Prevent Users From Writing To USB

If you have windows XP with SP2, then you can disable the writing option to USB drives. This trick is very useful if you have virus in your computer and want to copy files from a USB Drive but don’t want to transfer virus to the USB. Follow the given steps to disable the USB writing option:
To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.
Here locate the location to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.
Now in left side panel, select “StorageDevicePolicies” key, again right click to create new DWORD value then label it “WriteProtect”. Set its value to “1″. But again to enable writing, set its values to “0″.
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Restore Previously Open Folder After Shutdown

If you need to access lot of folders on your home computer or on the network regularly, then you can set them re-open automatically, when you will login, shutdown or restart your computer next time. There is no need to open regularly used folders manually, just configure the simple sitting, your computer will automatically reload all the previously opened windows.
By default windows XP disables this option to reload automatically all the previously opened windows, when you login on, shutdown or restart your computer.
Follow the given steps to configure your computer to reload previously opened folders automatically after shutdown.
To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button then go to Control Panel.
Open the “Appearance and Themes” option in control panel then click on Folder Options.
A small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Folder options”, click on View tab.
Under the Advanced setting section, scroll down to bottom and click the “Restore previous folder windows at logon” option and then click Ok button to save sitting.
Now when you log off, restart or shutdown, your computer will automatically open the previously opened folders from the same location as before.

Surf Blocked Sites

Are you frustrated because you are not able to visit your favorite websites in your school or college or any place where some sites are blocked? There are two methods to access these sites:
First Method:
Search the banned website, for example www.pctipsntricks.wordpress.com in Google or Yahoo! search engine. Then open the cached copy of that page to access the website. You can get also cache link of that website, if you search in Google with keyword cache:[URL] and get cache link to access the website.
Second Method:
Below are the list of various sites from which you can surf the blocked websites !
http://kproxy.com
http://backfox.com
http://atunnel.com
http://calculatepie.com
http://www.stupidcensorship.com
http://www.vmathpie.com
http://www.xroxee.com
http://mathtunnel.com
http://www.pagemod.com

Restore Default Desktop Icons

You can restore the all windows default desktop icons, if you accidentally deleted them from your computer desktop.
List of windows default icons.
My Computer
Internet Explorer
My Documents
My Network Places
Recycle Bin
Fellow the given steps to restore the windows default icons:
Go to Start Button and open Run
Type the given command to open windows Desktop items dialog box.Control desk.cpl,,@Web
Click OK
Now Select Items that you want on your Desktop
Click Ok

Disable The Unread Email Notification In XP Welcome Screen

1. Click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.
2. Here locate to :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
3. In right side panel, double click on the key MessageExpiryDays and set its value to 0.
4. If MessageExpiryDays key doesn’t exist, then in right side panel, click right to create a key with the nameMessageExpiryDays and then set its value to 0.
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Speed Up By Closing Idle Services

This trick helps you increase your speed by closing all the idle background services. To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
1. Click Start button and click on Run option.
2. In the Run box, type the command “Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks” and press Ok buttHere system will take some time to end the background idle tasks.

Reduce the shutdown time of Windows 2000 n XP

You can reduce the shutdown time of windows 2000 and XP using some tricks. Actually windows XP take time to close all running programs and applications before shutdown, but you can minimize this time if you have little knowledge about editing windows registry.
Follow the given steps to reduce the shutdown time:
· First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option. Here locate the location to:HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop
· Here in right side panel, double click on AutoEndTasks and here its default value is 0. Now change it to 1.
· Now in same side panel double click on value name WaitToKillAppTimeout. Its default value data is 20000; now change this value of WaitToKillAppTimeout to 3500.
· Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.