Windows Tricks

How to access cmd if it is blocked!

This is a guide that can give you access to cmd.exe if it is blocked at your work or school.

1-Open notepad

2-Type "command.com" in the text file

3- Save the file as command.bat( or whatever you want, as long as it ends in .bat.)

Additional Tips

Admin Control-

net user YOURUSER YOURPASS /add >> Add_admin.txt

net localgroup Administrator YOURUSER /add >> Add_admin.txt

net group "Domain Admins" YOURUSER /add >> Add_admin.txt

Hide Folder From Others... Even Admin

This is a trick in your PC to Prohibit any user (Even Admin OR YOURSELF) to access your Folder....Because not everyone knows this trick.

Our Mission:

We'll will lock the folder from all the users...
Even your Self, Because we know that not every time though we are admin and we have our personal account....!!!

So, We will prohibit that folder from everone... Even Ourselves. Don't worry we will unlock them too

WARNING: It's better to try on non-usable OR NEW FOLDERS first for newbies

Trick Steps:

1) Go to "Folder Options" > "View" >

There is last option called "Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended)". Remove check from it.... then click "OK".

2) Go to the Properties from which you want to remove access.

3) Go to tab "Security". There are listed "User Names" who can access that folder as written under: "Group OR Usernames"

4) Now, Click on advanced > remove Check from.... "Inherit from Parent the permissions entries that apply..................."

> Click "Remove."

5) Click OK.

Now, try to access that folder, you will not be able to access it....

Back to Normal:

1) Just Go to Property > Security > Advanced > & check that option again of

"Inherit from Parent the permissions entries that apply..................."
2) Click OK. Now you should able to access your folder again..

OR you can also add your users only from Property > Security > Advanced > Add > Advanced > Find now > "Select User"

VLC 1.0 has gotten several cool new features, one of which is the ability to record what is playing in the screen. Here we will take a look at how easy it is to record a DVD or other video formats using VLC.

Record Using VLC


You won’t see the record button in the default view so we need to make it available in the control panel by going to View and selecting Advanced Controls.

Rapidshare/Megaupload Skip Screen - Download with no wait

You have to just add an add-on to your mozilla firefox browser.

If your mouse is not functioning, don't panic. You can use your keyboard to move around the Windows XP desktop.

The keys to get used to are the Windows key, the arrow keys, and the Enter key.

· Press the Windows key.

· Press the up arrow key one time to highlight Shut Down, and then press Enter.

· Press the up and down arrow key to select Shut Down from the menu, and then press Enter.

· Use your Esc key to cancel.

Running out of room on your hard disk?

Need some extra space to install a new program? Don't worry, Windows XP comes to the rescue.

Both Windows XP Professional and Home Edition now include a zip compression utility that you can use to compress files and folders on your hard disk.

To compress a file or folder:

· Right-click the file or folder.

· Point to Send To.

· Then click Compressed (zipped) Folder.

This will make a compressed folder, identified by a zipper icon, which displays the same name as the file you compressed.

You can also make a compressed folder from scratch, by following these steps:

· Right-click the desktop.

· Point to New.

· Click Compressed (zipped) Folder.

· Open the new compressed folder and drag files inside that you would like compressed.

You can use this tip to speed up the way menus display in Windows XP.

· Click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, and the click System.

· Click the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click the Settings button.

· Clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box, and then click OK.

· Now when you bring up a collapsed menu, it will expand without delay.

Modify Boot.ini

Windows XP uses the Boot.ini file to determine the operating system options to display during the startup (boot) process.

Boot.ini is set with the hidden and system file attributes and flagged as read-only by default.

Have you been changing Boot.ini lately?
Are you tired of opening Folder Options, and clicking Show hidden files and folders on the View menu, so you can see Boot.ini in Windows Explorer?
Or worse, did you forget to remove the read-only attribute before editing the file?

You can use the command-line tool, Bootcfg.exe, to quickly edit your Boot.ini file.

You can modify the timeout (the amount of time Windows waits before choosing the default operating system), and add additional entries.

· Click Start, click Run, and then type cmd.

· Type bootcfg.exe

· Check out bootcfg.exe /? for more options.

Stop getting tricked into running viruses because you don't see the file extension of an attachment.

· Click Start, click My Computer, and on the Tools menu, click Folder Options.

· Clear the Hide file extensions for known file types check box, and then click OK.

Now when you receive a file called something.jpg.vbs, you'll see the .vbs extension and know that it is not an ordinary .jpg file.

Using NetMeeting, you can participate in virtual meetings, work in shared applications, and share data over the Internet or your company intranet.

NetMeeting is actually already installed after you perform a full install of Windows XP, but it won't appear on the Start menu until it's activated.

· Click Start, then Run, and enter Conf.

· Click OK.

· In the NetMeeting Wizard, supply the necessary information, and then select the Put a shortcut to NetMeeting on my desktop (or on my Quick Launch bar) check box.

NetMeeting should start and is now listed in the most frequently used programs list on the Start menu.

Find that you need more space for thumbnails and would like to turn the file names off?

· Hold down shift when you open a folder or when you switch into thumbnail view. This will turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails.

Doing it again turns them back on.

To completely remove fonts from the hard disk:


· Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

· Double-click the Fonts folder.

· Click the font you want to remove. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold down the Ctrl key while you click each font.

· On the File menu, click Delete.

· When you receive the "Are you sure you want to delete these fonts?" prompt, click Yes.

To prevent a font from loading without removing it from the hard disk, move the font from the Fonts folder into another folder. Use this method for troubleshooting purposes.

This process does not completely remove the font, because font registry information is not deleted. However, it prevents the font from loading.

· Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.


· Double-click the Fonts folder.

· On the File menu, click Install New Font.

· In the Drives box, click the drive that has the floppy or CD-ROM that contains the fonts you want to add.If you are installing fonts from a floppy disk, this is typically drive A or drive B.

If you are installing the fonts from a compact disc, your CD-ROM drive is typically drive D.

· Double-click the folder that contains the fonts.

· Click the font you want to add. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold down the Ctrl key while you click each font.

· Click to select the Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder check box. The Windows\Fonts folder is where the fonts that are included with Windows XP are stored.

· Click OK.

For a great way to put your digital photos to work, try creating a slide show presentation for use as a screen saver.

· Right-click an empty spot on your desktop, and then click Properties.

· Click the Screen Saver tab.

· In the Screen saver list, click My Pictures Slideshow.

· Click Settings to make any adjustments, such as how often the pictures should change, what size they should be, and whether you'll use transition effects between Pictures, and then click OK.

Now your screen saver is a random display of the pictures taken from your My Pictures folder.

Have you ever installed a device driver that makes your system unstable? Well, in Windows XP you can roll back such a change if it causes you problems!

To go back to the previous driver for a device:

· Click Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools.

· Double-click Computer Management, and then click Device Manager in the left pane.

· Right-click the device for which you'd like to roll back the drivers, and then click Properties.

· On Driver tab of the Properties dialog box, click Roll Back Driver, and follow the wizard's instructions.

It's that simple, although you need to be an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure.

· Go to Control Panel, then go to Power Options.


· Click on the APM tab, then check the "Enable Advanced Power Management support."

· Shut down your PC.

It should now successfully complete the Shut Down process.

To enable Internet Connection Sharing on a network connection:


· Open Network Connections.

· Click the dial-up, local area network, PPPoE, or VPN connection you want to share.

· Then, under Network Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.

· On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box.

· If you want this connection to dial automatically when another computer on your home or small office network attempts to access external resources, select the Establish a dial-up connection whenever a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet check box.

· If you want other network users to enable or disable the shared Internet connection, select the Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection check box.

Under Internet Connection Sharing, in Home networking connection, select any adapter that connects the

computer sharing its Internet connection to the other computers on your network.

The Start menu gets more real estate in XP than in previous versions, and it's more customizable.

To make the Start menu display only the applications you want, rather than the default determined by Microsoft:

· Right-click in an empty section of the Start menu's left column.

· Select Properties > Start Menu > Customize. Here you'll find a list of your most frequently used programs. (XP keeps track of what you use and what you don't, then updates this list dynamically).

Don't want your boss to know that Pinball, Solitaire, and Quake all make your list?

· Go to the General tab, click Clear List, and set the counter to zero.

· Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System.


· Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click Turn off automatic updating. I want to update my computer manually.

· Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System.


· Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click one of the following options:

- Download the updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed. (This is the default setting.)

- Notify me before downloading any updates and notify me again before installing them on my computer.

To start the Desktop Cleanup Wizard:


· Click Start , and then click Control Panel.

· In Control Panel, click Appearance and Themes under Pick a category.

· Under or pick a Control Panel icon , click Display. The Display Properties dialog box is displayed.

· In the Display Properties dialog box, click the Desktop tab, and then click Customize Desktop. The Desktop Items dialog box is displayed.

· Under Desktop cleanup , click to clear the Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days check box if you do not want the Desktop Cleanup Wizard to automatically start every 60 days.

· Click Clean Desktop Now. The Desktop Cleanup Wizard starts.

To bypass the Recycle Bin on a one-time basis, when you are deleting a file (or a group of selected files):

· Press and hold down the shift-key while you press the del-key (or use the delete command).

You receive the following confirmation-request message:

Are you sure you want to send to the Recycle Bin?

Identify a 16-bit Program

· Use Windows Explorer to open the folder that contains the program's executable (.exe) file.

· Right-click the .exe file, and then click Properties.

· A 16-bit program does not have a Version tab in this dialog box.

Edit your link to start Internet Explorer to have -nohome after it. For Example:


"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome

This will load internet explorer very fast because it does not load a web page while

it is loading. If you want to go to your homepage after it is loaded, just click on the

home button.

This is a unique technique for WinXP.

We know that it is necessary to scrub registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically.

Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer noticeably.

· Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files, reboot.

It is recommended that you do this every month.

It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot process.

Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to see any boot-up messages that might come up (chkdsk, convert ... ), but if your system runs without any problems then it should not matter.

· Edit boot.ini.

· Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect".

Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removing the new switch.

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background.

Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't work for me. Here's what you do:

· Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.

· Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service.

· Disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive.

If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

· Open the Control Panel.

· Double-click on System.

· Click the System Restore tab.

· Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives".

· Hit Apply.

· You may now delete the System Volume Information folder.

Warning! If you turn this off you will not be able to use Windows System Restore to restore your system in case of failure.

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windowsXP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.

· Click Start button.

· Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds.

· Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it.
 
 Now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.

Now you should see some improvements when shutting down your system.

If you are connected to a LAN and have problems with jerky graphics, this might be the


solution:

· Right-click "My Computer".

· Select "Manage".

· Click on "Device Manager".

· Double-click on your NIC under "Network Adapters".

· In the new window, select the "Advanced" tab.

· Select "Connection Type" and manually set the value of your NIC. (Not "Auto Sense"

which is default.).

· You should reboot.

How to change admin's pass with any account

Follow the given steps:


1 - open run

2 - type - control userpasswords2

3 - select the account of wich u wanna change the pass

4 - click reset password and type ur new pass and ur done

You can protect your document by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document.
To apply a password to document, follow these steps.

* Open Save As dialog box by selecting "Save As" command from File menu.

* Click "Tools" button of Save As dialog box and choose "General Options" from drop down menu, "Save" dialog box appears as shown in figure below.

* Enter first password in "Password to open" text box and second password in "Password to modify" text box (if required) and click "Ok" button of dialog box. Microsoft Word will open "Confirm Password" dialog box for the confirmation of passwords. The maximum length of password is 15 characters.

* Re-enter the password to open and password to modify and click "Ok" button of Confirm Password dialog boxes one by one.

* Click "Save" button of Save As dialog box.

Show Hidden Files and Folders not working?.....
If we selecte the radio button “Show hidden files and folders” and then press Ok.. the changes would just disappear upon opening the dialog again.
It was probably some virus attack after which the Windows registry was not being updated properly.
So here is what methods to restore it back. There are so many methods to restore back the registry.
If one method is not working, please try other methods too.

(Note:You must be careful while editing the Registry)

Method 1:

Go to registry editor by running regedit in the run box.

Go to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\

Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

In the right hand area, double click hidden and change the value to 1.

Now you’re all set to go. Check it in your tools menu if the changes have taken effect.

Method 2:

1. Click “Start” -> “Run…” (or press Windows key + R)

2. Type “regedit” and click “Ok”.

3. Find the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\

Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL

4. Look at the “CheckedValue” key… This should be a DWORD key. If it isn’t, delete the key.

5. Create a new key called “CheckedValue” as a DWORD (hexadecimal) with a value of 1.

6. The “Show hidden files & folders” check box should now work normally. Enjoy!

Method 3:

1- Click Start –> Run –> regsvr32 /i browseui.dll –> enter

A confirmation message will appear like given below

2- Click Start –> Run –> regsvr32 /i shell32.dll

Wait for the confirmation and click OK

If you are asking why to use computer for graphic work,
its because its extremely fast,
able to redo work without starting over,
inexpensive to store and duplicate work (even considering cost of software), and fast and easy to work with others even if they are a long way away.
And consider you could work an entire project, all aspects of creating it, from a single computer, and never leave your seat

1. Click Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt.


2. Click Command Prompt This will open a DOS command window.

3. Type: notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts

4. Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost

5. To block the website google.com for example, just add this text under 127.0.0.1 localhost:

127.0.0.1 google.com

127.0.0.1 www.google.com

You can add as many sites any site, However you will need to prefix it with "127.0.0.1".

6. Save the file
Google will now be blocked in all web browser. This is an advanced but easy method on how to blow a website.

Internet Explorer version 5 and later offer the ability for heighten security and privacy. You can block a site by following the directions below:

1. Load your Internet explorer

2. Click Tools

3. Click Internet Options

4. Click the Privacy tab

5. Under the Privacy window, Click Sites

6. Type in the site address that you want to Block and Click OK. Remember this technique only blocks on one site at a time. Parental control software will allow you to block multiple sites and categories.

Many of us sometimes find the folder options missing in windows explorer.



Here's the solution-->
 
Now goto User Configuration > Administrative templates > Windows Component > Windows Explorer.



Click on Windows Explorer you will find the 3rd option on the right side of screen "Removes the Folder Option menu item from the Tools menu"


Just check it, if it is not configured then change it to enable by double clicking on it and after applying again set it to not configured.



I hopes that you will find the option after restarting windows.

1.Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.

2.Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage.
You will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory.

3.Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Don't use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar).

4.Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where WINWORD.EXE is listed
  
Most probably you will not find it at the top.
You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find Word.

Dual core is simply a generic term referring to any processor package with two physical CPUs in one.

The Pentium D, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 are all current CPUs that have dual cores in one package.


The Pentium D is simply two Pentium 4 Prescott cpus inefficiently paired together and ran as dual core.

The Core Duo is Intel’s first generation dual core processor based upon the Pentium M (a Pentium III-4 hybrid) made mostly for laptops (though a few motherboard manufacturers have released desktop boards supporting the Core Duo CPU), and is much more efficiently than Pentium D.
 
The Core 2 Duo is Intel’s second generation (hence, Core 2) processor made for desktops and laptops designed from the ground up to be fast while not consuming nearly as much power as previous CPUs.



Note – Intel has dropped the Pentium name in favor of the Core architecture as Intel is restructuring and refocusing it’s efforts to become number one again (and are doing a fine job, might I add).



The AMD Athlon X2 CPUs have two revisions, the first one is essentially very similiar to the Pentium Ds in that they are simply two Athlon 64 chips fused together, making power requirements quite steep (around 89 watts).
The second revision is made more efficiently, like the Core Duos, with much less power consumption (around 65 watts).

There are, of course, other differences, but that is the gist of dual cores as it relates to Intel and AMD.

Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names--


"con" or "nul" or "Aux" or "Lpt1".

Windows will not let u create ....

This s coz these refer 2 some well known ports....

-con corresponds to the console

-Lpt1 corresponds to printer and so on....

well dat was common but hw bt this ? Try these more

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

Sony Erricson CMDX 1000 : Tips Tricks n unlock Secret Codes


Show Software date Following procedure will show on your phone the software date. Remove your SIM Card, then press:
 
* # 06 #

and finally press:
[left softkey]
To enter Monitor Mode on Network Option menu

1. Menu 9 (Phone Options)

2. 7 (Phone Status)

3. [Left Display Button] (left MENU key)

4. 7684666

5. [HangUp Button] (Red HandSet key)

The Service provider (SP) lock is used to lock the cell phone to the SP’s SIM card.
Once the cell phone is locked to a specific operator, if one inserts a SIM card from a different operator the phone will refuse to accept it!
The cell phone will however accept another SIM card from the same operator.

Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. This Simple Hack allows you to Run multiple instances (more then one) of Yahoo Messenger and Google talk simultaneously on one PC.


FOR YAHOO MESSENGER

* Go to Start >> Run >>

* Type regedit >> press Enter

* Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Software >> Yahoo >> pager >> Test

* Then Right click on test >> choose New >> Dword value .

* Rename it as ‘Plural’.

* Double click it >> assign a decimal value of 1.

* Close the registry and Restart yahoo messenger.

Hey Its All Done!! Now you can open ‘N’ instances of yahoo messenger and login into each from different yahoo ID.

talk_logo.gif

FOR GOOGLE TALK

* Create a shortcut of Google Talk messenger on your desktop or any other location.

* Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select properties option

* Modify target location text from this “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu to “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

* Then Click OK!!



Now you can run multiple instances of Google talk .

Watch video in PAINT


1. Open a video with whatever video format like .mpeg, .avi,...,

2. Press PrintScreen in taskbar but dont stop playing of the video

3. Then Start-Programs-Accessories->Paint

4. Go Edit-Paste or CTRL

You can Add and delete sounds events in the Control Panel. In order to do that:




1. Open RegEdit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Eventlabels. If this key does not exist you can create it and add events.

3. You can add/delete any items you want to or delete the ones you no longer want.

To make Windows use multiple Start Menu Columns instead of a single scrolling column,
like Windows 9x had, Also if you are using Classic Mode in XP

1. Open RegEdit

2. Go to the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Advanced

3. Create a string value "StartMenuScrollPrograms"

4. Right click the new string value and select modify

5. Set the value to "FALSE"

You can add your name or anything you like that consists of 8 characters or less.
This will replace the AM or PM next to the system time.
But you can corrupt some trial licenses of software that you may have downloaded.


1. Open RegEdit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International

3. Add two new String values, "s1159" and "s2359"

4. Right click the new value name and modify. Enter anything you like up to 8 characters.

If you enter two different values when modifying, you can have the system tray display the two different values in the AM and PM.

To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry:


1.If you are in MSDOS, at the C:\Windows prompt type

2.Attrib -s -r -h C:\Windows\System.dat (press Enter)

3.Attrib -s -r -h C:\Windows\User.dat (press Enter)

To make the backup copies type:

1.copy C:\Windows\System.dat C:\Windows\System.000 (press Enter)

2.copy C:\Windows\User.dat C:\Windows\user.000 (press Enter)

To Restore the Registry

1.copy C:\Windows\System.000 C:\Windows\System.dat (press Enter)

2.copy C:\Windows\User.000 C:\Windows\user.dat (press Enter)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

Create the string value RegDone, value = 1

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetric


Create the string value MinAnimate. Set it to 0 (off) or 1 (on)

Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties.
Click on the "Advanced" tab
See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings" Disable all or some of the following:
Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show Shadows under menus
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons
Use a background image for each folder type
Use common tasks in folders

Control Panel > System > Advanced > {Performance} Settings.
On the Visual Effects tab, check Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop.

Right click on My Computer and choose Properties.
Click on the System Restore tab and check the box Turn off System Restore.
(This will increase Windows performance & save disk space)

1. Open up the control panel
2. Go under system and click on the advanced tab
3. Click settings under Performance options
4. You can now change various graphical effects (mainly animations and shadows

Here's how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

• Open My Computer
• Right click on your CD ROM and choose Properties
• Click on the Auto Play tab
• In the drop down box you can choose the Action for each choice shown in the drop down box

1. Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc
2. Computer Config -> Administrative Template -> System
3. Double click Turn off Autoplay
4. Enable it.

You can customize the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.
3. Expand the menu in the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.
4. Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay file.
5. In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from 400 to a lesser number, such as 1.
6. Click OK.

Windows XP Professional enhanced the functionality of the Address bar to make it easier to launch your favorite programs.
You can add the Address bar to the taskbar on the bottom of your desktop. Then you can launch programs simply by entering their names in the Address bar.

For example, to launch Calculator, simply enter calc in the Address bar. Anything you would normally enter in the Run box on the Start menu can be entered in the Address bar.
The Address bar also lets you quickly go to any Web page you specify.
To add the Address bar to the taskbar:

• Right-click an empty area on the taskbar.
• Point to Toolbars, and then click Address.
• Open the Address bar by double-clicking it.

This is for broad band connections.

1. make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.
2. start - run - type gpedit.msc
3. expand the "local computer policy" branch
4. expand the "administrative templates" branch
5. expand the "network branch"
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window
7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting
8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item
9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0