BLOCKING USER TO SHUTDOWN PC

This tip is very interesting for home and some small office users, who wants to restrict user's ability to shutdown their computer. You can hide the Shutdown button from the Start menu using registry editor and also restrict access to shutdown .

Follow the given steps to hide system shutdown button from start menu:

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To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with

administrative rights.

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Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
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Here locate the location to:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software

\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

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Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with name NoClose.
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Now assign number 1 to its value data box.
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Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
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But next time, if you want to unhide the shutdown button then simply change the value data box to 0 or delete this DWORD item.
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Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Use Word 2007 to Publish Posts On Your Blog

Yes this is true, Microsoft Word 2007 can be used to publish posts on your blogs. There is no plug-in or add-ons you need to install. Its one of the feature of Word only that allows you to connect to the internet and publish your posts. You can create and configure an account in word and start blogging. You can use it to publish your posts for Windows Live, Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress and others. After that you need to provide the details for your images, and its done.

Just follow these steps to create a blog post and configure your
account.

1. Click the Office button, and click new, choose the option “Blog Post”.
2. If you are opening it for the first time then it will automatically ask you for the configuration of an account, If not click on manage account, and click new.
3. Choose your Blog provider and provide the login details.
4. Then choose the image where you want to upload. You can choose to upload the images on your own server if your blog is a self hosted, choose “My Blog Provider” in case your blog provider gives you space to upload pics like blogger.
5. When you are done with writing, you can publish the post directly or else you can also make the post to publish as draft.

You can also create multiple accounts and if you are using blogger, then you can select the blog you want to post into.
This is one the great way by Microsoft to step into the blogosphere. Recently Microsoft also launched a blog writer for windows blog, but this new thing makes sure that blogosphere is reaching new heights, and even any big fish wants to come into this part of Internet.

Go and try this new tool, and leave your comments. If you find anything new.

Disabling Recent Files in Office 2007

By default, Word 2007 displays the last 17 documents that have been opened. Some users, like me, likes to increase this limit, but some use to reduce this limit to 0 and making the recent documents disabled. The number of recent can be increased or decreased, from 0 to 50. Disabling the number of recent documents in Word 2007 wont reduce the number of recent documents in Excel or PowerPoint. You need to go in every application to change this setting.

Follow these steps to perform the same.

1. Click On Office Button.
2. Go to Word Options.
3. Go to the Advanced tab, and look for Display section.
4. Look for “Show this number of Recent Documents” and fill your desired value from 0 to 50.

Click OK, and you are done with it.

Get Relief from your Messy Desktop

One of the big problems I face is the Desktop. My desktop was so terribly messy that last week I lost some of my files and I am still searching for it :(. Can you imagine, that even the best wallpaper could not save my desktop from looking ugly, no matter how beautiful it is, because its just not visible. Then I decided to use a freeware, but I was unable to find any, that met my requirements. I then put up all my data into different folders, but again, creating a mess. Accessing it regularly, and opening folders, browsing through them, its tiring.
To this, I found a solution which was much easier. I created a folder, and put all the data in the respective subfolders. This folder was then kept in one of my drives, and it was accessed from the taskbar. How? let me tell you that.

• Right click on “TaskBar“, go to “Toolbars“, and click “New Toolbar…“
• There you will see a window to select the folder. Just browse to the folder, and select it.
• You will see a Toolbar to access the contents of this folder.

I must tell you, this has really changed the way I used to work, apart from this, my system booting speed has improved.
Another way my friend advised me was to create shortcuts and access them through Run command. This is how you can perform this.

1. Create a shortcut on the desktop for the folder to be accessed
2. Rename it to a simple and short name, according to your requirements.
3. Cut and paste that shortcut in “c:/windows”, where c: drive is the Drive in which OS is installed.
4. Now go to run, type in the name of the folder you gave, and it should be in front of you.

I personally prefer the first method, as you have files in front of you, and any one selected file can be opened as well. But do try these, if you face the same problem as I do, and I hope I don’t loose files like this in future :).