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How to change the Registered Name and Company in the System Properties dialog Box?

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:13:00 +0000

This Tips briefly demonstrate you how to change your Registered Name and Company name in the System Properties dialogue box after installing your windows XP. We can accomplish this tweak by editing our Registry editor, but editing registry is not a good practice always, because registry editing may damage your system in some times, so whenever you do, just have a registry backup. Its worth a million.

Now follow the Procedure Given Below

start->Run->Regedit

You should be very very Careful in editing the Registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version

Look for the value in the right pane of the window RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner
Double click on the Registered Organization and change the Company Name in the ‘value’ field.
Click ‘OK’ to save the changes.
To change the owner name, double-click on the Registered Owner and Change the name in the ‘value’ field. Click ‘OK’ to save the changes
Close the Registry Editor and restart the computer to see the changes.

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Creating Emergency Boot up Rescue Disk

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:52:00 +0000

If your system powered with Windows XP crashed and require a Boot Floppy to Rescue the Disk in emergency time, then you need to do a system recovery. we know windows xp doesn’t have any rescue Disk, but we need not to worry about that, because windows having ARD (Automated Recovery Disk) with the help of the ARD we can create on Rescue disk to boot in emergency period. Creating a Rescue Disk is a necessary work for a PC which is like a life saver for your system.

Here is the Trick of how to create an emergency boot up Rescue Disk

Windows Xp doesn’t have no boot rescue disk as we know, but it has automated recovery disk

start->program->Accessories->System Tools->Backup

you will get the Backup or Restore wizard Click Next.

Click Restore Files and Settings, and then click Next.

In the What to Restore dialog box, select the media that contains the ASR backup. Ensure that the media is inserted.

Expand the Automated System Recovery Backup Set that corresponds to the ASR floppy disk that you want to create.

Expand the second instance of the drive letter that contains the system files. Expand the Windows_folder/Repair folder.

Click the following files from this repair folder: Asr.sif and Asrpnp.sif, and then click Next.(These two files are used during the ASR Restore Operation)

Click on ‘Advanced Mode’. This will show you Backup Utility Window.

Click ‘Automated System Recovery wizard’ button, you need to specify a destination where a backup of the system files can be made, once that is made, you will be prompted to insert a floppy disk. The boot files will be transferred on to floppy (before that Format the Floppy). In case of a system failure, the backup and the boot floppy will help in starting the OS using recovery process .

Note: While doing rescue disks, remember that if your system crashes, you will also need to have the Windows installation CD for complete recovery of your OS.

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Problem on Opening a folder via Right-Clicking

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:15:00 +0000

Police: What’s your problem mam?

Winny: my PC works in a weird manner, while right clicking it opens some other program instead of selected folder.

Police: Oh no problem mam, just read the article below.

This can be overcome in two ways,

1.Tools->Folder_>options->Filetypes and choose the appropriate program, but this file folder or folder in the list does not allow you to make necessary changes. So go for the next method.

2. This method use registry to edit the file types

start->Run->Regedit

In the right pane go to the following

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell

In the right pane of the registry editor you will see a key with the name ‘Default’, if you have some problems in your system this key must have some other values.

Double click the ‘Default’ and change the value to ‘Open’ (just type open)

Click OK and close the registry editor.

Restart the computer or press[F5] a few times to refresh the desktop.

Try opening a folder, ‘Open’ should become the default option on a right-click

Winny:Oh Thank you Officer This Tip really Helps me and now i can able to open any files by right-clicking. Thanks a million

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Windows XP Problem | System will close after a countdown of 50 Seconds

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:00 +0000

If you got a message says that “NT/Authority is initiating the RPC to shutdown the system and the system will close after a countdown of 50 seconds” then your computer is infected by Lovesan or (lovsan) the Blaster virus. This virus usually affect Windows XP and 2000.

To overcome this problem you need to download a patch to plug the security hole in the OS. The Microsoft knowledge link of this patch files can be found here

The Cure:

Remove the cable or switch the modem OFF
Prevent system to shutdown on its own

Start->Run->services.msc
or
Start->control panel ->Administrative Tools ->services

Look for ‘Remote Procedure Call (RPC)’ and double click it.
Click on ‘Recovery tab’ and choose ‘Take no action’ for the 1st, 2nd and Subsequent failures.
Click on ‘Apply’ and ‘ok’

When you finish this the system might restart.
After getting back to desktop again click start->run->(type)shutdown/c and ok
Then run fixblast.exe file given here.
Once that finishes, run the MS Patch which is relevant to your OS

Windows NT 4.0

Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition

Windows 2000

Windows XP 32 bit Edition

Windows XP 64 bit Edition

Windows Server 2003 32 bit Edition

Windows Server 2003 64 bit Edition

Restart after the Installation complete

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Problem with System Restore or System Restore missing? | Here is the solution

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Plenty of People who use windows XP rely on system restore when their system crashed or system works harder, but due to some malware or some missed file during uninstallation or file in backup for future purpose might produce some harm to your system which hides your system restore option. we know that we should create system restore point before going to install or do some critical process in our system, so system restore plays a vital role here.

Some of the Chances for the problem:

You lost this function from your windows?
If you right-click on “my computer” and select “properties” you no longer see the system Restore tab init?
Open start –> Run –> services.msc the System Restore listed there is in ‘Stopped’ mode?
If you reactivate it by pressing ‘Start’ button, it will show some error message ‘Folder is not empty’
If you use this function to do a backup, you aren’t find the function in the windows system?

These Problem of system restore is due to a missing or corrupted file in “system volume information” folder which is inside ‘Drive letter’

Just resolve this problem by following the rules given below.

1. If you’ve ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’ drives, you should start with drive ‘E’ first

2. Change the name of the ‘System Volume Information’ by right-clicking on the folder in drive ‘E’.

3. Then right-click on drive ’E’ (system volume information folder) and select the ‘Rename’ function.

4. change its name into ‘System Volumeinfo’

5. Do the same to the rest of the drives.

6. Then ‘Restart’ your computer, when system is started, delete all the ‘System Volumeinfo’ folders.

7. After the second restart, you will see ‘Mycomputer->properties’ again. Now you see the ‘System Restore’ there and ready for use it again.

8. you can see the ‘system volume information’ new folder will create by default

Now what? Enjoy with System Restore. #cheers

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Problem due to missing system files ?| Resolve it by expanding file from msconfig

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:59:25 +0000

Many Problem’s in the system may occur due to missing of some system files in the hard disk, plenty of people reinstall the system to resolve the problem, this is time consuming.

If the problem is caused by some missing or damaged file n hard disk you can retrieve those files from the OS CD. In windows 98 you could take it from the DOS menu or from some software’s from other manufacturer’s But windows XP provides you many files from the setup files.

You have to remember the name and location of the missing or corrupted file.

Start->Run->msconfig

Ensure the ‘General tab’ in the ‘system config utility’ window is opened. At the lower right hand section, click the Expand File button to open Expand Window

Now type the name of the missing or corrupted file in ‘File Restore’ section then click the ‘CAB’ file from the windows xp setup CD at ‘Restore From’ and finally set the target folder at the ‘Save file in’ section.

Click ‘Expand’ to start the process, when the file is saved into the target folder, close the ‘Expand’ window, it is simple to fetch a file from the windows xp setup cd

Everything Done!

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Important Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:12:17 +0000

To handle your windows 7 faster you should know the shortcut keys, by using shortcut keys you no need to grab your mouse and move your mouse pointer over some difficult root entry, this keyboard shortcuts are just have the combination of two or three keys and saves your time and increase your productivity. The table given below shows some most common and essential windows 7 shortcut keys. Here you go.

we update this table periodically whenever we discover new shortcut keys

Hint: win = windows key

Shortcut	Shortcut Key Function
Win + Home	Minimize all but the active window
Win + Space	See through the desktop
Win + uparrow	Maximize the active window
Win+Downarrow	Minimize/Restore the active window
Win+Left/Right arrows	Dock the window to each side of the monitor
Win+Shift+Left+Right arrow	Move the window to the adjacent monitor(for dual-monitor setups)
Win+t	Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar
Win+p	Adjust Presentation settings for your display
Win +(+/-)	Zoom in/out
shift+click a taskbar item	Open a new instance of that application

Keep an eye on this page we update it regularly

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Changing Control Panel using Group Policy editor for Windows XP

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:23:50 +0000

You can take control of the Control Panel by using the Group Policy Editor. You can prohibit access to the Control Panel, hide or show only certain Control Panel applets and even force the Classic Control Panel style. Exploring further, you can completely personalize the Display Properties dialog box by hiding specific items such as the Desktop tab, the Appearance and Themes tab, the Screen Saver tab, and more. To make changes to the Control Panel follow these steps:

Click on “Start” and then “Run”.
Type gpedit.msc Expand “User Configuration” and then double click on “Administrative Templates”. Now click on “Control Panel”.
The Control Panel options will appear on the right pane.
To enable any option, just double click on it and choose “Enable”.
To disable it, just choose “Disable”.
Under the Control Panel options, select “Display”.
Double click on “Remove Display from Control Panel” and in the dialog box, choose “Enabled”.
Click on “OK”. Close the Group Policy Editor.

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How to Bypass Windows XP Logon Screen

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:52:09 +0000

First you have to make sure that you have logged into an administrative account else you will not be allowed to make changes. Go to “Start | Run”. Now in the open box, delete if anything is present and type “control userpasswords2” without the quotes. If you aren’t logged into an administrative account it will ask you to login into one. After you have done that a new window will pop up. Under the “User” tab, you will see a check box saying, “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer”. Uncheck that box. Now if you have multiple user logins, then it will ask you which login you would like to automatically log into. Enter the username and the password if any and click on “OK”. Restart the machine and you will directly reach the desktop.

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Remove Find and Run Options From Start Menu in your Windows XP

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:17:00 +0000

You can actually remove the Find and Run options from the start menu by performing a simple registry hack. Again like always
Launch the registry editor and scroll down to the below key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

Right-click on the right pane and select New, DWORD Value.
Name it NoFind.(To remove the RUN option name it NoRun).
Double-click the newly create DWORD to edit it’s value and enter 1 as its value.
This will disable the FIND option of the Start Menu and will also
disable the default Shortcut key(F3 for Find.)
To restore the Run or find command modify the value of the
DWORD to 0 or simply Delete the DWORD value.

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