Internet gave us the freedom to browse and share anything online with friends. Sharing photos online with friends and dear ones is the best way to use internet for personal works. Already, we have Flickr, Twitpic, Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket and so on. To upload photos on these social networking sites takes a lot of time and like always you do not have enough time. Want to save lots of time while uploading photos to all social networks, then give a try to Dropico. Dropico offers you drag-and-drop option which allows you to upload all your photos and in no time all your photos will be uploaded on other social networking sites. Dropico is good service for those who are busy and always run short of their time.
To get started with Dropico, you have to become a member of their site. After becoming member of their site, you see list of available social media sites which allow you to share your photos on required social networking site. All you need to do is to connect to those site by providing access to the accounts you are connected.
Dropico is easy to use website and with simple drag-and-drop interface of Dropico’s website it doesn’t need any explanation. Simply you have to drag photo you want from one social network into other. That’s it. Do you find this useful one? If yes, then share your thoughts with us in comments section and meanwhile let us know which other service you are using to share photos on multiple social networking sites.
As a designer and a computer freak I know that time to time I need more and more number of fonts and always in search of getting unique fonts because fonts are the most important part of any graphic designing projects and sometimes it becomes hard to find the perfect font. For finding the perfect font you have to spend number of hours on the web and sometimes get frustrated.
Choosing a right font is necessary because it can make or break your design and the selection criteria includes a good readability and visibility of that font. So to help you out we have selected the top websites to download high quality font for you.
01. FontCubes
At font cubes you will find the quality of fonts out there and frankly speaking they are really very impressive and help you to make your design and art work more impressive. You can also display the text of your choice in color and size.
02. UrbanFonts
This site contains over 8000 free fonts and they are distributed into different categories which can be alphabetically browsed. You can also preview the selected font here and easily customize its color, background, casing options, etc.
03. 1001FreeFonts
As their name signifies they mention 1001 fonts but they have more than 10,000 free fonts which can be downloaded easily
04. DaFont
This is the ultimate and best known site for free fonts and mostly used site for free fonts. You can easily navigate to the fonts categories so that you can easily choose a category and select the required font style from it.
05. SearchFreeFonts
This site contains both free fonts as well as premium fonts. This site had more than 13,000 fonts and all are easily categorized into categories. This site also contains article on how to install fonts and a very handy guide on designing, organizing and managing your fonts.
06. HighFonts
From this site you can download the font faster because on this site you don’t have to navigate to other pages. Just click on the image and the download will begin. One of the disadvantage of this site is that you cannot preview the font here.
07. AbstractFonts
Its offers 1,000+ fonts with lots of information contained on the page. You can see this information by clicking on the font and you can also search for fonts categories here.
08. Fontica
It offers thousands of free fonts which can be downloaded easily.
09. Font Squirrel
This is one of the best website from which provides fonts for commercial use.
10. FreePremiumFonts
This website has the finest, high quality free fonts available for instant download. These premium fonts were selected by popular votes and arranges alphabetically in popular categories.
In true words HTML and CSS are the glossy languages of internet. In simpler way whatever you see on a webpage is landed on the part of HTML or CSS components. May be you are the master of all the web languages but there still are silly mistakes which make us search for css fix on the various internet forums and blogs. Rather than going beyond on the CSS gyan i would like to introduce top 10 HTML and CSS resource used by web designers and programmers.
Yourhtmlsource – This site has excellent HTML tutorials and well-researched links on all aspects of web design, equally suited to beginners and advanced webmasters.
W3schools – Again as mentioned earlier this source can be of great help if you desiring to learn HTLM.
Htmldog – I’m sure you know this site. The idea of HTLM Dog is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion.
W3- This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before.
Htmlcsstutorials – A nice site designed with easy navigation to offer you knowledge about XHTML and tips on CSS. You get complete reference for html CSS with examples.
Html – HTML.net provides guidance and help about designing and developing websites.
Tizag – This can be a stepping stone to the budding webmaster and a handy reference to the veteran developer. Tizag is always changing its tutorials and references to incorporate the latest in web design.
Boogiejack – This is an HTML help site featuring standards-based HTML tutorials, CSS tutorials and other website design help and resources.
Htmlgoodies – This site has group of lessons set up to be covered over a week’s time, one tutorial per day. HTMLGoodies is your resource for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and other web development topics.
Echoecho- You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to HTML. If you’re completely new to HTML you should start with the section that covers HTML Basics.
Sometimes we want to insert current data and time, whenever we open the file in the notepad. If you are a lazy person like me, who don’t like to press F5 whenever you open a notepad. Then here is a trick to avoid this. Just add a .LOG in the first line of your text file and close it.
Whenever you open the file with that text in the first line in the notepad, it will insert the current date and time at the end of the file. You can start entering your text after that.
WHY?
The reason this happens:
In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results.
It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a “Byte-Order Mark” (BOM), which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is encoded.
1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format)
2) You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format)
This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters
Slideshow is a nice and interactive way to view images. There are many tool available to watch slideshow easily. But most of them don’t have facility to customize according to your choice and create HTML slideshow so that you can easily embed it on your website.
Frobee.com is a nice website that provides you the facility to create and watch flash slideshow. Also you can embed the slideshow on your website with the help of HTML file which is available to download after you create it.
Creating slideshow from image is easy. Just visit the site, click on the “Add photos” button. Now browse the photographs from your computer. You can play with different settings available on the site. You can change the background color, width and height, add captions in the slideshow. Also you can change the transition, display, and position of the photographs.
After done with settings, click on “Save” button. You can download the Zip archive on your computer. The archive contains SWF file and HTML sample code. You can either directly click on the HTML file to run the slideshow on your browser or embed it into your site.
This tool has an easy to use interface and it is free to use. No sign up is required for using this site. You can include many photographs to create a slideshow.
Check out Forbee.com to create Flash slideshow easily.
Many time we get Blue Screen of Death at boot – the first option should be to boot into Safe Mode (press F8 during bootup).
Some hardware failures are so severe they prevent booting into Safe Mode.
The recovery console allows an alternative boot option giving a limited command prompt – this can be used to disable services or replace system files until you are able to boot into safe mode.
Recovery Console commands:ATTRIB Change file attributes BATCH Execute a batch file CD Change directory CHKDSK Check Disk CLS Clear screen COPY Copy files* DEL Delete Files* DIR Directory listing DISABLE Disable Service DISKPART Create or delete disk Partitions (like running setup) ENABLE Enable Service EXIT Quit the recovery console and reboot EXPAND FIXBOOT Write a new boot sector to the system partition FIXMBR Repair the Master boot Record FORMAT FORMAT drive /FS:NTFS HELP LISTSVC List all services and drivers LOGON Logon as administrator (local) MAP List local physical drive mappings MAP arc List local physical drive mappings(ARC path) MD Make Directory* MORE RD Remove Directory* REN Rename file* SYSTEMROOT Set the current directory to be %Systemroot% * File operations are only possible on: system directories, floppy drive(removable media), Root directories, local install sources. You can copy FROM but not TO a floppy disk.
Installation:
The recovery console is not installed by default (it’s only 7 Mb), install from the W2K CD with the command:
D:i386winnt32 /cmdcons
D:i386winnt32 /cmdcons
The recovery console can also be run from the Win 2K boot floppies.
Someone days it right “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves”. So if you want to recover deleted data from computer, here are 5 best apps for Hard Drive Recovery.
1. Recuva
Recuva is best and easy to use file recovery program which comes with advanced features as well. Recuva recover files from hard drives, external drives, memory cards. Recuva undelete file in Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003 and older versions of Windows like 2000, NT, ME and 98.
2. Pandora Recovery
Another excellent tool which comes with best wizard to help you undelete files in any recovery app. More advanced “Surface Scan” is available in Pandora Recovery that recover more files than the standard search. Pandora Recovery undelete files from hard drives, memory card, etc. Pandora Recovery supports Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003 and 2000.
3. NTFS UnDelete
NTFS Undelete is yet another free app which comes with Windows Explorer-like user interface and making easy for beginners to get started with it. The downfall of NTFS Undelete only supports file recovery on NTFS formatted drives. This means NTFS Undelete work with some hard drives in Windows Vista and XP.
4. TOKIWA DataRecovery
TOKIWA DataRecovery is very similar to others in this list. The best thing TOKIWA DataRecovery has it easy to use feature. I has single program window where you can scan files for recovery, sort files and undelete them. TOKIWA DataRecovery recover files from hard drives, memory cards, USB drives and other external drives. It supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95.
5. Avira UnErase Personal
Avira UnErase Personal one of the most simple free file recovery program and after installation, in single click you see every deleted file on a drive. Recovering a file with Avira UnErase Personal is a single click operation as well. UnErase Personal recover files from hard drives, USB drives, memory card and other similar sources.
Finally in comment section, let us know which one you like and if i forget to include any of it, share it in comment section.
Nowadays, laptops have become an important part of people’s daily activities. It is different from desktop computers since it can be brought along wherever we want to go. It also made life more convenient because we can access almost anything by just having laptops. Laptops can be used for listening to music, watching movies or any shows, typing and filing documents, playing games and internet surfing. But with all these activities that laptops serve us, the battery life of the gadget should be taken care off properly. This is because a low or short battery life, a laptop wouldn’t work properly and surely no task will be accomplished. So it is vital to save your laptop battery life because it wouldn’t be cool always looking for an outlet to plug in your laptop when its battery is running out.
Here are the ten tips to save your laptop battery life.
Tip 1. If you are working in a place where there is an available power source, plug in the laptop. Access to any power source will help save battery through charging and make the battery’s life span last longer.
Tip 2. Make sure that free air is flowing through the laptop. Battery tend to be overworked when the cooling system is blocked, so make sure that the cooling fan functions properly and is not blocked for air to flow freely.
Tip 3. If you want the laptop battery to last longer than normal, reduce the CPU speed. You can do this by changing the battery’s power options to check balanced or power saver. These two options tend to minimize the processor speed.
Tip 4. You should also defrag regularly to make the hard drive work faster. Once the hard drive works faster it will demand less use of battery. Plug the laptop on a power source while defragging.
Tip 5. You can also lessen your use or plugging of USB and other external devices, including Wi-Fi and mouse because these devices can drain your battery. If you’re not using them just remove them from the connection or shut them down to avoid too much usage of battery.
Tip 6. You must also clean the battery contact of your laptop every month using a clean cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. Doing this can efficiently transfer power from the battery to the laptop.
Tip 7. Using the hibernation mode can also help save your battery while you do something else and make you resume your computer work in an instant.
Tip 8. Never do multitasking. When using your laptop, do one task at a time. Multitasking can drain out battery faster and you’ll end up not being able to finish anything at all.
Tip 9. Turning off scheduled tasks such as anti-virus updates online can also save your battery life span.
Tip 10. And lastly, decrease laptop volume or speaker when not necessarily needed.
The tips above are just few in saving your laptop battery life span. But if your battery is not really functioning as well as it did before, it’s time to replace the battery and purchase a new one. You may also purchase a new laptop with a more efficient battery span which can solve your problem.
If you regularly use the printers then you might aware of the situations when you have to face the issues related with printer cartridges like low on ink, compatibility, alignment, dryness or leakage. There are many ways to optimise your printing experience by simply remember the below tips,
1. Always Check the settings of the printer
Before giving the printing command you should crosscheck the properties of printers. It saves the time, paper, miss prints and hence the printer ink.
2. Print in GrayScale
Always prefer to use black and white prints unless you need the color print outs. This practice save the printer cartridge and printer inks.
3. Show preview before printing
4. Check Print Ranges
Always check print ranges to avoid the print of useless pages. For example, while taking printouts of tickets there are extra pages having “terms and conditions” which can be avoid by checking the selected page from the print ranges. This not only saves the wear and tear of printers but also saves the printer cartridge.
5. Used or Refill Printer Cartridge?
You may or may not use refilled cartridges but in a way it saves the money but i can also degrade the life of printers.
6. Printing Habits
You can monitor your printing habits to save the cartridges. Some time we print just for hobby, monitoring the unnecessary prints is always healthy 
Speed Monitor is a portable application. It tracks the loading speed of different websites across a time period. Additionally, it provides information on intervals and averages in the last 10, 100, and 1000 tries. It also provides the graphical representation of the loading speed of the different websites.
To use the Speed Monitor, you must:
1. Launch the Speed Monitor, and add the URL of the website that you want to track in a new row.
2. In the Frequency box, add the frequency in seconds.
Note: By default the Frequency is set at 60 seconds.
3. Click Enable Fetching.
This automatically starts monitoring the website that you want to monitor.
Speed Monitor Main Window
The Speed Monitor displays the URL that you are monitoring the loading speed in the last 10, 100, and 1000 tries as separate rows. Additionally, each website’s graph can be accessed by click the Chart button in the corresponding row.
Speed Monitor Chart
As a portable application it can be very helpful in analyzing the speed of the websites that you have developed or want to access. This helps in researching the SWOT analysis of the website. SWOT analysis including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats involved in the website and the market.
Key Features of Speed Monitor:
- Multiple websites monitor
- Minimizes to tray
- Editable frequency
- Last 1/10/100/1000 averages
- Enable/disable switch
- If a website is unreachable, time turns red (and reads -1)
- Automatic saving/loading of URLs
- Charts of the last 100 measured times
- Drag-and-drop for URLs
- Easy data reset
Speed Monitor supports the following Windows versions:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
Add OpenWith to all files Backup/Restore the Registry Lockout unwanted Users Customize the System Tray Changing Windows' Icons Change Registered User Change Registered Owner Add/Remove Sound Events Open a DOS Window to a folder Change Exchange/Outlook Mailbox Add Apps to Right Click Add Explore to all Folders Creating a Logon Banner Creating a Default File Opener Changing the Tips of the Day Automatic Screen Refresh Disable Password Caching Removing Items from NEW Recycle Bin Edits Disabling My Computer Changing Desktop Icons Turn Off Window Animation Change/add restriction and features Change Keyboard layout Multiple Columns For the Start Menu Change Default Folder Locations Disabling Drives in My Computer Disable the Outlook Express Splash Screen Change Location of Windows Installation Files Change the caption on the Title Bar for Outlook Change the caption on the Title Bar on I.E. Clearing the Documents Menu Automatically Disabling the Right-Click on the Start Button Opening the Explorer from My Computer Setting the Minimum Password Length Add\Delete programs to run on boot up Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows Changing your Modem's Initialization String Increasing the Modem Timeout Clear Apps from Add/Remove The Fix For Grayed Out Boxes Adding Items to the Start Button Change the MaxMTU for faster Downloads Remove Open, Explore & Find from Start Menu More Protection for system files Delete Registry Keys from Command Line To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry: Windows 9x
To make the backup copies type:
To Restore the Registry
You can add "Open With..." to the Right click context menu of all files.This is great for when you have several programs you want to open the same file types with. I use three different text editors so I added it to the ".txt" key. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell 3. Add a new Key named "OpenWith" by right clicking the "Shell" Key and selecting new 4. Set the (Default) to "Op&en With..." 5. Add a new Key named "Command" by right clicking the "OpenWith" Key and selecting new 6. Set the (Default) to "C:\Windows\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1", C:\ being your Windows drive. You must enter the "OpenAs_RunDLL %1" exactly this way. You can add your name or anything you like that consists of 8 characters or less. This will replace the AM or PM next to the system time. But you can corrupt some trial licenses of software that you may have downloaded. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International 3. Add two new String values, "s1159" and "s2359" 4. Right click the new value name and modify. Enter anything you like up to 8 characters. If you enter two different values when modifying, you can have the system tray display the two different values in the AM and PM. Want to keep people from accessing Windows, even as the default user? If you do not have a domain do not attempt this. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon 3. Create a dword value "MustBeValidated" 4. Set the value to 1 This forced logon can be bypassed in Safe Mode on Windows 9x You can make OutLook Express load quicker by disabling the splash screen: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OutLook Express 3. Add a string value "NoSplash" 4. Set the value data to 1 as a Dword value To make Windows use multiple Start Menu Columns instead of a single scrolling column, like Windows 9x had, Also if you are using Classic Mode in XP 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Advanced 3. Create a string value "StartMenuScrollPrograms" 4. Right click the new string value and select modify 5. Set the value to "FALSE" You can change the Icons Windows uses for folders, the Start Menu, opened and closed folder in the Explorer, and many more. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Shell Icons 3. Add a string value for each Icon you wish to change. Example: "3" ="C:\Windows\Icons\MyIcon.ico,0" This will change the closed folders in the Explorer to "MyIcon.ico". Here is a complete list for each value.
You need to reboot after making changes. You may need to delete the hidden file ShellIconCache if after rebooting the desired Icons are not displayed. You can change or delete the Windows mandatory locations of folder like My Documents: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Shell Folders 3. Change the desired folder location, My Documents is normally list as "Personal" 4. Open the Explorer and rename or create the folder you wish. To change the desired location of the Program Files folder You can change the Registered Owner or Registered Organization to anything you want even after Windows is installed.1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion 2. Change the value of "ProgramFiles", or "ProgramFilesDir" Now when you install a new program it will default to the new location you have selected. 1) Open RegEdit 2) Got to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion. 3) Change the value of "RegisteredOrganization" or "RegisteredOwner", to what ever you want Add the following Registry Keys for a Directory: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\opennew @="Dos Prompt in that Directory" HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\opennew\command @="command.com /k cd %1" Add or Edit the following Registry Keys for a Drive: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\opennew @="Dos Prompt in that Drive" HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\opennew\command @="command.com /k cd %1" These will allow you to right click on either the drive or the directory and the option of starting the dos prompt will pop up. To change the location of your mailbox for Exchange: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem\ Profiles 3. Go to the profile you want to change 4. Go to the value name that has the file location for your mailbox (*.PST) file 5. Make the change to file location or name To change the location of your mailbox for Outlook 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook (or Outlook Express if Outlook Express) 3. Go to the section "Store Root" 4. Make the change to file location You can Add and delete sounds events in the Control Panel. In order to do that: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Eventlabels. If this key does not exist you can create it and add events. 3. You can add/delete any items you want to or delete the ones you no longer want. Here is how to add any application to the Context Menu when you right click on any Folder. This way you do not have to always go to the Start Menu. When you right click on any folder, you can have access to that application, the same as using Sent To. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell 3. Add a new Key to the "Shell" Key and name it anything you like. 4. Give it a default value that will appear when you right click a folder, i.e. NewKey (use an "&" without the quotes, in front of any character and it will allow you to use the keyboard) 5. Click on the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\NewKey 6. Add a New Key named Command 7. Set the (Default) value of the application you want to run 8. For example: c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe (Include the full path and parameters if you need them) When you want to right click on any folder and want to open up an Explorer window of that folder. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell 3. Add a new Key "RootExplore " under the "Shell" Key 4. Set the (Default) value to "E&xplore From Here " 5. Right Click the "RootExplore " Key and add a new Key "Command"to the RootExplore 6. Set the (Default) value of Explorer.exe /e,/root,/idlist,%i If you need to change the drive and or path where Windows looks for its installation files: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Setup 3.Edit the value next to SourcePath If you want to create a Logon Banner: A message box to appear below your logon on. 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go To For Windows 9x and ME - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon For Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon 3.Create a new String value"LegalNoticeCaption " 4. Enter the Title of the window. What is displayed in the Title Bar. 5. Create a new string value "LegalNoticeText" 6. Enter the text for your message box that will appear even before the Logon window. If you have a un-registered file type and want to view it instead of having to select Open With. Use Explorer's Right-click and add your program to the right-click options by: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\Shell 3. Right click on "Shell" and create a New Key and name it "Open " 4. Create a New Key under the "Open" key you just created and name it "Command" 5. Set the (Default) value to the path and filename of the program you want to use to open the file type 6. For example: C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE %1 You must use the "%1" for this to work.and a space between the exe and the %1 There are two ways to delete a key from the Registry from the Command line. At the Windows Command line: RegEdit /l location of System.dat /R location of User.dat /D Registry key to delete You cannot be in Windows at the time you use this switch. Or you can create a reg file as such: REGEDIT4 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\the key you want to delete] Note the negative sign just behind the[ Then at the Command line type: 1. RegEdit C:\Windows\(name of the regfile). If you want to make restrictions to what users can do or use on their computer without having to run Poledit, you can edit the Registry. You can add and delete Windows features in this Key shown below. Zero is Off and the value 1 is On. Example: to Save Windows settings add or modify the value name NoSaveSettings to 0, if set to1 Windows will not save settings. And NoDeletePrinter set to 1 will prevent the user from deleting a printer. The same key shows up at: HKEY_USERS\(yourprofilename)\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer so change it there also if you are using different profiles. 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ CurrentVersion\ Policies 3.Go to the Explorer Key (Additional keys that can be created under Policies are System, Explorer, Network and WinOldApp ) 4.You can then add DWORD or binary values set to 1 in the appropriate keys for ON and 0 for off. NoDeletePrinter - Disables Deletion of Printers NoAddPrinter - Disables Addition of Printers NoRun - Disables Run Command NoSetFolders - Removes Folders from Settings on Start Menu NoSetTaskbar - Removes Taskbar from Settings on Start Menu NoFind - Removes the Find Command NoDrives - Hides Drives in My Computers NoNetHood - Hides the Network Neighborhood NoDesktop - Hides all icons on the Desktop NoClose - Disables Shutdown NoSaveSettings - Don't save settings on exit DisableRegistryTools - Disable Registry Editing Tools NoRecentDocsMenu - Hides the Documents shortcut at the Start button NoRecentDocsHistory- Clears history of Documents NoFileMenu _ Hides the Files Menu in Explorer NoActiveDesktop - No Active Desktop NoActiveDesktopChanges- No changes allowed NoInternetIcon - No Internet Explorer Icon on the Desktop NoFavoritesMenu - Hides the Favorites menu NoChangeStartMenu _ Disables changes to the Start Menu NoFolderOptions _ Hides the Folder Options in the Explorer ClearRecentDocsOnExit - Empty the recent Docs folder on reboot NoLogoff - Hides the Log Off .... in the Start Menu And here are a few more you can play with ShowInfoTip NoTrayContextMenu NoStartMenuSubFolders NoWindowsUpdate NoViewContextMenu EnforceShellExtensionSecurity LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo NoDriveTypeAutoRun NoStartBanner NoSetActiveDesktop EditLevel NoNetConnectDisconnect RestrictRun - Disables all exe programs except those listed in the RestrictRun subkey This key has many other available keys, there is one to even hide the taskbar, one to hide the control panel and more. I'm not telling you how, as someone may want to play a trick on you. The policies key has a great deal of control over how and what program can run and how one can access what feature. In the System key you can enter: NoDispCPL - Disable Display Control Panel NoDispBackgroundPage - Hide Background Page NoDispScrSavPage - Hide Screen Saver Page NoDispAppearancePage - Hide Appearance Page NoDispSettingsPage - Hide Settings Page NoSecCPL - Disable Password Control Panel NoPwdPage - Hide Password Change Page NoAdminPage - Hide Remote Administration Page NoProfilePage - Hide User Profiles Page NoDevMgrPage - Hide Device Manager Page NoConfigPage - Hide Hardware Profiles Page NoFileSysPage - Hide File System Button NoVirtMemPage - Hide Virtual Memory Button In the Network key you can enter: NoNetSetup - Disable the Network Control Panel NoNetSetupIDPage - Hide Identification Page NoNetSetupSecurityPage - Hide Access Control Page NoFileSharingControl - Disable File Sharing Controls NoPrintSharing - Disable Print Sharing Controls In the WinOldApp key you can enter: Disabled - Disable MS-DOS Prompt NoRealMode - Disables Single-Mode MS-DOS When you make changes to your file system and use Explorer, the changes are not usually displayed until you press the F5 key To refresh automatically: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update 3. Set the value name "UpdateMode" to 1 To disable password caching, which allows for the single Network login and eliminates the secondary Windows logon screen. Either use the same password or: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Network 3. Add a Dword value "DisablePwdCaching" and set the value to 1 There are four Internet settings that can be configured, you can get greater throughput (faster Internet downloads) by modifying a few settings. They are the MaxMTU, MaxMSS and DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\ Services\ Class\ net\ 000x (where x is your particular network adapter binding.) 3.Right click on the right panel 4.Select New\String Value and create the value name IPMTU 5.Double click on it and enter then the number you want. The usual change is to 576 6.Similarly, you can add IPMSS and give it a value of 536 (Windows 9X)You can set DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL by adding these string values to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlset\ Services\ VXD\ MSTCP Set the DefaultRcvWindow to"5840"and the DefaultTTL to "128" Note: These settings will slow down your network access speed slightly, but you will probably not even see the difference if you are using a network card. If you are using Direct Cable you should see a sight difference. To add items when you right-click on the Start Button: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell 3.Right-click on Shell and select New Key 4.Type in the name of the key and press the Enter key 5.In the Default name that shows in the right hand panel, you can add a title with a "&" character in front of the letter for a shortcut 6.Right-click on the key you just created and create another key under it called command 7.For the value of this command, enter the full path and program you want to execute 8.Now when you right click on the Start Button, your new program will be there. 9.For example, if you want Word to be added, you would add that as the first key, the default in the right panel would be &Word so when you right click on the Start Button, the W would be the Hot Key on your keyboard. The value of the key would be C:\Program Files\Office\Winword\Winword.exe When you right click on the Start Button, you can select Open, Explore or Find. Open shows your Programs folder. Explore starts the Explorer and allows access to all drives. Find allows you to search and then run programs. In certain situations you might want to disable this feature. To remove them: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\Find 3.Delete Find 4.Scroll down below Directory to Folder 5.Expand this section under shell 6.Delete Explore and Open Caution: - When you remove Open, you cannot open any folders. When you right-click on the desktop and select New, or use the File Menu item in the Explore and select New a list of default templates you can open up are listed. To remove items from that list: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Do a Search for the string ShellNew in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Hive 3. Delete the ShellNew command key for the items you want to remove. You can view more data if you increase the line count of Telnet. By Default it has a window size of 25 lines. To increase this so you can scroll back and look at a larger number on lines: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Telnet 3. Modify the value data of "Rows" You can edit the Tips of the day in the Registry by going to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ Tips To turn off the display of local or networked drives when you click on My Computer: Change the Caption on the Title Bar for OutLook Express or the Internet Explorer:1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer 3.Add a New DWORD item and name it NoDrives 4.Give it a value of 3FFFFFF 5.Now when you click on My Computer, none of your drives will show. For Outlook Express: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OutLook Express For IE5 and up use: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\IDENTITIES \{9DDDACCO-38F2-11D6-93CA-812B1F3493B}\ SOFTWARE\ MICROSOFT\ OUTLOOK EXPRESS\5.0 3. Add a string value "WindowTitle" (no space) 4. Modify the value to what ever you like. For no splash screen, add a dword value "NoSplash" set to 1 The Key {9DDDACCO-38F2-11D6-93CA-812B1F3493B} can be any key you find here. Each user has his own Key number. The Key 5.0 is whatever version of IE you have For Internet Explorer: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main 3. Add a string value "Window Title" (use a space) 4. Modify the value to what ever you like. Normally, when you right button click on the Start button, it allows you to open your programs folder, the Explorer and run Find. In situations where you don't want to allow users to be able to do this in order to secure your computer. 1.Open RegEdit 2.Search for Desktop 3.This should bring you to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory 4.Expand this section 5.Under Shell is Find 6.Delete Find 7.Move down a little in the Registry to Folder 8.Expand this section and remove Explore and Open Now when you right click on the Start button, nothing should happen. You can delete only those items that you need. Note: - On Microsoft keyboards, this also disables the Window-E (for Explorer) and Window-F (for Find) keys. See the section on Installation in the RESKIT to see how to do this automatically during an install. In areas where you are trying to restrict what users can do on the computer, it might be beneficial to disable the ability to click on My Computer and have access to the drives, control panel etc. To disable this: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Search for 20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D 3.This should bring you to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID section 4.Delete the entire section. Now when you click on My Computer, nothing will happen. You might want to export this section to a Registry file before deleting it just in case you want to enable it again. Or you can rename it to 20D0HideMyComputer4FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D. You can also hide all the Desktop Icons, see Change/Add restrictions. By default, when you click on the My Computer icon, you get a display of all your drives, the Control Panel etc. If you would like to have this open the Explorer: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\ Shell 3 . Add a new Key named "Open" if it does not exists by right clicking "Shell" and selecting new. 4. . Add a new Key named "Command" by right clicking "Open" and selecting new 5. Set the (Default) value for the Command Key to "Explorer.exe" or "C:\Windows\Explorer.exe" Fooling with the recycle bin. Why not make the icon context menu act like other icon context menus. Add rename to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20 Add delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:60,01,00,20 Add rename and delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} \ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:70,01,00,20 Restore the recycle bin to Windows defaults including un-deleting the icon after deletion: Restore the icon. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows \CurrentVersion\ explorer\ Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} @="Recycle Bin" Reset Windows defaults. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} \ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20 Other edits to the recycle bin icon: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,01,20 ... standard shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,02,20 ... a different shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,04,20 ... and still another shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,08,20 ... make it look disabled (like it's been cut) For Windows XP and 2000 also edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} For Windows ME also edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\ Classes\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Network 3. Now, choose the Edit/New/Binary value command and call the new value MinPwdLen. Press Enter twice and Assign it a value equal to your minimum password length. You can start or stop programs from executing at boot up by adding or deleting them to/from the run Keys in the Registry. Windows loads programs to start in the following order; Program listed in the Local Machine hive, then the Current User hive, then theWin.ini Run= and Load = lines. then finally programs in your Start Up folder. To add or remove programs in the Registry 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to the desired Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion \Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion \RunServices HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion \Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion \RunServices 3. Add a new String Value and name it anything you like 4. For the value data, enter the path and executable for the program you want to run. By adding the value to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive instead allows the program to start only when that user is logged on. If you add the value to the RunOnce key the program will run once and be removed from the key by Windows. 1.Open RegEdit 2.Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT 3.Open the Key LNKFILE 4.Delete the value IsShortcut 5.Open the next Key PIFFILE 6.Delete the value IsShortcut 7.Restart the Windows You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize Windows. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control panel \Desktop\ WindowMetrics 3. Create a new string value "MinAnimate". 4. Set the value data of 0 for Off or 1 for On 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet \Services \Class \Modem \0000 \Init 3.Change the settings to the new values If your modem it is timing out during file transfers or loading Web Pages, you might try increasing the timeout period. To change the Time Out:: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Services\ Class\ Modem\ XXXX\ Settings Where XXXX is the number of your modem 3. In the right panel and double click on Inactivity Timeout 4.The number of minutes for a timeout should be entered between the brackets. 5.For example, a setting could have S19=<10> to set it to 10 minutes. If you uninstalled a program by deleting the files, it may still show up in the Add/Remove programs list in the Control Panel. In order to remove it from the list. 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Uninstall 3.Delete any programs here. If you have a problem locating the desired program open each key and view the DisplayName value The File Types tab in Explorer's View / Options menu lets you edit most of your file types, but certain settings cannot be changed. The default action for a batch file, for instance, runs the batch file instead of opening it via Notepad or Wordpad. Thus, when you double-click on AUTOEXEC.BAT, a DOS window opens, and the file executes. If you want to change this default action and edit a batch file when you double-click on it, however, the File Types tab does not let you do so; the Set Default button for the file type called MS-DOS Batch File is always grayed out. The button is grayed out because HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT's batfile key contains an EditFlag value entry. Such entries are used throughout the Registry to prevent novice users from altering certain system settings. The binary data in batfile's EditFlag reads d0 04 00 00. If you change this value to 00 00 00 00, you can then change any of the batch file settings. Do not, however, indiscriminately zero out EditFlag; if you do so in a system ProgID such as Drive or AudioCD, it completely disappears from the File Types list. For ProgIDs that are linked to extensions, set all EditFlags to 00 00 00 00. For system ProgIDs, replace EditFlag data with 02 00 00 00. If you wish to have access to some buttons while leaving others grayed out, you must know the function of each EditFlag bit. The last two bytes of data are always zero, but most bits within the first two bytes have a specific effect:
Bits 4, 5, and 6 of byte 2 apply only to actions that are protected. EditFlags with action keys (such as HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\open) determine protection. If byte 1, bit 1 of such an EditFlag is 0 (or if there is no EditFlag), then the action is protected. If byte 1, bit 1 is 1, then the action is unprotected. To enable protection on system files such as the KnownDLLs list, add the following value; 1. Open RegEdit 2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\ SessionManager 3. Create the a Dword value and name it "ProtectionMode " 4. Set the Value to1 |
