Boot Into Xp With Non GUI Boot

If in case you don’t want to see the Windows Xp’s boot logo, then in that case you can disable it and your system will boot into Xp in Non GUI. This will make the booting of Windows a bit faster, but wont have a big effect. Here’s what you need to do.

1. Go to Start –> Run and type “msconfig”.
2. Go to the boot.ini tab, and select you Operating System, in case you are using multiple OS’s on a single system.
3. Tick /NOGUIBOOT, and apply it. Reboot your system, and you will feel the difference.

This won’t be much useful but still i wanted to share as i knew it
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Hiding User Accounts On Logon Screen In Xp

If you are using multiple accounts on a same computer and using the new way to Logon, then sometimes you may have felt to hide some of the accounts, as they might be important for you but you use them very often, and don’t want computer to show them all. We do sometimes create some accounts for testing purpose as well. Lets see how to just hide them rather then deleting it and recreating it again.

1. Go to Start –> Run and type regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
3. There Right click on Userlist, and create a New DWORD value.
4. Name the value as the Account name, and give its value as 0. This will make sure that your account is now hidden.
5. If you want to unhide it back, then just change the value from 0 to 1, this will unhide the account.

Changing the Default Windows Search Settings

We usually never give a thought of changing the settings for the Windows Search. Changing the settings is easy, to do this just click Change Preferences. From here you can change the Animated character, you can remove it, change the file, folder search behavior and much more. I am using Windows Xp SP2 and options might differ from version to version. Lets see them.

• Without An Animated Character : You can actually search without that animated character as well, you can remove him if it irritates you.
• With A Different Character : You can even change the character if you want. Options available are Rover - the Dog, The Dot, F1, Office Logo, Mother Nature, Links - the Cat, Rocky - the Dog, Merlin - The Magician, Courtney and Earl. Choose from these.
• Indexing Services : This should be enabled, it makes faster for your computer to make searches, and not only that, it will also speed up the process of data fetching. In some cases, when your system is idle, it may become slow to react as when your system is idle, then system starts indexing your files.
• Change File and Folder Search Behavior : This is a good option which should be set to as Advanced level. By this it would be easy for you to make searches within your computer. If you are comfortable with the technical stuff, then you must select the Advanced level.
• Internet Search Behavior : Here you can choose any of them, we don’t use it much, and I suppose some of us don’t use it at all.
• Balloon Tips : These tips are given during the search results to make things better and simpler for you. You can opt for it, as you might get any new stuff to learn.
• Auto Complete : You can turf On/Off the auto complete feature.

These were the preferences you can change. People today are so organized that they don’t feel the need for searching their files and folders. But yet it’s a very important tool.

Some File And Folder Setting Tweaks

We all work with files and folders and we are well aware of all the aspect of it. Still there are some characteristics of files and folders that some of us are unaware of. Here are few tweaks I want to share with you all.

1. Rename Multiple files : To rename several files at a single go, select all the files (Ctrl + A) and right click on a file, and rename it. The other files will also follow the same, they will be renamed and distinguished by numbers at the end of the renamed file.
2. Remove the Filename : To remove filename in your folder in the Thumbnail view, Just hold the Shift key and select the Thumbnail view for your folder, this will remove the filename for your folder, but for thumbnail view only, rest all other type of views will remain unaffected. Removing the filename will give you some more space to show your files.
3. Grouping Files : You can try grouping your files as well. Grouping files in Alphabetical order can help you if you get lots of files. I use it to manage my notes. To group your files, Right click in your folder, Arrange Icon by, and select Show in groups. This will enable the grouping of files.