How to Install & Configure Printer in Windows XP
Follow the listed steps to install and configure a printer in Windows XP.
Follow the listed steps to install and configure a printer in Windows XP.
A Windows-based computer that is configured to use DHCP can automatically assign itself an Internet Protocol (IP) address if a DHCP server is not available. For example, this could occur on a network without a DHCP server, or on a network if a DHCP server is temporarily down for maintenance.
Windows 2000 included a new feature called ‘Personalized Menus’, which remembers which items you use regularly and hides items you don’t. This tweaks allows you to enable or disable this functionality.Open your registry and find the key mentioned below.
This tweak controls when the ‘Printers’ sub-folder under ‘Settings’ on the Start Menu, is shown as a cascading folder. Open your registry and find the key mentioned below. Create a new string value, or modify the the existing value, named ‘CascadePrinters’. Modify the value to equal ‘YES’ to enable cascading or ‘NO’ to disable it. Exit your registry… Read More »
This tweak makes the ‘My Documents’ folder on the Start Menu into a cascading folder, which then give you direct access to sub-folders without having to open the main ‘My Documents’ directory first.
This tweak makes the ‘Network and Dial-up Connections’ folder on the Start Menu into a cascading menu instead of a simple folder link.
This tweak controls whether the Control Panel is shown as a cascading menu or as a simple folder link on the Start Menu.
Windows NT evaluates file extensions on the first three characters, therefore ‘filename.html’ is actually treated as ‘filename.htm’. The side affect is that if you use a command such as ‘del *.htm’ to delete all the ‘.htm’ files, you will also delete all ‘.html’ files as well. This functionality can be disabled by modifying the registry.
This setting defines whether the system should wait for the logon scripts to complete before starting the user’s shell. This function can also be controlled on a per user basis by modifing the same value at:
When the user is presented with a dialog box requesting User Profile information, this specifies the amount of time in seconds before the dialog box is closed and the default is accepted. The default value is 30 seconds.