Most of application put their icon on the desktop when they have installed on our computer. When we have installed a lot of applications, our desktop have a lot of icon too. It makes we can see the wallpaper anymore. Some of us might be remove some of them to make extra space in your desktop. But, before you start to removing some icon on your desktop, there is a trick that we can use to make some extra space on our desktop. You can change the desktop icon size to smaller size. By resizing the desktop icon to smaller size, our desktop can hold more icons on it.
This tip is also can be used to resize the desktop icon to bigger size. It will be helpful if you have a problem with your eyes. This tips only works on windows 7 and vista. For Windows XP user, you can find an application which help you to resize the desktop icons. You only do 2 steps to rezise the desktop icons, you can follow this tips:
To resize the desktop icon to smaller or bigger size. Press and hold the Ctrl (Control) key on your keyboard the scroll the mouse scroll button up or down. If you scroll the button up. The desktop icons will resized to bigger size. And if you scroll the button down, the desktop icon will be resized to smaller size.
You can see the result of the actions on the following figures:
That's the simple trick how to resize the Desktop icons. Enjoy it!
I'm sure you already read my post about How to change command prompt color. Now, I try to explain how to to change the command prompt font. If you combine both tips, you will have a new look for the CMD. With the new look of command prompt, it will more comfortable when working on it.
This tips is almost have the same way with the previous tips. You can change the command prompt font from it properties windows. Here the steps to change the command prompt font:
- Click Start »» Run. Type in "cmd" (without quotes) then press Enter to open Command Prompt.
- Right click on Command Prompt windows title bar and select Properties.
- On the properties Windows, click on the Font tab.
- Select the font type and it size that suite for you.
- Click the OK button to save the changes.
- When a dialog appears, select the second option and klik OK if you want this change applied permanently.
Everything is done. You can see the new look of your command prompt after changing it's font. Enjoy it!
As we know, windows provide a tool which able to kill a running process on our computer. This tool know as task manager. Task manager can be accessed by pressing the combination of Ctrl + Alt + Del button on our keyboard. By using task manager, you can terminate running processes or programs with a single klik. But, what if the task manager disabled by a virus? How can you terminate the virus process?
There is another way to kill or terminate running process on a computer. You can use another windows tool to do so. You can use command prompt (CMD) to terminate running process on a computer. Here's the steps how to kill running process through command prompt:
- Open Command Prompt by clicking on Start »» Run and type "cmd" (without quotes) then hit Enter.
- On the CMD windows type "tasklist" (without quotes) then press Enter. The function of this command is to show the list of running processes on the computer.
- At the image above, you can see each process has it own Image Name (File Name) and PID. We will use the process image name or it's PID to terminate it.
To kill a process you can use "taskkill" command, combine with process image name or process PID. For example, if you want to kill explorer process, you can use this command "taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F" or "taskkill /PID 1776 /F". The function of "/F" parameter is to specifies to forcefully terminate the process (es).
By using command prompt, you also can kill multiple porcesses at once. For example, if you want to kill Notepad (PID 776), Explorer (1776) and Calculator (PID 1340) at once, you can use this command "taskkill /PID 776 /PID 1776 /PID 1340 /F". To learn more about "taskkill" command, you can type "taskkill /?" to view it's help.
Today, I will show you how to remove the dekstop icon text. How it works? Because as we know, we can not rename any single item on windows OS with empty space. That’s right. On windows we can not use empty space to rename directories, files or icons. But, we still can use an empty character to replace all visible text on desktop icon. The empty characters in windows is Alt+255. So, we will use it to remove desktop icon text.
This tips can be used in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Here’s the steps how to remove the text from desktop icon:
- Right click on the first desktop icon which do you want to remove its text, then select Rename
- Now, press and hold the Alt key on your keyboard. Then type "255" (without quotes).
- After that you can release the Alt Key.
Done. Now you can see the text of icon that you have renamed disappear.
To remove the text of the rest of icons, you just repeat the steps that given above. But, for the second icon you should type “Alt+255” twice. Three times for the third icon. Four times for the forth icon and so on. Until you have renamed all your desktop icons. Why, because you can't assign a same name for two items on windows. Good Luck!
On this article, Computer tips and tricks will show how to create shutdown, reboot and log off icon on your desktop. By creating those icon, you have an alternative way to shutdown, reboot, and log off your computer. How it works? Windows has a program called SHUTDOWN.EXE. The function of this program is to turn off your computer. Not only to turn off the computer, shutdown.exe also used to bring the computer in standby mode or log off an active user. Therefore, to create shutdown, reboot and log off icon on your desktop, we will use this program.
This tip works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Here's the steps:
- Right click on an open area of the desktop and select New »» Shortcut
- Enter in "shutdown -s -t 00" - no quotes then press the Next button
- Named your shortcut on the next windows. E.g: Shutdown.
- Click on Finish button to close it and your Shutdown icon is complete.
Now, you have a shutdown button on your desktop. You can also create reboot icon on the desktop with the same steps. To do so, enter "shutdown -r -t 00" on create shortcut windows. And for a log off icon, enter "shutdown -l -t 00"
Here's the parameters you can use to change the way of those icon work:
Shutdown [{-l|-s|-r|-a}] [-f] [-m [\\Computer Name]] [-t xx] [-c "message"] [-d[u][p]:xx:yy]
Parameters:
- -l - Logs off the current user, this is also the default. -m Computer Name takes precedence.
- -s - Shuts down the local computer.
- -r - Reboots after shutdown.
- -a - Aborts shutdown. Ignores other parameters, except -l and Computer Name. You can only use -a during the time-out period.
- -f - Forces running applications to close.
- -m [\\Computer Name] - Specifies the computer that you want to shut down.
- -t xx - Sets the timer for system shutdown in xx seconds. The default is 20 seconds.
- -c "message" - Specifies a message to be displayed in the Message area of the System Shutdown window. You can use a maximum of 127 characters. You must enclose the message in quotation marks.
After all the icon done, the shutdown, reboot and log off icon as the following figure.
I believe most of you have tried to remove the recycle bin icon from your desktop. Unfortunately, the recycle bin icon doesn't have Delete item on its context menu. How can we remove the recycle bin icon? This tips will show you how to remove recycle bin icon from your desktop. It’s usable for you who want to remove some icon from your desktop including the recycle bin icon to make some space on your desktop.
Here the steps to remove recycle bin icon from your desktop:
- Open the run command and type “regedit” (without quotes) then hit Enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.
- On the Registry Editor windows, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Desktop/NameSpace
- Find a key named {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
- If you find it then remove it.
Now close the Registry Editor and refresh your desktop by pressing the F5 button on your keyboard. The recycle bin icon will disappear from your desktop.
Note:
It's important to create a backup before removing they that mentioned above. It's necessary because if you want to restore the recycle bin icon, you just restore the backup. To create a backup please follow these steps:
- Right click on the key which do you want to create a backup then select export.
- On the save dialog Windows named the backup and click on the save button.
You have created the backup of the key. To restore it, right click on the backup file and select Merge. The key will store into registry.
When you uninstall a program, it's removed from your computer and also it will not appear again on Add/Remove Program list. But some of them are still appear in Add/Remove program list. This problem is actually happened because the program uninstaller is not working properly when removing its program from your computer. It removes all installed files but not the uninstaller key from registry.
If you are facing this kind of problem, there is a useful tips that you can use to remove programs from Add/Remove Program list. Follow the following steps:
- Open Registry Editor by click Start >> Run and type "Regedit" then press Enter.
- On the Registry Editor window, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall".
- Find the name of program that you want to remove from Add/Remove Program list
- Once you find it, delete it. Remeber, be sure that is the program which you want to remove from Add/Remove program list. Because you can undo this action.
Now, open the Add/Remove Program. You might not see the program on the list anymore. I hope this computer tips useful to you.
When you tried to shut downing you computer, you should clicking 2 or more button to do so. Especially in Windows XP. In Windows XP you should click the Start Menu button then Shut Down button. After a few second, you should click a Turn Off button once more. Imagine if you are using a laptop without a mouse on it. How long you take it?
But I found a tip to make it easier for you. You can shut down the computer with only 2 key stroke. This tips is very simple. To shut down you computer you can press Alt+F4 keys then press U key on your keyboard. After that the computer will shut down.
You can also use this tips to bring your computer in Standby mode with pressing S key after you press Alt+F4 keys. Or you can Restart you computer with Alt+F4 keys and R key.
Remeber, this tips only works in Windows XP. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 I can't see it works.
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Copy and paste or cut and paste is something we often do if we manage our files. Sometimes we should move from one directory to another to do so. Imagine if we should manage a lot of files. It will be a hard work because we should move from one directory to another for many times.
To make it easier when we should copying and moving files, we
can create a copy to folder and move to folder context menu in Windows Explorer. With this context menu we don’t need to move between directories. Here’s the steps:
- Open Notepad by clicking Start Menu and point to Accessories and click Notepad.
- Then type the code bellow:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
- Save it as Registration Entries by clicking menu File => Save As. On the Save As dialog choose All Files on the Save Type As option. Then give it’s name whatever you want but with .reg extention. For example “CopyMove.reg” (without quote). Click save button to save it.
- After those code saved, execute it then a message box will appear. Click Yes button on it. Another message box will appear if it succesfull and everything is done.
Now you have a Copy to Folder and Move to Folder on your Windows Explorer context menu. Try to right click a file to know it’s working or not. If you need the Registration Entries file, you can download it here. Extract the downloaded file and execute it.
Click the following link (s) to get the PDF of this article:
Link 1: Copy and Move to Context Menu.pdf
