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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

     If there are applications or commands that you run every single time you start your computer (Email comes to mind) you may want to consider setting things up so that these programs run automatically during the Windows XP startup. This can be done quite easily in XP by creating shortcuts and shuffling them around. [...]