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Windows XP – Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard

Tue, 10/01/12 – 18:20 | No Comment

Every two months, Windows XP offers to clean unused icons on your desktop,
and move them in a special folder: ‘Unused Desktop Shortcuts’
If you do not need this feature, here are three methods on how to disable …

How to change the clock format in windows

Tue, 10/01/12 – 10:22 | No Comment

Change Settings
To change the display format of the hours are few steps to follow:)
Windows Vista
* In Windows, click the Start button

Click Control Panel, click Clock, Language, and Region.
Click Regional and Language Options.
Click Customize this format.
In …

Use Hidden Vista Administrator

Mon, 9/01/12 – 19:59 | No Comment

Vista, like XP, has an account named “Administrator” but it is hidden and not enabled by default.
For this account appears in the list of users to the home screen, the method is different depending on …

Windows XP – Repair the network connection from the command line

Mon, 9/01/12 – 17:17 | No Comment

Windows XP has an option to repair a network connection. In the panel network connections (Control Panel / Network Connections), just click the right mouse button on the desired network connection and choose repair option.
It is possible to run the …

Windows XP – Enable or disable the firewall (firewall) to XP

Mon, 9/01/12 – 15:42 | No Comment

From a Windows XP session with sufficient administrative rights, please follow these instructions:

Go to the “Start” menu
Click on the “Settings”,
Choose “Control Panel”.
Double-click “Network Connections”.
With the right mouse button, click the connection icon for your Internet connection (“Remote Access Connection”) in the list “LAN …

Put a password on the Guest account

Mon, 9/01/12 – 13:11 | No Comment

tested on vista and xp
Assign a password to the guest account
you have enabled the guest account on your computer, but you do not want everyone accesses, so there must be a password, given that …

Download and install Facebook messenger for Windows

Sun, 8/01/12 – 6:43 | No Comment

As you know Facebook.com launched Facebook messenger for Windows. It looks cool and you can chat with up to 5000 friends. Messages are kept the same as normal chat or just like normal messages on Facebook servers, and you can see the activity of friends in a window that …

Windows 2000 – Restoring the thumbnails

Sat, 7/01/12 – 17:11 | No Comment

After installing new software, it may be that we lose the thumbnail display of images in the browser.
To recover, we will have to intervene in the registry:
Start> Run> regedit
Modify or recreate the keys and values:
Key: …

Windows XP – How to reinstall XP without reactivating

Sat, 7/01/12 – 14:07 | No Comment

This trick works of course, if a first activation has already been made.
Here’s a tip that will appeal to those who relocate often strongly their operating system, and without even reactivate it.
Simply follow these steps:

to …

Reactivate the autorun on Windows 2000

Fri, 6/01/12 – 12:55 | No Comment

Go to the registry key and scroll down:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ CDRom]
Value in the “Autorun” put a 0 to disable and 1 to activate.
Restart your PC and then:
CTRL + ALT + Sup / task …