Showing posts with label Windows XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows XP. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Set Attribute Harddisk with Disk Management

With the computer management, you can manage many things. In fact some of the features already present in each of your hard disk properties, it is only through the computer management will have more things that can be done.

1. Format



when formatting a hard disk or partition, you can simply right click on the partition and select the desired format. Then specify the type of format the list available in the File system box after that press the OK button, then the format will be run. You can also give a name or label on the new section that will be formatted via the Volume label box that is at the top. How the format you want, just select the option on the OK button.

2. Changing Drive Letter



Right-click on the drive letter you want to change and select Change drive letter and path. Then specify the drive letter that will be changed, then press the Change. Then in the following box Assigned drive letter select the desired letter. After that, press the OK button. After you press the OK button, the computer will inform you that the changes can be done to create an application that exists on the drive can not be run again. If you still want to continue, press Yes. Similarly, the second warning. Then restart the computer to activate it. For naming the drive, all can be given a name including the drive C:.

3. Renaming Drive



You can also change the naming in line with the drive you want. I select a drive that will be renamed and click on the right and select Properties. At the top of the box enter the desired name and press the OK button or Apply. We suggest naming the label is adjusted to the contents of the hard disk or partition concerned, so that later you will not be difficult to read the contents. Moreover, if the capacity is very large.

4. Defrag



Through computer management page, you can also defrag your hard drive-way open Disk Defragmenter page. Select the drive you want to defrag, and press the button Analize first in the bottom. After that, the Defragment button click to start a defrag-it. Defragment aims to sort out the allocation, or data file on disk. Data that is damaged will be removed so that in addition to alleviate the burden of how hard this can also improve the performance of your hard disk.

5. Error Checking



There is damage in your hard drive? Find using the error checking in addition you can find out if there is interference on the hard disk or not. If so, you can directly improve it. How to do error checking is on the right by clicking on the drive and select the desired properties. Tool and not the page, and in the Error Checking click Check Now. After that you will be asked, what if any error will be corrected immediately or not, if I give a check () on boksnya. After that start checking your error by pressing the OK button.

6. Back-up


The process of back-up can also be accessed through the computer management or drive properties. I right click on the drive and select properties. Go to the Tools page and press the Back up now. The process of back-up will be like running in general. This will be very easy for you to do the back-up. In addition, you also always reminded every time you check the hard drive capacity. If you are confused how to back-up, try running the application in the wizard.

7. AutoPlay and Burning



If you have a CD-ROM or CD-RW ROM, then you can set two things. For only the CD-ROM course, you can set the desired process autoplay. While recording in the page, you can set the cache memory where the burning will be placed. And with the speed of the burning process will be done. Our suggestion, give it a value equal to the number of cache CD or DVD you burning normal. For the less cache can make burning process fails or is very slow.
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Tricks and Tools to Make Windows XP You Employment

Do you work with multiple Windows XP computers from the same screen? What you must do administrative work on another computer? And IE add-on what you have and what their purpose?

That is part of the situation that you may ever face. Other examples, depending on how your system appears to be severe, you may need to use that is not normal. Start of run System Restore from the command prompt to clean up trash with the Duplicate Finder. Here are tricks and tools of Windows XP for your job easier.

Running System Restore from the Command Prompt

Using System Restore to fix the Windows XP system behavior that is a strange thing that is not normal, but depending on how your system appears to be severe, you may need to use that is not normal.

If your Windows XP system come into strange, the usual repair is to use System Restore to remove the system changes made since the last time you create a Restore Point. However, what if the problem is so severe, so you can not run Windows XP normally or even run the system in Safe Mode?

Fortunately, you can run System Restore from the command prompt. Restart your computer and press the [F8] on the initial startup time (shortly after checking the computer and before Windows XP logo appears). At the time you see the Windows Advanced Options Menu, select Safe Mode With A Command Prompt.

Select the Windows XP operating system. Go to the computer using the administrator account or an account with administrator access rights. Type the following command at the command prompt: C: \ windows \ system32 \ restore \ rstrui.exe. At the time you see the System Restore window, grafi knya may look strange, but you still follow the usual instructions on the screen to restore your computer to the previous situation.

Speed Windows XP Search Companion

There are a lot of whispering about the search feature of Windows Vista is faster, but what you can do to speed Windows XP Search Companion? Reasons why Windows Vista Search tool so quickly it is not all hard to find, but only find it in the Documents folder. So, next time you run the Windows XP Search Companion, click All Files and Folders and select My Document from the Look in list. Thus the Search Companion does not search the entire hard drive.

If you want to search for documents stored in the root, you can speed up the process with the system folder from the search. Click All Files and Folders, open the More Advanced Options, and remove the check () in the Search System Folders. If the Search Hidden Files and Folders is checked (), is also removed.

If you have a lot of fi le zipped (or compressed folder, Windows XP, so called) on the hard disk, Search Companion will search them all, so it will be slow. So that Search Companion does not find the compressed folder, move all folders to the root and then Configuration gurasi Search Companion to find only in the My Documents folder or disable Windows XP support for the compressed folder.

To disable support, open the Run dialog box, type the command regsvr32 / u dr.dll zip on the Open box, and then click OK. You must restart the system so that changes applied. (To enable support for Windows XP back to a compressed folder, use perinah regsvr32 zip dr.dll).

What if the Search Companion in-disable? If you disable Windows XP Search Companion to use interface Search and Windows 2000, you must do the following: to find the My Documents, select My Documents from the Look in list;

To remove the system folder from the search, click Search Options, check () Advanced Options, and then removed the check mark () in the Search system folders. (If the Search hidden folders and fi led is checked (), removed as well); to prevent the compressed search folder, you can use the same way in the Search Companion.

Monitoring Multiple Computers with Windows XP BGInfo

Working with multiple Windows XP computers from the same screen? Do you often work with multiple computers using the switch Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM)? If so, you surely know that sometimes confused about where the computer at this time appear on the screen.

Of course, you can find out himself, but it requires several steps and can disrupt especially if you are doing important work or take a long time.

Fortunately, there is a solution that is called BGInfo program, which is the abbreviation of Background Information. Mengakusisi Sysinternal at the time, Microsoft also mengakusisi Utilities all small and they are included in the Microsoft PowerToys, and BGInfo is one of them.

Once installed, BGInfo displays information about the computer. For example, you can configure to display BGInfo computer name, IP address, service pack version, boot time, the amount of empty space, and more. You can even choose the font and background color.

You can download BGInfo Microsoft's TechNet site. There you will also find detailed instructions for installing and using BGInfo.

Launch Windows Explorer with Administrator Access Rights

At the time you are using the computer and the user should do the job by using the administrative user account, you can use the Run as command to run the Utilities with administrator access rights.

However, if you use the Run as Windows Explorer to run with administrator access rights, there is nothing happens. This is because Explorer.exe is running and only one instance of Explorer can be run at one time.

More spesifi k, at the time you run Explorer.exe, the first thing done is to check whether he is running. In the second instance Explorer.exe see that Explorer.exe first instance is already running, the second instance of Explorer.exe immediately close without notice.

If using Internet Explorer 6 or 7, you can run Windows Explorer with administrator access rights. Internet Explorer 6 can use the Run as so you can go into Windows Explorer. Right-click the Internet Explorer icon on the Quick Launch toolbar and then click Run as (please note that you can not access the Run as Internet Explorer from the icon located on the desktop or Start menu).

Enter your username and password that the account has administrator access rights, and then click OK. After Internet Explorer appears, type C: \ Addressbar on. Windows Explorer will appear in the same window, and executed with the permissions admistrator.

If you use Internet Explorer 7, the steps for Internet Explorer 6 can not be used because with the new security features in version 7, Internet Explorer is no longer integrated with Windows Explorer. You should use the standard method for running Windows Explorer with administrator access rights.

Go to the computer with the Administrator account. Open the Control Panel and run the Folder Options. In the Folder Options dialog box appears, select the View tab. Scroll through the list of Advanced Settings and check () Launch folder windows in a separate process, click OK, and then log off.

At the next time you work in the computer and the user should do the job by using the administrative user account, you can use Run as to run Windows Explorer with administrator access rights.

RoboCopy GUI Version

On Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tool called RoboCopy there are tools that can be used on your Windows XP system. RoboCopy copy of the tool is very powerful, allowing you to perform the copy operation is more complex than the standard tools of Windows XP copy. For example, with RoboCopy image you can create a folder tree structure on the same computer or network drive.

The only shortfall is RoboCopy you must run it from the command line. This means to use RoboCopy you must remember and type a lot of switch and parameters that can really take advantage of all feature.

Fortunately, a system engineer group called Microsoft MSN Search Derk Benisch, create add-in called RoboCopy GUI. Its user interface which consists of six gurasi Configuration tab and make use of RoboCopy very easy.

Not only its interface, which provides options through gurasi Configuration check box, radio buttons, text boxes, and the Browse dialog box, RoboCopy GUI can also save your settings so that the re-use of this tool
much easier. In addition, the GUI has RoboCopy fi le with the help and reference guide to help you use the ability RoboCopy all.

You can download the GUI RoboCopy from http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/0/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842/UtilitySpotlight2006_11.exe. Please note that you first install the Microsoft. NET Framework version 2 before installing the RoboCopy GUI.

Stick to the list of Program Start Menu

You certainly are not foreign to the panel left the Start menu, but you know why the program list is divided into two? The panel left the Start menu consists of a list of programs that Windows XP, it will be useful for you (the ditempel above the barrier) and the list of most frequently used (that is displayed below the line).

By default, Windows XP paste the link to the Internet browser application and e-mail to your list of programs on the six lines and paste the program shortcut to the list of programs under the line. To maximally exploit the Start menu as the launch of all the most frequently used, you can configure the entire left panel as a list programs are the most commonly used.

Right-click Start button and select Properties to display the dialog box Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. Click the Customize button side by side with the Start menu radio button to display the Customize Start Menu dialog.

Program on the panel, set the Number of programs on the Start menu to zero. Click the Clear List button. Show on the panel on the Start menu, you can remove the check mark () on the Internet as the default icon Internet Explorer is displayed in the Quick Launch menu, and can also remove the check mark () in E-mail, depending on how you run the e-mail application.

Click OK to close the Customize Start Menu dialog and click OK again to close the dialog box Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. Click the Start button and select All Programs. Find and right click the program shortcut you use often and choose Pin to Start menu. You can paste up to 30 programs to the Start menu, depending on your screen resolution settings. With favorite program you can now utilize the most of the Start menu.

Checking the Internet Explorer Add-on

At the time of a variety of Web sites, Windows XP may download the add-on is usually ActiveX controls designed to enhance your use of the site. Add-on can include toolbar, software installer, and multimedia file viewer. However, some add-on could be spyware, which can decrease the performance of Windows XP. So when you have to check add-on in Internet Explorer to make sure they are all valid.

On Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu, Manage Add-ons. Dialog box on the Manage Add-ons, make sure that fi eld is set to Show Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer. View a list and note the name of each add-on, publisher, status, type, and file. If there are add-on that you do not know, select and then select the Disable option. Click OK.

Go to your favorite search engine and search add-on name for more information. If it is true that aalah add-on is valid, more open dialogue box and the Add-on re-enable the add-on.

Removing Run Command MRU List

If you often use the Run command to run the application, you surely know that Windows XP stores the registry on the history MRUList (most recently used), which contains all the applications that recently you run. In the Run dialog box appears, you can see the MRU list by clicking the arrow drop-down side by side with the Open text box.

MRU list is intended to mem permudah at the time you run more applications at the same time then. However, the list can be long enough so that it is difficult to find what you want. Fortunately, you can create a shortcut to delete the registry list of the Run MRU.

To do this, run the Registry Editor. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ RunMRU. RunMRU key right-click and then select Export. Name the Clear Run MRU, and click the Save button. Close the Registry.

Open file Clear Run MRU.reg in Notepad. Add the minus sign at the beginning of the key. Delete all lines after the key path. Save the file and close Notepad. Reboot Windows (or at least log off and log back on) so that changes applied. Now, every time you want to remove the Run MRU list, click Clear ganda fi le Run MRU.reg. Registry Configuration rmasi akan ask and you notice that the request is successful.
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Outmanoeuvre Windows XP

Many tricks you can do in Windows XP from startup, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Some of them can be found here.

Sleep button if Windows XP is less convenient, you can create self-cent. And you know that Windows XP have a variety of animated pointer scheme. Copy and paste in Windows XP is simple enough, but they can ease. We will see how to simplify the process of copy and paste in Windows XP.

If you want to use the basic search tool, it can be. To make trouble-shooting, you can configuration command prompt to display the UNC of the drive-in map. Another thing you can do is, you can set My Computer to work like the menu to be able to more easily access the drive in which you want. You can also edit the registry to create a shortcut to run the screensaver or turn off.

Create button Sleep Self

Sleep Is the button on your Windows XP the location is less convenient for everyday use? If so, you can create it. Many computer keyboard or have a Sleep button, which when pressed will make the computer mem-Stand by or Hibernate learn how to air-Power Options configuration. However, the location of the button Sleep may be less convenient for everyday use. For example, there may be buttons on the front of the casing which is located under your desk.

You can activate Stand By or Hibernate from the Shut Down Windows dialog. Another way is to create your own Sleep button by creating a shortcut on the desktop. I right click on the desktop. Select New, Shortcut. Type rundll32. exe powrprof.dll, SetSuspendState not on the co-text. Next type. Type Sleep in the text box and click Finish.

Now when you click the Sleep icon, Windows XP will make the computer Standby or Hibernate settings depend on how "When I press the sleep button on my computer" on the Advanced tab dialog box Power Options Properties.

Make Life More Desktop with Pointer & Animation

Sometimes an urgent need IT support person decreased slightly, especially on Friday. That is a time where technical expertise is used to do things like change the screensaver settings tweak or other systems. Another time you are in this situation, why not see some animated pointer scheme that is in Windows XP?

Click Start, Control Panel, and click the Mouse tool to access the Mouse Properties dialog box. Select the Pointers tab. In the Scheme list, select the scheme from the list. (Please note that not all animate pointer scheme, pointer, and some scheme designed to fi tour Windows Ac-cessibility). After selecting the pointer scheme, you can see the pointer on a variety of animation scheme from the list and select Customize pointer. You will see the animation on the frame in the Scheme list. Click OK.

If you want you can create your own animation scheme pointer by clicking Customize on the list, select a pointer is available, and then click Save As button on the panel Scheme and name.

Copy and Paste ease

Do you often spend time for find data on the Internet? If yes, then to large you spend time to copy text from web sites of interest and then paste the text into a document for further reference. There are four key is pressed [Ctrl] + C to copy and [Ctrl] + V to paste any text you wish to take.

Not be better if you can reduce the individual actions into one button anyway? Fortunately, you can! If you have any Adna Microsoft keyboard that provides a special button at the top, you can use the IntelliType software for configuration special button to do the copy and paste.

Download and install the latest IntelliType software for your keyboard from the Microsoft Hardware site (this step is optional because the IntelliType software you have the installation can also be used to configure the buttons). Open the Control Panel and double-click Keyboard icon to display the Keyboard Properties dialog box.

Select the Key Settings tab, select a button, and click the Edit button to run the Reassign A Key wizard. Select the Choose From A List Of Commands section on the Custom and click Next. A list on the Select Com-mand> From The List, select the Copy command and click Finish. Repeat the previous step to set the button to the command Paste. At the time back to the Keyboard Properties dialog box, click OK.

Now, whenever you want to copy or Pase, which needs to be done just press the button that has been set.

Maximize the Favorites menu in Windows Explorer


Just like Internet Explorer, Favorite menu in Windows XP appears in Windows Explorer. This makes it easier to access the Internet from within Windows Explorer. However, he does not do things in Windows Explorer even if he can do more than that.

You can make navigation hard drive and network and become more easily by using the Favorites menu as a shortcut to the folder for the remote in the hard disk, network drive and also that you access frequently.

Press [Windows] + R to access the Run dialog box, type Favorites in the Open box, and click OK to create a Favorites folder in Windows Explorer. Use the Make a new folder in the Files panel and Tasks folders to create three new folders, and name the Internet, Local Folders, and Network Folders.

Move all Internet links, except to the Links folder named folder in the Inter-net that is created new. Open the folder that is some distance in the disk that you access frequently and use the Add To Favorites on the Favorites menu to make the link to the Local Folders folder.

Open the network share a few of your access and use the Add To Favorites command to create a link to the Network Folders folder. Now, at the time in the Windows Explorer shortcut you can use the Local Folders and Network Folders in the Favorites menu to access the hard disk and the network quickly.

Adding Safe Mode option to the Boot Menu


At the time have problems with Windows XP, you may need to -boot the system into Safe Mode more than once. However, this can be an exhausting process. In the Boot menu appears, you must press [F8] and then choose Safe Mode from the menu that appears. Not be better if Safe Mode is available from the Boot menu? Not difficult to add a Safe Mode option to the Boot menu.

Press [Windows] + [Break] to make the System Properties dialog box. On the Advanced tab, click Settings in the Startup and Recovery. In the System Startup section, click the Edit button. In the fi le that is open Boot.ini in Notepad, find the line that ends with the / fastdetect. Highlight and copy and paste these lines to the line below.

Change the section titled WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" to WINDOWS = "Safe Mode". Add the following switch at the end of the line: / safeboot: minimal / sos / bootlog.

Modify the Open With List

If you open certain file types in some applications, may use the Open With command. To do so, right-click the file, and select Open With from the menu. You will see a second menu to display the program that can open the file.

Usually, the Open With only show programs that you want to use. However, if the list contains programs that are never used, you can remove them by editing the registry. Note that registry editing is dangerous action, so make sure you have memory back-up before making changes.
Run Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ FileExts. Ganda click the appropriate key with the file extension you want to change. In the key opens, click OpenWithList key. Delete the value associated with the program you want to delete from the list.

Move to Basic Search Tool

As you know, Windows XP Search Companion provides various facilities to make a file search on hard drive easier. However, sometimes all the extra features are only barred.

If you want to search a basic tool of Windows 2000, it is not difficult. Basic search tool is still available in Windows XP and you can activate them by editing the Registry. Open the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ CabinetState.

Click the Edit menu, New, String Value. Search Users Asst. Click the new value, type No in the Value Data box, and click OK. Close the Registry Editor, and restart the system. To return to the Search Companion, more open Registry Editor, and change the Value Data to Yes.

UNC to enter the Information Command Prompt

If you like the other system administrators, it may be like to work with the command-line tool. If yes, there are other ways that you can use.

Know that you can configure commnad prompt to display the full UNC of a drive-in map? The ability to see from the server where the drive-in map can reduce the time and frustrating at the time working with the command line. All you need to do is add a special character in the command prompt.

Press [Windows] + [Break] to open the System Properties dialog box. On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables button. In the System Variables, click New. Enter the prompt box in the Variable Name. Enter the $ m $ p $ g in the Variable Value box.

Click OK three times to close all the dialog box that opens. Now, at the time to open the command prompt and access the drive-in that folder, you'll see the UNC path on the prompt.

Make a Drive Menu for My Computer

By default, the My Computer on the Start menu is configured to work like a normal folder window. If you want to access the drive, select My Computer from the Start menu, wait a moment until the window opens, and then double-click the drive icon you want to access.

In the hurry, step two is to remove the time and create a frustrating if My Computer contains many icon. However, Windows XP makes it easier in the configure My Computer so that it can work like the menu, with each drive as an item.

Right-click Start button, and select Proper ties. Click the Customize radio button next to the Start Menu, and select Advanced. Scroll through the list of Start Menu Items until you see My Computer. Select the Display as a menu, and click OK twice.

Now, at the time of selecting My Computer from the Start menu, you'll see a menu of each drive. To access the contents of the drive, select the drive letter of the menu.

Registry Shortcut to Disable and Enable Screensaver


At the time, such as defragmentation perform maintenance or back-up disk, you need to do so before turning off the screensaver that does not disrupt the process of maintenance. However, turning off the screensaver manually requires a few steps from the Display Properties dialog box, the Screen Saver tab, change the settings and Screen saver to None. Then you have to run again after the screensaver complete maintenance.

Fortunately, you can enable and disable the registry with some registry shortcuts. Once again the need to edit the Registry in mind that action is dangerous, so make sure you have memory back-up before making changes.

Run and type Notepad: Windows Registry Editor Version 5:00, [Enter], [Enter], [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop], [Enter], "ScreenSaveActive" = "0". Save the file to the desktop with the name Disable Screen Saver.reg. Change the 0 in the fourth row to 1. Save the file to the desktop with the name Enable Screen Saver.reg.

Now if you want to turn off screensaver, click the Disable Screen shortcut Saver.reg. To run the screensaver, click the shortcut Enable Scren Saver.reg. After running one of the file, Registry Editor will display two confirmation prompt one to make changes before and after the change.
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