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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages To turn these off: Start Regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages Give it a value of 1

With a small registry tweak, Windows XP can be set to automatically close any program that ‘stops responding’ (crashes), eliminating the need for you to use the task manager to close down the offending software manually. To do this: Open REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\ Desktop Modify the REG_SZ entry AutoEndTasks with a value [...]

The trick is Enabling Hibernation: Go to display properties>screen savers>power>hibernate. Check ‘Enable Hibernation’. Press shift button after you click ‘Turn Off Computer’ in start menu.

You can create copies of the current page that you are browsing. This enables you to maintain a cloned copy of the page for cross-referencing or comparison. Right-click on a page and select ‘Duplicate’ or press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [N] to do this.

It is possible to import e-mails to Opera’s M2 e-mail client, from earlier versions of Opera, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail (only version 6 and 7), or any mailbox stored in the generic mbox format. Select File > Import > Mail to import your e-mail. You can import different accounts, folders, settings and contacts. When [...]

Defrag Secret – Hidden Command Line Switch Instructions – Go to –>Start –>Run -> and Type defrag c: -b to defragment the Boot and Application Prefetch information. Notes – Windows XP will run this automatically every three days or so, during system idle periods. BootVis will evoke this when you run the “Optimize System”  function. [...]

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 [...]