Here’s how you verify system total uptime:
Just Click Start => goto Run and type “cmd” to open a Command Prompt.
At Command Prompt, type “systeminfo”
Scroll down the list of information to the line that says “System Up Time”.
This will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been running.
Note: This command only works in Windows XP Professional only.
Ever want a quicker way to shutdown XP without navigating through the start menu, or using a third party shutdown utility Here is a script that will do just that.
Right click the desktop and choose New Shortcut. Copy and paste this script or type it in.
%windir%System32shutdown.exe -s -t 0
Choose Next and name it whatever you like. (I named it as TURN OFF) Click Finished. [Read more…]
Yes, friends its true that you can rename the “Recycle Bin” to anything you wish, just follow these instruction:
1. Goto Start menu => Run, in run window type ‘Regedit'(without quotes).
2. Press ‘Ctrl’+’F’ to open find box and type ‘Recycle Bin’ to search.
3. Change the value data with ‘Recycle Bin’ to whatever name you want [Read more…]
If you want to keep something hidden then you have to hide that folder, but that’s not safe as anyone can unhide it again; Now here is the solution for you. You can completely hide your drive so that no one can access it except you. Here is the steps to follow:
Hiding the drive:
1.Just goto start->run->type “diskpart” (with out quotes) and hit enter.
2.Now in this DOS command line, Type “list volume” (with out quotes).
3.Here select the volume of drive you want to hide, by using this command [Read more…]
Want to edit your start button text then just follow these steps:
Step 1 – Editing Explorer.exe File
The file explorer.exe is located at C:\Windows\ needs to be edited first. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. To do this I have used Resource Hacker. Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems. Use this link to download Resource Hacker.
The first step is to make a backup copy of the file [Read more…]
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