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Put Any Site On Yur Desktop in XP !

22 January 2007

To start...right click anywhere on your desktop and choose Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web. You should be at this window:

Click on the New button and type the address of the Web Site you would like to have as your desktop.

Click Ok

On the next window you have the option to customize the Desktop Synchronization. Click Customize, then next and select how you want it to synchronize. If your using a website that requires a password enter it now and click finish.

Click Ok.

Windows will then synchronize the page to make it available for your desktop.

Make sure the Lock desktop Items box is NOT checked as you will not be able to move it around once complete. Click Ok, then Ok again on the last window.

You should now have a box on your desktop which will load your desktop website.

You can click up at the corner of the window to maximize it or you can drag it to suit it to your needs.

Now you have a fully functional web desktop. You can click on links from that to navigate, or if your using google, you can simply enter your search directly into the box.

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HOW TO SHUTDOWN PC WITH TIMER

Do you know that you can make your PC shutdown at a time u wish to?Here is the trick!!How To Make A Shutdown Timer!

********** METHOD # 1 ***************

1)Right click on your desktop and choose "New=>shortcuts".

2)In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut",type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" without the quotation marks and click next. Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , 60secs*60mins=3600secs.

3)Make up a name for the shortcut and you're done.You can change the icon by right clicking=>properties=>change icon=>browse

4)TO ABORT:To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make the "location of the shortcut" to " shutdown -a" without the quotes.

********* METHOD # 2 **************{EASIER THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE}

Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 11:35am. Type this in start=>Run Type

Code: at 11:35 shutdown -sTO
ABORT:Code:shutdown -a

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V Downloader!

This is really a very cool software which allows you to download videos from Youtube, Google video and Grinvi to your computer, saving them in AVI or MPG format.

heres the link below to download this software:http://www.sendspace.com/file/o95ecm

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Fast Shutting Down of Windows

We all having a big problem that WinXP take so long time to shutting down
here is a tip for it to shutting down WinXP faster
When a user shuts down Windows XP, first the system has to kill all
services currently running. Every once in a while the service does not
shut down instantly and windows gives it a change to shut down on its own
before it kills it. This amount of time that windows waits is stored in
the system registry. If you modify this setting, then windows will kill
the service earlier. To modify the setting, follow the directions below:

Click on Start, and then goto run, type REGEDIT

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControl

Set/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

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Hide your Folder in XP without any Software

Generally we use 3rd party software to hide any file in Windows. Also the Folder Options>>Hide All Files and Folder is a very weak method to hide files.

A Strong method under Windows XP is also there which allows you to hide a folder without anybody seeing it and it does not require a password also. It is the best possible hideout that Windows can give your folder.

First create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive, when you name it hold down “Alt” and press “0160″. This will create an invisible space so it will appear as if it has no name. Then right click in and select “Properties” select the tab “customize” and select “change icon”. Scroll along and you should find a few blank spaces. Click on any one and click ok. The folder will be invisible to hide all your personal files….

Alt+255 also works. Now you can even make it a hidden folder by going to its properties and now you have a hidden folder.

You just gotta remember where you saved it to open.

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Removing Multiple Boot Screens

If you are getting unwanted multiple boot screen
Then Follow these Steps.
1> Right Click on My Computer
2>Select Properties
3>Select Advanced Tab
4>Select Settings In the Startup & Recovery Section(3rd grp)
5>Select the operating system which u want.
6>And Click OK.
7>Further again press the setting and click on Edit.
8>It will open boot.ini File.
9>Now u can delete those o/s which you don't want to be displayed.

Note: For deleting operating systems from boot.ini file, keep it mind that you can't
delete that o/s which is selected by default there. Before
making any changes make a copy of boot.ini file.

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Disable XP Load Screen

By disabling the load screen you can boost the boot up time by a couple of seconds, if not more. To disable the load screen, open the “msconfig” utility: go to Start>Run, type in “msconfig” without quotes and press Enter. In the subsequent window, select the ‘boot.ini’ tab. Check the /NOGUIBOOT option and press ‘Apply’. Restart Windows to see the effect.

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Stopping XP from displaying unread messages count

To stop XP from displaying count of unread messages, Open registry and navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wi

ndows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail] and look for the data key "MessageExpiryDays". If you do not see this key, create one DWORD key by the name "MessageExpiryDays". Setting its value to 0 would stop Windows XP from displaying the count of unread messages

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Removing the Shortcut arrow from Desktop Icons:

Goto Start then Run and Enter regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile. Delete the IsShortcut registry value. You may need to restart Windows XP.

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Renaming The Recycle Bin icon

To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, click Start then goto Run, write Regedit and press Enter. It opens Registry Editor. Now in Registry Editor go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-1

01B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).

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