Archive for 'Windows XP'

Manage Environment Variables

Beside Windows registry which contains entire of Windows configurations, Windows also has its variables that manage where the temporary files is placed, its path, its windir path and others variable. And this article will discuss how to manage the Environment Variables.
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Using IExpress

Do you know that Windows XP has a great packager? It calls IExpress. It has bundled in Windows XP CD installation; it means you can get it by free. I have been discussing it in this article. And in this article, I’ll write about how to using it steps by step.
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Lock Welcome Screen on Invalid Login

By default, Windows XP give you unlimited chance to retry if you enter a password or even a wrong user name. Maybe, you think this a comfort way to you but on other hand, a guest or unauthorized user can try to guess your password without worry locked by its system. And this isn’t a good condition for your computer security. This article will share a tip to limit the login chance to three times user may input wrong passwords on login screen or Welcome Screen.
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Hide My Computer’s Properties menu

If your right click My Computer icon on desktop or Start menu, a usual pop menu will appear. And if you click Properties menu then, System Properties window will shown. And you can change lot computer settings inside there. And this is a danger ‘window’ for a wrong user. The naughty user may destroy computer through it.
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Open Many Yahoo Messengers Simultaneously

With standard configuration, Yahoo Messenger is just allowing us to open single Yahoo Messenger application in one time. If you’ve been opening Yahoo Messenger with your Yahoo account, you can’t open the other windows with other accounts. If you force to open it by click its shortcut on Start menu, it will open the opened Yahoo Messenger, not the new one.
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Disable Write Caching on Your Hard Drive

Write caching on a hard drive is a great way to boost your hard drive performance. Unfortunately, it has a negative effect. If you’re enabling write caching on your hard drive, all traffic of data will put on your cache memory first then your hard drive plates. So, this why your hard drive performance will increases but if your electricity is turn off suddenly you’ll data could be lost.
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Move the Temporary Files Folder

Almost all of Windows applications make its temporary file every time it runs. By default, Windows XP puts temporary files in C:\Document and Settings\Account_name\Local Settings\Temp\ folder. So, if your account name is Edi, it means your temporary files is saved in C:\Document and Settings\Edi\Local Settings\Temp\ or you can enter %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp\ in Run box or Windows Explorer address bar. And have you know, that you can move your temporary files onto other location.
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Optimizing Write Allocation of File

To make your hard drive health, one of the ways is manage when hard drive is wrote. Because if the operating system have well structured when it is writing, your hard drive won’t fragmented easily. Unfortunately, Windows XP doesn’t do that by standard configurations. Thanks to Registry hacked, that make you have a better configuration to make your hard drive be better.
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Crash Your Windows XP!

It sounds strange, why do I must crash my Windows? If you’re a developer, maybe you can look its contents of memory when computer is crash. Or you have another purpose to make it crash. To make a computer crash intentionally, that’s not an easy job. But with this trick you can do that easily.
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Disable Windows Button on Keyboard

Since Windows XP was launched, PC keyboard was added with two buttons. First button is Windows logo button and Properties button. Windows logo button is very useful to open Start menu or you can also using it with a button combination to open certain action. For example, if you press Windows key/button + E, Windows Explorer will open. Unfortunately, if you are very rare to using this button and you feel it is very annoying, just disable it.
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