Disable the Windows Guest account correctly
The Windows XP guest account is not only used to allow guests to login to Windows XP but also to authenticate the computer in peer to peer networks.
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Windows restarts or shows Bluescreen after installing new hardware
My friend experienced a problem after installing a new hardware device on his Windows XP operating system.
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Display Notebook Battery Status
I find it hard to tell how much time I have left to work with my notebook when running on battery and always thought it would be nice to have an application tha
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Restart the Explorer when Windows hangs
This is a quick Windows tip that helps me from time to time when some windows in Microsoft Windows do not react anymore to user input and show that dreaded sand
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Locate text in files
A friend of mine was telling me about a problem that he had with his website Love is a Game.
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Use Returnil to create a Virtual System in Memory
One of the latest security trends is to use virtual systems to protect the computer from harm.
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Defrag Hard Drives only when they are fragmented
It does not make sense to start a hard drive defragmentation if the drive is not really fragmented.
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Windows Media Player Playlists not working anymore?
The playlists that are generated by Windows Media Player have a different structure and file extension than generic m3u playlists which are supported by all sof
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Create Folder Drives
When you open My Computer you see floppy disk drives, hard drives and DVD drives.
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Change the Default Windows Explorer Folder
The Windows Explorer default folder is the folder that is shown when Windows Explorer is started.
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Autopatcher Updater is back !
Microsoft killed the Autopatcher project some months ago which was a shock to everyone who used their monthly Windows Update collections to update their compute
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Microsoft Security Release ISO Images
Microsoft is releasing a monthly Security Release Iso image which contains the security releases of that month packed on one Iso image.
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Save Notebook Power by disabling unneeded devices
Most notebooks tend to run out of power quickly and most of the time in an inappropriate moment.
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Create Send To Entry for non-default printers
Windows gives you no choice but to use the default printer when using the Send To right-click menu.
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Time for some PC Winter Cleaning
It's becoming dark and cold outside sooner these days which is in my opinion the best time for some serious PC winter cleaning.
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Search in all Filetypes in Windows when using Windows Search
By default Windows XP searches only inside a handful of selected file types and ignores file types that are not registered in Windows.
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Disable restart after Automatic Updates
Automatic Updates means that your computer will check periodically if updates for Windows XP are available and install the automatically if it finds any.
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Battle of the Uninstallers: Safarp vs. MyUninstaller
I think we can all agree that the default way of removing software in Windows is probably the worst way possible.
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Windows XP File Security Extension
Running Windows XP on a hard drive or partition with the NTFS file system has several advantages.
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Delete Entries in Windows' Add or Remove Programs tool
Every software that is installed using an installation routine will be added to the Add or Remove Programs Windows menu and can be uninstalled by any user who h
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Change the default Command Prompt directory
Whenever you open the Command Prompt in Windows you are taken to a default directory which is usually your Documents and Settings \ Username directory.
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Create Global Folder Bookmarks
This is going to blow you away.
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Still running Fat32? Time to convert to NTFS
NTFS file systems have many advantages over FAT32 file systems that's why I would suggest to convert existing FAT32 partitions to NTFS.
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Use Custom Icons for any drive in Windows
Setting up custom icons for your hard drives, cd, dvd and removable drives can be an excellent way of visualizing the contents of the drives.
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25 Gigatribe Premium Accounts for Ghacks Readers
Gigatribe is a software that creates a private Peer to Peer (P2P) network that offers a group of users, for example your friends and family, an easy way to shar
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Mailto Email Links do not open in Internet Explorer
Just a quick fix to a computer problem that I encountered in the last days on an old computer of a friend who was using Internet Explorer 6.
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Kill Tasks from the System Tray
Task Killer is a small but very useful Windows software which places a small icon in the system tray.
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What is MediaAgent.exe?
I spotted a huge process in my task manager today called MediaAgent.
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Note to self: Always use the scientific calculator
Windows ships with two calculators.
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Windows cannot open this file
The message "Windows cannot open this file2 is always displayed when a user tries to execute a file with a file extension unknown to Windows.
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Change the Windows File Sort Order
Windows XP has a very confusing way of listing files in directories.
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When Mouse Clicks Go Wrong
Did it ever happen to you that a double-click on a file lead to moving the file instead for a pixels in the direction that you moved the mouse ? If you try to d
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Check and Manage System Restore
I recently visited a friend of mine who had a huge problem with his computer.
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Recover and display Windows Product Keys
You might have never entered a Windows or Office product key before in your life.
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Display several hard drive properties at once
The hard drive properties window gives information about used and free space both in numbers and as a pie chart, offers a Disk Cleanup button, a way to change t
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Save and Locate all Files on your hard drives fast with Locate32
The build in Windows search is slow, really slow compared to a software like Locate that indexes all of your files on all hard drives and offers almost instanta
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Move dllcache to another drive
My dllcache folder in system32 has a size of almost 450 Megabytes on my Windows partition.
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Remove Windows Media Player Menu Items
Windows Media Player adds context items to the right-click menu of several multimedia files even if you do not use this player to play those files.
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Permanently Assign Drive Letters to USB Devices
Don't you hate it that it is not possible to assign a drive letter to an USB device in Windows using Microsoft tools ? Let me correct that, it is possible to as
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Increase the size of Windows Calculator
The Windows Calculator does not increase its font size or appearance if your screen resolution is relatively large.
