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Icon Folders
Now now, calm down there you tweak freak you. A pretty cool, enhancement to XP was the changing of a folder icon. Now you can coordinate your program, to the folder it is located in! Heres how:
1.) Go into Windows Explorer
2.) Choose a folder and right click it and get into its properties
3.) Now in the last tab, you can select an icon for your folder by either browsing system DLL's or choosing a variety of icons on your disk.
This tweak applies for all the organized tweakers out there, who like to keep their folders and files nice and tidy.
Happy Tweaking!
Remove Shared Doc's from My Computer
Under My Computer you will notice a new folder called shared documents. Microsoft has made it easy to share files and folders over a network by dragging icons into it. If you wish to remove this folder from My computer all you have to do is delete a key from the windows registry.
Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar with regedit please see our FAQ.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionExplorerMyComputerNameSpaceDelegateF olders.
Locate the key {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}.
Right click on it and select delete.
After a reboot is is gone!
Usability Tips
Removing password from hibernate / suspend
Removing password from returning from hibernate / suspend
This tweak removes prompt for password on resume from hibernate/suspend
1. Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc
2. Click User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management
3. Double click on Prompt For Password On Resume From Hibernate/Suspend
4. Click Enabled
5. click OK
Now you don't have to worry about putting your password everytime you want to save
power and money :-) However, you will be less secure!
Tricking WinXP to use larger then 32GB FAT32 Partitions
I have found a way to trick WinXP into using Partitions bigger then 32GB. I have been using a 60GB Fat32 partition on WinXP for over 4 months now and I haven't had a single problem. This is how you do it.
1 get a Win98 boot disk
2 boot from boot disk and run Fdisk
3 partition the drive to what size you want up to 120GB
4 reboot the computer off of the Win98 boot disk
5 format the drive
6 boot the computer off of the WinXP CD
7 proceed to install the WinXP.
8 When WinXP ask you what partition to install to choose the disk you just formated it will give you an several option dealing with NTFS don't pay them any mind and choose the last option which is to install WinXP to current drive without making any changes. WinXp will proceed to install normally and you will have WinXP installed to a fully functional FAT32 Partition greater then 32GB. WinXP can use larger then 32GB partitions M$ intentionally limited the Fdisk portion WinXP to push people to the Realm of NTFS.
Sending mail by clicking an icon on desktop without opening outlook express.
You can easily create an icon on your desktop that allows you to compose and sand a mail by double clicking on it without opening Outlook Express.
1- Find a free space on your desktop and right click on it on New -> Shortcut
2- Enter in the space 'mailto:' (w/out quotes)
3- Press 'Next' button.
4- Enter in the space a name for the icon (i use 'mail')
5- Click 'finish'.
That's it.
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