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ទឹម បឿន — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:22:24 +0000

I Forgot My Administrator Password

ទឹម បឿន — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:33:07 +0000

Some program let you reset your administrator password such as ERD Commander, but you have to pay for it. With Windows XP cd lets you reset your administrator for free. See how to do below.

Boot from Windows XP cd
Until you see Welcome to Setup screen, press Enter to setup Windows
The Licensing Agreement screen is shown, press F8 to accept
Then you will see an option for repairing you should select your XP installation and press R to repare
Don’t do anything and wait until finishing copying files from the cd for installation and windows will restart automatically and Windows is installing.
Looking at the lower left side of the screen until you see Installing Devices progress bar, press Shift + F10
A prompt is coming up, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter to access your account in Control Panel.
It let you change or remove password as you like.
Keep installing process…

Windows XP reboots when I turn it off

ទឹម បឿន — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:05:43 +0000

When you shut down your computer it always reboot. There are three basic sources to cause this problem.
1. Recovery settings
2. Software incompatibilities, including driver issues
3. BIOS problems

Solving the prolem

Recovery settings

1. Right click on my computer
2. Choose properties
3. Advance tab and under Startup and Recovery choose settings
4. Untick Automatically restart and click OK
5. Reboot your computer

Software incompatibilities, including driver issues

Install new software or driver can cause your computer automatically reboot. When you got this problem you should carefully to read a message when you start up your computer or when you starting to use a program for researching your computer problem if there’s a message appear. Many of us install numerious programs and drivers for a year. And you may happy to use those programs. So, you should follow instruction carefully when you setup or update the program or driver. If you have critical on sofware update or driver you should do an update. Windows update can help you to keep you up to date too.

BIOS problems

Sometimes, when you install new hardwares on your machine it can cause to shutdown problem too. Solving this problem you should find BIOS update if it’s available from your manufaturer.

Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:08:06 +0000

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks
Set the value to be 1
In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of milliseconds you want.

WindowsXP Command Line Utilities

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:02:10 +0000

While there are a lot of command line utilities in WindowsXP, here are some that I have been using lately.

bootcfg – Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings.
driverquery – Displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties.
getmac – Returns the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols associated with each address for all network cards in each computer
gpresult – Displays Group Policy settings and Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) for a user or a computer
netsh – You can use commands in the Netsh Interface IP context to configure the TCP/IP protocol
schtasks – Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time
systeminfo – Displays detailed configuration information about a computer and its operating system

Disable Explorer Thumbnail View

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:00:00 +0000

If you want disable the Explorer’s ability to show the Thumbnail View ,
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced \
Change ClassicViewState to 1 Go to top

Poweroff at Shutdown

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:58:43 +0000

If your computer does not turn off the power when doing a shutdown,
you may need to edit the registry. I have all the correct BIOS and Power settings and still needed to do this.
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Edit the key PowerOffActive and give it a value of 1
You can do the same in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Bringing Up the Shutdown Dialog Box

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:58:05 +0000

Create a new txt file somewhere on your system, open it and put in this one line:
(new ActiveXObject(“ Shell.Application” )).ShutdownWindows();
Save and Close the file. Change the extension to js and your got it.
You can make a shortcut to that file to make it easy to shut down your system.

Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:56:37 +0000

To turn these off:
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\policies\system
If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages
Give it a value of 1

Common Control Panel Applets

ទឹម បឿន — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:52:12 +0000

The follow are some common Control Panel Applets that are located in the \windows\system32 directory.
If you find yourself using any of these frequently, then you can simply make shortcu[/color]ts to them on your desktop.

appwiz.cpl >>Add/Remove Programs
desk.cpl >> Display Properties
firewall.cpl >> Firewall Settings
inetcpl.cpl >> Internet Options
mmsys.cpl >> Sound and Audio
ncpa.cpl >> Network Connections
nusrmgr.cpl >> User Accounts
powercfg.cpl >> Power Options
sysdm.cpl >>System Properties
wscui.cpl >> Security Center
wuaucpl.cpl >> Automatic Updates Configuration Go to Top