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      With the latest post-beta 2 builds, Microsoft has included new Aero cursors that are not turned on by default. Follow the steps below to use the new cool looking cursors: Right click on your desktop and select Personalize. Click on the Mouse Cursors item to select a Vista graphics different mouse cursor scheme. Change [...]

The windows xp that you have been using daily will not run smoothly forever.  Glitches such as wrong settings and big problems such as with the registry,  may just pop up.  The thing which you probably resent most is when the problem comes just as  you are busy doing your office work.  Besides the loss [...]

Procedure 1: 1. Right click on your desktop and choose "New=>shortcuts". 2. In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut", type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" without the quotation marks and click next. Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , 60secs*60mins=3600secs. 3. Make up a [...]

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 [...]

If XP is corrupted to the point where none of the previous solutions get it to boot, you can do a Repair Install that might work as well as keep the current settings. Make sure you have your valid WindowsXP key. The whole process takes about half an hour depending on your computer If you [...]

Do you dislike the Windows startup and shutdown screens, and wish to replace them with your own images? Here’s how: 1. On your c:\ drive (root directory), you will find the following files: LOGO.SYS startup screen LOGOS.SYS shutdown screen LOGOW.SYS "wait to shutdown" screen 2. COPY these files to a floppy disk before attempting to [...]

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 [...]