Brand windows with your name

open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory:

***********************************************
[General]
Manufacturer=Your Name Here
Model=Your Model Here
[Support Information]
Line1=Your Name Here
Line2=Your Address Here
Line3=Your Email Address Here
************************************************

1. Save the file as OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32.
2. Then make a right click on my computer select properties, in the general tab see suppport information........Njoyyyyyyyy

Lock Your Drives n Folders Using Registry Tweaks

Caution: Before you attempt these tweaks, please make sure that you have a backup of your registry, just incase something goes wrong in the middle.
Locking Folders:
Consider you want to lock a folder named XXXX in your E:\, whose path is E:\XXXX.
Now open the Notepad and type the following

ren xxxx xxxx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Where xxxx is your folder name. Save the text file as loc.bat in the same drive.
Open another new notepad text file and type the following

ren xxxx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} xxxx

Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive.
Steps to lock the folder:
To lock the xxxx folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.

To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.

Locking Drives:
We don’t usually prefer to lock our drives, but sometimes it becomes nesscary. Say for instance you might have stored your office documents in D:\ and you don’t want your kids to access it, in such case this technique can be useful for you. Please don’t try this tweak with your root drive (usually C:\ is the root drive) since root drives are not intended to be locked because they are mandatory for the system and application programs.

Start & Run and type Regedit to open Registry editor

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

Create a new DWORD value NoViewOnDrive and set its value as

2^ (Alpha Number of Drive Letter-1) where Alpha number are simple counting of alphabets from A to Z as 1 - 26
For example: to lock C:\, Alpha number of C is 3 so 2^ (3-1) = 4 (decimal value)

To lock more drives, calculate the value of each drive and then set sum of those numbers as value

To unlock your drive just delete the key from the registry

Transfer files with remote desktop

Normally, I have seen people using remote desktop connection utility provided by windows in my office lots of times while giving a presentation.

Sometimes there is a need to transfer files from the remote computer to the local computer in the middle of the presentation, but as due to the default settings of remote desktop connection utility it does not allow transferring of files in between the local and the remote computer.

How Configure Remote Desktop Connection Utility for File Transfer

1. Open Start>>Run and type mstsc

2. Now click on options and again click on Local Resources Tab.

3. Under Local Devices and Resources (in vista) ,click on more.. button. ( In Windows Xp ) you will see a checkbox as Local Drives

4. Check the Checkbox "drives" in the newly opened window in vista or check the checkbox Local Drives in Windows XP.

5. Click OK and connect to the remote computer now .

time you will be able to transfer files in between remote and local computer.

Convert any folder into almost ANYTHING

Following is a method by which u can convert any folder into either Control Panel, Recycle Bin, My Computer or Internet Explorer.

This is done by adding their respective registry keys to the folder's name. After this when you'll double click on the folder, either Control Panel, Recycle Bin, My Computer or Internet Explorer will open according to your choice. Actually that folder is then treated by Windows as a link to any of these four. Your folder will remain intact with all its data and no one can access that folder via Windows. It can only be accessed via Command Prompt or some third part app.

To Convert Folder Into Contol Panel, Rename With Adding
.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

To Convert Folder Into Recycle Bin, Rename With Adding
.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

To Convert Folder Into My Computer, Rename With Adding
.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

To Convert Folder Into Internet Explorer, Rename With Adding
.{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}

Eg:- If you have a folder ABC, to convert it into Control Panel, rename the folder as
ABC.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} After this, the key should disappear and act as an attribute.

To re-enable your folder to be accessible via Windows, go to command prompt and rename the folder there. Eg:- If the folder is in C:\Temp\ABC, then get to C:\Temp in the command prompt and type:
REN ABC.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} ABC
(Command Prompt supports CLIPBOARD. Copy-Paste will work there.)
Your folder will be back to normal state.

Note that this does not provide a reliable security to the data. It can be used just to prevent data from other novice users accessing your PC.

Many fake-folder softwares work by this method. You can also search the registry for more relevant keys like these.

DISABLING THE 'UNSIGNED DRIVER' DIALOGS

This option wll disable the screen wich keeps popping up when you try to install 'digitally unsigned drivers'. Normally you can choose to continue the install anyways, but I have had situations where you cannot continue the install.. very annoying.. This is how to fix it:

Click Start - Run

then type: gpedit.msc

then hit enter.

Browse the folder tree to the following location:

User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System
now right-click Code signing for Device drivers and select Properties.

On the Settings tab, either select
- enable, and then select ignore from the appearing listbox..
- or click the disable option. Click apply and Ok and your set!

Alternatively especially for XP Home users:

Open "System" properties (Windows key + pause or Right click 'My Computer' - properties or Control Panel - System).

On the Hardware tab click the "Driver Signing" button. In the dialogue that comes up choose "Ignore" to install the new driver anyway.

KEEP WINDOWS XP IN CORE

If you have 512 MB or more of RAM, you can increase system performance by having the Windows XP 'Core' kept in the RAM instead of paged on the hard disk.

Go to Start -> Run - Type regedit and press enter - On the left hand side tree, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\

- On the list on the right side, look for an entry called 'DisablePagingExecutive'
- Double click it
- Press 1 on your keyboard
- Click OK

- Exit regedit and reboot the computer

To revert to the default setting, follow the same steps as above, but this time, press 0(zero) instead of 1 on the keyboard.

Auto Delete Temp Folder

To auto delete the temporary folder, follow the steps given below:

a) First go to Start===>Run.

b) Type gpedit.msc and press Enter.

c) Next select: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services/Temporary Folder

d) Then right click Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit.

e) Go to properties and hit disable.

f) Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will automatically delete it when it’s done!

g) Note: GPEDIT (Group Policy Editor) is available only in Windows XP Pro.