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Have you noticed that the hard disk with more and more size you use, some of your MBs or GBs will not show up when you will see hard disk drives sizes or complete hard disk available size in My Computer. It will always show less size than origional and what the hard disk size actual is!
Suppose you have 160GB of Hard Disk Drive and it just shows up 128 GB in windows. With this tip you can use more available space within your hard disk which is available but somehow reserved by the computer. Here how it is… (more…)
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All of you may know that when you try to take screenshoots of a running media file, windows captures each and everything on the screen except the movie inside the media player.
Here is a trick how to capture screenshoots without using any utility (Software).
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
In Media Player go to tools, select options and then click on the performance tab. On the performance page there will be a slider labled as video acceleration. Reduce the acceleration to none, click ok and then close down media player. Next open the file you want to take a still from, press ALT and the PrintScrn key to copy an image of media player to the clipboard. Next open Microsoft Paint program (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint) or another image editing program, once the program has started goto Edit and Select Paste…
REAL ONE / REAL PLAYER / Real Media Player
- Open up Real player.
- Go to the ‘Tools’ menu, and then ‘Preferences’, and select the ‘Hardware’ section
- Make sure you have unchecked the box for ‘Video card compatibility’
- You must now restart your realplayer- in order for the change to take effect.
WINAMP 3
Load WinAmp, right click on one of the windows and select “Options” and then “Preferences”. Click on “Video” and remove the tick from “Allow video overlay” and the Restart winamp.
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Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button… it’s really, really annoying. This is done so that you don’t steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables All right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window. It’s easy to change. (more…)
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This should tripple your internet speed…
Open Notepad, Save this file as tweak.reg
Copy and past the folloing code in tweak.reg file
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
“TcpWindowSize”=dword:faf0
“Tcp1323Opts”=dword:0
Double click on file. A confirmation message alert box will appear asking that you really want to add information in registry. Click yes.
Restart your PC.
And you are done.
If you want to undo it, incase you feel it messed up, save a file named as undo.inf
[Version]
signature=$CHICAGO$
[DefaultInstall]
DelReg=Delete_Reg_Entries
[Delete_Reg_Entries]
HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters,TcpWindowSize HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters,Tcp1323Opts
Right click on undo.inf and click install (to undo tweak)
Reboot ur computer for it to take effect.
It has been tested at Windows XP pro successfully.
*Try this at your own risk*
*Playing with registry is not recommended*
*Always take backup of work and registry*
Download Files
tripple-internet-speed.rar
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If you are having any important docs and you are afraid about its privacy then do not be worried because windows XP provides (not officially) a utility by which u can hide your PC’s one or more drives.
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If u right click in any of ur drives first appear Autoplay, u can change the autoplay to open by following these steps:
- Double click on My computer on Desktop,
Choose Tool and select “Folder options”
Click on “View” tab select “Show Hidden files and folders” and uncheck “Hide Extention….”
And “Hide protected operating system file” (these selections are important to find the files you need to delete)
Click “OK“
- Open Windows Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and select the “Processes” tab
Click on “name” to sort File
Find “wscript.exe” and click on “End Process” (if there is more than one process with that name you have to end all of them)
Close the “Task Manager”
- Then you will click on Start and select “Search” and search for “autorun.inf” (Search the computer).
you will then delete all the files that contain the text MS32DLL.dll.vbs (the virus) by pressing:
SHIFT + DELETE. (There of course should not be Autorun.inf in the C root).
- You will also delete the virus from the system (C:\WINDOWS\ MS32DLL.dll.vbs) by pressing:
SHIFT + DELETE
- Next step is to edit the Registry (Like always you have to be very careful for the registry tools. Take backup first. Some mistake there can crash your PC’s operating system).
- First, click on “Start” and select “Run” and type in “Regedit” and press “Enter”.
Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> Software –>Microsoft –>Windows –> Current Version –> Run.
Find there “MS32DLL” and delete that entry.
- Then select HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Internet Explorer –> Main.
There you find “Window Title “Hacked by Godzilla” and you should delete that entry.
You can close the registry editor now.
- Next you will click on Start –> Run and type in “gpedit.msc” and press “Enter”.
It will open “Group Policy Editor”.
There you will select User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> System –> and there you will double click on “Turn Off Autoplay”
- in the window there you should select “Enabled” and select “All drives”.
- Next you will click on Start –> Run and type “msconfig” and press “Enter”.
It will open “System Configuration Utility”.
Click on “Startup” tab
Find the file MS32DLL, choose Enable All, then uncheck “MS32DLL”
Click Apply then OK to close.
- Exit the “System Configuration Utility” and select “Exit Without Restart” when prompt.
- After this you double click on My Computer and select “Tools” and “Folder Options” and “View” tab to change these back.
Select “Hide Extention…” and “Hide protected operating system files” and “Don’t show hidden files and folders”.
- Empty the “Recycle bin” and “Restart” your computer.
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Windows uses 20% of your internet bandwidth by default! Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)
Here’s how to get it back.
Click Start–>Run–>and type gpedit.msc. Hit enter.
This opens the group policy editor.
Then go to:
Local Computer Policy –>Computer Configuration –>Administrative Templates –>Network –>QOS Packet Scheduler –>Limit Reservable Bandwidth
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain‘ tab:
“By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%. Works on XP Pro and 2000. Enjoy your full speed internet connection.
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Increase Disk Space Under Vista Operating System
One of the improvements that Microsoft has improved upon over the other Windows releases are Vista’s backup features that are incorporated in to System Restore. The backup features are turned on by default so with all of the automatic backing up Vista does, it won’t take long to lose quite a bit of disk space. It may not be a bad idea to go in and delete the old backup files and restore points to increase your available disk space. Vista makes this task a very simple one. here’s how:
- Go to Start
- In the Instant Search text box, type: disk cleanup
- Open the disk cleanup tool and select the option titled: Files from all users on this computer
- Select the drive that you would like to cleanup.
- Select the “More Options” tab.
- Click the option titled: Clean Up under System Restore and Shadow Copies
- In the confirmation screen, click “Delete”.
Increase Disk Space While Using Windows XP
- Clean system memory
- Clean system temporary internet files, cookies, and history
- Press Window+R or simply Click at Start -> Run
Write cleanmgr in the run and hit enter
A dialogue box will open asking which drive you want to clean up.
Select C drive and press Ok.
Disk Clean Up will be opened. Select tasks and click ok.
This will clean temp files from PC.
- There are special hidden folders in your every drive; Recycled and System Volume Information
These folders contain temp files. Remove these files.
- Windows folder contains temp folder containing temporary files.
You may inspect all above locations and processes to remove unnecessary old files from your computer and increase disk space.
Also see…
Speed Up Computer - Clear System Memory
Boost Up Windows XP Performance - Get 100% Performance From PC
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Sometimes you have to use your native language or you just want to type in your native language while working. Windows comes with default English Language but also with other languages support.
I have a tip for you regarding this.
Go to Start - Settings - control panel
Click Regional And Language Options.
Choose second tab Languages.
Check below both check boxes which say:
Install files for complex script and right to left languages. Install files for East Asian languages.
Clicking apply will require a Windows XP CD.
After files will be copied you can choose your language from advanced tab.
For Writing Urdu (Write Urdu Language In Winword, notepad or any program or editor you use)
Now for URDU language do the same procedure as I have mentioned above. Install files for additional languages.
For second step you will be needing a Phonetic Keyboard software.
Get Keyboard software. (Below)
Install it. This keyboard will appear with language toolbar in your taskbar.
There will be a box from which you can select to use English or Urdu language to use in any program you are using.
You will have to reboot your PC perhaps.
As obvious in picture above, you can write urdu in standard way, using msword or winword software or even in notepad.
You will need to install files for other languages from control panel and then install Urdu Phonetic Keyboard and you are done. Just Open your favourite program or editor, select English or Urdu from language toolbar and use that specific language in that program.
A question arises that why I need to use this keyboard and this setup when I have inpage or other urdu editing programs available out there. For that, you know inpage can save file in its own format or can create a gif image file for you but not exact thing what you need; specially in case when you need to create a webpage in Urdu language.
Download Phonetic Keyboard
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Ever got problem with folder icons or folder thumbnail view image?
I do sometimes. May be because of some virus or due to some windows performance problems, sometimes my icons do change their appearance into any other icon image and sometimes even when I view folders in thumbnails view, they preview some image over these, even if image is not currently present in there.
To solve these problems or to customize these according to your own look-and-feel needs you can tweak folders a little bit.
Customize Folder Icon or Thumbnail Image. As you can view in figure, I right clicked at folder and pressed properties option. That gave me this customize screen.
There you can change the folder picture for thumbnail view or restore it back to origional.
Folder icons section beneath that can change your default icon of that specific folder to your indicated customized icon image.
In figure you can see clearly both normal and customized phases of the process for normal view as well as for thumbnail view of that specific icon.
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