Most people don’t know you can run Internet Explorer in Full Screen mode. Full Screen mode allows you to see more of the pages you are surfing, without the need to scroll around, and reduces the clutter of the taskbar, sidebar, etc.
This info is especially useful to system administrators, but other power users should find this useful. Periodically Microsoft releases Hot Fixes to patch bugs in Windows and other products, this key contains information about which Hot fixes have been installed.
This little tweak will give a slight performance boost, but at a cost. It moves the kernel of Windows XP into speedier RAM. Give it a try, and report back here any gains you experience.
Create a new DWORD value for each of the optional values above depending on which Run function to stop and set the value to “1” to disable. Restart Windows for change to take effect.
Create a new Binary value, or modify the existing value, called ”Scancode Map” and edit the value according to the settings below.
On some systems it can take a long time to connect to the Internet, you can decrease the time required to connect to your ISP by trying these simple steps.
When you open a file in Windows XP that has a corrupted video, image files, HTML pages, or MP3 file, Windows Explorer crashes. You will need to somehow access this folder so that you can delete the offensive file.
There are files out there, on your hard drive, that don’t have extensions. This means there is no default application to open these files with. Being a geek, however, you want to see what’s inside.
Sometimes you may want to disable to the shutdown of a system, such as a kiosk or a mission critical computer. With the below registry tweak, the shutdown command will be disabled. To re-enable the shutdown command, simply change the 1 to a 0 (zero).
The default behavior for XP is to save the desktop configuration on exiting the operating system. To prevent saving the desktop configuration, make the following registry edit: