If you don't use the Recycle Bin to store deleted files , you can get rid of its desktop icon all together.
Run Regedit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/Desktop/NameSpace
Click on the "Recycle Bin" string in the right hand pane. Hit Del, click OK.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Search For Hidden Or System Files In Windows XP
The Search companion in Windows XP searches for hidden and system files differently than in earlier versions of Windows. This guide describes how to search for hidden or system files in Windows XP.
Search for Hidden or System Files By default, the Search companion does not search for hidden or system files. Because of this, you may be unable to find files, even though they exist on the drive.
To search for hidden or system files in Windows XP:
Click Start, click Search, click All files and folders, and then click More advanced options.
Click to select the Search system folders and Search hidden files and folders check boxes.
NOTE: You do not need to configure your computer to show hidden files in the Folder Options dialog box in Windows Explorer to find files with either the hidden or system attributes, but you need to configure your computer not to hide protected operating system files to find files with both the hidden and system attributes. Search Companion shares the Hide protected operating system files option (which hides files with both the system and hidden attributes) with the Folder Options dialog box Windows Explorer.
Search for Hidden or System Files By default, the Search companion does not search for hidden or system files. Because of this, you may be unable to find files, even though they exist on the drive.
To search for hidden or system files in Windows XP:
Click Start, click Search, click All files and folders, and then click More advanced options.
Click to select the Search system folders and Search hidden files and folders check boxes.
NOTE: You do not need to configure your computer to show hidden files in the Folder Options dialog box in Windows Explorer to find files with either the hidden or system attributes, but you need to configure your computer not to hide protected operating system files to find files with both the hidden and system attributes. Search Companion shares the Hide protected operating system files option (which hides files with both the system and hidden attributes) with the Folder Options dialog box Windows Explorer.
Set Permissions for Shared Files and Folders
Sharing of files and folders can be managed in two ways. If you chose simplified file sharing, your folders can be shared with everyone on your network or workgroup, or you can make your folders private. (This is how folders are shared in Windows 2000.) However, in Windows XP Professional, you can also set folder permissions for specific users or groups. To do this, you must first change the default setting, which is simple file sharing. To change this setting, follow these steps:
•Open Control Panel, click Tools, and then click Folder Options.
•Click the View tab, and scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings list.
•Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box.
•To manage folder permissions, browse to the folder in Windows Explorer, right–click the folder, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and assign permissions, such as Full Control, Modify, Read, and/or Write, to specific users.
You can set file and folder permissions only on drives formatted to use NTFS, and you must be the owner or have been granted permission to do so by the owner.
•Open Control Panel, click Tools, and then click Folder Options.
•Click the View tab, and scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings list.
•Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box.
•To manage folder permissions, browse to the folder in Windows Explorer, right–click the folder, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and assign permissions, such as Full Control, Modify, Read, and/or Write, to specific users.
You can set file and folder permissions only on drives formatted to use NTFS, and you must be the owner or have been granted permission to do so by the owner.
Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines
Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.
How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent
Go to Control Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"
How to Remove Windows XP's Messenger
Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak.
Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.
Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.
Choose Autoloading Apps
Which applications should you leave checked so that they continue to autoload? First and foremost, you don't want to operate without your antivirus, firewall, and other security programs. Yes, these programs slow your PC's boot-up and shutdown, and they can even cause conflicts, but the cost of not having them running is too high to bear.
For any other program in the list, use your judgment. Don't ask yourself "Is it a good program?" but "Does it need to be on all the time?" For instance, I unchecked Adobe Elements' Photo Downloader, a program that I use whenever I download photos from my camera, because it serves no purpose when I'm not downloading photos. On the other hand, I allow Copernic Desktop Search to autoload because it needs to index my data files continually.
After unchecking the programs that you don't need to autoload at startup, click OK and reboot. Windows will load with a very wordy message box that might look like an error message. Just check Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts (the wording is slightly different in Vista) at the bottom of the dialog box and click OK.
For any other program in the list, use your judgment. Don't ask yourself "Is it a good program?" but "Does it need to be on all the time?" For instance, I unchecked Adobe Elements' Photo Downloader, a program that I use whenever I download photos from my camera, because it serves no purpose when I'm not downloading photos. On the other hand, I allow Copernic Desktop Search to autoload because it needs to index my data files continually.
After unchecking the programs that you don't need to autoload at startup, click OK and reboot. Windows will load with a very wordy message box that might look like an error message. Just check Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts (the wording is slightly different in Vista) at the bottom of the dialog box and click OK.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Almost all the store data in the My Documents folder
Almost all the store data in the My Documents folder. This folder is a folder of a standard computer to store our various documents. There is a tips so that we can save the data that is inside the My Documents folder, the loss of data so that we can avoid as early as possible.
Please note that the location of 'original folder' from the My Documents is in the C: \ Documents and Settings \ Username \ My Documents. You can right-click mengeceknya through the My Documents folder and select Properties. Note the box on the Target Folder Location, disitulah actual My Documents data is stored.
Storing data in the actual location is less safe, why?. If an error when the machine we (can not go to Windows for example) so that there is no way to fix our computers except with the Windows format, so difficult for us to save data in My Documents as the location is in C, and so do the Windows format automatically all the data in My Documents' will be lost '. Format is the same with Windows remove 'all data' in the drive / partition C.
Is still able to be saved, among others, copy the My Documents folder to another drive (such as drive D, E etc.) through DOS, or move it through the coffee disk (hard drive installed on our computers of others), but the ways of making enough above for us. There is a trick so that we can save data in My Documents with the move from the target location of My Documents to another partition, eg D, E and so on.
Quite easy to do, namely:
- Right click on Start and select Explore
- At the partition / drive other than C (eg in the drive / partition D), create a new folder with the name Dataku (or other name as you)
- Right-click on the My Documents folder and select Properties
- Click the Move .... In the box that appears, find the folder you created earlier. If you have, click OK - OK. I appear in the box, click Yes.
You can check:
The contents of the folder My Documents folder = Content Dataku (on the drive / partition D)
Thus, if an error when your computer so that should be in Windows format, all data Document akan My congratulations for no longer stored on drive C, but has been moved to drive D.
This is especially important considering many people do who have lost data that is located in My Documents in Windows format performed. Tips if you do this, then the incident will not be like before you overwrite the.
Description:
Windows-format is the process to reinstall Windows, in other words you replaced Windows with the new 'in total'
- Drive / Partition is the division of the location of hard drive for data storage in computers. If you open Windows Explorer, then usually akan seen any posts (C), (D), (E) and so forth. Sections are useful for 'split' the location of our data storage. Unless the drive / partition to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, drive / partition is not working to save the data, but serves to fragment the CD / DVD.
Please note that the location of 'original folder' from the My Documents is in the C: \ Documents and Settings \ Username \ My Documents. You can right-click mengeceknya through the My Documents folder and select Properties. Note the box on the Target Folder Location, disitulah actual My Documents data is stored.
Storing data in the actual location is less safe, why?. If an error when the machine we (can not go to Windows for example) so that there is no way to fix our computers except with the Windows format, so difficult for us to save data in My Documents as the location is in C, and so do the Windows format automatically all the data in My Documents' will be lost '. Format is the same with Windows remove 'all data' in the drive / partition C.
Is still able to be saved, among others, copy the My Documents folder to another drive (such as drive D, E etc.) through DOS, or move it through the coffee disk (hard drive installed on our computers of others), but the ways of making enough above for us. There is a trick so that we can save data in My Documents with the move from the target location of My Documents to another partition, eg D, E and so on.
Quite easy to do, namely:
- Right click on Start and select Explore
- At the partition / drive other than C (eg in the drive / partition D), create a new folder with the name Dataku (or other name as you)
- Right-click on the My Documents folder and select Properties
- Click the Move .... In the box that appears, find the folder you created earlier. If you have, click OK - OK. I appear in the box, click Yes.
You can check:
The contents of the folder My Documents folder = Content Dataku (on the drive / partition D)
Thus, if an error when your computer so that should be in Windows format, all data Document akan My congratulations for no longer stored on drive C, but has been moved to drive D.
This is especially important considering many people do who have lost data that is located in My Documents in Windows format performed. Tips if you do this, then the incident will not be like before you overwrite the.
Description:
Windows-format is the process to reinstall Windows, in other words you replaced Windows with the new 'in total'
- Drive / Partition is the division of the location of hard drive for data storage in computers. If you open Windows Explorer, then usually akan seen any posts (C), (D), (E) and so forth. Sections are useful for 'split' the location of our data storage. Unless the drive / partition to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, drive / partition is not working to save the data, but serves to fragment the CD / DVD.
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