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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 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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How to add Command Prompt Option in your Context Menu?

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:01:00 +0000

People who are using Command Prompt for some particular task have to browse to that particular folder if they have to execute the file in that folder in the command prompt window, by default your command prompt will show you your user name Root Directory like this “c:\Document and Settings\user>”. So you have to travel a huge path to reach your destination folder, which is a hectic work. Just think of how if we can go to that particular destination root directory of the folder when we open command prompt(“D:\mywork\destinatin>”)!!! Cool isn’t it?? Lets learn it from here.

This option enables you to right-click on a folder within Windows Explorer and choose the Command Prompt, which opens a Command Prompt window with that folder as your active directory.

do the following:

Step:1

Navigate in your Registry to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/ Classes/Folder/Shell

and create a key called “Command Prompt” without the quotes.

Step 2:

Set the default string to whatever text you want to appear in the right-click menu.

Step 3:

Create a new key within your newly created command prompt named “Command” and set the default string to Cmd.exe /k pushd %L

Step 4:

You may need to add %SystemRoot%/ before the Cmd.exe if the executable can’t be found. The changes take place immediately. Right click on a folder and your new menu item will appear.

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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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Opera download manager

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Opera comes with a download manager (Transfers) that can pause, resume and retransfer a corrupted download. You can specify a default download directory. Press [Alt] + [P] > Programs and Paths and the relevant pane can be found on the right. You can also choose external programs for viewing the source code of a page, etc here. Press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [T] to quickly call the Transfer window.

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Add My Pictures folder to the Send To contextual menu in Windows XP

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:47:00 +0000

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 View tab and select "Show hidden files and folders."
8. Click Apply.
9. Click OK.

You’ll see a hidden folder called Send To. Open it.

Drag and drop the My Pictures shortcut on your desktop into the folder.

If you don’t already have a shortcut to My Pictures, right-click its entry and choose Create Shortcut.

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Add Items To Or Remove Items From A Compressed Folder

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:46:00 +0000

– Moving files and folders:
Moving files and folders to or from compressed folders works the same as with normal uncompressed folders. For example, you can drag files or folders to the compressed folder. When you place a file in a compressed folder, that item is automatically compressed. A file that is moved from a compressed folder is automatically uncompressed.

- Extract all files:
When you open a compressed folder, the Extract all files command appears in the Folder Tasks list. When you click Extract all files, the Extraction Wizard starts. You are prompted to choose a location to place the extracted files, and then the files are extracted.

NOTE: The original compressed files remain in the compressed folder.

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Deactivating the ‘Add New Programs’ function

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:39:00 +0000

It really helps to have the programs in windows all neatly arranged. It’s a different case if the programs installed in the windows shortcut location in the ‘All programs’ are not arranged properly. Users may find difficulties in searching and running their desired programs. Due to that, you will definitely not like the idea if your friends freely install programs into your PC – programs whose functions are uses you are not sure of.

One of the simplest way of installing windows programs is through the control panel. Users can easily install just by clicking ‘Add/Remove Programs’ in the control panel. If you want to prevent others from using that function, the best thing to do is to deactivate it from the control panel.

To do this, you need to modify the existing windows registry arrangement

Goto start –> Run –> regedit
When the registry editor window opens, navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Unistall’.
Create a new entry in the right window pane by right-clicking and selecting
New\Dword Value’; name it ‘NoAddFromCDorFloppy’.
Double-click and enter 1 to the ‘value Data’.
Next, you have to navigate to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies|Uninstall’,
As with the previous steps, create a new entry in the right window pane and name it ‘NoAddFromCDorFloppy’.
Double-click and enter 1 to the ‘Value Data’ section
Restart the computer once u have closed all the windows.

When you are back in the system, try opening ‘Control Panel \ Add/Remove Programs’, u will no longer see the ‘CD or Floppy’ option under ‘Add New Programs’, which is usually used to install programs.

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Using Address Bar as Search Engine in Opera Browser | Opera Browser Tips & Tricks

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Opera supports several search engines. You can either type in a query into the search field—[Shift] + [F8]—or you can use the Address Bar to do the same. Every engine is associated with a single alphabet, thus Google gets a ‘g’, Download.com gets a ‘w’, etc. Press [Alt] + [P] and go to the Search option for the list of engines supported and the associative alphabet. Here, you can also change the number of results displayed per page.

To use the Address Bar for a Google search, press [F8] and precede a query with a g, eg: g X-Men movie Web site [Enter], will search for the ‘X-Men…’ string in Google.

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