</span></strong><br /> If your modem it timing out during file transfers or loading Web Pages,<br /> you might try increasing the timeout period. To change it:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class / Modem / XXXX / Settings<br /> Where XXXX is the number of your modem<br /> Move to the right panel and double click on Inactivity Timeout<br /> The number of minutes for a timeout should be entered between the brackets.<br /> For example, a US Robotics Sportster could have S19=<30> to set it to 30 minutes.</div> </div> </div>

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">1) Adding the Control Panel to the Start Menu</span></strong><br /> Open up the Explorer<br /> Go to \WINDOWS\Start Menu<br /> Right click in the right-hand panel<br /> Add a new folder<br /> Name it Control Panel.{21ec2020-3aea-1069-a2dd-08002b30309d}<br /> This makes getting to the Control Panel items a little easier<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2) Making Desktop Changes Permanen</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">t</span></strong><br /> To make changes to the Desktop like window size, positon after rebooting: Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\<br /> CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer<br /> Create a New Binary Value<br /> Name it NoSaveSettings<br /> Give it a value of 01 00 00 00<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3)Changing a Folder's Icon</span></strong><br /> To change the icon of a Folder on desktop: Using the Explorer, move the folder from the Desktop directory to another directory on the hard drive<br /> Right click on the new folder and select "Create Shortcut"<br /> Move the shortcut to the Desktop<br /> Right click and select a new icon</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><br /> <div class="normaltext"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">4) Full Window Drag ( Without Plus! )</span></b></span><br /> Start Regedit<br /> Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER /ControlPanel /Desktop /DragFullWindows<br /> On "DragFullWindows" properties change 0 to 1</div> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">5) Getting Screen Shots</span></strong><br /> If you need to get a screen shot, and you do not have a screen capture program, try this: Hit the Print Screen key. This copies a bitmap of the full screen into the Windows clipboard. Start up a graphics editor and paste it in.<br /> Alt + Print Screen will capture only the active window.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">6) Increasing the Size of the Scroll Bar</span></strong><br /> How to adjust the width of the scroll bar:<br /> Select Properties<br /> Select the Appearance tab<br /> Go to the item list and find scrollbar.<br /> Increasing the value in the Size field will increase the scrollbar width.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">7) Customizing Individual Folder Icons</span></strong><br /> To change a folder's icon: Open Notepad and enter two lines,<br /> [.ShellClassInfo]<br /> IconFile=file name,number<br /> (e.g. IconFile=C:\Icon\CustomFolder.ico,0)<br /> Save the file as DESKTOP.INI in the folder you wish to change.<br /> Click Start -> Run, type in the command line,<br /> ATTRIB +S "folder name"<br /> (e.g. ATTRIB +S "C:\Custom Folder")<br /> Open Explorer or My Computer and refresh (press F5 key).<br /> This tip only work Windows 95/NT 4.0 + IE 4.0 with shell integration, or Windows 98/NT 5.0.<br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></span> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">8) Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut</span></b></span><br /> To create a shortcut that will open your default e-mail program starting a new e-mail, Right click on an open area of the desktop<br /> Select New / Shortcut<br /> For the Command Line, enter mailto:<br /> For the title enter something like New E-Mail<br /> When you click on this your default e-mail program should start with a new e-mail form.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">9) Creating 3D Window Effect</span></strong><br /> You can create a nice 3D effect for your windows Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Colors<br /> Make sure the following setting are there:<br /> ButtonHilight=128 128 128<br /> ButtonShadow=255 255 255</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">10) Creating Shutdown, Restart and Logoff Icons</span></strong><br /> To create the icons, create a shortcut on the desktop. For Shutdown, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For Restart, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindowsexec</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For Logoff, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">11) Having your Favorites and Start Menus Sort Alphabetically</span></strong><br /> If your Start Menu Program or Favorites are not sorting alphabetically, it is easy to fix this: Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/<br /> CurrentVersion/Explorer/MenuOrder<br /> Under here is are Favorites and Start Menu folders<br /> In each there is a value called Order<br /> Simply delete (or rename this) and restart Winodws<br /> Your Favorites or Start Menus should now sort alphabetically</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">12) Increasing the Icon Cache</span></strong>Run Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer<br /> Create a new string called Max Cached Icons<br /> Give it a value of 10000<br /> This will increase response time in windows and give the Shellicon cache file more elbow room.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 653px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 653px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 639px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">13) Make Icons 256 Color 16-Bit</span></strong><br /> Open the Registry<br /> Hit Ctrl+F<br /> Type Shell Icon BPP<br /> When found, right click the Shell Icon BPP icon<br /> Click Modify<br /> Change the value from 4 to 16<br /> Click Ok<br /> Close the registry<br /> Restart your computer<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">14) Removing Shortcut Arrows</span></strong><br /> An easy way to remove those irritating arrows from your desktop shortcut icons and not change their properties Right click the Desktop / Properties / Appearance tab<br /> Select Item<br /> Scroll for Icon<br /> The default size is 32<br /> Change this to 30<br /> Clicking Apply<br /> <br /></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">15.Removing the Recycle Bin</span></strong><br /> To remove Recycle Bin from the desktop: Run REGEDIT.<br /> Find NAMESPACE key in left pane (HKEY_Local_Macine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Explorer \ Desktop \ Namespace)<br /> Expand NAMESPACE (click '+' box)<br /> Delete the value RECYCLE BIN in right pane.</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

Learn Desktop Tips Lesson 1 - Computer Tips

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <div class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">16) Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time</span></strong><br /> To change the display of the clock on the taskbar to 24-hour format:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Open the Control Panel<br /> Double-click on the Regional Settings icon<br /> Click on the Time tab<br /> In the Time style section select H:mm:ss</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">17) Changing or Removing the Start Menu Icons</span></strong><br /> Download Microangelo and install it.<br /> Create a blank.ico file.<br /> Put it in a directory (C:\Windows. Then double click on the Microangelo Engineer to run it.<br /> When you get it up on the screen click on the "start" tab. You will see a list of all the icons in the start menu.<br /> Highlight the first one (programs) and select "Change". It will bring up a dialog box - select "browse".<br /> Go to the directory that contains the blank icon and select it. Hit OK until you get back to the main<br /> Engineer window and do all the rest exactly the same way.<br /> When you have finished changing them all to the blank icon, Hit "Apply".<br /> Hit your start button and look to see if all the icons are invisible. (They should be.)<br /> Close out Micro Engineer and you're finished.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">18) Adding Drive to the SendTo List</span></strong><br /> I have recently found that if you want to send something from A: drive or from any where to any drive, you can just make a short cut of that drive in subdirectory SENDTO.<br /> For example I have two hard drives, a Floppy Drive, and a CDROM<br /> After I have make a copy of each of my drive I will be able to send a whole directory of E:\XXX from the CDROM drive to A: drive or any other drive that i have had made the short c t in the SENDTO subdir of WINDOWS.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">19) Customizing the Start Button's Name and Icon</span></strong><br /> To change the name of the Start button: Copy EXPLORER.EXE in your Windows directory to another directory<br /> Start a hex editor (I've been using Diskedit from Norton)<br /> Edit EXPLORER.EXE<br /> Search for the string 53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74<br /> This is the word Start with the letters separated by a null character<br /> The section you are in should also have the words "There was an internal error..." also separated with the null character immediately following<br /> Now just replace the Start letters with any of your choice (up to 5 characters only)<br /> Exit Windows<br /> Boot to DOS<br /> Copy your new Explorer file over the original<br /> To change the Start button icon:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Copy USER.EXE in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory to another directory<br /> Use an icon editor that can replace icons in executable files<br /> Edit USER.EXE and replace the flag icons with the icon of your choice<br /> Boot to DOS<br /> Copy the new USER.EXE<br /> The same can be done with NT 4.0, just the offset will be different but the location to just before "There was an internal error..." is the same.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="justify" class="normaltext"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">20) Create a Control Panel menu directly below the Start Button</span></strong><br /> Click the Start Button once with your right mouse button. You should see a right-button menu (called a context menu because it offers different choices in different contexts).<br /> You should see the items Open, Explore, and Find on the context menu. Click Explore with your left mouse button.<br /> An Explorer file management window should open. A directory tree should appear in the left pane, with the right pane displaying the contents of the Start Menu folder.<br /> Right-click any empty space within the right pane. A context menu should appear. Click New and then Folder.<br /> The Explorer will create a highlighted icon called New Folder. Type in the following string, all on one line, replacing the words New Folder with this new line. You must type the period, the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the hexadecimal numbers exactly as shown. After the closing curly brace, press Enter.<br /> Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}<br /> Other Folders can be added following the same instructions. Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}<br /> Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}<br /> Inbox.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}<br /> My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}<br /> Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}<br /> Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}<br /> Desktop.{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}<br /> Briefcase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}<br /> Fonts.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">21) Turn Off Window Animation</span></strong><br /> You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize windows.<br /> This tip makes navigating Windows 95 a lot faster especially for those that don't have<br /> super fast video cards. Open Regedit<br /> HKEY_CURRENT_USER<br /> Control panel<br /> Desktop<br /> WindowMetrics<br /> Right Mouse Click an empty space in the right pane.<br /> Select new/string value.<br /> Name the new value MinAnimate.<br /> Doubleclick on the new string value (MinAnimate) and click on "Modify"<br /> Enter a value of 0 for Off or 1 for On then hit<br /> Close Regedit and all programs then reboot.</div> <div align="justify"> <div class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">22) Adding Send To the Recycle Bin</span></strong><br /> Add a SHORTCUT TO THE RECYCLE BIN in your SEND TO folder. That way you can just right click on a file you want to delete, and send it to the recycle bin without having to confirm each time.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">23) Having Icons with No Name</span></strong><br /> Normally you have to have a name for an icon, just spaces are not allowed.<br /> To create an icon with no name attached: Make sure NumLock is on<br /> Highlight the Icon you want to change<br /> Right-Mouse click and select Rename<br /> While holding down the Alt key, type 0160<br /> Now the icon will have no name below it.<br /> To Create Multiple Icons with No Name - From John R.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Follow directions detailed above<br /> With the second icon simply add one space-bar character AFTER the 0160 number.<br /> Each successive icon gets an additional space-bar character at the end (to prevent a duplicate naming error).</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">24) Moving the Start Button</span></strong><br /> How to move or close the start button! Click on the Start button<br /> Press the Esc key<br /> Press the Alt and the - keys together<br /> This will give you a menu, you can move or close<br /> But if you move it you need to use the arrow keys and not the mouse.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">25) Aligning Drop-Down Menus to the Righ</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">t</span></strong><br /> All dropdown menus can be aligned to the right.<br /> This features becomes useful when trying to access<br /> menus with submenus that appear directly to the right.<br /> Open the Registory editor (e.g. regedit.exe)<br /> Goto \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop<br /> Create a string entry called "MenuDropAlignment"<br /> Set its value to 1<br /> Reboot<br /> Note: Will not work under NT 4.0.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">26) Changing Drive Icons</span></strong><br /> To change a drive's icon when you open My Computer Create a file called AUTORUN.INF on the root of your hard drive<br /> Enter the lines<br /> [autorun]<br /> ICON=Name of the ICON file</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> For the name of the icon file you can either specify the path and name (e.g. ICON=C:\WINDOWS\ICONS\MY_ICON.ICO) or<br /> a specific icon in a library (e.g. ICON=ICONFILE.DLL,2.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </div> <br /> <div class="normaltext" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="margin: 0px;"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">27) Adding Shortcuts to Desktop Without "Shortcut To" text</span></b></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Start Regedit</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Go to:HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Add binary value to Explorer:link="00,00,00,00"</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Now You can make Shortcuts to desktop without Shortcut To" text.</div> </div> </div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">28) To speed up the Start Menu</span></strong><br /> Start the REGEDIT program<br /> Search for the word desktop<br /> This should be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / CLSID / {00021400...<br /> Right Click on the right panel<br /> Pick NEW / String Value.<br /> Name it MenuShowDelay, all one word.<br /> Select a value from 1-10, 1 being the fastest.<br /> Exit REGEDIT<br /> Restart Windows</div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">30) To change the Startup and Logoff screens</span></strong><br /> Startup Screen<br /> Create a 320x400 bitmap in the root directory and name it LOGO.SYS<br /> You can use LOGOW.SYS file in the Windows directory as a starter<br /> Logoff Screens<br /> There are several files called LOGOX.SYS<br /> They are actually bitmaps 320x400 that just have a different extension<br /> The hidden one in the root directory LOGO.SYS is the startup logo.<br /> There are two files in the Windows directory.<br /> LOGOW.SYS is the Wait while Shutting down ... screen<br /> LOGOS.SYS is the You may now shut-off or Reboot screen<br /> To edit them, rename them with a BMP extension and use your favorite graphic editor<br /> You can edit these files or create you own<br /> They just need to be the same size .</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td height="18" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /> <ul> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">8) Synchronize Your Computer Clock with an Internet Time Server:</span></strong>Does your computer have the right time? If your computer is not part of a domain, you can synchronize your computer clock with an Internet time server. To do so:<br /> <ul> <li>Double–click the time on your task bar.</li> <li>Click the Internet Time tab.</li> </ul> Select the time server you want to use and make sure to select the Automatically synchronize with an Internet time<br /> server check box.<br /> <br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">9) Win XP Won’t Completely Shutdown:</span></strong><br /> <ul> <li>Go to Control Panel, then go to Power Options.</li> <li>Click on the APM tab, then check the "Enable Advanced Power Management support."</li> <li>Shut down your PC.</li> <li>It should now successfully complete the Shut Down process.</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">10) Adjust Various Visual Effects:</span></strong><br /> <ul> <li>Open up the Control Panel.</li> <li>Go under System and click on the Advanced tab.</li> <li>Click settings under Performance options.</li> <li>You can now change various graphical effects (mainly animations and shadows).</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">11) Disable Error Reporting:</span></strong><br /> <ul> <li>Open Control Panel.</li> <li>Click on Performance and Maintenance.</li> <li>Click on System.</li> <li>Then click on the Advanced tab.</li> <li>Click on the error-reporting button on the bottom of the windows.</li> <li>Select Disable error reporting.</li> <li>Click OK. Click OK.</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">12) Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP:</span></strong><br /> This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with WinXP professional version - might work on Home version also. It may also work with networked machines as well.<br /> This tweak assumes that you have let WinXP create a connection on install for your cable modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and print sharing - and client for Microsoft networks , only, installed. It also assumes that WinXP will detect your NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try this.<br /> <ul> <li>In the "My Network Places" properties (right-click on the desktop icon and choose properties), highlight the connection</li> <li>then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the</li> <li>bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.</li> </ul> <div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 98%px;"><tbody> <tr><td height="18" style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">13) Stop Jerkey Graphics:</span></strong><br /> If you are connected to a LAN and have problems with jerkey graphics, this might be the solution:<br /> <ul> <li>Right-click "MyComputer".</li> <li>Select "Manage".</li> <li>Click on "Device Manager".</li> <li>Double-click on your NIC under "Network Adapters".</li> <li>In the new window, select the "Advanced" tab.</li> <li>Select "Connection Type" and manually set the value of your NIC. (Not "Auto Sense" which is default.).</li> <li>You should reboot.</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">14) Load Internet Explorer the Fastest Way Possible:</span></strong>Edit your link to start Internet Explorer to have -nohome after it. For Example: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome<br /> This will load internet explorer very fast because it does not load a web page while it is loading. If you want to go to your homepage after it is loaded, just click on the home button.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">15) Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache:</span></strong>Normally, the tweak I've seen asks you to go into HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the LargeSystemCache.<br /> <ul> <li>However, in Windows XP, all you have to do is:</li> <li>Right-click My Computer.</li> <li>Select Properties.</li> <li>Click Advanced.</li> <li>Choose Performance.</li> <li>Click Advanced again.</li> <li>Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage.</li> <li>Programs = 0 for the registry tweak equivalent</li> <li>System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak equivalent</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">16) Shutdown XP Faster:</span></strong>Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.<br /> Click Start button.<br /> Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds.<br /> Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.<br /> Now you should see some improvements when shutting down your system.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">17) Easily Disable Messenger:</span></strong>Go into: C:/Program Files/Messenger. Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF".<br /> This does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.<br /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">18) Turn Off Autoplay for Program CDs:</span></strong>How can you stop Windows XP from launching program CDs?<br /> <ul> <li>Click Start, click Run, type GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in the Microsoft Management Console.</li> <li>Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative templates, double-click System, and then click Turn off autoplay.</li> <li>The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog.</li> <li>Click Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives, then click OK, to stop CD autoplay.</li> <li>This setting does not prevent Autoplay for music CDs.</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">19) Speeding Up Your Old Shit Pentium by 50%:</span></strong>We all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the system's performance is Windows Media Player. Although it may look desirable and fancy with it's rounded off edges and 3rd-Dimensional appearance, the truth is, it takes up a large amount of that precious processing power. All of these troubles however, lead to one thing in particular with this 'new-look' over-rated music and video player...the Visualizations. The look-great I'll admit but like a lot of software these days, it has no purpose. If you run the task manager, and click the Performance tab along the top, you'll see that when Windows Media Player is running and nothing else is active, it takes up around 50% of the processors power. Once these visualizations are turned off, it barely takes up 2-3% of the processors power, which leaves much more room for other applications to work efficiently.<br /> <ul> <li>Here's how to disable the feature:</li> <li>Open Media Player.</li> <li>Make sure the Now Playing tab on the left is selected.</li> <li>Click the View menu along the top.</li> <li>Go down to Now Playing Tools</li> </ul> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">20) Turn Off System Restore to Save Space:</span></strong>By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:<br /> <ul> <li>Open the Control Panel.</li> <li>Double-click on System.</li> <li>Click the System Restore tab.</li> <li>Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives".</li> <li>Hit Apply.</li> <li>You may now delete the System Volume Information folder.</li> </ul> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: 12px;"></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

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<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">1) Performance Increase Through My Computer:</span></strong>Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of us still don't find it right away. So here it is:</div> <ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Start > right-click on My Computer and select Properties.</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Click on the "Advanced" tab.</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings".</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Disable the following:</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Fade or slide menus into view</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Fade or slide ToolTips into view</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Fade out menu items after clicking</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Show Shadows under menus</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Slide open combo boxes</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Slide taskbar buttons</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Use a background image for each folder type</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Use common tasks in folders</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster.</div> </div> </li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2) Reduce 10 Second Scandisk Wait Time:</span></strong></div> </div> </div> <ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> Start MS Dos Prompt (Start run CMD), and type: CHKNTFS /T:4</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> where 4 is the amount of wait time.</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> CHKNTFS /?</div> </div> </li> <li><div align="left"> <div align="left"> for more info.</div> </div> </li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3) DMA Mode on IDE Devices:</span></strong>Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary IDE and secondary IDE channels. Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won't make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. Here's how:<br /> Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click on "My Computer", select the Hardware tab, and select Device Manager.<br /> Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE Channel".<br /> Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1" setting. More than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.<br /> Set it to "DMA if available".<br /> Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel" if you have devices attached to it. Reboot.<br /> <br /> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="listhead"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">4) Cracking Windows XP Login Password:</span></b></span>Download the nice and easy Nt/2k/xp password cracker from http://www.astalavista.com/or other way is if u get acess to the computer then go to Start>Run and type “control userpasswords2” without Quotes and a new pop up windows will open and u will reach to user account properties. Here u can Reset the Administrator and any Users password so anytime when u Want to use the Computer start it in safemode pressing F8 at Booting get into the xp as u have Administrator password and go to Controlpanel>Useraccounts and create a New Account .Start Computer Normally and get into WinXP with ur newely made account and do ur job. (Don’t forget to Delete ur newely made account Otherwise u will be in trouble) Delete ur account again starting the computer in Safemode as Administrator and Delete ur Account.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">5) Disable XP Boot Logo:</span></strong>It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot process. Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to see any boot-up messages that might come up (chkdsk, convert ... ), but if your system runs without any problems then it should not matter.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> Edit boot.ini. Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect". Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removing the new switch.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">6) Turn Off Indexing to Speed Up XP:</span></strong>Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the computer has to index all files, it will slow down normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you do not do a whole lot of searches on your hard drive then you may want to turn this feature off:<br /> Open My Computer.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> Right-click your hard drive icon and select Properties.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> At the bottom of the window you'll see "Allow indexing service to index this disk for faster searches," uncheck this and click ok.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> A new window will pop up and select Apply to all folders and subfolders.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> It will take a minute or two for the changes to take affect but then you should enjoy slightly faster performance.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">7) Clean Your Prefetch to Improve Performance:</span></strong>This is a unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to scrub registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer noticeably.</div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files, reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Learn Windows XP Twenty And Tweaks Tips! Lesson 1 - Computer Tips

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Learn Explorer Tips Lesson 2 - Computer Tips

<div align="justify" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s1600/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IE0lWAuZMlaXsKSfI2nMPCAMUd23tm4f-PWQW2Z5ePOI_BVaYKg039C643puPHe0JoYhgWccXXazssHKQc4MBMUptdIyil72kbTUeJzVrE-V2CGe1RdJ9CgIWehWTUU6XNcyYQZEDNIf/s400/pc-troubleshooting-tips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <hr /> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong> <br /> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">11) Changing Drive Icons in Explorer</span></strong>To change the icon used for specific drives in Explorer Start Regedit</div> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft /<br /> Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer<br /> Create a key called DriveIcons<br /> Within DriveIcons, create another key with the drive letter you want to change (..\DriveIcons\K)<br /> Create another key within the drive letter key called DefaultIcon<br /> Set the default value equal to the icon you want to use.<br /> 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,x<br /> where x is the number of the icon within the file icon_file.dll.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">12) Changing the Default Sound in Explorer</span></strong>You can change the default sound heard when navigating to folders in the Explorer. Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ AppEvents \ Schemes \<br /> Apps\ Explorer \ Navigating\ .current<br /> Change the default value to the wav file you want to use.<br /> Leaving it blank will turn off the sound.<br /> This also changes the default sound when opening a page in the Internet Explorer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div align="justify" class="normaltext" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">13) Hiding the File Menu in the Explorer</span></strong>To hide the File Menu in Explorer: Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\<br /> CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer<br /> Create a new Binary Value<br /> Name it NoFileMenu<br /> Give it a value of 01 00 00 00<br /> Reboot the computer</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">14) Changing the Explorer's Web View Background</span></strong>If you use Web View for your Explorer, you can change the background that appears. Edit or recreate the file >C:\Windows\Web\Wvleft.bmp<br /> Make sure you keep the file dimensions the same 182x237 pixels</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">15) Keeping Filenames in the Case You Want</span></strong>To stop Windows from changing the case of your filenames to upper or lower case: Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced<br /> Double-click DontPrettyPath (or create this key with a type of REG_DWORD if it doesn't exist)<br /> Set the value to 1 to keep the case as you type it or 0 to adjust the case as Explorer requires<br /> Click OK<br /> Close Regedit</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">16) Resetting Graphics PreView in Explorer</span></strong>For Windows98, ME or Windows 2000, if you have View as Web Page enabled but do not see a picture preview in Explorer: Start Regedit<br /> Go to Registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ file type \<br /> ShellEx \ {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}<br /> Make sure the Default Value "{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}"</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">17) Changing Drive Labels in Explorer (Windows2000 and XP)</span></strong>Normally the Explorer shows drive labels as "Compact Disk", "Removable Disk" ect. To change the name of this label for specific drives:<br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft /<br /> Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer<br /> Create a key called DriveIcons<br /> Within DriveIcons, create another key with the drive letter you want to change (..\DriveIcons\K)<br /> Create another within the drive letter key called DefaultLabel<br /> Give the Default Value for this key the label you want to appear for that drive letter. (Jazz Drive etc.)<br /> Restart the computer .<br /> <br /></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">18) Removing Right-Click Items</span></strong>When you right click on a folder or file with the Explorer, a list of options is available.<br /> As more applications get installed, this list may get too large for you. To remove items from the list:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Note the text of the item you want to remove<br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to the following sections in the Registry and delete the subkey with the string you noted in Step 1.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell<br /> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\file<br /> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell.</div> </div>

Learn Explorer Tips Lesson 2 - Computer Tips

11) Changing Drive Icons in Explorer To change the icon used for specific drives in Explorer Start Regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

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