Change the Internet Explorer shortcuts

What is your favorite browser? It’s up to you, am not in survey mode J But, I prefer Firefox to IE.

In Microsoft supremacy, they has made every effort to make the IE (Internet Explorer) to appear as contemplation, they want to said that IE is the only choice for browsing the web. Even that it icon are design seemingly impossible to make something as simple as a change icon Shortcut to all Internet Explorer, but I found a way how to do this:

Note: You should have the ability to use windows registry to follow this tips.

• First Run the Windows Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE), from the Windows Start menu click RUN then type REGEDIT
• Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ InternetShortcut (see the pictures below)
• Double-click on the EditFlags value (from the right pane), and change it's value to 00 00 00 00.
• And Next is open the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ InternetShortcut\shellex, and delete the IconHandler key (from the left pane).
• Close the windows Registry Editor if you think you're done.
• Now, open Windows Explorer, navigate to Folder Options from the View menu, and choose the File Types tab.
• Now, Find and select Internet Shortcut from the list, click Edit, and then click Change Icon select the icon you wish to use.
• And when you're done select an icon, click Ok in every opened Window.

Now go to your desktop and see the results. This tips should work in all windows version including windows 95, windows 98, windows 2000, windows XP, windows NT server, windows 2003 and also windows Vista. Please note that I do not responsible if your windows registry got crash by applying this tips, those you should at least understand how to use the windows registry.

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Item check list if the boot process are too slow

On the windows OS (operating system) sometimes we face that boot up process are take too long, I did some test and here is probably the thing that make the boot process takes too long.

Free RAM, should meet the minimum.

If you don’t have enough free RAM, the boot process can take longer. For Windows XP, 256 MB RAM is the minimum, 512 MB or more would be better.

Try to defrag your Hard disk

Adjust the vertical distance between the icons in Windows

Do you feel that your desktop icon arrangements is to crowded? You can arrange them, the vertical space between icons are possible to change.

When you add commands to your computer to launch programs or open folders, your computer could become quickly filled with icons. If you want to fit more icons on the desktop, you can adjust the distance between them so that they sit closer together.

Here is how To adjust the vertical space between icons:

1. From your desktop, Right-click and then click Properties. (see the attached pictures)

2. At the Display Properties dialog box, navigate to Appearance tab. Then, click Advanced.

3. Click the Item list, and then click Icon Spacing (Vertical). (see attached pictures)

4. In the Size box dialog, you can decrease the number to move icons closer together, or increase the number to add space between those icons. (The smaller the number, the less space there will be between the icons. Conversely, the larger the number, the greater the space will be between the icons.)

5. If you done with that configuration click OK

6. To see the result that you have set in the step 4, go to your desktop then right-click, click Arrange Icons By on the shortcut menu, and then click Align to Grid. Did you see something is change now?

Microsoft Windows XP organize your computer using the new icon off you. Repeat steps 6 and 7, to return the settings on your desktop to their original state.

A monitor with 800 × 600 resolution, change the default icon off 43 to 39 squeezes eight icons in each column, created seven original icons.

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The way to modify windows system properties logo

In this windows tips you can learn how to put your point in the system properties dialog and complete it with your own contact information.

To raise the system properties dialog box, click the Start button, right-click "My Computer" and select "Properties".

This will open its global information system dialog. For example Fujitsu-Siemens Notebooks Pro laptop would be appear here, a Windows XP system houses logo looks like this:



If you want to put their own graphics in there, you can create your image c. Bmp image file. It is also a good idea to create this bitmap image of the same background of Shadow Gray (RGB: 192, 192, 192) used in properties dialog. Otherwise, you risk letting Windows make their own decisions in terms of color and contrast against the background shading.

The next thing is to consider the image size. The system properties dialog only real estate offers sufficient image of about 180 (a) x120 (high) pixels. Make sure you can meet its logo in this area.

After you have created your logo and saved it as. Bmp file, copy it to the system32 subfolder of your Windows system folder. If you do not know where your system folder is:

• Click the Start button and select "Run"
• In the "open" field, enter "cmd" (without the quotes) and click ok
• Windows will open up a dos command window
• In the command window, type "set system" (without the quotes)
• Look for the line that contains "SystemRoot", this is where your system directory is (generally, the Windows XP system folder is c:\windows)

Now, you know where is the folder on your system, copy the logo on the image file of system32 subfolder of your system folder. Then rename its logo image file to oemlogo.bmp

Also, you can create a new file in that folder and name the new file oeminfo.ini

In this file, you can enter your contact information as in the example below:

[General]
Manufacturer=Windows Help Central
Model=ShowCase

[Support Information]
Line1=" "
Line2=" For support, sales, upgrades or questions:"
Line3=""
Line4=" Some text to demonstrate the XP System Properties logo"
Line5=" Windows XP Tips and Tricks "
Line6=" yadayada"
Line7=""
Line8=" +1 (888) 888-888 (voice)"
Line9=" +1 (888) 888-889 (fax)"
Line10=""
Line11=""
Line12=" http://www.windows-help-central.com/"

Save and close the file, and you're done. From now on, if someone opens a dialog properties of the system, its own system Windows XP Property logo is there.

Save more time with windows task bar

Here is you will learn how to Save time with Windows XP taskbar and able to work more efficient in windows environment :

• Configure the Windows XP taskbar so that work for you
• Able to load faster in web pages
• move the favorite folders on the windows taskbar
• configure and customized follow-up menu for windows taskbar
• and work further efficient in Windows

This Windows XP tips and tricks, is design to help you saving time. When the key is saving time, the tasks is very powerful tool to be configure. It beat everything else hands down. This small bar in windows XP at the bottom of your Windows desktop is the place to be quick and easy access to everything you need.

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Change the default folder opened in Windows Explorer

When you open the windows explorer, it will directly to the specific folder and usually it go to my documents. And if for some reason you would like to change this way, you should follow this tips.

Microsoft Windows Explorer, which is accessible through the Start menu, is a tool you use, to search files and drives on your computer.

When you start Windows Explorer from the Start menu, it opens your My Documents folder by default. However, my Documents contextual already exists in your Start menu. You can put Windows Explorer shortcut to better use by changing it to show all top-level drives and folders on your system. This change will give you a broad, general overview of all the folders and files.

To change how Windows Explorer opens

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, right-click Windows Explorer, and then click Properties.
2. The Target box currently shows %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe
3. At the end of the line, type the characters /n, /e, /select, C:\
4. The line should now read %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\
5. Be sure you insert blank spaces in the correct locations. Then, click OK.

Now, when you open Windows Explorer, it will show all your folders and drives, not only your My Documents folder.

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