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Give Desktop Icons a Better Look

Here's how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.

1. Go to registry by clicking on Start menu -> run and type regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> lnkfile

or

Press CTRL+F and then at the search box type lnkfile and search.

3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

P.S.- Its always good to be on the safer side before modifying registry settings and make backups.
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CAN BE DONE WITH SOFTWARES ALSO LIKE TUNE-UP UTILITIES....
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Disable system services for maximum performance

There are system services that you can disable to free up the system's load. To access the interface that permits you to make changes to system's services, type services.msc and the command prompt.

This is a list of services that are *usually* useless and can be safely disabled.

Alerter
Application Layer Gateway Service,
Application Management
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer
Clipbook
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinater
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
IMAPI CD-Burning
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Net Logon
Net Meeting
Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
Smartcard
SSDP Discovery Service
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Webclient
Wireless Zero Configuration
WMI Performance Adaptor


*NOTE*: Make sure you don't need them since some applications you're using could depend on them. If you make any application to fail by disabling any of the services, go back and enable it again.
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Chat with your friends through ms dos

1. All you need is your friends IP address and your Command Prompt.

2. Open your notepad and write tis code as it is……………… I would prefer you to copy this !

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echo MESSENGER
set /p ene=User:
set /p eme=Message:
net send pocentun% %eme%
Palse
Goto A


3. Now save this as “Messenger.Bat”.

4. Drag this file (.bat file)over to Command Prompt and press enter!

5. You would then see some thing like this:

MESSENGER
User:

6. After “User” type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.

7. Before you press “Enter” it should look like this: Before you press “Enter” it should look like this:

MESSENGER
User: IP_Address User: IP_Address
Message: Hi, How are you ? Message: Hi, How are you?

8. Now all you need to do is press “Enter”, and start chatting Now all you need to do is press Enter, and start chatting
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Block websites without any software

Steps

1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

2] Find the file named "HOSTS"

3] Open it in notepad

4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.

5] Done!

example :
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com-
www.orkut.com is now unaccessable

For every site after that you want to add, just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before.
ie:
127.0.0.3 www.yahoo.com
127.0.0.4 www.msn.com
127.0.0.5 www.google.com

This also works with banner sites, just find the host name of the server with the banners and do the same thing with that addy.

Hope this small tutorial could keep you going in simple way of blocking websites..

Unmask your Password

javascript: alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value);



Paste this in your address bar where you login after writting your login press enter and then you can see the Password.
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To rename the start button in XP

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.

My preference is UltraEdit

1. Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
2. With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
3. You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
4. Edit it be any 5 characters or less
5. Save the file
6. Boot to DOS
7. Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
8. Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
9. You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.

Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
3. Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

Or

U can use this simple software to change start button text in XP :
http://www.geocities.com/startbtn/
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Art n craft...

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