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How to remove blue background behind desktop icons

How to get rid of blue background behind the desktop icons. I hope this is the most irritating thingy which makes you so irked, but its a silly problem which can be rectified which you dint hope to be so.

Well you can find so many methods on the internet to remove blue background behind the desktop icons but you may not find the exact procedure or method to eliminate the blue image behind the icons. In addition to this you can change the color of the background as you wish.This method is applicable all on XP and on any further addition of xp operating systems.

coming to proedure, there are two methods which can rectify your problem

First Method

Right click on My computer>>Properties>>Advanced Tab>>Settings(Visual effects,Processor..)
>> Under Visual effects Tab, uncheck use drop shadow and clik ok and save these settings and restart your processor

Second Method

1.Right click on My computer>>Properties>>Advanced Tab>>Settings(Visual effects,Processor..)>> Under Visual effects Tab, select for best performance and save these settings
2. Right click on Desktop >> Properties>> Appearances tab >> Advanced
you’ll find a item dropdown box , your default option will be Desktop and color will be blue
it depends on you to change the color of the icon background or not well to remove the blue back ground just scroll down the item dropdown box and again set to Desktop as a default option and save these settings and exit the windows
This could Help you to rectify your desktop

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8 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Abdul sattar - November 28, 2010 at 6:27 pm

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Create new profile in Mozilla Firefox

Create a new profile in Mozilla Firefox :

In order to create new profile go to “profile manager”.

Follow these steps in order to start up profile manager.

1)Firstly close Firefox completely.( go to “File” .click on “exit”)your Firefox is completely closed.

2)Select Start .Go to Run from the Start menu.

3)Type firefox.exe and press enter.

Now start Firefox with Profile manager. Example:-./firefox ProfileManager

It shows that your are in Firefox directory.You can able to see a new window as shown below.

Remember you can able to delete files from Profile managerBe careful if you created a file which exits already then your whole file will be deleted.

Now click on the Create Profile button to start new profile.After entering name click on Next button.

Now choose disk you want to store your profile.refer the figure below so that you can get good idea.

Finally click on Finish button .your new Firefox profile will be created.

Now you should go back to profile manager and choose newly created profile which you have created just now.And select Start Firefox.

Now your are using Firefox with new profile.All settings set to default .If you want to use old profile name just choose old profile name and click on Start Firefox.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Abdul sattar - November 27, 2010 at 5:28 pm

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How to speed up firefox?

Boost Internet speed using mozilla firefox:

From this article you will be knowing “How to speed up firefox”?How to increase Internet speed using Mozilla firefox?Procedure to increase firefox speed?
this feature is useful for those who are using Broadband connection.If you follow the below steps your Internet speed may definitely increase.Throughput is greatly increased due to Pipelining.The main definition of pipelining is that which sends number of HTTP requests to server without waiting for response.that is Pipelining increases system performance by allowing to make cpu to be executing more number of instructions without waiting for response.

It is easy to speed up browsing speed in Firefox using pipelining technique.Pipelining technique allows you to send several requests one at a time to web server, rather than one by one.Most probably this pipelining feature is always disable in every system.It can easily be turned on.Pipelining feature allows you to search many web pages one at time.If you want to turn on pipelining feature just follow these steps.

1)type about:config in address bar(that is where you type url) and press enter.

2)type network.http in Filter text box.list of settings will appear you.this Filter text box lies at the top of the page.Just see the figure below you can get brief idea.

3)double click on “network.http.proxy.pipelining” button.

4)double click on “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” setting.type in 0(zero) and press “Ok” in the text box as shown below.

Remember that few web servers does not accept pipelining technique.make the pipelining settings in disable mode.Please make sure follow the reverse procedure to disable the pipelining technique.

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3 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Abdul sattar - November 26, 2010 at 5:12 am

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Build up our own Firefox Search engine

Build up our own Firefox Search engine

Yes you may get this question How to build up our own Firefox Search engine? Well it is easy to create our own Firefox Search engine. Our own search engine can refill our website from any other site.That is we can remove sites from search engine.Only three steps required to build our own Firefox Search engine.Firstly click the down arrow to the left of Search box,choose “Manage Search engines”,after than click”Get more search engines”.If you want to install than choose websites and click on Install button.Your work has completely done.

Morzilla Search engines provides many features. It speed up your search.you can download Mozilla Firefox search engine.After downloading Mozilla Firefox search engine you can build your own search engine.After installing Mozilla right click on search box and choose Add open Search plug-in.Type your own name of search engine that you want to declare which is shown below.Add your own description of Search engine and click next.After that click on Finish button.your site will be added as Search engine.After writing as shown in display your may get errors with Firefox v. 2.0.0.10 or 2.0.0.11.Click Finish button even though you get error,this will install your own search engine.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Abdul sattar - November 25, 2010 at 1:13 pm

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How to increase Processor Speed

From this article you will be knowing How to speed up processor speed?How to speed up system speed?Follow the below steps carefully..
There are many steps to increase your processor speed or system performance.
This post is for those people who are having problem with Processor speed.
If you are using Microsoft Windows xp,then your processor speed may slow down.Why because Windows Xp carries extraordinary large list of unusual,visual sound effects,menu shadows,high resolution, quality color,fade effects and many.These features may slow down your Processor speed.

increase processor speed

By decreasing your Xp resources,your Processor speed may definitely increase.

Firstly disable all the settings in Start up mode.
this can be done by following instructions:-
1)Go to “Run”.
2)type “msconfig” in run.
3)Go to Start up.
4)Disable all startup items except Antivirus.

Prefetch files:-
delete all prefetch files.
1)go to run.
2)type prefetch.
3)delete all files.

If you are not having any with work with resolution better you restart your system in Safe Mode.This can be done by continuously by clicking F8 key more than 5times as soon as restart your system. Then a page will open with many options.Choose “Safe Mode“.If you want to do any Networking then choose
Safe Mode with Networking“.
These two options may remove all your display,resolution,bit size settings etc.But increase your system speed.

Visual effects:-
1)Right click on “My Computer” >Go to System proporties>Go to Advanced Settings
2)Then click on the Setting in Performance then choose the option”Adjust for best appearance”or you
can choose”custom”.
These options many decrease your system visual effects but increase your system performance.

Automatic updates:-
Even though your system is geniune better to turn off your Automatic updates.There are many reasons
which slow down your processor speed if you turn on Automatic updates.few reasons are:-
1)Most of your RAM speed is used by Xp Operating System.If the resources of your XP is increased then Operating
System may slow down.It indirectly effects the processor speed.
2)If your click on Live Up dates then there may be chances of Virus entering in your system.which leads your
processor speed slow.
Defragmentation:-
This is the major step which increases your Processor speed.
Steps to perform Defragmentation
1)Go to my computer.
2)Right click on C drive. Click on proporties.
3)Choose the option Defragment now.
Removing virus:-
Virus such as Trojan,vorm.exe,sass.exe etc which slow down your processor speed.So download any good antivirus software such as Norton,Spyware terminator,Kaspersky etc.I would perfer Kaspersky it is a best antivirus software.Norton may slow down your system performance.
Few months ago i posted a topic on Internet speed.Several ways to increase Internet speed.
Increase your Bandwidth by 20% Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back..

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9 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Abdul sattar - November 23, 2010 at 4:17 pm

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