To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. First go to the link fo registry tools to access the useful script file and download it to your computer hard disk. Now double click on this file to run this .vbs file and then a small message will appear on screen.
Unlock the windows Regedit Editor and Task Manager. Normally the reason of this message is that your computer has been infected by virus, trojan, or piece of spyware and message look like" Registry editor has been disabled by your administrator" or "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator". By default Windows Task Manager and registry editor status is enabled, but a user can also disable or enable it manually. Some time a registry hack applies on both editors to disable it. Before proceeding further, first scan your system with up-to-date antivirus, and then follow the given steps to enable it. 
Here click on Open button to execute this file and you will get a confirmation message on screen.
Click on Ok button to finish the process and now you can run the both windows editors.
On your computer, you can hide your folders from the common view without any particular software utilities. The tips today am sharing with you is new and different and will make sure the folder does not even show up in Windows search. Suppose you want to hide a folder named WebDoc which is in located on the hard drive D: of your computer
Start —> Run —> cmd –> D:
After changing the location from default hard drive C: to D:, type the following command to change the folder attributes to hide it.
D:/>attrib +h +s +r WebDoc
To make the folder visible, the attributes can be altered back. Type
D:/>attrib -h -s -r WebDoc
When folder is hidden with this trick, the folder can be found even if you make advanced searches or even change the folders menu options to show all hidden files
Windows7 introduces theme packs, which are .cab files that contain all of the necessary assets to implement a theme, including sound files and images. If you want to create your Own Theme pack, It’s actually not that hard to do at all. To create a theme Just read the Tutorial Below and Create Your own Windows 7 Theme Pack.
Components of a Theme Pack
A Theme pack is a file that contains the following items:
* Desktop backgrounds
* Optional customizations for Aero glass, sounds, screensavers, icons, cursors, etc.
Creating a Theme
For creating a Theme you just customize your desktop the way you want it, then click “Save theme” on the Personalization page in the Control Panel. Just make sure to choose the “theme pack” type in the drop-down list when doing so. That’s really all there is to it.
Getting More Advanced
If you want to edit the themepack file directly or create a file from scratch in a text editor, you should check out this resource over on MSDN: “Creating and Installing Theme Files.” The documentation there provides details on the various sections of a theme file and what sort of syntax should be used.
Simple Ways to Increase the Performance of your Windows XP in 5 Minutes or Less
# Disable Extra Startup Programs:
There are certain programs that Windows will start every time you boot up your system, and during the startup phase, they're all competing for a slice of your CPU speed. Extra or unwanted items
in the startup list will definitely increase your startup time, perhaps by several minutes. Some common examples are things related to AOL, RealPlayer, Napster, instant messengers, and video managers. If you're not sure about an item, no big deal. You can turn it off, restart your PC, and see if everything seems to work. If not, you can always go back and re-enable an item in the Startup list. This tip alone should speed up your start-up by 250%. Here are is what
you have to do:
1. Go to Start button > Run
2. Type "msconfig", without quotations
3. Hit enter key or click the OK button
4. A System Configuration Utility window will show up
5. Click the Startup tab
6. In the Startup tab you will see several boxes and some of them
will selected (checked). All you have to do is to uncheck
extra items that are of no use. If you run an antivirus
program it is not recommended to uncheck it.
7. After making you choices press the OK button, you will be
prompted to restart computer to apply changes.
8. After restarting your computer a dialogue will be displayed.
You can check the option for not showing this dialogue every
time your PC reboots.
# Remove Spyware, Adware, and Malware:
Have you scanned your system for spyware, adware and other unwanted pests? 1 of 6 computers has some sort of Spyware or Malware! They dramatically slow down your computer because they use resources to generate popup ads, send spam, and often
interfere with the operation of good programs. If you haven’t scanned recently, we recommend a free scan from a good anti-spyware program. We prefer to use stand-alone, high quality anti-spyware programs like XoftSpy Pro, which give us the ability to scan and repair these problems in seconds.
FINAL NOTE: Recent testing has shown that stand-alone programs
do a much better job than the “all-in-one” packages (eg. Norton Internet Security) at detecting spyware, adware, and malware.
# Optimize Display Settings
Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimize:
1. Click the Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Double-click the System icon
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. In the Performance box click Settings
6. Leave only the following ticked:
a. Show shadows under menus
b. Show shadows under mouse pointer
c. Show translucent selection rectangle
d. Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
e. Use visual styles on windows and buttons
7. Finally, click Apply and OK
# Speed-Up File Browsing:
You may have noticed that every time you open “My Computer” to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing
speed significantly:
1. Double-click on My Computer
2. Click the Tools menu
3. Select Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click OK
8. Reboot your computer
# Reduce Page File Size:
Page file size is not constant by default. Due to this, the operating system has to resize the file each time more space is required. This is a performance overhead. All you have to do is to set the file size to a reasonable limit.
Follow the steps:
1. Right-click My Computer, Select Properties
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Click the Settings button under the Performance section
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. Under the Virtual Memory section click the Change button
6. "Virtual Memory" dialogue box will appear (also shown in the figure below)
7. Highlight the C: drive containing page file
8. Select the Custom Size radio button and give same values in Initial size and Maximum size fields:
If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.
9. Click Set, then OK buttons to apply the changes
Problem:
Slow Windows Start up Process
Solution:
* Click on Start button & Go to “Run” command
* Type “msconfig” and press Enter
* One window will open. Go to Start Up tab. Uncheck unnecessary items from the given list that starts with your windows start up.
Close the window and Restart your PC. You’ll find some changes at startup.
You can also use software named “Start up Delayer”
www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay
Download and install it to your pc. You can choose schedule of your program loading time after boot.
Example: Using this software you can choose schedule that, Yahoo messenger will open after 60 sec of your PC boot.
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Problem :
Start Menu loading slow
Solution:
* Click Start button & Go to Run Command
* Type “regedit.exe” & press enter
* Go to the location
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
* Double Click on “Menu show delay” edit its value to “0”.
Close the window. Now try your start button and see the change.
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Problem :
Slowness of Right click context menu:
Solution:
The main cause of slowness of your windows right click menu is, listed lots of unnecessary items. A fantastic software will help you to remove this unnecessary items. Go to the given link and download the software named “mmm”
http://hace.us-inc.com/mmm.shtml
Install it to your pc and remove unnecessary items from your windows right click menu.
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Problem:
Slowness of “Send to” menu:
Basically Send to menu is the shortcut way to transfer files or folder to another location. Some times this Send to menu takes a long time to appear.
Solution:
1. Click on Start button
2. Go to “Run” command, type “sendto” and press Enter
3. One window will appear with a list of items. Now delete unnecessary items from the list. You will feel faster than before now.
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Problem:
Slowness of Defragmentation process:
We may all of us the sufferers of the slowness of Defragmentation process of windows. So, let us forget to make it faster. I’ll suggest you to use a third party software for defragment program.
Defraggler is one of the best & effective freeware that will help you to defragment your PC faster. Download it from this link www.defraggler.com & install it. Now enjoy defragmentation program easily.
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Problem:
“My Computer” loading slowly
Sometimes My Computer does not open within the double clicking on it. It must be very disgusting to wait for several seconds or more.
Solution:
* Double click on My Computer
* Click “Tools” from the menu bar and go to “Folder Option”
* Uncheck “Automatically search for network folders and printers”
* Click Ok and close the window.
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Problem:
Add or Remove Programs loading slowly
“Add or Remove programs” is one of the delay opened utility at windows. When a lot of software installed at your pc it might happens. So, I’ll suggest you to use a third party software for Adding or Removing programs.
CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) or myuninstaller (www.myuninstaller.com) are the softwares which are both works faster than Windows Add or Remove programs.
CCleaner will also help you to remove cookie, Temporary Internet files, Temporary files, Memory dumps or empty recycle bin etc. It is undoubted a fantastic software.
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Problem:
When PC hangs or Facing problem to closing window
We may all have bad experience of PC hanging or Facing problem when we try to close one or more window. Then basically we use {Ctrl+Alt+Del) but sometimes End task dose not works also.
Solution:
* Click on Start button
* Go to “Run” type “regedit.exe” and press Enter
* Go to the location > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\System\CurrentControlSet\Control-G
* There will be a value given. Change the value by “1000”
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Problem:
To Increase system performance
If you want performance than the look then change the Window look to the classic for better performance of Windows.
Follow the steps:
* Right click on My Computer from desktop
* Click on Properties and go to Advance tab
* Now click on Performance button
* One box will appear named Performance options
* Now choose Adjust for best performance
* Click Apply and Ok.
Your windows look change at classic look. And Enjoy full performance of your PC.
If you regularly execute the same search, for example you are searching for Word
documents that include the phrase "daily collection" ou don't need to retype these
words again and again when ever you are searching. Here you can save your searching words for future search. If you do advanced searches just like size of file name or date, and execute the same search over and over.
Follow the steps
** Click on Start button>> Search>>
** Select "All files and folders" options
Now select the search criteria and perform the search to find any phrase, because you have to run a search before you can save it.
** From the File Menu click on "Save search" and choose where you want to save the search.
Normally, Window XP saves the search in your "My Documents" folder, But you can
save it in any folder. Actually, if you plan to save a lot of searches; you might want to create a separate folder for them.
When you want to run the search again, find the file and double click on it. When
you save a search, Windows XP creates a file named after named after the main
criteria of your search. For example, if you search for all .doc files that contain the
phrase "daily collection" and which have been modified in the past month, windows names the file "Files including text command for disaster recovery.find." You can rename the file, but make sure, always ends in the .find extension, for example, "daily collection.find".
You can restore the System State data backup to recover the windows critical components and
return to your computer to earlier state.With restoring the system state back up, you are going to recover the systems Active Directory, System volume (SYSVOL), COM+ class registration database, Windows registry and Windows boot files.
Follow the steps to run System State data restore wizard:
Log into your computer with administrative rights.
First must make sure, you have the system state backup on your disk.
* Click on Start>> All programes >> Accessories>> System Tools then select Backup
Now by default backup wizard will start, click on advanced mode option to change the restore settings.
a dialog box will appear with title "Backup Utility", select "Welcome" tab and click on Restore Wizard [Advanced] button to restore the backup of important windows components.
Click on Next button to continue restore wizard.
Here click on Browse button to specify the source of backup file and then select item to restore.
Now verify your selected settings and click on Finish button.
At the end, system will display a warning message "Restoring System State will always overwrite current system state unless restoring to an alternate location" press Ok button to start restore process.
Here I will tell you how you can preview windows applications before switching to them.
First press the Alt+ Tab keys to preview the icons of running windows applications. When you have done this step then window will display a box which
contain all that programs and windows you have opened. You have to hold down the Alt keys to switch them. You keep tabbing when you are doing this
until you have selected one of them.
But One thing: When you are switching to another window you are flying blind with Alt+tab keys. Because you cant see
the window before switching it. It may be confusing to you.
Solution:
Microsoft power toy which is Alt+Tab replacement tweak that will help you to know one of the file when you have opened many windows in a program.
Visit the following link.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
Download the file and install it.
After you have downloaded this tweak then first run the setup to install it. After installing, when you will use the Alt+ Tab keys you will get a preview
of that window which you are going to switching.
First Right click on your windows XP desktop then click on Properties option. Here click the Appearance tab then go to Advance button and under Item you will find many options to change the desktop icons, for example choose icon spacing in both ways and then here you can change the size putting number (minimum or maximum) under size. When you finished all setting then click ok button.
If you want to upgrade your computer, the new monitor is the easiest way to upgrade your computer, because if you have old monitor with new PC, your monitor slow down the system to download image on the screen. The main change with new monitor is the increased screen resolution, fast refresh rates in which a monitor will refresh a image on the screen.
If you want to change the refresh rate of your monitor,
Right click on Desktop > Properties > Settings then open Advanced options.
Here on the Monitor tab, go to Refresh Frequency list, Here you can change your
Monitor frequency with new refresh rate. The default frequency setting of old monitor is 60 Hertz, but your monitor may support more than 60 hertz. First check your monitor manufacturer documentation about your monitor supports. The higher refresh rate reduces the flicker problem on your screen.
you are currently working in. On the other hand, with the just few more clicks, you can change the view of all the folders on your computer.
Follow the steps to do this
**First of all open any folder, click "View" and choose the view you would most like to use.
**Click on "Tools" menu and go to "Folder options.."
**Select the "View" tab on Folder option dialog box.
**At the top of the dialog box, click Apply to all folders button
Now a new confirmation message will appear as "Set all the folders on your computer to match the current folders view settings (except for toolbars and folder task)? Change will occur the next time you open them."
Click OK in the Folder Options window to save the changes.
Now all the folders on your computer should display contents in your chosen view.
As before, you can still change the view in individual folders via the "View" button.
Sometimes we faces some windows problems (like new programs being installed,
viruses infecting and spyware creates problem in your browsers it is not unusual for
your computer to suddenly stop behaving correctly) and needs to recover or restore the
operating system at previous status. Windows XP has a built is recovery system That
will help you to restore your windows xp to the previous working state without any loss
of personal data. So you can perform the windows recovery process and return your
computer to earlier state within a minute.
Follow the given steps to run System Restore wizard:
First log into your pc with administrative rights
* Click on Start button> All programes> Accessories> System Tools> System restore
Now a "Welcome to System Restore" wizard will start, first read the detail instruction on left side of the page.
On right side of the page, click on "Restore my computer to an earlier time" check box
under "To begin, select the task that you want to perform" area and then click on Next
button.
On the "Select a Restore Point" page, click on bold date option, but try to use a restore
date as close as possible to a time just before the problem started then click on Next
button.
Now a next page will appear with title "Confirm Restore Point Selection", to restore your
computer to this date and time then click on Next button to start the restore process.
Now system restore process recover the previous windows settings and your computer
will restart with "Restoration Complete" message, click Ok button to finish the process.
windows XP. Windows display the several default frequently used shortcuts in "Send To" menu, for example Compressed (zipped) Folder and others. But if you want to use any third-party application in windows XP for compression or de-compression then you can disable this windows built-in compressed folder feature.
To Disable the windows built-in compressed folder feature:
* First log into your computer with administrative rights.
* Click Start >> Run
* Type "regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll "
* A small message will appear with title "RegSvr32" and the message
is "DllUnregisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll succeeded."
Click on Ok button.
Now right click on any file or folder to verify the change.
To enable the windows built-in compressed folder feature:
*Click Start >> Run
*Type "regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll"
A small message will appear with title "RegSvr32" and the message
is "DllUnregisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll succeeded."
Click on Ok button.
Now right click on any file or folder to verify the change.
Using System State backup technique, you can create the backup of windows critical components on any system drive and this backup file can be used if the original copy is lost, damaged, or destroyed. On windows 2000/XP/Vista, system state data wizard backed up the following components.
*Windows registry
*Windows boot files
*COM+ class registration database
*But if you are running domain controller, system state data wizard backed up the
following components
*Active Directory
*System volume (SYSVOL)
*Windows registry
*Windows boot files
*COM+ class registration database
Follow the given steps to run System State data backup wizard:
To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button> All programs> Accessories> System Tools then click on Backup.
Now by default backup wizard will start, click on advanced mode option to change the backup settings.
Here a dialog box will appear with title "Backup Utility", select "Welcome" tab and click on Backup Wizard [Advanced]
button to create backup of windows important components.
Click on Next button to continue backup wizard.
Now select option "Only back up the System State date" on what to back up page and click on Next button.
Here click on Browse button to specify the destination for backup file and also set backup file name under "Type a name for this backup" box then click on Next button.
Now verify your selected settings and click on Finish button to start backup process.
Basically "Send To" command is used to transfer files. Using this command, a user can
quickly send his file between default destinations (default lists in Send To menu, for example Desktop,
CD/DVD Drive, My Documents, Mail Recipient and Floppy Drive).To increase the data
transfer speed between different locations, you can add more new destination in Send To lists.
Add new destinations to Send To lists:
**Click Start button >> Run
**Type "sendto" & click ok
A window will appear with default Send To lists (Compressed (zipped) Folder, Desktop (create shortcut), Mail Recipient, My Documents).
Using drag-and-drop menu (or using copy and paste method), you can move any program, folders and drives shortcuts to this folder.
Now you can verify, your new shortcut is created in Send To menu.
But next times, if you want to delete any destination, then open the Sent To folder and remove
the destination shortcut.
In Windows Media Player, you can use the combination of different keyboard keys to
accomplish routine task. By using these keys, you can increase the working speed in
media player, otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons
options. Basically keyboard shortcuts keys help you to save time and you can perform
any tasks without leaving the keyboard keys.
ALT+1 Adjust zoom to 50 percent
ALT+2 Adjust zoom to 100 percent
ALT+3 Adjust zoom to 200 percent
ALT+ENTER Display the video in full mode
ALT+F Go to media player File Menu
ALT+T Go to media player Tools Menu
ALT+V Go to media player View Menu
ALT+P Go to media player Play Menu
ALT+F4 Use to close media player
CTRL+1 Display media player in full mode
CTRL+2 Display media player in skin mode
CTRL+B Use to play the previous item in media player
CTRL+F Use to play the next item in media player
CTRL+E Use to Eject CD or DVD from CD or DVD drive
CTRL+P Use to Play or Pause the item in media player
CTRL+T Use to Repeat the items in media player
CTRL+SHIFT+B Use to Rewind a file in media player
CTRL+SHIFT+F Use to Fast Forward a file in media player
CTRL+SHIFT+S Use to play items slower than a normal speed
CTRL+SHIFT+ G Use to play items faster than a normal speed
CTRL+SHIFT+ N Use to play items at normal speed in media player
F8 Use to mute the volume in media player
F9 Use to decrease the volume in media player
F10 Use to increase the volume in media player
ENTER or SPACEBAR Use to play an item
You can change the name of Recycle Bin of your system if you wish. It is very easy and interesting but it require some changes in windows registry,
* Click on Start button
* Go to Run and Type " regedit.exe"
* In regedit editor Browse HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, In this folder open the CLSID folder then open the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} folder >ShellFolder folder at last.
* Here simply change the data value from "40 01 00 20" to "70 01 00 20".
Close registry editor and restart your computer. From now you will find option to rename Recycle name after right clicking on Recycle Bin Icon.
You can change new name as you wish
The font represents the physical characteristics of the letters typed into the document.
By default Microsoft windows XP has different types of font, for example:
*Verdana (TrueType)
*MS Serif
*MS Sans Serif
*Arial (TrueType)
*Times New Roman (TrueType)
*Symbol (TrueType)
*Wingdings (TrueType)
If you want to add new fonts in windows XP, then first make sure, these new fonts
must be TrueType fonts (Font Standard) or particularly designed for windows.
Follow the given steps to add or remove new fonts in windows default font folder:
To install new fonts in your computer:
First log into your computer with administrative rights
*Click on Start button>> Run
*Type "%windir%\fonts" and click ok
*Go to File menu and click on Install New Font option, in the drives box, select the
drives (hard drive, CD-drive or Floppy drive) that contains the new fonts. Here you can
also select the Network option to install the font from network location.
*Select the new fonts and check the option "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" then press Ok
button to finish the process.
To Removing Fonts in your computer:
*Click Start button >> Run
*Type "%windir%\fonts" and ok
*First select the font that you want to remove, Press CTRL key to select more than
one font. Now go to File menu and click on Delete option.
A message will appear "Are you sure you want to delete these fonts?", then press Ok
button to finish the process.
You can enable this option to run windows update automatically when your computer
will be connected to the internet. Through this service you can check the Microsoft
website for downloadable improvements to the operating system and security patches
also. These latest updates will protect your computer from the attacks of latest viruses
and potential hackers. Windows Update is free of cost and important service that is
why always makes sure its running on your computer.
Follow the steps:
First log into your computer with administrative rights
** From Desktop Right click on My Computer
** Select Properties
** Click on Automatic Updates tab, if it is not selected already then click on
“Automatic (recommended)” box. Then this will display the different setting to
continually check Microsoft’s website for updates.
** Here you can pick a download and installation schedule or select the option
“Download the updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be
installed” in the section of settings. Through this option you can download updates
automatically and it will install the updates immediately.
If you wait a day or two before installing an updates to make sure there are not any serious bugs
reported about the latest patch you can check it through Microsoft website. Now click on Ok button to
finish the process.
Here's a cool tip for accessing a Web page from any Windows address bar. You can enter any string of characters in an address bar and then press Ctrl-Enter; Windows will automatically add both "www" and ".com", and then search for the page on the Internet. For example, if we type
w3schools
in an address bar and then press Ctrl+Enter, Windows will take us to the
www.w3schools.com
