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System Password Protection
You should always lock your computer when you leave it. A password will protect your computer from others. There are three or four methods to lock your computer manually, but you can lock your computer automatically using screen saver option. You can turn on automatically lock dialog box after specified time.
Follow the giving steps to set screen saver to lock computer automatically:
First right click on your computer desktop then select the properties option.
In the Display Properties click on Screen saver tab.
Now select any screen saver file then in Wait field set any suitable time to turn on screen saver.
At the end check the Password Protected option and press OK. Now after specified time, when your screen saver will turn on, your computer will be automatically locked.

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Hidden User Account
For my next trick I will make a user account disappear, yet remain a full functioning account. Today's Security Tip is another way to lock down your system, and it does this by hiding specified user accounts. This feature is only available in XP and 2000, so unfortunately the rest of you are out of luck. This process does involve an easy registry edit, but if you're uncomfortable with that you might want to think twice about attempting this.
Normally when you log into XP, you see the startup screen where you see all the icons for the users who can access. What this tip does is allow you to hide a desired account from this screen. If you want to log on as this user you have to press Cntrl+Alt+Del twice at the Welcome screen to make a Windows Security dialog box appear. Here you can type in the user name and password of the hidden account and log in. Limited Users shouldn't be able to see any sign of you except for the listing in the Documents and Settings folder. Other administrative users will be able to see your hidden account in Control Panel/User Accounts, so keep this in mind when you're planning this out.
All right, now down to the good stuff. If having a hidden account sounds like your cup of tea, and you have no problem with small Registry augmentation, then let's go:
First we need to open up the Registry Editor. Go to Start/Run and type "regedit" and click OK
You should be looking at the Registry editor, and what we need to do now is navigate to H-KEY\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist . You will not see this folder if you do not have "show hidden system files" turned on.
Once here we need to create another DWORD value. This is easier than it sounds, right click on the User list label file on the left side of the screen and select New>DWORD . You'll see the new entry in the right pane of the window, rename this value the name of the user account you want hidden (exactly how it is listed in the Startup screen, case sensitive) and leave the value at 0.
Close your Registry Editor and restart the PC. When the Welcome screen comes up you'll notice that there's no icon for the user you just concealed. So how do you log in? This is where you press Cntrl+Alt+Del 2x's and the Windows Security Dialog box will come asking you to authenticate (name/password) after this the system should log you in.
Here's one more thing you might want to keep in mind, Windows logon screen. This is the screen where you see the available users you can choose to log in as. You can turn this option on/off in the User Accounts ( Start/Control Panel/User Accounts then "Change the way Users log in or off" and "Use Windows Welcome Screen" and you need to turn it off if you plan on using a hidden account and there are no other accounts on the system. The reason why is that the Windows doesn't have any user accounts to display in the Welcome screen, so it will continuously reboot. Now if you do run into this or any problems simply enter Safe mode at the next boot, this will allow you to go to the User Accounts Window and fix any problems. If you find that you can't log in at all with your hidden account go back and look at the registry value you created. Make sure you're spelling the user name is correct and that it's in the right location in the registry.

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Download the youtube videos on hard disk

Using this tip, you can easily download the youtube.com movies and save on your computer hard disk. Actually all videos are saved on youtube in flash video format, so you can simply play these videos on the website and can't save directly to your computer. But there are many tools are available in the market to download these videos on the hard disk, but here you can do this using a website. You can convert also the downloaded videos from youtube into any common video format, for example, windows media video file (wmv), windows video file (avi) and movie file (mpeg).
Follow the given steps to download videos from youtube on your computer:
First open www.youtube.com then plays any your favorite video.

For example, you search a video and the URL of that youtube video is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkUG6XLItc

The ID if this search is pVkUG6XLItc after equal sign.

Now open a website http://youtube.navi-gate.org, now copy and paste above video ID in the search box, and press button ID search.
The result may be displayed in any different language, but don't worry, just click on download button and save this video on your computer hard disk. Now use any video converter to convert it in any other common format.

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Control all open windows using windows shortcut keys

A cool tip to minimize and maximize all your active windows programs. You can do all using your mouse, but if you want to do this with keyboard then simply press Windows key+M to minimize all active programs and later maximize it using Windows key+Shift+M.
If you want to minimize the all active windows programs one by one then use the shortcut by pressing Alt+Space+N keys and sequentially maximize the active windows programs using shortcut Alt+Space+X keys.

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Change the Registered User Information Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista

Run the (REGEDIT.EXE).Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion.To change the values of the RegisteredOrganization, RegisteredOwner, or ProductId, simply double-click on them.

• Note: This will only change the registered user information for Windows, not for the applications on your system.

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REMOVE DELETE CONFIRMATION BOX
Although not strictly a performance tweak I love this fix as it makes my machine 'feel' faster. I hate the annoying 'are you sure?' messages that XP displays, especially if I have to use a laptop touchpad to close them. To remove these messages:

1. Right-click on the 'Recycle Bin' on the desktop and then click 'Properties'

2. Clear the 'Display Delete Confirmation Dialog' check box and click 'Ok'

If you do accidently delete a file don't worry as all is not lost. Just go to your Recycle Bin and 'Restore' the file.

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SPEED UP COMPUTER
You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

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OPTIMIZED DISPLAY

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimize:

1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

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How to create One-Click Restart icon on your desktop?

Today tip will help you to enjoy the quicker restart of your computer with a single click on desktop Restart icon. You can set the time when your computer will start the restart process. A single click on Restart icon will close the all running applications and start the restart properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save power and time as well. After the execution of this command, a small window will appear to start count time of system restart.
Follow the given steps to create the shutdown icon:

To create a new shortcut, right click on any empty area of your desktop and go to New then Shortcut.
Now a small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Create Windows”. In the “Create Shortcut” window, type the following command.

SHUTDOWN -r -t 30

Here t 30 means time in second, for example if you want your computer will restart automatically after half minute then the command will be shutdown -r -t 30. But if you want your computer will restart without any countdown then type command as shutdown -r -t 00.
click Next button to type the name of this shortcut and press Finish to close it.
this command starts a 30-second countdown for restart, which permits you to abort it (with a shutdown -a command).
At the end, when you click on restart icon, a windows dialog box will appear with the information” This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by administrator”.

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Change the name of Recycle Bin
You can change the name of Recycle Bin of your system if you wish. It is very easy and interesting but it require some changes in windows registry,

First click on Start button > click on Run option.
Type here regedit.exe and press enter then you will find there regedit editor.
In regedit editor you will open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, In this folder open the CLSID folder then open the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} folder >ShellFolder folder at last.
Here simply change the data value from "40 01 00 20" to "70 01 00 20".

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change the default location of program installation

You might want to change the location of your system default folder (C:\Program Files) from C drive toanother system drives (D or E drive). By default software setup will attempt to install program in C:\Program Files directory. It is good practice to make the backup of the installed programs, if you installed all your programs in other than C drive. If you have little knowledge about editing windows registry then you can configure your computer for this purpose.
Follow the given steps to configure windows registry:

Now modify the value to any other drive (for example D:\Program Files).

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

Here locate the location to:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Here in right side panel, double click on ProgramFileDir and here its default value is

C:\Program Files.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

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Backup of your computer installed drivers

You can easily create the backup of your computer installed drivers (just the particular or all drivers) and use it to troubleshoot any driver problems. This backup will be very useful when you will format your computer window due to any reason. There is no need to search the drivers from internet or drivers CD, just import the driver backup and within five minute, you will complete the driver installation process. You can move this backup from one computer to other computer for installation.
To complete the all process, we will use a simple tool called DriverMax. Using this tool, we can easily export the backup of any specific or all drivers and then import it for reinstallation later or elsewhere. You can free download (with free registration code) this tool for windows XP and Vista also. Download it and run the easy setup.
After Installation launch DriverMax, the first screen you will get with title "DriverMax - Version" and options "Export drivers, Import drivers and Installed drivers report". Just click on "Export Driver" option to start backup process.
Now after welcome screen, system will take few seconds to create the list of all installed drivers and then show you all installed drivers list.
Here you can select any specific device driver or click on "Select all" button to create the backup of entire installed drivers.
Press the Next button and in next screen you can select the export type (simple backup or in zip format) and then choose the backup location (always choose drive other than C drive).
Again press the Next and system will take some time (depend upon the size of your drivers) to finish exporting the selected drivers.
Click the "Open extraction folder button" to view the backup files or press Close button to finish it.
Now you can use this backup files (using import option) to restore drivers backup or move to any other computer. Copy the Following link to download it.

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RUN COMPUTER BY RUN COMMAND
PLEASE OPEN RUN WINDOW AND WRITE THE FOLLOWING ONE CODE AND THEACTION WILL PERFORM WHICH WRITTEN BY THE SIDE OF CODES


Fontview---------–Graphical font view
Fsmgmt.msc-------—Used to open shared folders
Firewall.cpl—-----Used to configure windows firewall
Ftp---------------ftp.exe program
Hostname---------–Returns Computer’s name
Hdwwiz.cpl-------—Used to run Add Hardware wizard
Ipconfig---------–Displays IP configuration for all network adapters
Logoff-----------—Used to logoff the computer
MMC--------------–Microsoft Management Console
Msconfig---------–Configuration to edit startup files
Mstsc------------—Used to access remote desktop
Mrc---------------Malicious Software Removal Tool
Msinfo32---------–Microsoft System Information Utility
Nbtstat----------–Displays stats and current connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
Netstat----------–Displays all active network connections
Nslookup---------–Returns your local DNS server
Osk —Used to access on screen keyboard