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Disable Windows XP support for Zip files

Windows XP comes with in-built support for Zip files, but this can be a curse in disguise. While searching for files, XP automatically searches through Zip files, resulting in a slow search. To disable support for Zip files, go to Start > Run, type ‘regsvr32/u%windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll’ and click OK. If you want to enable it later, go to Start > Run and type ‘regsvr32 %windir%\ system32\zipfldr.dll’. Disabling support for Zip files in XP does not in any way affect the functionality of third-party tools such as WinZip, WinRAR, etc.

Speed up access to folders with AVI files

Windows XP sometimes takes a really long time to open folders with AVI files. This is because XP tries to get information about the files. To disable this feature, open the registry and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}. Append a [-] (a minus sign) in front of the ‘{87D…’ key, so that it becomes something like ‘-{87D…’.

Prevent OS being paged to disk

At times, when there’s a dearth of RAM, the system will move some portion of the main memory to the hard disk. Obviously, this slows down the system, but there’s nothing much that can be …… Continue Reading…

Minimise Outlook to the system tray

Outlook 2003 can be minimised to the system tray, but it’s possible with earlier versions of Outlook as well. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\ Outlook\Preferences and create a DWORD entry named ‘MinToTray’. Give it a value of ‘1’. Restart Outlook for the change to take effect.

Give four digits for year in Excel

Whenever a date is entered in an Excel cell, the year field is automatically truncated to two digits. For example, when the user enters the date 9-11-2000 in a cell, it is automatically replaced with 9/11/00. This is bad when spanning across a century, such as records from 1999 to 2003. This tweak makes Excel display dates with four digits for the year field. Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\Microsoft\Office\ [Version]\Excel\Options, where [Version] indicates your Office version (Office XP is‘10.0’, 2000 is ‘9.0’, etc.). Create or modify the DWORD entry ‘EnableFour-DigitYearDisplay’ and enter a value of ‘1’.

Change the number of undo levels in Excel

By default, Excel can perform 16 undo operations. You can customise the number of undo levels, but remember that increasing the number of levels results in more RAM being allocated to Excel. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\Microsoft\Office \[Version]\Excel\Options. Under this key, create a DWORD value with the name ‘UndoHistory’. You can turn off the undo feature by giving a value of ‘0’, use the maximum allowed ……. Continue Reading…

reating icons

The icon of a bitmap file can be set as the file image itself. To effect this setting, navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Paint. Picture/ Defaultlcon and set the value of ‘Default entry’ to ‘%1’. Also navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOV.bmp and set ‘Default entry’ to ‘PAINT.PICTURE’. The flip side of this tweak is that folders with a lot of bitmap files might take longer to load. In such cases, try increasing the icon cache to make the folders load faster. The icon / cache can be increased using the ‘MaxCachedlcons’ entry (type string) in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer key. Increase the value of this entry to increase the icon cache; use any value between 100 and 4,096.

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Start Menu scrolling

When your Start menu overflows, it isn’t possible to list all the entries in a single column. Then, Windows either creates a second column or a scrolling menu. You can control this through the registry. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, and select the entry called ‘StartMenu ScrollPrograms’. If it’s not present, create a new String value called ‘StartMenuScroll-Programs’. Specify the …… Continue Reading…

Internet portals offer everything from shopping to music, movies and so on. The key to making these web portals multifunctional are web tools. There are numerous web tools out there, but only a few of them leave an impact on web pages. Dreamweaver, which is an HTML Editor, Flash, an animation application, Visual Studio and GoLive are four best tools Web designer cannot live without. Each of these applications performs specific design-oriented tasks. Together they create magic!

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

HTML is the commonly used standard in web designing. Since most web pages are based on HTML, an HTML editor should be of utmost importance in web designing. Macromedia Dreamweaver is the most popular HTML ……. Continue Reading…