Archive for 'Windows XP'

Unlock Hidden Folder Options

If your computer is infecting by virus, you can recognize it through some signs that viewed. One of the sign is Folder Options menu is disappeared.  Why the virus is make it hidden? Because in Folder Options you can set the Windows Explorer to display the files or folder that have hidden attribute. As you know, most of virusses make itself hidden. So, you can’t view them and not realize their present.
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Trick To Cancel Drag-Drop

drag-dropDrag & Drop is one of great features on Windows operating system. With drag-drop, I can copy or move an object (file or folder) from a folder to another folder. One day, when I want to move my file to another folder using drag-drop way suddenly I want cancel it because I forgot that I didn’t save it yet. Maybe this’s not a big deal but I think can make you confused with this problem. Usually, if I saw my friends solution get this problem, they drop the object to object that can’t receive the object, such as status bar.
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My 10 Favourite Commands

Although Windows XP provides a great way to open an aplication by click their icon, some times I feel typing a command to ask Windows open an application is better way and faster. At least it happens on my daily work. I feel press Windows + R keys combination and then typing a command make my job be more responsive.
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Hide Run Menu With Visual Basic Script

I’ve written an article about Manage Registry with Visual Basic Script and this time I want to modified the script to make it to manage Run menu. As you know Run menu is a great menu, with Run you may can go everywhere easier. So, I call it gateway. Yup it’s a gate to go every corner your computer.
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Prevent Some Software To Run

To make your computer more secure, one of the ways that you can take is to prevent computer users to run several software that you deem dangerous to run. For example, user 1 can’t run Microsoft Word, user 2 can not run Microsoft Excel, etc. … So, if your computer users can’t run all the software in the computer, it makes your computer be more secure
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Managing Registry From Command Line

Registry Editor is a powerful tool to editing or display Windows Registry system. But Windows XP had given us another great tool to edit it; the tool is reg command line. Yup, you have to type it and sure in command line environment. This time, I want write about how to use the reg command.
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Adding Extra Options at My Computer

If you frequently use the Administrative Tools, Schedule Tasks, Printers and Faxes, Network Connections or Fonts in your work, maybe this article can help you. Usually to open them, you must first open the Control Panel. I will show you how to put them in Windows Explorer so that we can access them more quickly.
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Do Not Make Your Password Is Too Short

Create a password is sometimes confusing us. If the password is too long will make it difficult to remember but on the other hand, if too short will be easy to guess at other people. So, I suggest in making the password, not too short! But unfortunately, Windows XP has been configuring the system so that users can create a password with no minimum to character number, including one character. And ti will make your system be fragile. For that we need to configure it so that Windows XP users who reject the password is too short. This is for security reasons. The core of this article is force user to set their password with minimum character that you want.
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Removing Unused Item In Add/Remove Programs

I was uninstalling my CorelDraw yesterday because of a trouble. After several steps to uninstall, it looks like removed smoothly. But I was a little surprised that CorelDraw is still listed in the list of Add / Remove Programs in Control Panel. My friend tried to give me a way to remove the program from the list. Then I was trying it and it was works. And I want to share it for you.
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Show Your Library Files Icon

I am often frustrated when I see my .dll files. Because the standard configuration .dll files only represented by only one type of icon. In fact, .dll files can be replaced with the icon of the .dll file itself so that the contents of the .dll files can be represented with the appearance of the icon.
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