I just found out about this today, and I use Windows XP for some time now, so i guess there are others out there who don’t know about this yet. But normally windows saves the “My Documents” folder on your C-drive. But when you right-click on it and go to properties, you can change the [...]

As the size of hardrives increase, more people are using partitions to seperate and store groups of files. XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack. Run the Registry Editor [...]

Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete [...]

Because of the security features built into Windows XP, it is virtually impossible to get back into the system without the password. You have several options to try and get around this problem. If you have access to another user account with administrator rights, you can use that account to change the password of the [...]

Burning BIN/CUE Images with Nero Burning Rom BIN/CUE image format is quite common on the Internet. It might seem that finding an appropriate software for burning these images is quite hard. Luckily, it’s not. In addition to Golden Hawk CDRWin, the original software for BIN/CUE format, you can also use Nero Burning Rom to burn [...]

To burn a bin file, you will need an appropriate cue file. You do exactly the same as for iso files, but when you click on “burn image,” you don’t browse to the bin itself, but instead to the cue file, and you open that one. When the writer starts to burn, it will automatically [...]

Boot Winxp Fast Follow the following steps 1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:\ 2. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “gpedit.msc”. 3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window. 4. In the new [...]

Auto End Tasks To Ensure Clean Shutdown This reg file automatically ends tasks and timeouts that prevent programs from shutting down and clears the Paging File on Exit. 1. Copy the following (everything in the box) into notepad. QUOTE Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management] “ClearPageFileAtShutdown”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] “AutoEndTasks”=”1″ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control] “WaitToKillServiceTimeout”=”1000″ 2. Save [...]