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Secret – Hidden Command Line Switch
Instructions – Go to –>Start –>Run -> and Type defrag c: -b to defragment the Boot and Application Prefetch information. Notes – Windows XP will run this automatically every three days or so, during system idle periods. BootVis will evoke this when you run the “Optimize System”  [...]

Open Registry Editor. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace .

Create the following key: {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153} (just copy/paste, including the brackets). Close Registry Editor. There is no need to reboot. Just wait a few seconds and see how the icon appears.

Open Registry by going to Start then Run and Enter 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.

Do you ever want to access your desktop, or shortcut icons on your desktop when your screen is cluttered with windows which you don’t want to minimize? A simple solution. Place a shortcut to your desktop atop your START Menu. Here’s how:
1) Right click on your TASKBAR and [...]

This registry edit will cause your system to reboot itself automatically upon crashing. This can be useful if you have a reason for keeping your system on 24/7:

System Restore was developed by Microsoft and started off in windows Me.  The main function of system restore is to act as a windows backup program which you can fall back on to restore the system should it run into problems.  As this is a backup system, hence it is a very important programs it [...]

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 [...]

Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management, then right-click the partition whose name you want to change (click in the white area just below the word "Volume") and select "change drive letter and paths."
From here you can add, remove or change drive letters and paths to the [...]

Easy Way to Find Recent Web Pages
Now that Google indexes pages extremely fast and saves the date of the first indexing, it would be nice to have more options for restricting search results to a date range. Google only provided three options in the advanced search: see all the pages last updated in the past [...]

To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon,
Start->Run->regedit
It opens Registry Editor. Now in Registry Editor go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name “Recycle Bin” to whatever you want (Without quote).