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!
Sometimes, we often empty the recycle bin to get more space in our hard drive. To empty the recycle bin we usually right clicking on the recycle bin and select Empty Recycle bin. I think most of you have been familiar with this way. But, did you that there is another way to empty recycle bin? You can empty he recycle bin by right clicking on a drive and select empty recycle bin.
How it works? We will create a new context menu on our drives which functioned to empty the recycle bin. This context menu will appears on all drives on the PC when we right click on it. To create the context menu, we should add new keys on the registry. Here's the steps:
- Open Notepad by clickin on Start »» Accessories »» Notepad.
- On the Notepad windows type the following codes:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
- Save it with .reg extention by clicking File »» Save As. On the save as dialog box, select All Files on the Save as type dropdown box and named the file with .reg extention, for example EmptyRecycleBin.reg. Then click the save button.
- Now, merge the new Registration Entries file by right clickin on it then select Merge. When a dialog box appears click yes.
Everything is done. Try to right click on one of your drive through Windows Explorer. Is there a new menu named Empty Recycle bin? If there is it, congratulation! You have another way to empty recycle bin. This tips works on Windows XP Professional.
The Flip 3D effect on Windows is not a new thing. The Flip 3D effect firstly introduced on Windows Vista. This effect is also available on Windows 7. You still can use this feature on Windows 7. But, in Windows 7 the Flip 3D shortcut is no longer visible on the taskbar. To enable it you can read Restoring Flip 3D Shortcut. Unfortunately, this flip 3d effect unavailable in Windows XP. So, the windows XP users who willing to try this effect are little bit disappointed.
Don't be worried! There is an application which can enable the flip 3D effect on your Windows XP desktop. This software name is WinFlip. WinFlip is a free portable software which can enabled Flip 3D effect on Windows XP. This software was created by Koji Higashino. The size of software is about 1.2 MB.
To activate the flip 3D effect you can press the Alt + Tab key. Yuo can change this key from software options. When the filip 3D effect active, each windows will assigned with alphabet. So, you can press the key according of windows alphabet to activate the windows. The flip 3D effect can also activated with mouse gesture. Click and hold the left mouse button then make a circle path will activate it.
When the application is active, it will be place on your computer notification area. You can access the the application menus by right klik on it's icon. If you want to try make a flip 3d effect on your windows XP desktop, you can download WinFlip for free at the following link:
Download WinFlip
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 inserting a usb flash drive or a DVD to your computer, a dialog appears which is asking you what do you to do to your new drive. This windows feature help us very much. But, it makes our computer more potential attacked by viruses because a lot of viruses are using this feature to make them automatically executed when a drive is inserted to a computer. So, in order to prevent our computer from virus attack, it's better for you to disable autorun feature.
If you want to disabled autorun on your computer, you can follow these steps:
- Click Start »» Run. Type "gpedit.msc" (without quote) and press Enter.
- The Group Policy window will appear. On this window, navigate to User Configuration »» System.
- On the right side of the window, find "Turn off Autoplay" item then double click on it.
- On the next windows, select the Enabled option. Then click the OK button to save and close this window.
The steps how to disable autorun in Windows XP was done. Now, close the Group Policy Editor window. Save all your work then reboot your computer. It's necessary to make the change you have made affected. After your computer rebooted, try to insert a new drive to you computer. Does the autorun dialog appear again? If it's not, congratulation you have done a good job. If it is not, make sure you have selected the Enabled option on the Turn off Autoplay Properties windows.
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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How can I increase my hard disk speed in Windows XP/2003? To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.
Follow these steps:
- Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
- Expand the system.ini file window.
- Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
- Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
Irq14=4096
Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!
- Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
- Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.
Click the following links to get the PDF:
Link 1: Tuning Hard Disk Speed in Windows XP.pdf
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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
