Sunday, February 3, 2008
Windows Xp Tricks (Learn Part 26)
156. How to remove recycle bin from your desktop ?
Open Regedit by going to START - RUN and type Regedit and hit enter. Then you should navigate to following entry in registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE \\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\
Desktop\\NameSpace\\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and delete it.
this action should remove recycle bin from your desktop.
157. How to create a XP Bootable Disk?
Go to window explorer and right click on the floppy drive.
Select checkbox for Create an MS-DOS startup disk and format the disk. This is all that is needed to create a MS-DOS startup disk in Windows XP
158. Being forced to reinstall but want to avoid reactivation?
Once you activate your copy of Windows XP operating system,A file gets created/updated in windows/system32 directory. It is called wpa.dbl file.
I have noticed that if you need to reinstall, take a backup of this file and once you have reinstalled the OS, just copy it back to the same directory.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE INSTALLED A LEGAL COPY
OF WINDOWS XP ON THEIR MACHINE AND HAVE ALREADY ACTIVATED THE SOFTWARE
THROUGH MICROSOFT PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM
ON ANOTHER MACHINE (MEANING MORE THAN ONE) YOU SHOULD HAVE A VALID LEGAL
COPY AND LICENSE AND SHOULD ACTIVATE THAT COPY THROUGH MICROSOFT
159. Having problems with new install ? Like to restore your system quickly?
This can be achieved in couple of ways. Depending upon how you look at it, Quickest way may be to open command prompt and typing SFC /SCANNOW or you can go to START - ALL PROGRAMS -ACCESSORIES - SYSTEM TOOLS and click System Restore:
IMPORTANT NOTE: You would go back to previous fully functional operating system image and may loose all your changes that may have affected system files.
160. Having problem with slow boot time or is it taking long to resume ?
There are a variety of reasons why your windows XP system would boot slowly. Most of the times it this has to do with the startup applications. If you would like to speed up the bootup sequence,consider removing some of the startup applications that you do not need.
Easiest way to remove startup apps is through System Configuration Utility (Go to START-RUN and enter MSCONFIG) and going to Startup tab and deselecting application(s) that you do not want to startup at boot time.
If this works, great ! If not you can also look into SERVICES tab and possibly deselect WORKSTATION option and see if that helps.Want to know more about boot time and what Microsoft is doing about it ?
Visit Microsoft web site on fast boot /fast resume at c:\\windows\\isifolder.txt notepad Windows98 has a built-in utility called Disk Cleanup.
You can run it from either the Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk Cleanup or directly run CLEANMGR.EXE
Select the drive you want to clean From here you can delete:
• Temporary Internet Files
• Downloaded Program Files
• The Recycle Bin
• Temporary Files
• Non-Critical Files
You can also view the files before they are deleted If you have the Plus Pack for Windows98, you can install the Disk Cleanup addition.
You can then delete any individual files you want. You can also sort by name, type, size, date or location.
Note:
If you want to run this last program directory, it is \\ PROGRAM FILE \\ PLUS! \\ CLEANUP \\FILECLN.EXE
This program will also run on Win95, NT 4 and NT 5 without the Plus Pack being installed.
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