To lock them, we’ll using Group Policy.
1. To open Group Policy window, click Start -> Run, enter gpedit.msc then press Enter.

2. Navigate to folder: Local Computer Policy \ User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar.

3. Find the Prevent changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings and by default, it has State: Not Configured.

4. To lock Taskbar properties, change its value to Enabled by double clicks it and chooses Enabled option and then click OK button.

5. And its state will change.

6. Close Group Policy window.

7. Try to open taskbar properties window by right click on taskbar and then click Properties window and if it works, you’ll see the warning message.

This time, I want to write article disable autorun which through Registry Editor.

1. As I said above, to modify Registry value, use Registry Editor. Click Start –> Run, enter regedit in box and the press Enter.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer path.

3. Inside Explorer key, you’ll see the NoDriveTypeAutorun key.

4. By default, it has default value: 91. To disable flask disk autorun, replace it with 95. And make sure, leave type data to hexadecimal. Click OK button.

5. Close Registry Editor and Restart your computer. And then try to plug your flash drive. If you don’t see the autorun dialog, it means you success to run this trick.

You can also replace NoDriveTypeAutoran value to b5 to disable autorun on flask drive and CD-ROM.
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2. In Registry Editor, drive to HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer path.

3. In that path, find key: HideClock if you don’t find it. To create HideClock key, right click on right panel, choose New – DWORD value menu and then change the new value name to HideClock. Then change its value to 1 by double click it and then in Value data: box to 1 and then click OK button.

then your Registry Editor will be like picture below.

4. Restart your computer and then look at your systray. Your clock is gone.

You can’t reactivate clock through taskbar properties because its radio check is disabled.
To show it again, just change the HideClock value to 0 or delete that key.
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2. To open Configuration Editor window, you can click on items in Configuration section (if you’re looking my picture below, click area is inside red rectangle) or go to Edit – Virtual Machine menu.

3. In Configurations Editor, click Resource: Options, click Advanced tab and then make sure Acceleration level set to High and Enable Intel VT-x support is checked.

4. Next, click Resource: Shared Applications. I suggest you disable Share Windows application to Mac and Share Mac applications to Windows with uncheck their checkboxes. Although they are great features, but if you enable them, Parallels Desktop will create many shortcuts and actually you will use shortcuts rarely or even you’ll never use them.

5. Next, click Resource: Shared Profile. The decision is in your hands. But I was choosing to disable it, because it will make you confuse and make your Windows be slower. And in my experience, I got some errors with it.

6. In fact, Parallels Desktop support 3D application ran on its virtual machine but it optimized for Mac products which have dedicated 3D card such as Macbook Pro and iMac. But you can optimize the configurations so that Parallels Desktop permits its virtual machine support Direct X. To enable the option, click Resource: Video and check Enable DirectX support checkbox so as you can run Direct X applications.

7. To configure memory amount of virtual machine, click Resource: Memory. If you run Windows XP on it set memory to 384 MB and Vista to 512 MB. This setting is important because if you configure the amount too large, you Mac OS X will run very slowly. In my experiment, I’ve set Video Memory to 16MB if I ran Windows XP and 32MB to Windows Vista.

8. In Resource: Floppy, sure I disable the Floppy because I don’t see its benefit.

9. In Resource: Hard Disk, you can find an important button here. Parallels Desktop has two mode of its Virtual Hard Disk. Expanding Hard disk and Plan Hard disk. In Expanding hard disk your virtual hard disk has flexible size as your Windows XP/Vista needs. Contrary with Expanding hard disk, Plain hard drive has consistent of file size. And Parallels Desktop set to Expanding mode by default. Unfortunately, sometimes Expanding hard disk has larger file size than the actual used. So, if you feel your virtual hard disk file size is too big, go to Resource: Hard Disk, click Advanced tab and click Compact button to reduce your virtual hard disk file.

10. In Resource: USB Controller, I suggest you choose Ask me what to do option. So, every time you plug your USB device, you’ll ask by system. Mac OS X or Parallels Desktop virtual machine that will use it.

OK, we’ve discussed Parallels Desktop configurations which must get attention. And don’t forget Parallels Desktop also install its tools which calls Parallels Tools Center in its virtual machine. For example, on Windows Vista you can open it by double click its icon in systray or you can open it through Start – All Programs – Parallels Tools menu.

You can compact your hard disk in this tool/Parallels Tools Center. Click Tool: Disk Compacting, check Execute all stages at once then click Start button and it will takes 30-90 minutes. And you can find the others Tool inside it.

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and Windows Media Player will opened (figure-2).

Yes, I know maybe you think why doesn’t using the Windows Media Player 11? On several computers, Windows Media Player 11 run too slow and of course if you choose to run Windows Media Player 6.4 you will get better speed.

2. Winchat
You can open it through Start – Run menu and type winchat in textbox

and then Winchat will opened with its simple form.

You can use Winchat likes winpopup. So, if you search “winpopup looking” software on Windows XP, use Winchat. To connect to other computer just click Dial button on toolbar and just choose or type the computer name.

And don’t forget to check the Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM in Windows Services first, if those services is in stop status, just start it (Start Network DDE DSDM first then Network DDE). I had been wrote an article about how to start and stop the Windows Service too, then make sure that your friend’s computer has open Winchat too.

3. Netmeeting
If Winchat works on local area network only, Netmeeting works on internet connection. To open it just clicks Start – Run menu and then type conf in textbox.

If you’re run it for the first time, you will asked to set the configuration (figure7 – figure15)

after you set it then Netmeeting will opened.

And if you want to connect it to other client/computer click Dial button and Find someone window will show up and you just choose the user that listed there.

4. Private Character Editor
If you want to make your own character you can use this software. To open it just click Start – Run menu and then type eudcedit then click OK button,

and Private Character Editor window will opened,

and if you want learn more about this software, check this my article.

5. IExpress
This a compression tool software that made by Microsoft, you can create cabinet files with it, to open it click Start – Run menu and then type iexpress then click OK button

and IExpress software will opened and if you want to learn more this software, click here.

6. Clipbook Viewer
This software will helps you to view the contain of your clipboard, to open this software you can click Start – Run menu and then type clipbrd then click OK button.

If you has copy something before, you will see the text that copied to clipboard at this software.

But if you get Clipbook Viewer is empty, try to copy a single file to test it (press Ctrl-C key to copy it).

With Clipbook Viewer you can manage the clipboard contain, such as to delete contains of clipboard.

Hopefully, this article can help you…
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OK, follow this trick:
1. Open Notepad (or your favorite text editor) to type the script via Start – Run menu and type notepad in textbox then click OK button or press Enter
key.

2. And type the script like this:

Dim otakatik
ManageRegedit()
Sub ManageRegedit()
Set otakatik=WScript.CreateObject("wscript.shell")
describe="Type 0 or 1 : " & VbCrLf &_
             "[0] -> Enable Regedit." & VbCrLf &_
             "[1] -> Disable Regedit."

question=InputBox(describe, "Edit Regedit",0)
otakatik.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" &_
                        "\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools",question,"REG_DWORD"

If question=1 Then
   MsgBox "Registry is disabled.",VbInformation, "Disabled"
Else
   If question=0 Then
      Msgbox "Registry is enabled.",VbInformation, "Enabled"
      otakatik.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" &_
                                "\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
   Else
      Msgbox "Input 0 or 1 only !",VbInformation, "Wrong Input"
      ManageRegedit()
   End If
End If
End Sub

You can copy and paste to your notepad.

3. Save it, click File – Save As.

4. Change Save As Type to All Files and give it the name regedit.vbs (or whatever you want but the extension has to vbs).

5. Then make sure that you have the right file name format, you can see it on Notepad title bar.

6. Open your folder that containing regedit.vbs file.

7. Double click that file and Edit Regedit window will opened.

8. If you fill the textbox with value 0, Registry Editor will enable to open.

9. But if you fill it with value 1,

Registry Editor will disable to open.

10. Now, try to open your Registry Editor and you will get a notification that Registry Editor is disabled.

2. When you confirmed to Select Code, click the exist character to edit it

or empty slot to create a new one, click OK button.

3. I choose a empty slot to make a new private character, and the empty workspace will show up.

4. Then, just draw you character (and I am not good enough to draw something ).

5. And then click File – Font Links… menu.

6. Choose Link with All Fonts option if you don’t want confused with it, click OK.

7. To save the character click Edit – Save Character menu.

8. To test it use the Character Map, to open it just click Start – Run menu and then type charmap in textbox then press ENTER key.

9. After Character Map opened choose the All Fonts (Private Characters) font.

10. Select your character with click it.

11. And then click Select button then click Copy button to copy it to clipboard.

12. Now, try it in text editor like Notepad and then choose Edit – Paste menu or press Ctrl – V button and you can see the result.

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And how access it from your Mac OS X computer, just follow these:
1. Click Go – Connect to Server on Finder menu.

2. And type smb://destination_computer_name or smb://destination_computer_ip_address on the Server Address input, for example : smb://server-sql or smb://192.168.1.1.

3. You can add the address to your list with click the + button.

4. And it is connecting…

5. If you’re access that folder for the first time you will confirm for the Workgroup name, User name and Password and just fill it with your office Workgroup name and user name/password fill with user name that registered in destination computer (Windows user name).

7. And list folder that shared in the destination computer will show up.

8. Just choose it, and then click OK button.

9. If it is connected, and then you can access it through the Finder.

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And if you want to add the Date Created information, follow these steps:
1. Open the Registry Editor via Start – Run dialog and then type regedit in textbox and then press Enter.

2. Pointing to path registry: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | SystemFileAssociations | image, look at three picture below to get visual.

3. OK, now look at right panel and find the Infotip key.

4. Double click on it and add the value ;Create string, click OK button.

5. And you will get the result like picture at below.

6. Close your Registry Editor and retry to hover your mouse on image file, and if your do it right, so your will see the result like below this.

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To change it, just follow these steps:
1. Open Registry Editor via Start – Run menu and then type regedit in the textbox then press Enter key.

2. After Registry Editor is opened, pointing to My Computer | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer.

3. Find DriveIcons key, if you don’t find it, create new one with right click on Explorer Key and then choose New -> Key menu.

4. Rename it from its original key name

to DriveIcons.

5. After DriveIcons key has created, right click on the DriveIcons key and then choose New -> Key menu.

6. Rename it from its original key name

to letter of your drive that want changed, in this case I want change drive C, so I rename it with C.

7. OK, right click on C (or letter drive that created at step 6) and then choose New -> Key menu.

8. Rename it from original key name

to DefaultIcon key.

9. If DefaultIcon has created, double click on Default value that located on right panel.

10. Before you change the value, make sure that you have the right icon path, for example you have the icon at C:\icons\pad.ico.

11. Type your icon path in the textbox on Edit String window, click OK button.

12. You’ll see the result of change like below picture.

13. Close your Registry Editor, and open your My Computer and you will see that your drive icon has changed.

(article no:0070)