Defrag is an important tool in Windows XP. With Defrag tool, you can re-arrange your fragmented hard drive. I always use it every weeks to ensure my hard drive is keeping arranged. Usually, my way to using defrag is right click my hard drive icon inside My Computer, click Tools tab and then click Defragment [...]

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Windows will reset all opened windows every time you restart your computer. But some times, I am tired if I have to open my data folder every time Windows restarted. The good news is you can to make Windows save your last opened folder so that the folder will open automatically every time you restart [...]

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By default, Windows XP puts Log Off button on Start Menu where located beside Turn Off Computer button. And if you don’t want the Log Off button on there, just hide it.

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Welcome screen always appear as first screen on Windows XP. You can look all created accounts on your computer. To login, just click an account on there. That’s it, it’s so easy. By default, Windows XP will show all of created accounts in system. Unfortunately, maybe you don’t want this. Maybe you have a ‘secret’ [...]

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If you’re activating Quick Launch bar, Windows puts Show Desktop shortcut on there as standard shortcut. This shortcut is very useful for me. Because if you want to open a shortcut where located on Desktop, you don’t need to minimize your opened windows one by one. In fact, you can also press Windows + M [...]

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Actually, HOSTS file is using by Windows to mapping host name to an IP address. Windows has been giving us a sample. The sample is localhost name, by default that host name is mapping to IP address: 127.0.0.1. So, if you enter localhost at your browser address bar, Windows will map localhost to 127.0.0.1 [...]

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I think, you are already known if USB Drive is one of the most effective tools to stealth data. Just plug it in your USB port; computer will recognize it as a new drive and then you just need to drag and drop files or folders to your USB drive icon. And your files data [...]

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If you often using Command Prompt console in your daily computer activity and want to get text by copy-paste method inside console, you can do it. For example, you want to copy all parameters from copy command. Just type copy/? at your prompt, and here are the next steps to copy them.

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Contrary with my article that discusses about disable Indexing Service that caused Windows Search is not working properly. Usually, you disable it because you’re not using Search facility. In this article I consider you’re using Search menu everyday. And it seems is like my experience when I try to find a file using Windows Search, [...]

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I ever wrote how to manage Windows Services via Administrative Tools and Manage MySQL Service via DOS Console or DOS Prompt. Few readers are asking me to manage other service than MySQL via DOS Console. This time I want to answer that question. Actually, you just need to replace MySQL service name with Windows Service [...]

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