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[Trick] Create Shortcut To Lock Your Computer in One Click!
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If you often leave your computer while doing work, then locking your computer is offcourse more convenient than put it on standby or logging off. This trick will create a desktop shortcut, which can lock your computer instantly when clicked. Right click on an empty area of the desktop and…
XP Hidden Shortcut 2.0 – Create Hidden Shortcut in Start Menu
Last summer I developed a small program named “XP Hidden Shortcut” which creates an additional (hidden) shortcut in Windows XP’s start menu (under RUN). The program lets you create a shortcut which is actually hidden by default and can be enabled by tweaking some registry settings. But using the simple…
Snippy: Smallest Utility to Take Screenshots in Windows XP
Windows Vista and Windows 7 users have a small built in feature of capturing screenshots known as – Snipping Tool. But Windows XP users do not have any application like this in Windows’ built in programs list. What about them? Do they have to use the PrintScreen key with MSPaint…
Hack Into Windows XP’s Admin Account Without Entering Any Password [No Software Required!]
If you have forgotten your Windows XP account’s password, then you can still login through another account – that is “Administrator” account of windows and change or remove your own account’s password from there. It’s an old trick but still unknown by many Windows XP users. To do this: 1….
Small Utility to Create Hidden Shortcut in XP Start Menu
I developed this utility last summer in holidays and found it buried in my project files when I was cleaning up the folders yesterday. So I thought it to share it on the blog to see the reviews. This small utility creates an additional shortcut in Windows XP’s start menu…
Windows XP Fresh Installation Keeping Documents & Program Files Untouched
A system was brought to me last week by my friend with windows xp installed in it. The windows installed was old and pretty much corrupted and asking for fresh new installation. He insisted me to save the user accounts and their documents and also the program files that were…
Explorer Breadcrumbs: Get Vista Like Address Bar in XP
One very handy feature of Windows Vista is its Explorer’s breadcrumbs navigation address bar, which simplifies the browsing/navigation in Windows directories. Unfortunately it isn’t present in Windows XP, but if you’re on XP, you can still get the same navigation pleasure after installing a little addon for Windows Explorer.If you…
Forget Default Windows Files Search, Try “Everything”- Fastest Desktop Searching Engine
If you frequently search files and folders in your windows powered PC, then you must know the step by step process If you are XP user, you open the windows explorer, click search button, An annoying little animated character shows up asking “what do you want to search”, you select…
Speed Up Start Menu Appearance with Zero Delay!
Today When I noticed that my start menu is taking little longer to show up, I thought to decrease its delay time a bit more. This is an old trick, that I think most of the amateur Windows users or users who have played with windows registry before, must know….
Resolve “NTLDR is missing” error at system starup
If the NTLDR becomes damaged, you may get an error message… “NTLDR is missing” when you start your computer. After this error message, you will be prompted to restart your computer at which the same error will be displayed again. This effectively prevents you from being able to access Windows…
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