Archive for July, 2008

How to lock my drives??

How to lock my drives, Hide my drives, Hide my folders,Protect my drives etc etc…. I have searched a lot for these queries  . No one has provided exact information. Many softwares are available which can lock drives folders and protect your personal information and prevent unauthorized access.  None of those softwares are for free. Each and every company is demanding minimum of 50$ for each software.

Well i am having a nice trick which can lock all your system drives and folders and protects your personal information.
Following steps will clearly explains you How to lock all your drives:

Goto Run and type “regedit” without quotes.
Then goto the following location and make a new dword value namd NoViewOnDrives.
[HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
Now set its value to
1 for A:
2 for B:
4 for c:
8 for D:
in decimal format
and set it to 03ffffff to lock all drives in hexadecimal format.

Or else

Go to Run and type gpedit.msc
its short for group policy edit….
now go to the administrative templates (the lower most option)
now on left select option system
now find the option hide drives in my computer.
And there u can do it more simply

Two tricks to decrease boot time of Windows XP

XP is one of the most popular OS despite the launch of Vista and Mac OS X. Why because Windows XP is the simple, stable and Faster than Vista in booting time. XP operating system will not take more than 25 seconds in booting time. Some XP operating systems with heavy installed data take more booting time. Well if your XP OS is taking more boot time then you can simple decrease it.

First Trick: First create a batch file and do the following below :
1) Open a notepad and enter the following below lines.
RD /S /q “C:\Documents and Settings\”UserName without quotes”\Local Settings\History”
RD /S /q “C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History”
RD /S /q “D:\Temp\” <–”Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder”
2)Now save the file and rename it something as deltemp.bat
3) Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc —>Computer Configuration —>Windows Settings —>Scripts and double click on Shutdown —>Click Add and find the batch file you created and press ok to set the script.

Second Trick: Click on Start and go to Run. Type msconfig in the dialog box. Now click the  BOOT.INI tab, and tick(check) the NOGUIBOOT option, under Boot Options. This trick will disable graphics during booting. I hope this was very easy to perform

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How to create new Windows XP user using Dos Prompt??

We all know how to create a new user account in Windows XP . Just go to Start and click on Control panel. Now open the “user account tool”. Here you will be seeing an option Like “create an account”. Well enter any windows XP user and click on create  account. This is how you will be creating a new Windows XP user. But there is a different procedure to create a new Windows Xp user using dos prompt.
To create a new  account you have to type as follows : net user USERNAME PASSWORD \ADD
To delete the account type as follows : net user USERNAME \del
to get admin rights type as follows : net localgroup administrators username \add
The complete command is
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]