Showing posts with label Computer Tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Tricks. Show all posts

How to fixing no AutoRun for CDs

windows environment you can enjoy a good feature to run CD or DVD automatically when you loaded it into you CD drives on your computer. But if you are not happy with this auto run then you can disable it. In user interface mode there is no option to disable this feature, you must edit the registry of windows and be careful to work registry.
Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
Here locate the location to:
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Change the value of NoDriveTypeAutoRun to 95 00 00 00 for disable.
At the end restart your computer for this change.

Hide the Desktop Icons

Hide the Desktop Icons

Solution: You can hide the Desktop Icons in Windows 2000 and Windows XP using windows registry editor. This tip is very useful, if you want to safe your personal data and icons of the windows desktop on a single computer.
Follow the given steps to to hide Desktop Icons:
Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
Here locate the location to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with name NoDesktop and type REG_DWORD then change its value data 1.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Disable drives in My Computer from unknown user

If you want to prevent any users to access your computer or network shared drives using My Computer then you can hide the all drives for example C:/, D:/ and save your data from any unknown user. But next time you can turn on the display of these drives using registry editor. Now edit the computer registry to turn off the display of drives, but be careful to work with computer registry.
Follow the given steps to hide computer drives:
First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
Here locate the location to:
HKey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows
\ Current Version \ Policies \ Explorer
Here right click on right side of Registry editor panel and add new DWORD then put its value 3FFFFFF.
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Clearing the Documents History Automatically

The windows Documents Menu display all the information about last used files and programs as a history. Your co-workers, family members can trace your activates on the computer with clicking on Documents menu. If you are using internet at any public place like internet cafe then you should clear your documents menu history to safe yourself from cyber crimes. You can clear the documents menu history manually, but automatically history clean option can be useful if one computer used by multiple people. To clear the document history automatically, edit the computer registry keys.
Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
Here locate the location to:

Go to HKey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft
\ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders
Here in right side panel, double click on Recent and change its value of C:\RECYCLED.
Now set your Recycle bin, "remove files immediately when deleted".
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How to add Items to the Start Button using Registry in Computer

Solution: The best technique to edit the windows registry keys, always export or backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing. Because any mistake in Registry can cause serious problem in your computer to run properly.
Follow the given steps to change the Start button setting.
First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
In Registry Editor go to left hand panel, and find HKey_Classes_Root / Directory / Shell
Here Right click on Shell folder option and add any new key with descriptive name and Press Enter.
Now Right click on that key and give the full path of that program you are interested to add in start button. For example if you want to add MS excel, then full path may be

C:\program file\msoffice\msexcel.EXE.

Now close all open programs and check the changes in your computer Start button.