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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 choose PROPERTIES. 2) Select the START [...]

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 [...]

Add Records In A Datasheet To add records in a datasheet, open the table in Datasheet View. Click the ‘New Record’ button on the toolbar. Enter a value for the first field and press ‘Tab’. Repeat for as many other fields as desired. Moving off the record stores it to the table.

Add My Pictures folder to the Send To contextual menu in Windows XP. 1. Go into My Computer. 2. Double-click your C: drive. 3. Click Documents and Settings for Users. 4. Go into your user folder. 5. If you haven’t already, reveal your hidden folders. 6. Click Tools and choose Options. 7. Go to the [...]

    The Thumbnails view in Windows XP has a new twist. If a folder contains images saved in a common web format, XP will create an icon for the folder that displays up to four of the images it contains. To show a single image, right-click on the folder icon, choose ‘Properties’ and click on [...]

By default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items. Most simply slow down their display. To turn these off selectively: Right click on the My Computer icon Select Properties Click on the Advanced tab Under Performance, click on the Settings button To turn them all of, select Adjust for [...]

You can save your desktop settings and secure it from your nerdy friend by playing with the registry. Simply launch the Registry Editor go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer In the right pane create a new DWORD Value named NoSaveSettings and modify it’s value to 1. Refresh and restart for the settings to get saved.