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Hide ur drives || Lock ur drives

Filed under Computer tricks, Security Tips, Windows Tricks, Windows XP Tricks and Tips by on April 13, 2008 at 1:44 am {one comment}

Open Registry (go to run command, type “regedit” and press enter)

then go to this key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

now right click in right side pane and create DWORD Value (blue color)

Rename it as “NoViewOnDrive” (for locking drive)
or
Rename it as “NoDrives” (for Hiding drive)

double click on it and put some numbers to lock ur desired Drive and click ok.

DRIVE NOS.
FOR A : 1
FOR C : 4
FOR D : 8
FOR E : 16
FOR F : 32
FOR G : 64
FOR H : 128

finally restart or log-off the computer to take effect.

Keep in mind that “0″ is Default Value to Disable or remove this setting..

After locking the drive when u try to open it, u will see a msgbox like this
“This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator”

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Put an image/photo as folder background

Filed under Computer tricks, Featured, Windows 7 Tricks and Tips, Windows Tricks, Windows Vista Tricks and Tips, Windows XP Tricks and Tips by on April 10, 2008 at 9:07 am {9 comments}

You have to have a photo in your folder for example:sample.jpg.
After that,just open notepad and write:

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
ICONAREA_IMAGE=sample.jpg
ICONAREA_TEXT=255

Save it as desktop.ini and press F5

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Add Safe Mode in Boot list

Filed under Computer tricks, PC Troubleshooting, Windows Tricks by on April 5, 2008 at 1:58 am {one comment}

Safe mode is required when you have to fix a problem such as virus infection or uninstalling drivers in your windows XP. generally we need to use F8 Key to get into safe mode and if not timed properly you will need to restart windows xp again. Here is a small trick which lets you add Safe mode by default into your Boot list. You will see it when you restart your windows xp machine.
Steps to Add Safe Mode in Boot list

* Go to control panel > System.
* Click on Advanced Tab.
* Then click on settings under the startup and recovery action.
* Click on edit under system startup to indirectly edit your boot.ini file.
* Add the following entry “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=”XP – Safe Mode” /fastdetect /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog” without quotes .

Add safe mode to your boot list

Thats it, restart your machine and you will see another label as “XP- Safe Mode” added to the list.

PS: This option is also used for adding any other windows installation on other partition.

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