Tweak XP to your liking!

last SG · 2006-03-29T00:25:36+00:00

not as evil as some of the programs found on the net... Good job on the tips there!

ndmmxiaomayi SG

For those who don't like IE title (xxx provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer), here's one way you can change it.

Open up registry editor (Start, Run, type in regedit in the textbox).

Go to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Change (or create) the value of the string "Window Title" to whatever you want on the titlebar of Internet Explorer.

To have no title except the title of the web pages you are browsing do not enter anything for a value.

Note: Do not edit the registry if you don't know how.

My new IE title. Mr. Green

More things will be coming up! Wink

ndmmxiaomayi SG

A better disk cleanup

This will free up a lot more disk space for you. Smile

Assuming that Windows XP is installed and is in the default folder (C drive), this is how it works.

1) Open up notepad and type this in:

c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sageset: 1
c:
cd \
cd c:\windows\prefetch
del *.* /q

2) Save the file, changing the extension from .txt to .bat
For this tip's purpose, we will call it clean.bat

3) Execute the file. This will run the Disk Cleanup program in a special mode which asks what items you will want cleaned when Disk Cleanup performs an unattended cleanup. Check the items you wish to have cleaned up, then click OK.

4) Right-click on the clean.bat file and click edit. Change the first line to read:

c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sagerun: 1

5) Save the file. You can execute this file in place of running Disk Cleanup, or, to have this program run unattended, run the Add Scheduled Task Wizard in the Control Panel and create a scheduled task using the clean.bat file you just created.

ditzy SG

Teach us how to disable drwatson and force .dll unloading for faster boot up leh. Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

For Dr Watson:

Open up Registry Editor and navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug

Change the Auto value to 0

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Changing folder icons

Open up MSPaint (Start, Run, mspaint)

Copy or design in MSPaint. After that, save it as x.ico (where x is your file name).

Open up Windows Explorer. (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Windows Explorer).

Right click on a folder that you want and select Properties. Go to the Customize tab. Under Folder Icons, click Change icons. Find that icon you just designed.

Click OK and there you goes. A new folder icon. Mr. Green

My new folder icon.

lpx88 SG

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
[b]Changing folder icons

Open up MSPaint (Start, Run, mspaint)

Copy or design in MSPaint. After that, save it as x.ico (where x is your file name).

Open up Windows Explorer. (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Windows Explorer).

Right click on a folder that you want and select Properties. Go to the Customize tab. Under Folder Icons, click Change icons. Find that icon you just designed.

Click OK and there you goes. A new folder icon. Mr. Green

My new folder icon. [/b]

wad bout fixed permanent icons like 'my computer'...'recycle bin' and such?anyway to change them?

chanff8 SG

Right-click Desktop --> Properties --> Desktop --> Customize Desktop

Select the icon you wanna change and click Change Icon

mahai_gotbigballs SG

bill gates sucks. long live apple!

ndmmxiaomayi SG

For those who need to type password but the Num Lock is always not on try this:

1) Open up Registry Editor.

2) Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard.

3) Change the value for InitialKeyboardIndicators from 0 to 2.

For those unfamiliar with registry, don't edit it. There's a script from Microsoft that will help you overcome it.

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q262625

leddy SG

how to get rid of windows messenger for REAL!

lpx88 SG

found dis site:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remove.htm

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Warning: No abusing of this knowledge.

This will allow one to change password without knowing the previous password. This is good when you forget your admin password.

1) Log on to the computer and run Command Prompt. (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt)

2) Type in net user xxx * (xxx is username, put in quotes if it contains spaces. e.g. net user administrator *, net user "Ang Hwee Ching" *)

3) It will prompt you to take the new password. To see all users, just type in net users. To see the different user's password, type in net user xxx (xxx is the username)

ndmmxiaomayi SG

This is a good tweak for anybody working in an environment with MSN or any other kinds of IM service disabled. 2 disadvantages:

1) If your boss shares the same domain as you, and you send this to everybody, good luck.

2) If you want to send messages to everybody, but not your boss, you are going to type in the others' IP addresses a lot of times just to send one message.

Here's the instructions:

1) Open up Command Prompt.

2) Type in net send * (your message) without the brackets.

Wait for a while and it will be sent. Mr. Green

hisoka SG

how to disable gameguard but still can play game??

StarPuppy SG

gameguard is a inbuild program i think, to disable it would mean disabling the game itself

Laughing

hisoka SG

Sad Sad Sad

okz okz how about limiting its acess??

chanff8 SG

You can't

And why would you want to stop Gameguard? Trying to hack the game? Rolling Eyes

casshern SG

any idea how to allow MSN messenger to read your e-mails in Opera instead of IE?

p/s: sticky this thread if its still not

hisoka SG

no just that i don't trust it.

there have been some reports also it causing accelerated fragmentation and vunerabilities. while i am not sure how true it is, the response from the game side is very unreassuring. they just say the source that said about the vunerabilities are not a recognised source never even investigate. i think the accelerated framentation even worse, no reply at all

ndmmxiaomayi SG

If you read today's Digital Life, it is totally impossible. Disabling means disabling the game as well. The security issue is there, but as developers are more interested in making money than making consumers happy, there's nothing you can do. You can't limit it, you can avoid falling into the security loopholes.