02. Stop XP from displaying unread messages count on Welcome Screen?
Welcome Screen.
To stop XP from displaying count of unread messages, Open registry and navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\UnreadMail] and look for
the data key "MessageExpiryDays". If you do not see this key, create one DWORD key by the name
"MessageExpiryDays". Setting its value to 0 would stop Windows XP from displaying the count of
unread mesages.
03. How to rollback a device driver ?
There are times when you install an ungrade to a device driver but instead of getting an upgrade you
get downgraded in the sense that either you loose on performance or its stoping functioning at all.
Insituation like this where you are still able to logon with System priviledges, you can roll back thedriver. Even though this can not be considered as a tweak, but it could save you a good deal of timeand disappointment.
Here are the steps:
Step:2 Right click on My Computer
Step:3 Select Properties
Step:4 Click on the Hardware tab
Step:5 Click on the Device Manager button
Step:6 Select the device you want to rollback or reconfigure
Step:7 Click on the Driver tab and then click on the Roll Back Drive button
04. Windows XP Command Line Reference
You would be surprised to know what you can do from command line of Windows XP Pro. Windows
XP Pro comes equipped with a powerful set of command line utilities. If you want to know what they
are and how to run them and a good decription of each of them...go no futher.. Its available right in your computer. This is again not a tip or trick or tweak of any kind but information that is as powerful as any of the tips/tricks.
Open START-RUN window and type C:\\WINDOWS\\Help\\ntcmds.chm
Also you may not know that .chm is the windows help file extension. I find the Windows Help to be a very good starting point to learn all the power and resources of Windows environment. I like section Windows scripting host among other things. You can read most of it in the reference
but here I am doing a cut/paste of the new command line tools.
The following table lists the new Windows XP Professional command-line tools.
Command Feature
bootcfg: Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings.
defrag : Locates and consolidates fragmented boot files, data files, and folders on local volumes.
diskpart : Manages disks, partitions, or volumes.
driverquery : Queries for a list of drivers and driver properties.
eventcreate : Enables an administrator to create a custom event in a specified event log.
eventquery Lists the events and event properties from one or more event logs.
eventtriggers Displays and configures event triggers on local or remote machines.
fsutil Manages reparse points, managing sparse files, dismounting a volume, or extending a volume.
getmac Obtains the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols
helpctr Starts Help and Support Center.
ipseccmd Configures Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) policies in the directory service, or in a local or remote registry. Ipseccmd is a command-line version of the IP Security Policies Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.
logman Manages and schedules performance counter and event trace log collections on local and
remote systems.
openfiles Queries, displays, or disconnects open files.
pagefileconfig Displays and configures the paging file Virtual Memory settings of a system.
perfmon Enables you to open a Performance console configured with settings files from Windows NT 4.0 version of Performance Monitor.
prncnfg Configures or displays configuration information about a printer.
prndrvr Adds, deletes, and lists printer drivers from local or remote print servers.
prnjobs Pauses, resumes, cancels, and lists print jobs.
prnmngr Adds, deletes, and lists printers or printer connections, in addition to setting and displaying the default printer.
prnport Creates, deletes, and lists standard TCP/IP printer ports, in addition to displaying and
changing port configuration.
prnqctl Prints a test page, pauses or resumes a printer, and clears a printer queue.
relog Extracts performance counters from performance counter logs into other formats, such as text- TSV (for tab-delimited text), text-CSV (for comma-delimited text), binary-BIN, or SQL.
sc Retrieves and sets information about services.
Tests and debugs service programs. schtasks Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time. Adds and removes tasks from the schedule, starts and stops tasks on demand, and displays and changes scheduled tasks.
shutdown Shuts down or restarts a local or remote computer.
systeminfo Queries the system for basic system configuration information.
taskkill Ends one or more tasks or processes.
tasklist Displays a list of applications, services, and the Process ID (PID) currently running on either a local or a remote computer. tracerpt Processes event trace logs or real-time data from instrumented event trace providers and allows you to generate trace analysis reports and CSV (comma-delimited) files for the events generated.
typeperf Writes performance counter data to the command window or to a supported log file format.
WMIC Eases the use of Windows Management Insturmentation (WMI) and systems managedthrough WMI.
05. Customize Internet. Explorer Title bar
This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your computer experience.
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet. Explorer\\Main. In right hand panel look for
string "Window Title" and change its value to whatever custom text you want to see. That is it.
06. Add ability to rip MP3 songs in Windows Media Player
I am not that great a fan of MP3 but do appreciate its power. If you have a truckload of CDs that you
would like to listen to but do not want to carry all of them at the same time, you can rip them into
MP3. Yes it can be done technically and that too from Windows Media Player even though make sure
you have legally on right side of fence, meaning you own the CD that you would rip MP3 from. That
said here is the little tweak in registry. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\
MediaPlayerSettings\\MP3Encoding] and adding following entries
"LowRate"=dword:0000dac0
"MediumRate"=dword:0000fa00
"MediumHighRate"=dword:0001f400
"HighRate"=dword:0002ee00
which corresponds to 56, 64, 128 and 192 Kbps. Following table would help with other settings as
well:
320 Kbps = dword:0004e200
256 Kbps = dword:0003e800
224 Kbps = dword:00036b00
160 Kbps = dword:00027100
112 Kbps = dword:0001b580
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