How to password protect your files on Windows?

February 13th, 2010 by Imroz


This is the one of the most commonly asked questions. Most of us have files, folders, data that we would not like to share with everyone. So we wish to protect them through a password.
There are many paid softwares available  to serve the purpose . But who likes to pay for softwares these days [...]

Change Owner and Company Name in Windows XP

January 4th, 2010 by Imroz


How to change Owner or Registeared to Name and Organisation or Company name in Windows XP?
When you install Windows, Setup requests that you enter your name, and optionally, the organization name. This registration information is displayed under Registered to in the General tab of System when you click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance [...]

Renaming Multiple Files in a Directory

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


If you want to rename multiple files in the same directory:

Using the Windows Explorer, select all the files you want to rename
Press F2 or right click and select Rename
Enter the prefix for the name you want (e.g. Newname)
This will automatically rename the rest of the files Newname (1).jpg, Newname (2).jpg etc.
Make sure you include [...]

Renaming the Start Button

January 20th, 2009 by Imroz


 Renaming the Start Button
To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
Edit it be any 5 characters or less
Save [...]

Speed up the Start Menu

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


Speed up the Start Menu
You can use this tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP release candidate 1. You can customize the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key.

Click Start, and then click Run.
Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.
Expand the menu in the left panel [...]

Increase your cable modem or DSL speed in XP

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


Increase your cable modem or DSL speed in XP
This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with winXP professional version – might work on Home version also. It will probably work with networked machines as well but I haven’t tried it in that configuration. This is for windows XP only, [...]

Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons
Here’s how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.

Start regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile.
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
You may need to restart Windows XP.

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Want to remove MSN Messenger?

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


A lot of people want to know how to remove the MSN Messenger service from XP… here’s how:
Locate SYSOC.INF in the WindowsINF folder (hidden file and folder), Open it in Notepad and locate the line: msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
Remove the word “hide” from the line and save the file. You will now have an entry in add/remove [...]

Restoring the recycle after deleting

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


Ok, so I deleted the recycle bin from the system registry, because I wanted it off of my desktop, but now it’s gone from my computer! Go to Start < Run < Type regedit
Find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace
Click Edit < New < Key Then paste {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and hit enter. Restart.
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Change internet explorer title

October 9th, 2008 by Imroz


This will change the title bar in ms internet explorer from: ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’. to anything you want.
1)double-click on my computer
2)navigate to: C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerSIGNUP
3)re-name the file ‘INSTALL.INS’ to ‘INSTALL.txt’ and open it in notepad
4)go down to something like the 9th line and it should say something like:’Window_Title=Microsoft Internet Explorer’, now replace Microsoft Internet [...]

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