Windows - Tips, Tricks and Tweaks

Subject: Windows - Tips, Tricks and Tweaks Fri May 16, 2008 3:13 pm

You can post any Tips, Tricks and Tweaks related to Windows XP in this tread!

so here is some of the Tweaks

//Make the text for the desktop icons tranparent
1. Right Click My Computer, select Properties Then Advanced ::::> Performance(Settings)
2. Scroll to the bottom in the visual effects tab
3. Check "Use Drop Shadows for icons labels on desktop"

//Remove text from Icons on desktop
Rename the icons to alt + 255

//Disable Image Viewer
1. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}shellex
2. and delete the subkey: MayChangeDefaultMenu
3.
Reboot. Images will now open in your default viewer by double-clicking.
You can still right-click and select PREVIEW if you want to open it in
Image Preview.

//Turn off Error Reporting Automatic updates etc.
Right click on My
computer icon and choose properties, advanced tab, error-reporting
button

//To get Admin account on the "Welcome Screen".
Make sure that there are no accounts logged in.
Press "ctrl-alt-del" twice and you should be able to login as administrator!

//WinXP Clear Page file on shutdown
Go to Control panel Administartative tools, local security policy. then goto local policies ---> security options.
Then change the option for "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"

//boot tweak
1. Its loading the OS. You can see which files it is
loading as it does it by adding a "/sos" to the end of your OS load
line in boot.ini.
2. Right click "My Computer" -> Properties
-> "Advanced" tab -> click Startup and Recovery "Settings" button
-> "To edit the startup options file manually, click Edit." (click
edit) -> add "/sos" to the end of your line (w/o quotes) like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (verbose)" /fastdetect /sos

//Removing Thubmbs.db is very easy
Thumbs.db is a useless file if it's in a webserver images directory. It
is simply used for a cache for your images so that when you open a
folder in explorer you can see a mini thumbnail of the image. It
doesn't store any vital information however.

Removing
this is quite easy also, all ya need to do is go into any open folder
and select TOOLS/Folder Options/View tab/ then turn off or rather click
"Do not cache thumbnails". Then apply to all your folders as I did.