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The ease of use of an operating system can be used as a barometer of its marketability in the market.  There are many facilities that are integrated in windows xp.  The tutorial helps to enable even the public users to quickly adapt with the software.  Here, users, need only to follow and observe the guidance [...]

While there are a lot of command line utilities in WindowsXP, here are some that I have been using lately. bootcfg – Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings. driverquery – Displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties. getmac – Returns the media access control (MAC) address and list of network [...]

If, for some reason, you decided that you didn’t want users of a Windows 2000 computer to be able to change their password unless prompted to, you can make this Registry change to implement that: Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Name: DisableChangePassword Data Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1 A value of 0 means they can change their [...]

If you want to make restrictions to what users can do or use on their computer without having to run Poledit, you can edit the Registry. You can add and delete Windows features in this Key shown below. Zero is Off and the value 1 is On. Example: to Save Windows settings add or modify [...]

Click on the Start button  1. Go to the Control Panel –> Administrative Tools  -> Local Security Policy  -> Local Policies  -> Click on Security Options Right hand menu – right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile" 2. Select "Enable" 3. Reboot For regedit users….. If you want to clear the page file on [...]

WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs. However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs. To clean this periodically go to: Star / Run / Prefetch Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts Delete them

Services You Can Disable There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically. This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources. They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services and that you turn them off one at a [...]

Batch file programming is nothing but the Windows version of Unix Shell Programming. Let’s start by understanding what happens when we give a DOS command. DOS is basically a file called command.com It is this file (command.com) which handles all DOS commands that you give at the DOS prompt—such as COPY, DIR, DEL etc. These [...]

1. Restart you computer 2. When booting, press F8 and select "Safe Mode" 3. After getting to the user menu. Click on a user and this time it will not ask you for a password 4. Go to Start>Run and type "CMD" (without the quotes). 5. At command prompt type in "cd C:WindowsSystem32" (without the [...]

a. Click Tools – Internet Options b. In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group. c. Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files. d. Click View – Details. Now click [...]