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If you’re a Windows XP beginner user, you maybe still need Help and Support menu. Obvious, Help and Support is very useful to us. But another hand, if you’re an expert user, I think you’ll never touch it. So, if you never touch it, just remove it and make your Start menu keeps clean.
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By Default, Windows Explorer will open My Computer or your home hard drive (usually on drive C:) every time your open it. Whereas, I need to open hard drive D: not drive C:
After, I looked on magazines, I found the way. And it’s just a simple, just add its parameters.
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Control Panel is center of Windows settings. You can find every thing there. And it makes us easy to maintenance Windows because you need to open a window only. But on other hand, if it use by wrong hands, your Windows can be destroyed easily. To prevent it, you can hide or remove it from Start menu.
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If you’re using a shared computer at your home or office, usually you have rules to all users when they’re using computer. The effective way to warning and force them to read your rules is put the message in Welcome Message that shown every time the computer boots-up.
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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 Now… button. But suddenly, it didn’t work today, when I click Defragment Now… button, the Defrag application didn’t show up. But I’ve been repaired it, and here is the way.
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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 Windows XP.
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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’ account which want to hidden. Because Windows XP doesn’t provide a tool to hide it from Welcome Screen, you must tweak the registry.
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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 keys to minimize all your opened windows. But I thought Show Desktop icon is more efficient than press those keys combination. In this article, I want write how to create Show Desktop shortcut if you delete it accidentally.
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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 address. And you can add your own host name to your chosen IP address.
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