Articles Archive for February 2008
General, Security, Tutorials »
Autoplay is very useful, but can also be a security risk.
To turn it on or off:
1. Open gpedit.msc from the run box from the start menu.
2. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System
3. Find Turn off autoplay
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General, Other, Shortcuts, Tutorials »
For some reason, this isn’t enabled by default.
To be able to view the hibernate option, just press shift in the shutdown menu and Standby will be replaced by hibernate. To switch back to standby, release shift.
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Other, Shortcuts, Tutorials »
Alt+Tab – Switching between open windows.
Hold down Alt and press tab repeatedly to select any open window.
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If you want a totally customized Windows XP, then renaming the Recycle Bin can be quite useful. You could rename it to trash, garbage [or pretty much anything you can imagine ].
Follow these steps to rename the Recycle Bin:
1. Open up the Registry editor by typing regedit into the run box from the Start Menu.
2. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
3. Change the registry value “Recycle Bin” To anything. (Remember to exclude the quotes!)
And you’re done!
You may have to restart your PC to see the changes…
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General, Tutorials »
User switching is the fastest way to switch to a different user account.
This lets you have several accounts logged in at the same time, but only one of them interacts with the keyboard, mouse, etc. and is open, while the rest continue to run open programs.
To enable fast user switching:
1. Go to Control Panel and click on user accounts.
2. Click the User accounts icon in the Control Panel icons section to open the User accounts window.
3. Click “change the way users log on and off”
4. Check the box “Use Fast …
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This feature is very useful if you have only one user account on your computer and you want it to log in every time you start up your computer.
Open the Start Menu and select run. Type “control userpasswords2″ into the box.
In the user accounts window choose the users tab and clear the box “Users must enter a name and password to use this computer”.
Click OK and type your user name and password in the dialog box.
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