Windows XP is a much better experience it you customize it according to your personal usage needs. There are many Tips and Tricks involving registry edits or tweaking some options a bit to get Windows work smarter and faster in an efficient manner. Here are very essential tips every Windows user should know to get the best from Windows and spending time in other creative stuff.

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Managing data in the PC is a tough task. Geeks can not do mostly. Their desktop and drives are all full of small/large files most of the time. We have to search most of the times to get to our files we need. Now we can save our important searches performed to find most used files for future use and its very easy.

Save your frequent Windows searches for future use by following the below steps.

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Following is a list of 99 commands that you can run off from the Run Command prompt. Just select programs that you use most and remember its command. It will make your PC life easier. Go to Start Menu - Run and type in the command to run the specific application. Command is in bold letters, while program names are first in the list.

1. Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl
2. Clipboard Viewer clipbrd
3. Accessibility Controls access.cpl
4. Administrative Tools control admintools
5. Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl
6. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard fsquirt
7. Component Services dcomcnfg
8. Certificate Manager certmgr.msc
9. Character Map charmap
10. Check Disk Utility chkdsk
11. Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl
12. Command Prompt cmd
13. Calculator calc
14. Computer Management compmgmt.msc
15. Date and Time Properties timedate.cpl
16. DDE Shares ddeshare
17. Device Manager devmgmt.msc
18. Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)* directx.cpl
19. Direct X Troubleshooter dxdiag
20. Disk Cleanup Utility cleanmgr
21. Disk Defragment dfrg.msc
22. Disk Management diskmgmt.msc
23. Disk Partition Manager diskpart
24. Display Properties control desktop/desk.cpl
25. Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility drwtsn32
26. Driver Verifier Utility verifier
27. Event Viewer eventvwr.msc
28. File Signature Verification Tool sigverif
29. Find fast findfast.cpl
30. Folders Properties control folders
31. Fonts control fonts
32. Fonts Folder fonts
33. Free Cell Card Game freecell
34. Game Controllers joy.cpl
35. Group Policy Editor (XP Prof) gpedit.msc
36. Hearts Card Game mshearts
37. Iexpress Wizard iexpress
38. Indexing Service ciadv.msc
39. Internet Properties inetcpl.cpl
40. IP Configuration ipconfig
41. Java Control Panel (If Installed) jpicpl32.cpl
42. Java Application Cache Viewer (If Installed) Javaws
43. Keyboard Properties control keyboard
44. Local Security Settings secpol.msc
45. Local Users and Groups lusrmgr.msc
46. Logs You Out Of Windows logoff
47. Microsoft Chat winchat
48. Minesweeper Game winmine
49. Mouse Properties control mouse
50. Mouse Properties main.cpl
51. Network Connections control netconnections
52. Network Connections ncpa.cpl
53. Network Setup Wizard netsetup.cpl
54. Notepad notepad
55. Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed) nvtuicpl.cpl
56. Object Packager packager
57. ODBC Data Source Administrator odbccp32.cpl
58. On Screen Keyboard osk
59. Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed) ac3filter.cpl
60. Password Properties password.cpl
61. Performance Monitor perfmon.msc
62. Performance Monitor perfmon
63. Phone and Modem Options telephon.cpl
64. Power Configuration powercfg.cpl
65. Printers and Faxes control printers
66. Printers Folder printers
67. Private Character Editor eudcedit
68. Quicktime (If Installed) QuickTime.cpl
69. Regional Settings intl.cpl
70. Registry Editor regedit
71. Registry Editor regedit32
72. Remote Desktop mstsc
73. Removable Storage ntmsmgr.msc
74. Removable Storage Operator Requests ntmsoprq.msc
75. Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof) rsop.msc
76. Scanners and Cameras sticpl.cpl
77. Scheduled Tasks control schedtasks
78. Security Center wscui.cpl
79. Services services.msc
80. Shared Folders fsmgmt.msc
81. Shuts Down Windows shutdown
82. System Properties sysdm.cpl
83. Spider Solitare Card Game spider
84. SQL Client Configuration cliconfg
85. System Configuration Editor sysedit
86. System Configuration Utility msconfig
87. System File Checker Utility sfc
88. Sounds and Audio mmsys.cpl
89. Task Manager taskmgr
90. Telnet Client telnet
91. User Account Management nusrmgr.cpl
92. Utility Manager utilman
93. Windows Firewall firewall.cpl
94. Windows Magnifier magnify
95. Windows Management Infrastructure wmimgmt.msc
96. Windows System Security Tool syskey
97. Windows Update Launches wupdmgr
98. Windows XP Tour Wizard tourstart
99. Wordpad write

There are many ways to break down windows password. I have mentioned some method related to earlier SAM files in windows and of course there is a way to use LIVE version of any appropriate operating system to enter in the system.

If you care to purchase some software for that then I can recommend you a very useful software which does exactly that and without any hassle or loss.

If you can't Login To Windows? Locked Out? Forgot Your Password?
There is just One Step - No Hassle Solution! by Windows Geeks.

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• Removes and Unlocks All Windows Passwords Instantly
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I have used this software recently. I used USB version which is very easy. Steps involved are followings.

You need a blank USB/flash drive.
Software comes with a folder "usbmemkeyboot" containing 'SP27608.exe' which is HP Windows Format Utility for USb drive. This will install the software. After installation run this utility to make your USB bootable.

Now along with this software there are some other files in the package which you just copy and past in USB drive. There are instructions for the process in detail at their website.

After you have created bootable flash disk, open command prompt by using command cmd in run and browse there your USB drive. Suppose USB is starting with letter f.
You might get the following displayed at the command prompt
c:\documents and settings\PCUserName>
type f: ahead of that and press enter.
It will give you f:\>
Type syslinux f: ahead of that and press enter. i.e.
f:\>syslinux f:
You are done.
This last step is important.

Now you have created your USB disk for password removal. You will create it earlier for later use or you can create it at another PC obviously if your computer has been locked down already.

Just check your boot sequence from motherboard setup. Make sure it is boot from USB.
Restart PC, plug in USB drive and let it boot from the USB drive.

All you will get is following.

All passwords of administrators or users will be removed. Restart the PC. Eject USB. Now Windows will be password free and all passwords will be erased. Your user settings remain same. Files remain same. Everything same. Just windows users passwords will be removed. This is a very useful utility for erasing password of any windows operating system.

Website
Windows Geeks Password Removal Tool

The screen above is showing you two windows users. You can have as many as you want. Many users do not bother about creating more then one accounts. While installing windows XP, user is asked about administrator password. Some users provide password and some not. In case you have not given administrator password and created another windows user. Suppose you forgot user's password then you can always Ctrl+alt+Del twice at Logon screen to switch between Log On Mode which will bring prompt asking you user's name and password. Write administrator in user input box and press enter. You are in. That is ok.

I am discussing here the worst case. Consider the following scenario:

- You gave administrator password during installation.
- You did not created another user other then administrator after windows XP installation.
- And then you forgot your password.
- Now you have Log on screen asking you the the user's password or administrator password which you have forgotten. Now what?

What to do (You might not want to do the installation again or secure some files etc.)

There are number of ways to cope this problem. i.e.

• Use bootable CD to log into Windows as another user
• Use Active Password Changer - www.password-changer.com
• I recommed you another way relating to SAM files.
  There is a location in Windows Xp as
  C:\WINDOWS\system32\config
  There are two files
  1- SAM.txt
  and
  2- SAM
  These files contain user information.
  Delete these and password will be removed for all accounts.
  Now you are not in Windows.
  You have encountered a screen asking you password.
  And you need to go to the path
  C:\WINDOWS\system32\config
  to remove SAM files.
  Use another PC.
  Connect your hard disk with locked account in that, run that other PC with connected 2nd hard disk and browse its C drive for that location and delete SAM files.
  Unplug your hard disk.
  Connect it to your PC.
  Boot the PC.
  Password will be blank.

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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... { Continue Reading }

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.

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. { Continue Reading }

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

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. { Continue Reading }