http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:47:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Even though, this moment is graphical era, there are still many peoples are using MS-DOS or BASH command beside Windows or other GUI operating system. This time I want to discuss about a MS-DOS command that I still using it everyday until this day. I’ll write about a command to ... http://www.otakatik.com/easier-way-to-change-folder/ By default, when you’re browsing your bitmap files (*.bmp), you’ll look their default icon. And the icon is the same for all of bitmap files. And that does not be a problem for common users, but if you often to seeking for a bitmap file, that could be a problem ... http://www.otakatik.com/preview-bmp-file-as-its-icon/ 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. 1. Right click My Computer and then click Properties menu. 2. ... http://www.otakatik.com/manage-environment-variables/ Do you know that Windows XP has a great packager? Its name is 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/using-iexpress/ 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/lock-welcome-screen-on-invalid-login/ 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/hide-my-computer%e2%80%99s-properties-menu/ 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, ... http://www.otakatik.com/open-many-yahoo-messengers-simultaneously/ 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/disable-write-caching-on-your-hard-drive/ 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/move-the-temporary-files-folder/ 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 ... http://www.otakatik.com/optimizing-write-allocation-of-file/