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Archive for May 2006

Change XP Boot Screen

Posted by: Helen on: May 28, 2006

[TweakXP Member]
If you would like to change your boot up screen follow the directions below. These instructions assume that you have a place to download the boot screen from the net. If you would like to download a boot screen, visit http://www.themexp.org
1. Backup (copy) the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (most likely C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe – the boot screen)
2. Download [...]

Winamp and MKV support

Posted by: Helen on: May 27, 2006

[Originally Posted by Ledgem]
Winamp is perfectly capable of playing .mkv and .ogm, actually. By default, it's set to reject those filetypes. Here's how to enable support for it:
(Note that these instructions are for the Winamp 5 series; it may also work on Winamp versions 2 and 3, but I'm creating this guidelines based off of [...]

Make Firefox load faster

Posted by: Helen on: May 27, 2006

1) look for the profile folder
On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually
>C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxx
where xxx is a random string of 3 characters.
On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually
>C:WINDOWSApplication
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxx
On Linux, the path is usually
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/.
On MacOS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.xxx/.
2) create user.js file and paste this code :
user_pref(”browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);
user_pref(”browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl”, true);
user_pref(”browser.xul.error_pages.enabled”, true);
user_pref(”content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
user_pref(”content.maxtextrun”, 8191);
user_pref(”content.notify.backoffcount”, [...]

Get rid of welcome screen with autologon

Posted by: Helen on: May 27, 2006

1. click on "Start" – then click on "Run" – and type"control userpasswords2"
2. click OK
3. On the Users tab, clear the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box and click "Apply".
4. Select the user you want to log on  & click OK. A dialog will appear that asks [...]

Changing hard drive icons

Posted by: Helen on: May 24, 2006

[from PCMag]
There are two ways to create a drive-specific icon. The first step for both is to determine the full pathname of the file containing the icon you want, as well as the index of the icon within that file. To view the icons contained in an EXE or DLL file, right-click any shortcut that [...]