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Hibernate your computer for a faster start up

11. August 2008

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Windows XP takes a lot of time to start, If you hate waiting like me then you must consider using hibernation option instead of turnoff for a faster startup. To do this, 1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“. 2. Or You can just press H to hibernate [...]

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Alternate to Windows Copy function

10. July 2008

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Grrrrrrrr……I yelled out because the data being transferred to my computer from the DVD was interrupted due to an error stating”Cyclic Data redundancy…” which means that the DVD/CD writer isn’t able to read the DVD due to bad sectors formed generally due to scratches .Just before this error had popped,3GB of my DVD was already [...]

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Make your Windows XP talk

7. July 2008

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Make your Windows XP talk

Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File. It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.” ;copy from here————– Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak msg ;———-to here Download the .vbs file Bookmark It

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Amaze your firends by displaying your name after time in taskbar

7. July 2008

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Amaze your firends by displaying your name after time in taskbar

This trick will add your name in place of AM and PM beside time and make you feel proud among your group of friends. Go to  Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language option -> Customize (beside English US) -> Go to TIME tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM [...]

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Modify Windows start button to display System time

3. July 2008

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Modify Windows start button to display System time

Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this number smaller [...]

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Security : Clear Data written in page file before shutdown

28. June 2008

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As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file. [Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> Press [...]

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Modifying the Internet and Media Player Key On a multimedia Keyboards

26. June 2008

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If you dont like the shortcuts on your multimedia keyboard jsut because they launch the default programs given by windows then here is a way to change them. Internet key Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7 Right-click in the right column and create a new String called ShellExecute Set the value as the application path, for example, [...]

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Remove Security Alerts From windows System Tray

23. June 2008

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Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column. In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything. Bookmark It

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Change windows startup and shutdown sounds

21. June 2008

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To change windows xp start up sound You have to convert the sound which you want to put as the start up & shutdown sound Rename the files as Windows XP Startup.wav & Windows XP Shutdown.wav Navigate to c:\windows\media & replace the orginal winxp startup & shutdown sound with the new Windows XP Startup & Shutdown files. Bookmark [...]

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Overcome Auto Reboot Problem in windows XP

21. June 2008

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Many People Might have faced , cases when a system fault/error/crash ends up freezing the OS at the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), which displays the cause of the crash and gives some details about the state of the system when it crashed. The major annoyance is that it requires a “cold” reboot (reset) [...]

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